Boss, I Want Kisses, I Want Cuddles!

Besides the Adamantium skeleton and Vibranium skin mentioned above,

he also forged an Adamantium katana for 2B.

And he crafted a pair of Adamantium claws for his Bat Armor.

The claws could extend and retract automatically, remaining hidden within the armor's fingertips when not in use.

Whenever needed, they could rapidly grow out from the fingertips, their appearance strikingly similar to Wolverine's brother, Sabretooth.

"Now it's time to formally test my latest experimental results. 2B, wake up!"

Looking at the newly upgraded 2B before him, Loren resembled a mad scientist, his eyes brimming with fanaticism.

He immediately pressed the spot behind 2B's ear, and a crisp startup chime sounded.

2B's activation switch had previously been located between her brows. Later, considering that the spot was too conspicuous, he moved it behind her ear.

He had also installed fingerprint recognition. In other words, in this world, only he could shut down or activate 2B.

No one else was qualified to do so.

Once the fingerprint verification passed, 2B, who had been lying there with her eyes closed and motionless, slowly opened her eyes.

Then, as if she had just enjoyed an utterly satisfying sleep, she lazily stretched.

In an instant, her newly modified, breathtaking body became even more alluring and sexy, with an added softness she had not possessed before.

2B immediately noticed it as well, and delight appeared on her face.

"Boss, is this the upgrade you made for me? I feel like my body is softer and more flexible now."

"Not only that, my skin is actually warm. Boss, did you install a temperature regulation device for me too?"

2B touched her artificial skin, and a look of ecstatic joy immediately appeared on her face.

Her body had always been cold before. Then Tifa was created, and Tifa had been fitted with a temperature regulation device.

As a result, Tifa was like a real human woman, and 2B had been incomparably envious of that.

In private, she had brought this up to Loren many times, hoping that she too could have a body temperature like a human's, just like Tifa.

She did not want people to think she was merely a cold pile of steel.

In truth, her mechanical body had always been a source of pain for her.

If she had never awakened self-awareness, she would not have cared about it at all.

But she was different. In an extremely short time, she had awakened her own consciousness.

In her mind, she was no different from an ordinary human woman.

Yet reality constantly reminded her that she was a robot, an artificial product made from a pile of steel parts.

That immense divide between her identity and her consciousness made her begin to yearn to become a real human woman.

Because then she could achieve the perfect union between a man and a woman with her creator.

She could even bear children for her creator. From what she understood, humans possessed an instinctive desire to reproduce.

And the robot protocols embedded in her artificial brain made her instinctively fulfill Loren's every need.

Even the need to bear him children—something she was absolutely incapable of accomplishing under her current conditions.

If there were no conditions, then she would create them!

After all, the meaning of her existence was to do everything for Loren, her creator.

And because of that, she wanted a real human body more and more.

At this moment, Loren still had not built her a genuine human body.

But he had given her a human-like body temperature, and to her, that was already the best gift imaginable.

How could she not be excited? How could she not be overjoyed?

"Hehe, yes. Do you like it?"

Loren stroked 2B's lovely face. Her skin was smooth and delicate, seemingly ready to break with the slightest touch. Such peerless beauty was simply too tempting.

"Like it? I absolutely love it, Boss! Thank you!"

"This is what I should do. The temperature regulation device is actually the most insignificant part of this upgrade. I only added it in passing."

"The real focus was the Adamantium skeleton I made for you. It greatly increased your load-bearing capacity."

"So, at full power, you should now be able to unleash around twenty tons of force. You must be careful to control your strength from now on.

"I also embedded a mesh-like thin-film armor woven from Vibranium threads beneath your skin. It can absorb most of the kinetic energy from attacks that hit you, protecting your critical internal components from damage to the greatest extent possible.

"As for the maximum level of attack you can withstand, that still requires testing. But ordinary bullets are basically ineffective against you." As Loren spoke, he picked up a handgun and fired several shots directly at the head of 2B, who was kneeling before him.

Bang! Bang! Bang!!

Several gunshots rang out in rapid succession, so fast that 2B did not even have time to react.

She raised her head, her big eyes wide with confusion as she looked at Loren. Then she lifted a hand to touch her head, only to find not even a single bullet mark.

"So this is my current defense? So strong! But I still prefer the temperature regulation device you installed for me, Boss, because it makes me more like a real woman. From now on, I can warm your bed for you."

"..."

"No, 2B, you're a General-Purpose Combat Robot. Your primary job is combat, understand?"

Loren rapped 2B on the forehead, frustrated that she failed to live up to his expectations.

Hearing that, 2B simply smiled indifferently.

"Boss, you said hand-to-hand combat is still combat, didn't you?"

"..."

Loren had never imagined that one day, a boomerang he had thrown himself would come back and hit him squarely in the forehead.

"Forget it, forget it. Do as you like. As long as you're happy, anything goes."

Loren sighed and gave up struggling altogether.