Synopsis: Endless Shuttle

So that's what promises to do...

Rope sighed, and carried the cardboard box outside the door that looked like a life-size doll into the house.

"Want to come in and sit?" he said to the orange-haired woman.

"Oh! Excuse me then."

Aozaki orange dressed as an urban beauty was not seen with her handbag. She took off her high heels and put her feet in flesh-colored stockings into the slippers at the door. She walked in around Rope, who was still carrying boxes, and sat down on the sofa.

"How about the two ceremonies?" He asked without looking back, "Is it okay to stay with you?"

"Are you stalking? It doesn't look like she's talking nonsense."

"Although I don't really care, but let me ask -- what did she say?"

"You're a pervert or something."

Rope paused for a while, then said with a headache: "...I also have familiar demons like birds and cats. In addition, I also ask Miss Orange not to further slander my image in front of her."

"I never do that kind of boring stuff. Shiki is practicing the magic eye control method where I am, so far everything is normal. Besides, then again..."

She looked around and said strangely.

"Your car is so flamboyant, I didn't expect the place where you live to be unexpectedly simple. Or is it a place like an apartment, where is it the Taoist philosophy of "hidden in the city" in that country? "

Luo Pei is a Chinese name, and Aozaki Orange naturally thinks of a mysterious sect in that country that has little contact with the outside world.

"No."

Rope carefully placed the cardboard box on the floor, and removed the rope that had just been tied on it for a short time.

"I don't live here, but in order to accommodate this woman, it is necessary to give her a place to stay, right? Fortunately, you delayed the delivery time, otherwise it would not be easy."

"woman?"

Aozaki Orange laughed as if he heard something funny, shaking his shoulders.

"Mr. Rope, have you forgotten what my profession is?"

"Puppet master." Luo Pei said without looking back.

"Yes, a puppet master—a craftsman who makes magic dolls." Aozaki Chengziyu pointed at the table and scratched it. When he lifted it up, there was not even a bit of dust on his hands.

It is obviously new furniture, but there is no light dust, which can only prove that today, or just before her arrival, Rope has carefully tidy up the room.

- for a "doll".

"The basic rule of doll technology is "even if you create a doll that surpasses human beings, it is impossible to create something that is the same as a human being."The thing stored in the box, although I tried to restore the brain, internal organs, bones, muscles, and even the nervous system as perfectly as possible, but in the final analysis, it is just a human figure composed of a pile of meat slices.Even if it is treated with magic, it can maintain its shape for three years, and then it will rot away normally... Are you sure you want to prepare a "living" place for this kind of thing? "

Aozaki Orange said a panic.

She has surpassed the so-called absolute law of puppet masters.

Make yourself, and transfer consciousness to the next body after the death of the previous body. This kind of alternative undead technology and the terrifying concept of being able to abandon "self" without hesitation is what Aozaki orange is as "the first puppet master" the strongest evidence.

However, these are not things that can be revealed to outsiders casually - except for those who are about to die.

Hearing this, Rope stopped his hand, turned his head, and looked a little unhappy.

"Miss Orange... Are you commenting on my way of doing things?"

"Where." Aozaki Chengzi moved her shoulders and said carelessly, leaning on the back of the sofa.

"I wouldn't be surprised if people like us do strange things... just a reminder to important "customers".At that time, don't hate me as a supplier because of the damage to the "goods". It would be too ridiculous to set up enemies for yourself for inexplicable reasons. "

"Don't worry, after my inspection there is no problem, it means that our transaction is completed, no matter what happens in the future, it is my responsibility."

"Huh? Do you want to "inspect" the goods in front of me? "

Aozaki Orange said with a playful look.

"Although I don't mind, maybe it's better for you to keep the shame of human beings, Brother Rope..."

"……It's enough."

The cardboard box was opened.

There was a thin layer of plastic inside, with stuffing and a girl lying down with her hands flat in front of her belly.

The white dress, the long silver hair, the closed eyes, and the beautiful facial features are vivid, as if not a "doll" created by magic, but a sleeping princess.

It looks like Irisviel.

——After a lapse of several years, even after a reunion across the world.

Not only that, if you judge the age based on appearance alone, this body should be between seventeen and nineteen years old. After misunderstanding Rope's original intention, Aozaki Chengzi deliberately created a doll of this age.

"Ah, so one of the promises is completed." Ropey easily took apart the plastic plate and whispered.

...There is no need to worry about Artoria's questioning.

"How does the client feel?"

Aozaki Orange came over, leaned on the arm of the sofa, looked at the silver-haired human figure and asked.

"Is there any request you can ask? After-sales service is also one of the keys to expanding business. I can re-modify what I want to add or subtract within the scope of not exaggerating."

"I still have to feel it myself. I can't see it with my eyes alone... There are internal details."