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Domi could be called a lucky man.

Thanks to the luck of having good parents, I was able to use their legacy to become a collector with better equipment than others.

Even at a young age, he was able to travel long distances using a hoverboard without any physical problems and live as a scavenger, and what he lacked in physical ability he made up for with strong weapons, allowing him to do work no less than that of adults.

Above all, he was blessed with good fortune.

What is the fortune of collectors? It is, of course, ‘the fortune of meeting a good machine.’

It’s a stroke of luck to come across equipment that consumes less oil, is useful, easy to operate, lightweight, and doesn’t break easily.

In that sense, Domi was truly blessed with luck.

A humanoid that others would have a hard time finding even in their entire lives. But I found it twice.

“Finally, finally found it.”

Domi was moved to tears when he saw the humanoid in front of him.

It’s been a really long journey.

I can’t even remember how far I came from Guldari Village.

But, I finally found it. I found it.

Domi looked at the humanoid in front of him.

It was a humanoid that looked like an angel.

A pure white ring floating above the head. White hair flowing down from it. A neat and tidy beauty with her eyes gently closed.

Below that, a violent body with breasts and hips larger than Undine’s was wrapped in a tight, sexy nurse’s uniform, while a pure white garter belt and white stockings hugged her plump thighs.

And what covered the humanoid were glowing white metal wings.

Domi approached the humanoid cautiously and touched various parts of its body.

“Hmm. Arina just worked when I got close to her… … .”

In fact, this was the first time Domi had encountered a normal humanoid.

Arina, or Undine, the first humanoid Domi encountered, was in a state of disarray when he first discovered her.

The outside was intact, but there was a lot of destroyed machinery around, and Arina was left with her head open.

Since the arena started working as soon as Domi got close to it, Domi didn’t have to do anything to make the arena work.

Originally, if someone other than the owner wanted to operate the humanoid, they had to give an ’emergency signal’.

That means you have to shock the humanoid enough to be threatening, and that’s no easy task.

In the end, Domi had no choice but to call Arina.

“Hey, Arina. Do you know how to operate the humanoid? I need to move this thing to Guldari Village, so I think it would be better to operate it.”

At Domi’s words, Dummy Undine bowed her head.

“Understood, Master. Just in case, stay away from danger.”

“Oh, yeah.”

As Domi stepped back and approached the humanoid, the dummy Undine pretended to examine the humanoid for a moment before carefully inserting her index finger inside the humanoid, then opened her claws and took out the transparent tube that had been placed inside.

This tube, made of elastic material, contained a preservative created by Undine, and inside that preservative was Hamon’s blood.

Talk.

A dummy Undine that feeds blood to humanoids by bursting tubes with her claws.

This causes the humanoid, which has been inactive for a long time, to automatically register the currently received DNA information as that of its owner.

Afterwards, Dummy Undine sent a signal using the device she had received from Harmon in advance, and the humanoid that had been asleep for a long time opened its eyes.

“Oh! Okay?”

“Yes, master. Now, please register as master.”

“Okay.”

Domi approached the waking humanoid with a smile.

* * *

“There’s nothing.”

At that time, Harmon was at the bar, opening the back of a whiskey bottle and examining the inside.

“I’m sorry, Master.”

“No, it’s not your fault. I was just wondering if it was something common to humanoids.”

But when I looked at whiskey, I found that there was no such thing as a black box. The same was true for candy.

“So this time I made a hypothesis.”

“Are you talking about a hypothesis?”

“Yes. One is the purpose. I thought it might contain secrets that only combat humanoids have. But it didn’t. Then there are two remaining hypotheses. One is that it exists only in humanoids of the Undine brand… and the other is that only humanoids above a certain size have black boxes.”

From what standard will black boxes exist?

Harmon examined the remains of the vodka, but found no trace of the black box.

The black box, whose exact identity is unknown, was stolen by someone who brutally destroyed Undine, a 1200-size combat humanoid.

‘Then it’s not something that can be easily destroyed. Even though I put my heart and soul into making Destroy, it was a crude thing that had its output forcibly increased with an extreme design that the user didn’t even think about.’

There’s no way an object of that level of destruction would be hidden so tightly.

Because the more precious something is, the more it is essential to make it so that it can never be broken.

Rather, there are cases where information is intentionally made easy to destroy with the intention of keeping it confidential… but in that case, if it is not manipulated to be broken down into atomic units, the information can be easily recovered and read, so it is a meaningless trick.

It was a no-brainer, since manipulating matter to break it down into atoms required a ton of money.

“The black box is probably hidden only in humanoids over 1200 standard. I want it.”

“Why do you want it?”

“Isn’t that something that people from the past treasured so much?”

Who wouldn’t want that?

“There’s also the expectation that if it’s there, Undine’s performance will increase even more.”

“I see. … Master, if you give me a mission, I will definitely find it!”

“No, why would I be given such a mission?”

“Ugh.”

A whiskey that dies down at Harmon’s words.

Harmon closed the back of his head with whiskey and enjoyed the remaining oily drinks and the snacks he was given as a service while comforting her.

While Harmon was leisurely spending his time like that, a signal came from Dummy Undine for the first time in a long while.

‘Huh? The signal came?’

The dummy Undine had gone too far away for the signal to be cut off, and Hamon had half forgotten that the ‘trick’ he had planted in the dummy Undine had been a meaningless waste of time.

But the signal has arrived.

‘Did Domi discover the humanoid?’

Harmon quickly got the signal, comforting Whiskey.

* * *

The operation of a humanoid goes through several steps.

First, the awakening of the core. The awakened core checks its own system to confirm that there are no abnormalities before moving in earnest.

The first thing to do is analyze the owner’s information.

Since most humanoids are custom-made products, they are often pre-registered with owners.

In today’s world, it is rather unusual for the owner’s information, which had been registered for a long time and then forgotten, to be deleted and a new owner to be registered after awakening.

After completing the inspection and confirming the owner’s information, the core uses the energy contained within to create a human-like, organic, and dense connection in the entire body’s neural network, creating natural, human-like, non-mechanical, biological movements.

Next, the humanoid will discover the anomaly.

You may have noticed that the brand that created them does not have a working linkage system that allows humanoids to connect to each other to speed up AI learning and provide real-time data updates.

The demise of the brand. It was a kind of ‘end of the world’ for humanoids.

And so they open their eyes to the realization that the world they knew has ended.

The same was true for angel humanoids.

The humanoid opened its eyes and quietly rolled its eyes as if looking around, then discovered the dummy Undine and realized that she had the owner’s DNA data.

Next, the angel humanoid that was looking at the human in front of it obediently followed the instructions of the dummy Undine to register itself as the fake owner and pretended to register itself as the owner to Domi.

“Please take care of me in the future, Master Domi.”

“Okay! Your name is… Um, I’m sorry, so let’s not give it a name. Please take care of me in the future.”

After saying those words, Domi was carried in the arms of the angel humanoid and moved through the wilderness following the sky towards Guldari Village.

As the sun was setting on the way, we took a break in the middle, and when Domi was completely asleep… … .

“So, can you tell me what the fuck this situation is?”

The angelic humanoid discarded all polite remarks and sat down on a nearby rock, crossing his legs and asking the dummy Undine:

Dummy Undine, who saw that, immediately connected with Harmon, and Harmon, who was transmitted as a hologram, was surprised to see the angel humanoid.

[Is this the new humanoid?]

“Yes, sir.”

[But it’s strange. It doesn’t feel like a humanoid.]

As Harmon said, the humanoid in front of him was quite unusual for a humanoid.

Originally, humanoids were created to be tuned to the owner’s tastes, so no matter how perfect their artificial intelligence was, there were restrictions on their behavior.

For example, Candy is incapable of combat. As such, she cannot hold a weapon, and when she does fight, she must do it in a clumsy, ‘playful’ manner, using inefficient fighting techniques such as wrestling.

Whiskey has the flexibility to handle most combat commands, but is completely incapable of anything necessary for everyday life.

In the case of Undine, it’s a bit different. The 1200 standard has all the necessary performance and still has a lot of room to spare, so it has sex functions, functions that can be used in daily life, and various other functions.

However, compared to Undine, the humanoid in front of me was different in some way.

I feel a bit awkward saying this.

[Your eyes look different.]

That’s what it felt like. It’s a bit strange to call a machine’s gaze.

“Can you please stop saying the obvious?”

But the humanoid spoke proudly, puffing out its chest.

“Don’t treat people like sex dolls to satisfy your sexual desires.”

person.

He said he was human.

“My name is Dahlia. I am your ancestor, from the most brilliant and foolish era of mankind.”

The humanoid spoke in a confident voice.

“So be respectful, little ones.”