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“This is really amazing. I can’t even imagine how much money it would take to make cyberware like this~ Ah~ Really! If only Gil-dong hadn’t had surgery, I’d want to investigate further right now…”

Damon, who spoke with an impatient expression, caressed the arm in front of him several times with his white-gloved hand, as if wanting to let him know how sincere his feelings were.

“How great is that?”

“Ah.. Really. It goes without saying. Just making this one arm would have cost at least a few hundred million. In addition, all the cyberware, including the arms and legs, was made modular to maximize compatibility, and the stability is also amazing. It’s almost impossible to maintain compatibility and stability, but I don’t know who designed and made it~”

“Uh…”

Ji-hoon scratches his head, unable to understand most of what he hears. So he looks at So-na-ra as if asking for help, and she lets out a deep sigh.

“Originally, cyberware is rarely removed once it is installed on the body. In this case, it was created for the purpose of replacing cyberware at any time according to the purpose.”

“There’s no one who takes off and puts on a prosthetic limb every day, right?”

“Yeah, that’s it.”

Sonagi, who had already given the answer, held back her boiling anger. Damon touched the arm and torso of the ‘pet girl’ in front of him several times, then naturally left the room because he had to perform Hong Gil-dong’s surgery.

“First of all, as Jihoon said, it doesn’t seem like they have any intention of attacking us, so are the three of you having a good time?”

Damon, who had said something that scratched Sonagi’s insides, just walked out of the room.

The atmosphere of three people sitting in a room with one pure white bed, a wardrobe, a few chairs, and a desk was really strange.

“Mom.”

“Hey, don’t call me Mom!! I told you to stay still?!”

As soon as the pet girl opened her mouth, Sonagi started a fight. The pet girl, who seemed to be only 2-3 years older than her, called her ‘Mom’ and ‘Mother’ every time she opened her mouth, so it was understandable that she would be startled.

“Mama?”

“Ahhhh! Shut up! Be quiet!”

Only after the rain started to howl did the pet girl quietly nod and sit down on the chair.

“Hey, you tried it earlier. He listens well to us, so isn’t this too much?”

“Mr. Lee, you’re saying that because you haven’t been in my shoes. Hey! Then would you like me to call that kid dad? Huh?”

“What…”

“Well… there’s no way men would know…”

“Huh!” Sonagi snorted and looked at the pet girl and Jihoon alternately with a look of considerable dissatisfaction.

“Did you really hack her and make her call me mom? No, you didn’t just make her call me mom!”

“Hey… I told you, is this a real miracle? I hacked you because I thought you were going to die, and the only vulnerability was right there! I did it once? ”

“Oh my…”

Sonagi, who had her hand on her golden hair, scratched it nervously. It was really fortunate that she had survived the pet girl’s attack, but it was not something she could feel good about when the pet girl constantly treated her as ‘mother’.

“… I got lucky and hacked this, right?”

“Yeah, Nagiya. Why would I fuck you? You know my netrunner skills. Hundreds of millions for one arm… How would I hack a clone?”

“This guy… Really! Hey! But do it better when you do it! And why am I the mom!? I make you call me dad!’

The sudden cold shower that suddenly hit Ji-hoon’s leg wasn’t particularly angry. It was just that she wasn’t ready to be called ‘mother’ yet. And to her, who is a woman, the title ‘mother’ reminded her of ‘auntie’.

Although she is not one of the many girls in Neo Seoul who wear makeup and face masks, Sonagi has a certain sensibility. This feeling of being called an ajumma is something that is hard to welcome.

“Hey… What do you do when there’s nothing but ‘Mom’ in this kid’s head? Do you think hacking is that easy?”

“…Ha. Okay. Okay… What are you… I…”

Sonagi blushes slightly and caresses her lower abdomen.

“..Before I went to rescue Mr. Hong Gil-dong, I told him about my pregnancy… I thought he was teasing me because of that.”

“I won’t joke around with this kind of stuff.”

At Ji-hoon’s words, Sonagi scratches her cheek a few times. Then she puts her hand on her waist, snaps something loose, and moves her leg.

“Hey, where are you going?”

“Can’t you see? Go to the bathroom… Hey! Why are you following me again?!”

“Mom. Let’s go together.”

“Oh, no. We don’t go to the bathroom together. Just sit there.”

As Sonagi points at the bed in horror, the pet girl quietly nods and sits down on the bed. Sonagi goes to the front of the bathroom and pulls down the body suit she is wearing from her shoulders.

‘I don’t think I’m just going to pee…’

Ji-hoon, who thought she was probably taking a shower, waited until he heard a loud sound of water coming from the bathroom and then looked at the pet girl.

“… … .”

The sight of the girl with her glossy black skin was truly a strange beauty. How were human muscles, the human body, made?

Looking at the sleek and well-made cyberware body that seemed to provide the answer to that question, Ji-hoon was able to have many thoughts.

‘But… is this kid naked? There’s something like a utility belt on his chest and waist…’

Except for the straps that could hold various weapons and tools, including guns, the body lines were very obvious. It was only because of the glossy cyber skin that it didn’t feel sexual, but if you look closely, you can see that the breasts were quite large and the pelvis was well-positioned from side to side.

“Lee Ye-ah.”

“… …”

I called out what might have been the pet girl’s original name just in case, but there was no response.

‘Well, I guess you wouldn’t call me Yeah… What should I call you? Future Soldier? Assassin? Huh…’

The scan list says null, but that can’t be a name. It’s something like a blank space.

“Your mom and I are friends who went into the bathroom. We’re not just friends. We’re boyfriends.”

“…”

“That’s right. I think it would be okay to have a conversation with me. What do you think?”

“…”

The girl refuses to talk. Ji-hoon sighs deeply and sits down on the chair.

‘I was trying to do something before the rain came…’

The smartphone in his pocket also meant nothing to the girl in front of him. When he tried to give her a new hint, a message was displayed saying that he could not upload any more programs.

‘Maybe… the last program I added filled the exact last spot…’

If not, could it be that he was periodically increasing the memory of the girl in front of him? Ji-hoon thought about a few things and then stared at the ceiling.

“…Are you naked?”

“…”

The girl didn’t answer, but pricked up her ears a little.

“I don’t think your mom would like being naked in front of her boyfriend…”

“… ….”

The girl thinks for a while and then closes her eyes. In that brief moment, the girl’s black skin changes to the apricot-colored skin of a normal person.

At the moment when her smooth, well-proportioned breasts and vagina were about to be revealed, the girl skillfully grabbed the blanket spread on the bed and covered her body.

‘It doesn’t seem like you’re ignoring what I’m saying…’

Ji-hoon thinks of something and immediately turns on the television.

─Beep

I see programs where celebrities are performing tricks with loud noises. The pet girl, of course, is not interested. She just keeps looking at the bathroom door.

“Mirae Enterprise’s Chairman Hong Seo-yeon announced that he would not pay any compensation for this accident. Is that why? The stock price, which fell last time, recovered 3% today…”

“Is that person also a mother?”

The news showed Hong Seo-yeon’s appearance on screen. A woman with black wavy hair that swayed strangely whenever she moved. A woman who always stood proudly and proudly, lightly exposing her sternum.

The pet girl, who had been looking at it for a while, nodded. Ji-hoon immediately turned off the television and pointed to the bathroom.

“Is that person in the bathroom your mom?”

“…”

The pet girl nodded again this time.

‘If it was a role change, I could have told them to kill Hong Seo-yeon…’

The moment that thought briefly crossed his mind, Ji-hoon ended up smiling bitterly. He too was thinking of using the girl in front of him as an object, just like Sonagi and Hong Gil-dong.

Feeling a little self-loathing, Ji-hoon heads to the refrigerator. The sound of water coming from the bathroom has become fainter. It’s obvious that a shower is coming.

“Wow.. What is all this.”

The refrigerator was full of retort foods packaged in small boxes.

Kimchi stew, scrambled eggs, kimchi, stir-fried pork…

There were Korean foods like this, but there were also Western foods like spaghetti, risotto, pizza, hamburgers, and hamburger steaks.

“It’s not that different…”

When he opened the box containing the burger and looked inside, he saw the burger wrapped in a vacuum pack, looking ugly and squashed. Ji-hoon took a quick look at the box and put the burger in the microwave.

Just two minutes. After that amount of time, I opened the microwave and there was a nicely cooked hamburger inside.

‘Everything else is the same.’

When you open the bag that has turned a new white color, a hot heat comes up. The hamburger bun is damp, but surprisingly, it doesn’t feel bad. After all, instant food that can be eaten in the microwave is the same, right? Ji-hoon thought as he approached the pet girl.

“Want to eat?”

“…”

The pet girl doesn’t say anything. She keeps her mouth shut, almost like she’s treating Ji-hoon like an invisible person…

With a thud, Sonagi came out of the bathroom, having changed her clothes. She was still shy, so she was wearing everything from her underwear to her dolphin pants.

“What? You know how to turn it around?”

“You don’t think I’m a caveman. But, this kid doesn’t eat anything? He ignores what I say.”

“…um.”

Sonagi thinks for a moment and then approaches the pet girl.

“This guy. He’s my boyfriend. From now on, listen to what he says as if it were mine. Okay? ”

“…Yes, Mom.”

It was just one word, really just one word, but the way the pet girl looked at Ji-hoon changed.

“Are you going to eat this?”

Ji-hoon points to the hamburger. Sonagi shakes her head, opens the refrigerator door, takes out the spaghetti, and puts it in the microwave.

When I handed the hamburger to the pet girl again, she stared at it blankly and shook her head. Up until that point, it was the same as before, but then she suddenly held out her palm.

“…uh…”

“Please.”

“This? You want to eat this?”

The pet girl shakes her head.

“..What, what do you want?”

“About.”

“I think it would be better to take the medicine after eating. Is there anything you want to eat?”

In response to the question, the pet girl simply shook her head. She simply held out her hand as if asking for ‘medicine’.

“What, why? You won’t listen to me again?”

“No.. I’m listening to what you’re saying, but what medicine are you asking for?”

Sonagi looks at the pet girl for a moment.

“But why is this kid covered with a blanket?”

“What did I say? You changed your body to look like a human. You must be naked right now, not wearing anything inside.”

“Wow.. you pervert.”

Sonagi smiled and said something, then glanced at the pet girl’s face.

“What’s your name?”

“…?”

The pet girl couldn’t answer, either because she didn’t understand that her ‘mother’ was asking such a question, or because she really had never had a name.

“Then… what medicine did you ask this guy for? What medicine is it? Tell me the name.”

“The blue one. If you eat it, you won’t be hungry.”

Hearing that, Sonagi pushes back her hair.

“Hey, I guess you only lived on medicine.”

“Is that possible?”

“There is a medicine that can make you feel full as if you had a meal and replenish nutrients by taking just one pill.”

“What? If there’s something like that, why didn’t we eat it? We went to a weird Japanese restaurant last time too…”

“Of course… there’s no fun. I just take a pill and that’s it. How weird do you think that would be?”

Taking only a glass of water and pills for three meals a day? Ji-hoon thought about it for a moment and realized that it seemed quite strange.

“And the Megacorps have no intention of selling it. It’s just used as emergency rations by the military and such.”

“That too, no way… Is that because you can get 20,000 won for one egg?”

Sonagi nodded with a snort. Then he grabbed his pet girl’s wrist, made her stand up, and dragged her to the table.

“You, you won’t get sick if you eat, right?”

“Yes, Mom. There is nothing wrong with my digestive system.”

“Okay, then from today on, you will eat the same food as us. Soylent Blue is banned from now on. Got it?”

The pet girl nodded after a brief pause at Sonagi’s words.

“Haa.. Okay, let’s eat something. Jihoon. You’re not just going to eat hamburgers, are you?”

“Yeah, he’s eating it too, so let’s roll a few more.”

Ji-hoon sat down and talked leisurely, and soon Sonagi brought out a variety of instant foods and served them on the table, making it feel like they could open a restaurant.

It was a moment that was strangely compared to Ji-hoon, who had just chosen a hamburger.

“Do you know how to use a knife and a fork?”

He sat down, expecting that Sonagi would know how to use it, and then the pet girl sat down on his thighs so naturally.

“…What are you doing?”

“I always ate like this with my mom.”

The shower stopped at the pet girl’s shameless answer.

“Hey… She, she’s your mom too! You’d better sit on her and eat!”

Sonagi points to Jihoon, but the pet girl stubbornly shakes her head.

“Mom. I want to eat from above.”

“Ah… crazy… really…”

Sonagi blushed and didn’t know what to do. Finally, she picked up the fork after seeing Jihoon smile and shrug his shoulders as if to tell her to give up.

“Kim Ji-hoon.. You.. After you eat this, I’m going to put on her clothes, so don’t even think about running away!”