When White accepted becoming the commander of YoRHa troops, she had mentally prepared herself.
Like other high-ranking officials, she wouldn't harbor any compassion or sympathy toward YoRHa troops.
Because YoRHa troops were different from androids like her; the program core of YoRHa troops was a black box reconstructed from machine lifeform cores.
YoRHa troops were not her comrades.
Therefore, assigning YoRHa troops more dangerous missions for data collection wouldn't affect her emotions at all.
In White's view, YoRHa troops were merely tools. Why should one have emotions toward tools?
But in fact, she was wrong; she never imagined herself being shaken.
She once suspected that her program had problems or that she had been infected with some virus, but the check results showed nothing.
She shouldn't have viewed YoRHa troops as her comrades, yet gradually, she wavered.
Looking at the uninformed, deceived YoRHa troops, they went on missions with what they believed was glorious purpose, unaware that some of these missions had malicious intent, deliberately arranged.
So, executing these missions was simply going to their deaths.
Most of these missions were personally arranged by White, all for data collection, making her like a demon sending them to hell one by one.
After the appearance of 2B, she also arranged particularly malicious secret missions for her, further causing White's emotional system to fluctuate more severely.
But she couldn't show it; she had to maintain her coldness, had to mercilessly execute this plan.
Because only by carrying out the plan would androids not head toward a future of collapse, a future of destruction.
Androids would firmly believe their faith was still there, motivating them to continue fighting machine lifeforms.
Otherwise, losing faith—humans truly being extinct—most androids who lived with this belief as motivation would collapse, would head toward extinction.
With humans no longer existing, there would be no need for androids to exist either.
So, even if she sympathized with YoRHa troops, for the greater good, she could only become an android filled with sin.
The one that made her feel most guilty was 2B.
2B wasn't actually a YoRHa No. 2 Type B all-purpose battle android, but a YoRHa No. 2 Type E execution-type android.
The purpose of this type of android's creation wasn't for campaigns against machine lifeforms, but mainly for internal use, against their own kind.
Therefore, they often disguised themselves as various other types of allies, secretly executing androids who were passive in battle, executing androids who would shake morale.
Within YoRHa troops, they also purged YoRHa-type robots that might perceive YoRHa's secrets, especially S-type androids.
S-type androids were highly advanced scanning models that could potentially discover the Bunker's secrets, discover the YoRHa plan in the Bunker's deep server.
So, why would 2B be alongside 9S executing missions? It was so that once 9S showed abnormal behavior, 2B would execute him.
Therefore, 2B was the android White felt most guilty about.
And now, having revealed the truth, the impact on 2B was unprecedented.
So, White didn't dare to look back at 2B.
She knew how 2B's emotions were reacting now.
Although 2B appeared to have no emotions, very composed and stable, extremely cold, White, who knew 2B so well, understood the true nature of 2B beneath her cold exterior.
In reality, 2B was a gentle and delicate child, very shy at heart.
With such a personality, the impact 2B received would far exceed others.
Perhaps she might truly collapse.
So, if 2B suddenly took action against her now, it would actually be a relief.
But now, a human had appeared who might be able to entrust the YoRHa troops to.
That's why White directly disclosed the YoRHa plan, letting YoRHa troops have their own thoughts, making them not purely disposable tools.
Regarding the matter of the Bunker, including YoRHa troops and herself being destroyed, White truly didn't know. Her recent action of giving the Bunker's key to 6O wasn't an angry move after learning she was also a sacrifice.
This was a decision she had made when coming down to Earth.
As for herself also being destroyed, White actually wasn't angry at all, because for the realization of the plan, she was willing to sacrifice herself.
But the YoRHa troops also being completely destroyed was beyond her expectation and hard to accept.
So, now she could only pin her hopes on the person before her.
If he stood on the side of YoRHa troops, if he recognized YoRHa troops, then the leadership would be severely slapped in the face and would have no right to dictate to YoRHa troops anymore.
So, when the person before her allowed White to hug, White opened her arms with a mixture of excitement and anxiety.
She stepped forward and gently embraced the body of the person before her.
She further allowed more physical contact between them, pressing together.
Thus, she felt the natural body temperature that only humans have, felt the flowing blood, felt the beating of a real heart.
All sensory feedback was telling White that the person she embraced was undoubtedly a human from the extinct race.
At this moment, she couldn't help but hug more tightly, trying to merge her body into his.
She was like a child who had been lost for a long time and finally, after countless difficult years, found the parents who created them, excitedly throwing herself into the harbor embrace that could also bring a sense of security.
She could completely unload the responsibility she bore, sleeping in his embrace.
But White knew she couldn't do this.
She had no right to enjoy such happiness.
She had to find a way out for her comrades still fighting in space and on Earth, letting them regain faith, letting them survive.
She also had to free 2B and other YoRHa members from the YoRHa plan, letting them have a brand-new android life.
And the key to all this was with this human.
No matter where he came from, even another universe, the point was that he was human, her hope.