Crank, who scratched his helmet a little, spoke to the parts of the automaton on the workbench instead of explaining.
“Zion.”
“yes.”
“omg?! I-I’m still alive in that state?!”
Tuna made a fuss. Crank lifted the fully disassembled automaton Shion’s arm and fixed it to Ariete’s arm sitting on the chair next to the workbench.
With nerve and power lines connected to the automaton, the arm is attached to Ariete.
“Shion, fold your right arm.”
The right arm of the automaton Shion attached to Ariete, the dismembered woman, was folded. Crank now spoke to Ariete.
“Arriete raises her arms forward. Shion, straighten your elbows.”
When Ariete raised her arm and Shion straightened her elbow, Ariete held out her hand. Crank put the bread in his hand and said.
“Zion, you have bread in your hand. catch.”
wearing,
“Shion, fold your elbows again. Ariete adjusts the hand position by rotating the shoulder while lowering the arm.”
As she moved her arms as instructed, the bread came to Ariete’s mouth. Crank turns to Carrot and Tuna.
“It’s like this.”
“oh! great! What? Ariete is crying!”
“huh?”
Tears streamed down Ariete’s eyes. She opened her mouth with trembling lips.
“Huh…! Go, thank you…! thank you so much···. Wow…!”
“I just got the concept. Let’s finish here today. I’m so tired. I need to get some sleep.”
“hey! Eat and sleep!”
“Leave it there, I’ll wake up and eat it.”
Crank, who stumbled, collapsed on the bed and passed out. So, the owner of the house passed out, so three women that evening? were eaten only by Carrot, who was feeding Ariete, asked.
“So, how long are you going to stay with Tuna?”
“Uh, huh?”
Tuna, who was eating stew and had a spoon in her mouth, looked at the table, then at the fallen crank, then at Carrot.
“Uh, Joe, can we stay a little longer? Cow, honestly, I have nowhere else to go.”
“But winter is coming soon. If we don’t decide by next month, you’ll have to live here with us until next spring. Are the winters really terrible here?”
“Yes.”
After scooping the stew into Ariete’s mouth and gently wiping her mouth with a handkerchief, Carrot asked her too.
“Do you have any family waiting for you?”
Ariete, who had been silent for a while, spoke.
“There is none but you.”
“okay. Too bad. Ariete has no choice but to live with us.”
Ariete calmly accepted and ate the stew Carrot scooped up. After eating, Carrot hugged Ariete, who was bigger than herself, and headed to the bathroom. The toilet made by Crank boasted unnecessarily high quality.
“I don’t know how to do it, but it’s nice to even wash it with water.”
Ariete’s words come out from inside the bathroom. Carrot, who was waiting outside, smiled.
“No matter how cranky you are, isn’t it because wiping under a woman is hard for each other?”
“Maybe.”
Ariete’s voice tinged with laughter. Perhaps, Carrot thought, the hope of having arms and legs again eased his mood.
Carrot picked Ariete up from the bathroom after the business was over and put her on the bed. After washing the dishes, Tuna was examining the automatons scattered on the workbench.
“Don’t break it. They will soon become Ariete’s limbs.”
“Uh, yes, I’ll just watch.”
Carrot’s chair was placed next to Ariete’s bed. I brought it to take care of her. I sat down, crossed my legs, and opened a book on top of it. Ariete looked at me.
“What book are you reading?”
“You talk a lot today.”
“I have hope.”
“okay. It’s a good phenomenon. this? It’s just a professional knowledge book. How do dogs talk? It’s a book called Would you like to see it?”
“I can’t hold it because I don’t have hands.”
“Then I will read it to you.”
Carrot climbed onto the bed and lay down next to Ariete, put her arm pillow on her, then placed the book on her chest and began to read. It was as if her mother read fairy tales to her when she was little, so Ariete was a little amused and fell out.
“Hey? Are you sleeping like this? Are you completely stunned?”
Unable to remove his arm, Carrot decided to read the book as it was. In the meantime, Tuna was going back and forth from the workbench looking at the disassembled automatons.
Crank woke up at dawn, picked up some food Carrot had made, and returned to the workbench to assemble the automaton.
“hmm?”
“swimming?”
On the workbench, Tuna holding tools was assembling an automaton. Normally, I’d be angry at what he did, but Crank wasn’t such a narrow-minded person. His eyes surveyed the automaton first. Almost as he thought, the exoskeleton skeleton was held.
“Oh, no, this.”
Tuna rushed to explain, but Crank noticed her long hair and brought out a leather strap.
“Tie your hair with this. Long hair gets in the way of work.”
“Uh, yes.”
As Tuna turned her head back and tied it tight, Crank looked over at the vaguely shaped automaton.
“Good job. Please don’t praise me.”
“Me, really?”
“How did you do?”
“I-I saw your design plan and conceptual diagram over there.”
with just that?
The crank was startled, but it wasn’t too much of a surprise when you think about it. Because Tuna was one of the former members of the Black Mage Guild and did a lot of research. Crank put his hand on Tuna’s shoulder and said seriously.
“Would you like to be my assistant?”
“Joe, assistant?”
“okay. you have talent We will also guarantee personal safety by providing wages and lodging.”
Tuna’s eyes lit up.
“Ha, I will! I’ll do it! assistant!”
“good. employment. From today, you are the number 1 assistant in our studio.”
“This, this body job!”
Tuna liked it with her arms raised like Carrot. Crank turned his head and said while looking at the upper body of the exoskeleton automaton.
“I didn’t even have a blueprint, but I managed to make it this far. excellent. Let’s make this part open and close in a flexible way. Ariete’s body needs to fit inside, but I need a fixing device.”
“Uh, yes, that, and I, the control unit is attached to the back, and the mana engine is attached to the stomach.”
“Why Badge? Wouldn’t it be nice to put it on your chest?”
“Go, you’re in the way because of your breasts.”
Crank turned his head and glanced back at Ariete, who was lying asleep on the bed.
Two watermelons move with each breath.
Crank turned his horse.
“…the design focus is the exoskeleton. We have to connect the automaton’s arms and legs with temporary frames to reduce the load on Ariete’s body as much as possible.”
“Even as an exoskeleton, oh, if the body of an automaton is established, ho, can it move by itself? But that’s okay, robbers…”
“Fall off. However, it may not be enough as an automaton, but it will be the hope of life for a human being.”
Even though the conversation was far from a whisper of love, Tuna felt her heart pounding.
Anyway, she also had a lot of research temperament.
“Oh, uh! That, and Zion’s perspective is also important. Listening and moving can’t compensate for the distance. Shion also needs to look outside.”
“What do we do? Where do you attach your sense organs?”
“I-I thought about it, do you have that decoration that princesses wear on their hair? T, Tiara? Attach sensory organs to it like a decoration and use it. It will look good too. I think it would be good for securing perspective. Shion is monitoring the situation from above Ariete’s head.”
“Good! Do it now… No, you should get some sleep before that.”
“Yes?”
Tuna had dark shadows under her eyes.
“Ah, it’s still okay. Staying up all night like this is nothing.”
“No, you can’t grab and pamper a sleepy person. It is a basic right before welfare. tight. In the meantime, I’ll prepare the ingredients.”
“Oh, oh, okay.”
It was afternoon when Tuna woke up after getting some sleep.
“Hmm…!”
Tuna got up from her seat, yawned for a bit, then took out a comb, brushed her hair, looked at her face in the mirror, tied her hair up with the thong Crank gave her, and got off the bed.
From earlier, I hear a loud voice from outside the curtain.
“Uh, how was it?”
At a nearby workshop, Crank, with Carrot’s help, had assembled more than half of the exoskeleton automaton suspended from the ceiling.
“Oooh. Bar, this much in half a day…”
The arms and legs of the automatons scattered all over the workshop floor were already processed and waiting to be assembled.
“It looks a bit better now, but how do you dissipate heat?”
“Come to think of it, I hadn’t thought about it. Shall we put on a heat dissipation cloak temporarily?”
Tuna asked while examining the magical power engine emitting a soft green light on the workbench.
“Even the green mana stone, do you have a lot of fever?”
“It’s not that bad. Because it has a basic heat dissipation function. But now, Shion’s body is completely different, so I think I’ll have to take a separate heat dissipation measure.”
“As I said, how about exchanging the mana stone for a red one and using a heat dissipation cloak?”
Carrot tapped him on the shoulder as he watched the excited crank finish assembling.
“calm down. Are you going to make it for combat?”
“If the exoskeleton holds up, you can exert more than human strength. The combat situation is also worth considering.”
“I can’t stop this ball. Let’s think about it once it’s done. You can remodel at any time, right?”
“hmm!”
Excited, Crank picked up the tool again and hurried to assemble the hanging exoskeleton automaton.
“Tuna, connect the nerve and power lines to the arms and legs over there. Ask me anything you don’t know, so I can finish assembling the body before dinner at the earliest.”
“Should I eat soon?”
“okay.”
three people? Watching the busy movement, Ariete was heartbroken that she couldn’t do anything, but she could feel her heart beating as she watched it being completed.
I can walk again.
I can hold the sword again.
“Ughhhhh! Thank you so much everyone…! This, this grace must be… keuheugh…!”
“Ugh! Ariete is crying again!”
noon the next day,
“It begins.”
Crank lifted Ariete, who was wearing only a bra and panties, and slowly placed her inside the exoskeleton automaton.
As the pure white thigh entered the automaton’s leg, the artificial muscle gripped it strongly.
“Aww…!?”
“Shion, lower the intensity of the thigh tightening.”
Ariete’s expression softened a little. Crank said.
“This guy’s name is Shion. I put artificial muscles in my arms and legs to prevent them from falling out. You set the tightening strength.”
“Ah, got it.”
Next, I put my arms together. As Shion grasped the strength of his leg clamps and similarly grabbed his arms, Ariete nodded.
“Check the stability of the arms and legs. Initiate user pinning.”
Squeeze…!
The skeleton, which was open on the left and right sides of the torso, slowly closed. This is also a gimmick made using artificial muscles.
Variable fixed skeletons were installed in several places to firmly hold Ariete’s body. Both arms, legs, under the collarbone, right under the chest, and on the stomach, the mana engine is attached like a decorative jewel right under the chest.
Because of that, Ariete’s chest was unintentionally highlighted.
“Wow, Ariete’s breasts are really big?”
Carrot, who was looking at Crank with his arms crossed, said. The excited Ariete couldn’t hear those words. Zion said.
“Bone fixation complete. The sensory tiara is worn.”
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From behind Ariete’s back, the half-circle crown tiara that princesses in fairy tales wear on their heads was mounted on the driving skeleton and settled on her head.
“Wearing done. normal sensory organs. All orders have been completed. Please give me the next command.”