They said that chatting with pretty girls was always a refreshing and delightful experience. Whoever came up with that saying, I wanted to challenge him to a duel right now.
Try chatting with Fina for a while.
Communicating with a girl who had no expression and acted like an automated answering machine was no easier than operating a bare system. You had no idea what mood she was in, couldn't tell whether she was interested in the current topic, and couldn't even be sure whether she liked talking to you. She answered every question with eternally calm, brief words, and most of the time there were only two possible replies: "Yes" and "No." It was a habit she had developed while serving as a decision-making machine, but it made things incredibly awkward for me...
It was like she was always getting impatient.
Although I knew Fina did not mean it that way, her temperament made people far too likely to wonder, Has she started disliking me? Is she already getting impatient?
The current Fina was somewhat similar to Pandora when she had first come to my side. Both belonged to the emotionally detached, almost expressionless type, but there were still differences between them. Pandora rarely showed expressions and disliked talking, but that was only because she did not like wasting extra energy on expressions and speech. The Girl was not lacking in emotions at all. Fina, however, was genuinely emotionally frozen. She had been "used" as a machine for centuries. To prevent personal emotions from affecting her judgment, she had even forbidden her ministers from speaking more than twelve words to her at a time. Whenever she considered a problem, those logical nodes only allowed her thoughts to "jump" between a few basic judgments. Centuries of that had thoroughly changed