"..." by Pearl.
My CPU was just overclocked, that was all. Were these two messing with me?
PS: I'd been playing Roco Kingdom these past few days. And honestly, it was pretty fun.
As for the story... in my opinion, it even passed muster. Simple, but not obnoxious.
Volume One: Pearl: Why Ask Me, an Intelligent Machine, Whether I Have a Heating Function?! 15,000 Words
Pearl withdrew her gaze from Chen Li and looked back at Undying Path. Her hands were folded lightly over her abdomen, her posture as poised as that of an exquisitely crafted doll.
"Congratulations, Mr. Undying Path. Your companions... can be saved." Pearl dipped her head slightly, her tone steady.
"Hmm?" Undying Path froze for a moment.
"In the areas covered by King's Land and the Boundary Stone, the companions in your detective agency who were turned into monkeys by the atavism experiment are gradually regaining human form. I have already confirmed this." A stream of rapidly processing data flickered through Pearl's violet eyes as she congratulated Undying Path.
As a P47 executive of the Interastral Peace Corporation, one of the Ten Stonehearts, and the current highest-ranking person in charge of Duality Paradise, Pearl naturally would not turn a blind eye to any anomaly within her jurisdiction.
Pearl had seen every Boundary Stone brought back from New Penacony by the residents of Duality Paradise, along with the King's Land loaded in with them.
In theory, the Interastral Peace Corporation would never permit another faction to use things like King's Land and Boundary Stones—tools that overlaid another person's Worldview—to cover Duality Paradise. After all, it was the Interastral Peace Corporation that had rescued Duality Paradise from the painting in which it had sunk, and Duality Paradise was legally under the Corporation's jurisdiction now.
But the problem was...