"Commander- I am ready- may I ask a tiny little question- what great mission are we carrying out now?"
Lynn, plugged into the Heavy Mech, expertly played the adorable newbie, his words dripping with sweetness.
"Do not ask about things you have no business knowing- now that you have joined the Mechanical Church- you must obey all orders from above- that is something you must remember from now on- but this operation is special- all you need to know is that all Flesh Lifeforms are targets we must purge- we have no fondness for Dark Night City- especially that fiend named Lynn-"
"Yes, yes- I have no fondness for him either- he really is a thoroughly bad person- he bangs me in a different way every day-"
"..."
In the mechanical squad's internal channel, the Lynn-brand refrigerator's voice stunned most of the machine consciousnesses into silence.
He certainly was a newbie.
But the fact that he could say something like that without the slightest reservation...
Absolutely proved that he was no longer a respectable refrigerator. Or perhaps he had once been one, but he had now been trained out of it.
That shameless Lynn!
He wouldn't even spare a tiny refrigerator like this. He wasn't human!
[Ding! The Mechanical Church's favorability toward you -10, sympathy for your refrigerator +5] [Ding! The Mechanical Church's favorability toward you -10, sympathy for your refrigerator +5]
Machine consciousness: "Then do you have any information about him- if you make a major contribution during this operation- after your consciousness upload- the Purification Council might give you a better chassis-"
After all, although he was only a refrigerator...
Since that Lynn had built him, he ought to know something about the man.
Lynn-brand refrigerator: "Reporting, Commander- I do have some important information- before I