I, with a long knife in my hand, can only do one move

Cheng Rang then just shook his head and followed Rick.

"You have to analyze it yourself. After all, 'heart' is a very complicated thing." [-] [-] [-]

“[Question] Playing a game of chess with Rick, can it help to analyze the 'heart'?”

"Uh...that's not completely understandable."

"What are you talking about?" Rick questioned Cheng Rang who was coming.

"It's nothing, I just talked to her about how good you are at chess."

"..." Rick squeezed the air out of his nose and let out a cold snort, then changed the subject and said, "I will take her back to the settlement later, so I can't do without a title."

"You mean to introduce yourself?"

“[Reply] This machine already knows the identification number of this human individual: Rick, [request] obtain your individual identification number.”

"That's called a name, and if you need others to introduce yourself, shouldn't you say your name first?" Cheng Rang corrected the mechanical girl's behavior, "My name is Cheng Rang, if you don't like it, just call me Cheng .”

"[Understanding] Process...[Answer]——My individual identification number: Uc207Pr4f5t9"

Such an answer caused Cheng Rang and Rick to look at each other, then Cheng Rang stroked his hair in distress and said, "Hey, is this a name?"

“[Affirmative] Individual Identification Number—isn’t it a synonym for name?”

Rick seemed to be pinching his temples with a headache: "...No, if the purpose is to communicate in human settlements, then you have to choose a human-like name."

Hearing this sentence, the girl thought for a while: "[Question] Is the name an individual title that can be freely set?"

"Well...that's it."

Then she looked like she was about to rattle, thinking seriously.

Zizi...cheep——

"[Answer] - Use 'Schwarzer' as the name."

"It's too long, difficult to understand, and doesn't look like a name. It was rejected for these three reasons—you should call it 'Huby'."

Rejected by Rick in one sentence.

"[Unintelligible] The free setting has been corrected... [Rebuttal] It's fine to call it freely from the beginning."

It seems to be an illusion, Rick always feels that the girl is dissatisfied, it looks like a protest.

——That was probably an illusion. The girl's expression and tone were always mechanical, without the slightest ups and downs. After Rick concluded so, he reconfirmed.

"Okay, let's get this sorted out. We'll take you to the settlement—but there are a few things to note before then."

Rick explained to her while counting on his fingers.

"Once people find out that you are a machine type, you will not be able to analyze your heart, because people will be afraid and dare not communicate with you.

".....【rational】."

"So after the name, your tone of voice that clearly shows that I am a machine needs to be modified.

. "

Ex-Machina girl... Hubby nodded in agreement, and then.

"——[Read] Imitation Personality-ICO-Ic-"

Shubi's gaze hung upwards, as if he was thinking about something for a moment.

There is no expression, no ups and downs in the voice, only unnecessary accents, and the scissors are stretched out and placed next to the face to be cute:

"Hey, hehe, then~ brother, is this okay?"

"turn down!"

It was rejected immediately.

"[Rebuttal]...has reviewed it extremely seriously...."

"I already had a younger sister, and I picked it up after going out for a trip. How could this kind of setting work!"

"I really think it's cute." Cheng Rang covered his face and raised his hands.

Rick stared at Cheng Rang with contempt: "You don't have to force yourself, you've probably been holding back your laughter until now, right?"

"Hahahahaha!" Immediately after that, merciless laughter echoed on the platform.

"[Request] Provide the most suitable situation setting. [Unclear] Ridiculous behavior towards Cheng."

"Oh..." Rick was very tired of these two guys who couldn't read the air.

After serious thinking, Rick replied: "Then, you are the survivor who was caught in the flames of war and lost everything."

"..."

"Timid, taciturn, talking intermittently. Once someone asks about the past, I feel troublesome, so I don't say unnecessary words. The mechanical words you added at the beginning of the sentence are also forbidden-how about this?"

Hubby listened carefully to Rick's every word.

"...Mmm." It took about ten seconds before she answered.

Then--

The originally cold and emotionless mechanical expression was a little more gloomy.

She spoke quietly.

"Got... got it, so... is it okay?"

It was even reflected in his expression. Seeing that his imitation was too much like a natural human being, Rick and Cheng Rang were speechless for a moment.

"I said, is that your acting skills?"

It's like a transformation.

If there were no exposed mechanical parts, even Cheng Rang would almost have the illusion that she was a human being.

But Hubby shook his head and denied: "...acting skills? No...I'm tracking, a task consistent with the prompt setting...to imitate..."

Rick didn't understand what she meant, but Cheng Rang thought that Shubi, who had observed humans before, happened to meet such a survivor, so he collected the corresponding data.

"Then, first of all, you should also wear clothes. Human girls don't walk around naked. Cover your mechanical parts, and put a hood on the equipment on your head. Remember, don't let others I can see your skin!"

"Rick, even though you said so, you've been staring at it very vigorously, and you have this strange possessiveness, are you jealous?"

Rick, who was helping Hubby put on the cloak, seemed to be stiff for a moment, then he turned his head and stared at Range Rang's eyes with a dead man's gaze.

"I'm not a pervert who can call my wife even with the weapon in my hand. Are you the only one who needs attention?" Finally, he uttered the complaints in his heart.

"......"

Cheng Rang's eyes widened, and he blinked hard twice. After a long time, he squeezed out a syllable expressing doubts from his mouth.

"what?!"

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"Hey hey~, Hubby spoke in the tone just now, is it cute?"

"Don't listen to that idiot, change it back for me."

"....it is good...."

Chapter No.17 Rick is suffering

From the perspective of the overall situation, considering the many commotions that are expected to occur after returning home, Rick decided to abandon the trip to the abandoned capital and return to the settlement despite having a lot of uneasiness about those things.

And it was going back with an extremely tricky "souvenir"——

"Arrival confirmation."

Rick and his horse were thrown to the ground by Hubie. It would take five days to gallop at full speed, but Hubby finished the run in a few hours holding Rick.

During the period, the high speed and eye-popping pictures made Rick sit on the ground and even be dazed for a while before recovering.

"Ah, really, it's unbelievable...."

Regarding this outrageous and unreasonable racial performance gap, Rick has reached the point where he can only be dumbfounded and can't help crying.

Not to mention, another guy who was also carrying the second horse and followed Hubie calmly.

"It turns out that what you said that you could run back with me on your back is true."

Rick seems to have gotten used to Cheng Rang, who is completely unfit for a human being.

"of course it's true."

Cheng Rang put down the horse on his shoulders, patted the dust off his hands, and nodded proudly: "Because I'm strong!"

"So what on earth is it that we spent five days on the road?"

"enhance

emotion? "

— This guy is hopeless.

Looking at Cheng Rang who tilted his head and pretended to be stupid with a smile on his face, Rick thought so.

The conversation pointed to Shubi, and Rick turned his head and asked, "With such mobility, is it true that you don't use elves?"

"Not used. Shubi is an analyser...its performance is below... the average of the Ex-Machinas."

"I'm human, I can't use elves."

"If you can use the military equipment...it will be there in a few minutes...."

"I can't accept the situation of being hugged and driven by a girl, does it scare you?"

Rick almost wanted to give up thinking about this situation.

"Please don't act in front of me in the future to deny the meaning of other human beings' hard work and survival, okay?"

"Well, only you will see it, I won't do it in front of other people." Cheng Rang spread his hands indifferently.

"So I'm fine?"

Cheng Rang took it for granted: "Aren't we friends?"

The air seemed to freeze, only Shubi stood obediently and looked left and right at the two of them.

"Sorry...I don't agree with the meaning of this relationship."

Rick said, getting up from the ground.

"Okay, I'm the one who overstepped, sir~"

Cheng Rang nodded, and had expected that Rick would not accept him, but according to his personality, there was no need to add the word "sorry" to this sentence.

take it easy....

Entering the settlement cave and lighting a torch, Rick took a final look at Shubi's appearance.

From her mechanical ears and the metal parts of her head, no matter how she looked at it, she could tell it was an Ex-Machina, but those couldn't be disassembled, so she made a fluffy and wide hooded robe and put it on her, and it was finally hidden.

However....

"The problem is the tail sticking out from under the hem."

"It's not a tail...it's like an elf corridor connecting nerves..."

"No, call it whatever you want, can't you roll that up, or try to hide it?"

The two free-moving pipelines, although she denied it, looked like tails.

"No, this is... Shubi's power source, it's the second time..."

yeah i know.Rick sighed.