Raven shouted excitedly, and even Gray Serpent's calm heart grew irritated.
How had he been discovered?
A verbal tic was a dangerous sign. It did not fit Gray Serpent's nature of forever hiding in the shadows. He had to be utterly unremarkable, impossible to recognize.
Stupid woman.
The bee-shaped robot exerted force with its tail, extending a venomous stinger and lightly pricking the vein at Raven's earlobe.
The sleep aid quietly began to take effect.
Raven was still twisting her body when Gray Serpent had already taken flight, beginning to consider how to self-destruct.
He saw that constantly writhing, voluptuous body.
Her chest swayed like surging waves. There was probably heaps and heaps of useless fat inside, doing nothing but adding weight.
It would be you, then.
The robot fluttered its wings and landed beneath Raven's chest.
Three seconds later.
The sleep aid finally took effect. Raven stopped flailing about excitedly, her eyelids drooping, and her voluptuous body quickly came down, crushing an insignificant bee.
Sky City.
A normal humanoid Gray Serpent body crawled out of the laboratory.
This was one of his strongholds: hidden, tiny, and utterly inconspicuous, like a snake's burrow.
Gray Serpent mechanically turned his neck, seemingly adjusting to the new body's controls, or perhaps reliving the sensations from the final moment of his old body's life. He remained silent as he slowly walked forward and sat before the testing bench.
He flipped the power switch, and the laboratory began operating.
Gray Serpent also began meticulously recording the valuable data.
Full, well-proportioned, supple and elastic.
Positioned relatively high, between the second and sixth ribs, with the apex at the fourth intercostal space.
Projection height: twelve centimeters, greater than half the base diameter.
High tension, excellent elasticity.
The breast axis was perpendicular to the chest wall at