Warhammer 40K: I Am an Imperial Guardsman
Chapter 629

Maids

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"Welcome!" A female voice with an electronic quality came from beneath the robot's face. "Although you possess neither an invitation nor work performance points, the company also has procedures for handling tourist assets such as yourselves."

"I have a bad feeling... They're going to attack!"

Trazyn was deeply conflicted. He wanted to see the primarchs fight the company's maid robots, but he could not bear to watch the things before him get smashed to pieces.

After thinking carefully for a while, Trazyn decided he should store the items away first. As for recreating the scene, he could leave that to his Crypteks and have them work overtime on it.

"Looks like I have no choice but to act." Trazyn stepped between the primarchs and the maid robots, pulling out a stasis device used to capture collectibles.

But before he could activate it, the maids all moved aside. A maid robot appeared whose living-metal material was utterly indistinguishable from that on Trazyn's body.

Perhaps to distinguish Necrontyr maids from human maids, this maid bore runes from Necrontyr culture and ornaments made of Blackstone.

"Immobilizing non-company executives constitutes maid theft operations!"

"What?"

Trazyn had not even had time to react before the data released by the Necrontyr maid bound him up. He now looked like an idiot with both hands raised high.

"These... xenos seem rather jumpy." Rogal Dorn's assessment made Trazyn even more embarrassed. He tried to communicate with Orikan, only to discover that the data blockade prevented him from doing so.

"Damn it! Damn it! If I'd studied more conceptual data theory instead of busying myself recording guides for the gallery, or helping human librarians sort out those erroneous histories... Oh... I should have learned more theory..."

Trazyn complained about not having any Crypteks with him, while Orikan was somewhat

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