No one knew where the notification had come from.
Little Refrigerator hadn't heard the System Notification either, something he knew absolutely nothing about. He only cried, his head lowered, dragging the Mechanical Maiden wrapped in flesh behind him.
Onward he went.
But he was an optimist by nature. Though he occasionally let his feelings out, sorrow could never defeat him.
Before long, that determined look returned.
He wiped away his tears.
And pressed on.
Silver Fantasy saw all of it. She truly had never imagined that one day, when she fell into hardship, such a weak mechanical lifeform would brave every danger to bring her out of her suffering.
He hadn't even joined the Mechanical Church...
Only a short while ago, she had still been wary of him and suspicious of him, believing he might well be a spy planted by that Lynn.
She had even considered it.
Once this mission was over, should she send this Little Refrigerator to court for a rigorous investigation? There were simply too many suspicious things about him that needed looking into...
But...
She gazed absently at his back as he fell and climbed up again, over and over, never abandoning her.
He was so fragile.
He was covered in rust...
Even the lowest-grade Mechanical Humanoid could probably kill him with ease.
"Why bother taking me with you..."
She asked softly within her consciousness, as though asking herself.
But the Flesh Plague soon struck again.
Her consciousness was once more imprisoned within that cage of flesh.
Only this time.
She suddenly felt unafraid.
After losing all her connections, after being cut off from the mechanical collective, when darkness descended, she remembered asking her father long ago how lonely the old people must have been in the early days of their civilization, before they achieved