"All right, all right~"
Orion was knocked half a step back, looking rather helplessly at Artemis as she threw herself into his arms.
Artemis buried her face in Orion's broad chest and rubbed against it, then suddenly raised her head.
"Huh? Wait!"
She looked down at her white hands.
She was not in spirit form now, but a tangible mechanical body.
"Beep." 1
Several lines of garbled text popped up on the holographic UI projected onto her retina, then rearranged themselves into Ancient Greek characters.
"System time calibration—huh? It's been fourteen thousand years since the white giant's extermination war?"
Artemis's eyes widened, and the ahoge-like antenna atop her head swayed twice. "What exactly is going on, darling?"
"I'll explain that~ This is the core memory processing unit of a machine god, removed from the wreckage of your original body after it was shot down."
As Kenneth spoke, he took out another silver-gray metal cube and handed it to Artemis.
Artemis released Orion and accepted the metal cube.
The next moment, the metal cube disassembled itself and merged into Artemis's body.
An immense stream of data poured directly into her logical core through her neural conduction circuits.
It was the memory carried by her counterpart in this world—
"So... that's what happened?"
After a long while, Artemis stopped moving and spoke with an expression of utter disbelief.
"So what happened, exactly?"
Seeing this, Orion asked curiously.
"Darling, you know we weren't gods native to Earth, right?"
Artemis asked.
Orion nodded.
"Our Olympus fleet had a total of twelve colossal Machine Gods designed for interstellar travel."
"Our home planet could no longer sustain life due to environmental deterioration, so it sent us out into space to search for a planet suitable for civilization to continue."
"It was a very, very long journey.