Buzzz-
The entire mechanical legion's eyes instantly went blank.
Silver Fantasy, in particular, froze mentally, her whole body trembling.
"But how should I put it? If I could use this opportunity to infiltrate the Mechanical Church, I might actually be able to eliminate this unpredictable threat in one fell swoop."
"Mr. Lynn-please... please don't use Refrigerator as another maiden at a time like this (in the simulated voice of Mechanical Maiden)-your refrigerator is already a gift that's about to be given away-"
A deathly silence fell over the entire internal channel.
"..."
"..."
Silver Fantasy stood rigid, even the Monomolecular Sword in her hand beginning to tremble.
The Lynn-brand refrigerator finally said, ˃̣̣̥᷄⌓˂̣̣̥᷅, "I'm sorry-Miss Commander-it really wasn't edited for any other reason-the reason this refrigerator was able to record it-was because that despicable Lynn was subjecting Refrigerator to terrible abuse at the time-"
"Although this refrigerator tried hard to act as though it didn't care-because a morality module had been installed-it deliberately cut some parts out-"
At that moment.
The refrigerator equipped with a morality module let out a humanlike sob of utter despair.
Not a single machine remained unmoved by that crying.
Even the few purely Digital Life entities with no emotions whatsoever shuddered.
Silver Fantasy, too, gave a vacant shudder.
Clearly.
This was not the development she had expected.
The Lynn-brand refrigerator simulated sobbing as it said, "Please, you have to believe me-because this refrigerator recorded not only the audio from that time-but the footage as well-if you don't believe me-Refrigerator will play it all right now-"
Silver Fantasy instantly snapped back to her senses and hurried to stop it.
"Wait-"
But it was clearly already too late.
The next moment.
A whole slew of indescribable first-person videos rapidly flooded their internal channel (.
The machine consciousnesses