the next day,
When Ariete opened her eyes after discovering that she could sleep peacefully while being hugged by Carrot, Carrot was not by her side. And he had no arms or legs.
“… Huh!”
Ariete thought she was breaking out in a cold sweat, but calmly looked around. I can’t see Zion, who should be sitting in a chair.
“Sh, Zion? Zion!”
Zion’s voice is heard through the curtain.
“yes.”
“Hey, are you there?”
“uh? Woke up?”
Chop-!
When Carrot pulled back the curtain, Ariete’s eyes, wearing only her underwear, found Shion hanging from the workbench and Crank, Tuna, and Carrot walking around.
“Without the cushion, can I just pour this?”
“Uh, yes, when it cools down, it hardens and takes shape. Hey, when it starts to get a little low, viscous, you have to pour it.”
Crank, who was holding the pot and shaking it a bit, poured it into Shion’s legs and arms when the contents began to thicken.
And what was left was poured into leather gloves from which the interior material had been removed.
“Cut on the carrot quickly.”
“Warm! And weird! It’s like when you put your arm through the butt of a cow to get the calf out! Ugh…!”
Carrot, who shoved her small hand into her glove, made a fuss. After waiting for a while, Carrot put on a puzzled expression.
“uh? Are you already hardened?”
“Does it harden quickly?”
“It hardens as soon as it cools. Once it takes shape, it retains its shape until melted.”
“By the way, how do you melt it?”
Seeing Tuna with her mouth shut and thinking about something, Crank thrust his helmet in.
“I’ll listen to anything, so teach me. This is important.”
“hehehehe. You have to take a load that exceeds the limit or dissolve it with chemicals. Cool the water in which the licorice was boiled, then sprinkle lime on it…”
“Let’s hear the solution recipe later.”
Crank released the rope that hung Shion and lowered him to the floor.
“How are you?”
“Currently, there is nothing special about it.”
“Take a walk.”
The bizarre-looking exoskeleton automaton, which would have fainted if someone unfamiliar saw it, wandered around the workshop by itself and approached Crank.
“I feel a strange sense of heterogeneity in my arms and legs.”
“Go, the buffer will go into the movable part and do it. This, once you get used to it, you’ll be fine. I-Now help Ariete.”
Shion turned around and walked away, picked up Ariete, who was sitting up on the bed, and put her inside her body.
Ariete, who was wearing a sensory tiara and a thermal ribbon wrapped around her skeleton, moved her body a little and picked up her robe from a hanger near the bed.
“Wait, Ariete. Don’t wear it, just walk around here. I want to see if there is anything strange.”
“hmm.”
Crank looked at him seriously as he wandered around in his underwear, just like Shion did.
“how is it?”
“I don’t know yet.”
So Crank made her jump.
When I bent my legs and straightened them with all my might, Ariete rose vertically.
Boom!
thud···!
“Big uh uh…!”
Ariete, who had jumped too high and hit her head on the ceiling, crouched down holding her head. As Tuna and Carrot looked up at Crank with his arms crossed, Crank said dazedly.
“I wanted to do light jumping, but by the way, jumping in place is very high? Are you more than human?”
“no! See the wounds, the wounds! Aren’t people first?”
Carrot said something, but Crank didn’t listen. Krank, who was examining the squatting Ariete, lifted her up and said.
“Your posture is also natural. With more practice, you can do many things. is your head okay? Zion’s frame is fine.”
“It hurts, I have a lump.”
When I glanced down at the top of my head, something really bulging rose from between my blonde hair. Crank, who saw that, turned the pitch around and started giggling.
When Ariete and Tuna, seeing him smile for the first time, were dumbfounded, Carrot shrugged with a pathetic face.
“Oh, never mind. Somehow, the code for laughing seemed a bit different from that of ordinary people.”
Ariete, who was fixing her hair, touched her leg as if she was startled.
“Huh!? does not it hurt! It hurt when I was shocked!”
bang-!
Before Tuna had time to stop, Ariete jumped up again, hit her head again, fell off, and began to roll on the floor.
“Kuuuaaa!”
“Pheu cuuu!”
Kneeling next to the distressed Ariete, Crank covered his helmet with both hands and worked tirelessly to stop laughing.
Carrot turned his head and said.
“It’s a welcome party. Let’s leave these idiots alone and let’s experiment with this.”
After leaving the workshop, Carrot looked around and hit the paved concrete floor with his fist.
Quick-!
When he raised his fist, stone dust fell and left marks on the floor from being beaten with a sledgehammer. I took my hand out of the glove and examined it, but nothing was wrong.
“Woah oh oh oh!?”
“Uh, how are you?”
Those were the words of Tuna, who had come closer.
“I like this! Will you solidify the cost of the equipment?”
“Hey, I heard from Crank. You, the hand, the cow, and the soft skin can be seen and protected.”
Carrot looked at Tuna with a bewildered face.
“really? The soft skin on your hands is getting better?”
“huh. This, in theory.”
Wow-!
Carrot hugged Tuna’s waist and buried her face in her chest, rubbing it and shouting.
“Wow! Tuna! thank you! What do you want to eat! I’ll be your exclusive chef from now on! Just talk!”
“Heh, hehehehe.”
Tuna, who received thanks and praise from everyone for her insignificant talent, was overjoyed that her ability was recognized. To the extent that I wear my underwear a little,
“Shall I make breakfast? What do you want to eat?”
“Uh, yesterday’s leftovers, beef stew and bread! milk!”
“Tuna likes beef stew. Then you have to learn it.”
After breakfast, Crank made something in the workshop again, and Carrot went to the market to buy research materials with Tuna and Ariete.
And finally, Tuna’s simple laboratory was built near the innermost boiler of the studio.
Crank, who moved the furniture and helped install the shelves and lights, quietly whispered in Tuna’s ear.
“It doesn’t matter what you do, but don’t stray from the human path. Do not let my hand strike your throat.”
Tuna flinched, but soon raised her head with a calm face.
“don’t worry. I like my life now.”
Crank looked at Tuna and turned around.
“It’s a nice voice to hear because you don’t stutter.”
“Uh huh? Me, really?”
Tuna smiles and chases after Crank. Crank looked back at it and corrected her posture.
“Don’t walk around with your back bent like that. bad for bones stretch like this Imitate the attitude of Ariete.”
Dududuk…!
“Huh…! Huh, the sound of breaking and breaking from the waist!”
“You need exercise.”
Then Ariete came in with a large cast iron pot. Crank turned his head.
“Is Ariete okay?”
thud···!
“Ahh. Okay. I didn’t think I could hear it, but Shion said it was okay, so I listened. really going to be What is our strength? How far can you go?”
Crank lifted the large cast iron pot that Ariete had brought and said.
“To lift this weight so lightly, the frame that supports the force is simplified with an exoskeleton, so it must be halfway between a normal automaton and a human. Shall we try some arm wrestling?”
Crank takes a wooden plank, puts it on top of a cast iron pot, and extends his arm. Ariete tried to decline, but Shion wanted to try.
“I need to know my current performance. Only then can I assist you.”
“okay.”
“Don’t worry, if it breaks, I’ll put it back together.”
Ariete reached out and grabbed Crank’s big hand. Tuna became the referee.
“start-!”
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suck!
Crank and Ariete started using dragons. No direct force was applied to the arms and shoulders, but Shion’s movable skeletons strongly clamped Ariete’s body.
Shion started using her body as a subframe for output.
“Ughhhhh!”
Gradually, Crank’s arm muscles swelled up, and eventually blood vessels rose.
“stop···!”
The arm wrestling ended with Zion’s victory. Crank patted his arm and shoulder and sighed.
“Whoa…! That’s great. However, it is also true that it is weaker than a normal automaton. In its basic form, I would have been blown away.”
“Heh, heh, heh, heh…!”
Ariete catches her breath. The movable skeletons that had confined her body had returned to their original state.
Crank opened his mouth.
“And Shion, if you use your full power, this woman inside you will break her back. pay attention to that. This is your current maximum output. I can easily beat an orc.”
“All right.”
Crank looked at Ariete.
“What about the contact points on the arms and legs? Are you sick?”
“no? It doesn’t hurt at all.”
“Let’s give some more load. After lunch, go around the castle wall with Carrot.”
Ariete nodded.
It was already evening when Carrot and Ariete returned from their afternoon walk. On the way back, they stopped by the market to buy ingredients for beef stew, and the two talked.
“How was the Ark City Argon tour?”
“It was very interesting.”
“Does your leg not hurt anymore?”
“It’s nothing like it wouldn’t be strange to say it at all. amazing Thanks to Crank and Tuna.”
“I’m glad.”
Then Ariete stopped. For a moment, she stared in rapt at the shiny longsword hanging on the stall in front of the blacksmith shop, then hurriedly ran at Carrot’s call.
“uh?”
“what’s the matter?”
“It ran!”
“huh? ran so?”
“No, it ran! I can run!”
After speaking, Ariete started running until the robe got in the way. To the extent that Carrot’s call could not be heard,
“So it was too late to catch it. If I had left him, he would have been running all night.”
Krank, who had sat Ariete at the workbench and was listening to Carrot with his arms folded, asked.
“What about the legs?”
“are you okay. Rather, it was so good.”
“Surprisingly, I can already start running. Is Shion reading and responding to muscle movements? what about the legs? Aren’t you sick?”
“Not at all, I would rather run a little more.”
Crank, who had been watching Ariete quietly, opened his mouth.
“Let’s have dinner and digest and run around for a run.”
“crank?”
“If possible, I want to try everything. Everyone, have you ever seen a fusion of an automaton and a human?”
Tuna and Carrot shook their heads. But now it was right in front of them.
“We need as much data as possible. Rob will be difficult to run, so let’s use Tuna’s washed one-piece.”
So after dinner, Ariete changed her clothes and started running.
Tak Tak Tak -!
As Ariete starts to run lightly, the scenery moves behind her. Ariete stopped crying and started laughing as her heart was being pierced.
“Ha ha ha ha ha! I’m running! I’m running! thank you! Zion! thank you! crank! Tuna! Carrot!”
“Did you call me?!”
Carrot appeared by Ariete’s side.
“Awesome! How could a human run! It’s unthinkable!”
“is it!?”
“okay! ha ha ha! It’s good because it’s been a while! It’s a race over there! run!”
Pababa Baba!
The two of them ran for a long time along the wall, running ahead and behind, and suddenly Carrot shouted.
“no! We have to stop here! Ariete! Zion! Stand!”
“Why?! I want to run some more!”
“no! You fools!”
Despite Carrot’s warning, Ariete entered the quarters and started running. If the footing was not good, I ran on the walls and buildings.
“there! Please stop!”
“Loud singing and disturbance in the living quarters is prohibited!”
The guard automaton that was on patrol caught up in an instant. Ariete and Shion instantly developed a sense of goodwill.
I want to look back!
let’s turn away
Toubabababa!
Guard automatons 231 and 232 start chasing after Ariete, who runs at full speed.
It was terrifying speed.
Two hours after taking Ariete and Carrot out for a night walk, Crank received a call from the unexpected security guard and headed to the 3rd Street Residential Guard Post.
Ariete and Carrot were sitting on chairs with their heads bowed.