You Still Say You're Not a Lecherous Pervert?!

With the successful experience of finding Mithril Alloy, Kraft repeatedly experimented with metals like thorium and truesilver afterward, finding substitutes for each of them. Even if they did not surpass the originals like Mithril Alloy had, they did not affect the use of those items. It was not until magical materials began taking up an increasingly larger proportion that Kraft's progress in engineering finally stalled.

Even so, Kraft was quite satisfied. Engineering was one of the rare complete technological systems he had ever dreamed of.

Well... it should count as technology, right...?

"By the way, how's the search for Captain America's shield going?"

Having finished his engineering research, Kraft looked through the notes on his computer and asked Harrow.

"Deadlock. Deadlock."

As it spoke, Harrow pulled up the relevant information it had gathered online.

Due to the American government's propaganda, information about Captain America was incredibly complicated, making it very difficult to extract anything useful. Of the densely packed files Harrow had collected, over seventy percent had been marked with a "Questionable" tag.

Kraft spent quite some time sorting through the material, but just as Harrow had reported, the intelligence gathering had hit a deadlock.

A mysterious force had sealed away all the truly valuable information. If two other mysterious forces had not attacked the first force's database, Harrow would not even have been able to uncover this clue.

Of the three forces, Kraft knew the identity of one of them: Tidal Wave, an organization formed by a group of hackers. When Kraft had Harrow sweep through the online world, they had once sent Harrow an encrypted email, roughly asking to recruit him into Tidal Wave. Kraft had decisively refused.

Aside from recruiting him, the email went on and on about the organization's principles—breaking the government's information blockade, letting the public know the truth, and other nonsense that made Kraft want to laugh.

What does it have to do with me if you Americans are suffering?

Still, thanks to them, Kraft had gathered one useful piece of information: Captain America's shield had been made by Tony Stark's father, Howard Stark, using a metal called Vibranium.

After assigning Harrow the standing task of gathering intelligence on Vibranium, Kraft began preparing to deal with another item on his memo.

He was going to give Alice a sturdier body.

When he had created Alice before, Kraft had not been sure he would succeed, so he had only used ordinary alloy. Although she had later gone through the Magia Gang's attack, he had felt that ordinary alloy was enough. Besides, at the time, Kraft had thought that if Alice were accidentally damaged, he could just make another one, so naturally he had not replaced her materials with anything better.

Now, his feelings toward Alice had completely changed. Combined with the existence of Hulk, another equally unscientific and uncontrollable being, strengthening Alice's body was naturally put on the agenda.

"Brother, were you looking for me?"

Because Kraft had recently been researching engineering-related things, explosions, explosions, and more explosions had naturally been unavoidable. Thus, Alice and the two pets had moved back home.

After receiving Kraft's call today, Alice had hurried over from home with Quinn and Bea.

"Yeah." Kraft beckoned Alice over, then pointed at the workbench. "Come lie down here."

"W-what is it?"

Alice looked fearfully at the cold tools on the workbench and asked cautiously.

"You saw that green monster on TV before. If you ever ran into him, there'd be no suspense about you getting slapped into a pile of scrap metal."

Kraft pulled Alice over and made her lie down on the workbench.

"Originally, I thought that even if you were damaged, I could revive you at any time with the computer backup. But you mentioned before that you were afraid the revived version of you wouldn't be you anymore."

Kraft undid Alice's clothes, skillfully dismantled her body into scattered pieces, then hung her head off to one side as he continued explaining, "So I thought I'd replace the materials in your body with sturdier alloys. That way, even if something happens to you, you won't be damaged so easily."

"So that's what it was. You scared me to death... I thought you didn't want me anymore, Brother..."

With only her head left hanging in midair, Alice looked at Kraft with teary eyes. Watching herself get dismantled into a pile of parts had nearly scared her unconscious.

"What stupid nonsense are you saying?" Kraft tapped Alice's remaining head. "You're my little sister!"

"Hehehe~"

Alice giggled foolishly and tried to raise a hand to scratch the back of her head. Then the arm sitting on the workbench punched Kraft right between the legs.

"!!!!!"

Kraft clutched his groin and dropped to his knees, in so much pain that he could not even cry out.

"Ahhhhhhh!!! Brother, I'm sorry!!!"

Alice flailed about in panic and decisively flung her right foot away, smashing it into Quinn's face.

"RUA!"

"Ahhhhhhhhhh!!! Sorry, Quinn!"

Alice panicked even more.

"Stop moving, meow!"

It was the little black cat Bea who, relying on her agility, leaped onto Alice's head and slapped her forehead, finally calming the silly robot down.

"Pain, pain, pain, pain, pain..."

Kraft lay on the floor resting for quite a while before he finally supported himself against the workbench and shakily stood up.

"I'm sorry..."

Alice apologized repeatedly, her voice trembling with tears.

"Don't move around anymore!"

Kraft glared irritably at the idiot. After resting a little longer, he resumed replacing Alice's body.

The blow to his groin affected Kraft's work more or less. It took him far longer than expected to replace Alice's entire body with advanced materials centered around Moon God Titanium Alloy. Even her outer layer of artificial skin was replaced with a tougher material that was fireproof and acid-resistant.

After replacing Alice's artificial skin, Kraft tossed her clothes over, rubbed his still-aching groin, and said through gritted teeth, "Hurry up and get dressed, then make me dinner! I'm starving to death!"

Naked, Alice sat up from the workbench, nodding repeatedly with an apologetic smile.

"Kraft! I'm here!"

Just then, Fatty Liao rushed in carrying his beloved handheld camera.

Since tomorrow was the weekend, Kraft and Fatty Liao had arranged for him to stay over that night and use the weekend to film new material for the Clever Hands Channel.

Kraft had originally calculated that, at his speed, he could finish replacing Alice's body before five o'clock, then have dinner and so on. That was why they had agreed to meet at seven in the evening.

But who could have expected that kind of accident?

"Kraft! And you still say you're not a lecherous pervert!"

Fatty Liao's chubby finger trembled as he pointed at Kraft.

Kraft: "...Fuck!"

Thanks to Rijiann Weiliang, Xiangni de Ye, Feiyi oo, Suifeng Piaoyou Li Fengmo, and reader 20191010221822976 for the donations.

After writing this chapter, I kept feeling like I had seen this plot somewhere before. Then I thought about it and realized that Dr. Slump's opening had the same thing happen to Senbei Norimaki...

Sure enough, scientists sometimes shared the same joys and sorrows.

A reader helped make a character image for Kraft. To be honest, it was a little different from what I had imagined.

He was pretty handsome...

But Kraft was only fourteen, still a kid! What's with the earrings, tattoos, and cigarette...? (Д≡Д)

Come to think of it, you can all upload character images whenever you want? I thought I had to do it through the backend. If anyone else sees something suitable, feel free to add a few more.