Instead?

This was something that even Leonel and Aina were still trying to figure out, let alone Anastasia who had only just truly gained her full sentience.

The husband-wife pair had spent most of their life chasing after "peace" so that they could finally have happiness. But it wasn't until recently that they realized that they had to carve out their own happiness.

With the end of the world bearing down on them all, it didn't make much sense for them to be having a child now. But they had still chosen to do so.

Sentience was, indeed, a burden. But it could be a blessing if you used it right as well.

"… How?" Anastasia asked curiously.

She had just recontextualized all her life just now. More owners than she cared to count, more experience than she cared to recall… too much heartbreak.

If there had been an answer, she would have certainly found it in there. But it wasn't. No matter how she looked, she found herself missing her old self.