episode_0227
by fnovelpia
“Here, go back into your main body.”
-I don’t mean to kill you when you return to the main body… ?
Should I say that as my intelligence decreased, my personality also became timid? Once I told her, Maria did not obey me.
The slightly shriveled appearance wasn’t bad because it seemed like he was now aware of his position, but on the other hand, it seemed like he was better before because he wasn’t as snappy.
‘is not it? ‘At that time, there was always a way out using nanobots, but now that the situation is blocked by me, has my true nature been revealed?’
Anyway, I had to go through a short argument to convince Maria. It was only after explaining that there was no need to order Maria to come out to kill her, and that all she had to do was detonate an EMP grenade like before, was that she moved slowly.
-all right…
For some reason, he seemed very sad that he had to leave my body.
-Put your finger on the forehead of my body.
I held Maria’s body with my left hand, and as she said, I placed the index finger of my right hand on her forehead.
After waiting for a while, Maria’s body blinked and looked at me.
“You can take your hands off now.”
“It’s fast.”
While the nanobot was moving, the finger I held against my forehead did not even feel a tingle. It seems that detecting something nanometer-sized was realistically impossible.
‘Then where…’ ‘
The index finger that was attached to her forehead was removed, but the left hand that was holding her was still there, so he attempted to put Maria in his inventory. But in my heart, I had somewhat anticipated the outcome.
‘also… ‘
As expected, this time the inventory did not work as if it were broken.
Leaving behind Maria, who was looking at me curiously, I took out another Awaken-affiliated android from my inventory.
“… … ! This place… !”
Then, looking around, I put the surprised guy back in. This time it was stored properly in the inventory without any problems.
This makes it clear.
It wasn’t the ticket’s inventory function that was problematic. The ticket’s power had been functioning normally from the beginning.
‘okay… If you think a little deeper, the cause of the problem could not have been in the inventory.’
“… … ?”
The cause was Maria, who was tilting her head right next to her.
‘Huh… ‘You’re being treated as a living being just because you awakened on your own?’
It was fortunate that the conclusion was not that there was a bug in the ticket.
Still. An android, which clearly belongs to the machine category, is treated as a living being just because it has awakened self-consciousness.
Other androids awakened by Maria are stored in the inventory without any problems.
Maria did not even have a particularly fixed body. This could be seen from the fact that nanobots, main bodies, and other spare bodies were exchanged without hesitation.
It seems that the ticket criteria were much more generous than I expected.
‘… Still, nothing changes.’
After thinking for a moment, I shook my head to shake off the distracting thoughts.
Even if Maria is recognized as a living being, nothing will change much. In the first place, life in a travel destination has a very different weight from that in reality.
At the ruined Aka where I first entered, I gained supernatural abilities and killed several people for my own convenience.
Although I respect Ticket’s decision, that doesn’t mean Maria is special to me.
“We’ll have to find out now whether it can be useful.”
“What do you mean… ”
Still, just in case, I took a look at the menu one last time to check the ticket system.
‘Everything is the same. then… hmm?’
As I was about to close the menu, I saw something different. It was a list of souvenirs.
[souvenir]
-[Extrasensory perception – high-speed thinking]
-[Telos – Ignis] (Seal)
-[Martial arts – Changgung great stretching attack, Heavenly arch firefighting]
The two types of special abilities and martial arts that were locked as high-speed accidents and baggage remained the same.
However, something was added underneath that wasn’t there before.
-[Multi-purpose nanobot – entity name Maria] (5%)
‘Maria… souvenir?’
I was shocked for a moment and looked blankly at the list of souvenirs.
‘Are living things also registered as souvenirs?’
The things registered as souvenirs so far were things that had a direct effect on my body in some way. This means that they were all things that were embodied in me without any specific form.
However, Maria was treated as a living being and was also registered as a souvenir. It has an invisible but clear form called a multi-purpose nanobot.
I was able to come to my senses only after Maria, who was waiting next to me, called out to me as I saw that sight destroying my common sense.
“… Minho! Minho! What are you doing now? Why are you suddenly standing blankly?”
“Ah… I just saw something hard to believe.”
“Is there anything harder to believe than your presence here?”
Swish~ Swish~
Maria, who knew nothing, turned her head and looked around.
Blood ㅡ
I laughed at that funny sight and relaxed my stiff face.
‘okay… ‘Why are we bound by common sense when we are already experiencing the most absurd things?’
I didn’t understand how tickets worked and was just using them, so I thought I had figured out the function of tickets, even though in reality it wasn’t strange no matter what happened. It’s a ridiculous mistake.
What would it be like if an intelligent life form was registered as a souvenir? All you have to do is say it’s a ticket.
‘And if I think about it, I think there might be similar cases.’
For example, if I made a contract with a spirit in a fantasy world, that would also likely be registered as a souvenir. Maybe not, but since even the nanobots that briefly entered and came out of me were registered…
“Wait.”
“Yes?”
I stopped thinking and looked at the souvenir list again. Being registered in the souvenir list clearly meant that I now had nanobots in my body.
‘And the numbers in those parentheses… Is 5% the percentage of all nanobots remaining in my body?’
After finishing my reasoning up to that point, I looked at Maria and said.
“Nanobots. You didn’t completely remove it, right?”
“Well, how do you do that…? ! Nanobots probably aren’t big enough for humans to detect… ”
Maria reacted in surprise to my questioning. Then, before I could say anything, he continued speaking rapidly.
“It’s not because I have any other intention! I just left it here to continue communicating with you!”
Maria defends herself zealously.
I also knew that she didn’t leave the nanobots in my body out of any malice. Even if that were the case, it didn’t matter.
‘If you feel like something is being done, you can immediately detonate the EMP grenade, and so far, the items registered as souvenirs have never harmed me.’
Of course, in Maria’s case, there was a possibility that she would be an exception as she was self-conscious, but this meant that the probability of that happening was low.
‘But what happens when you say it will interfere with my five senses? ‘Isn’t that within the scope of harm?’
I ordered Mary to make sure of this.
“Master.”
“Yes?”
“If you say ‘yes?’ one more time, I will turn it into scrap metal. From now on, call me master.”
“… … .”
Maria, who was about to say something, closed her mouth quietly, perhaps because she was holding back the words ‘Yes?’ from coming out again.
I had her remove all the nanobots from my body, and then have her put all the nanobots back into my body.
There are two things I learned that way.
First, even if all nanobots leave the body, the [multipurpose nanobot – entity name Maria] registered in the souvenir list does not disappear. Instead, the number in the parentheses next to it just became 0%.
And the second thing was that as the level of nanobots in my body increased and the longer they stayed, it felt like Maria was a little more likely to follow my commands.
‘I think this part needs more long-term verification.’
Verification did not seem difficult.
I don’t know why, but Maria already seemed to like being inside my body more than her own body.
I again accepted Maria’s nanobots into my body and warned her.
“Whenever you do something from now on, report everything to me. Don’t leave nanobots in your body that you don’t even know about without saying anything.”
-yes…
“Master.”
-Yes, master…
Maria’s sullen voice sounded like an electric sound in my ears.
‘I think the hacking tool issue has been resolved in this way.’
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