No one had expected it to end like this.
Among the gathered crowd, all the Mechanical Humanoids stared blankly at the scene. She held that rust-covered Little Refrigerator in her arms, and in that instant, they felt it with such clarity: somewhere along the way, the Miss Machine Intelligence they had once known had died.
She was someone else...
Something terrible that should never have taken root in Miss Machine Intelligence...
Had begun to sprout.
"From now on, just stay by my side."
At the Main Base of the Mechanical Church's Expeditionary Army, Silver Fantasy walked ahead, glancing slightly to the side. Her eyes reflected the rust-covered, wide-eyed Little Refrigerator behind her.
She spoke softly to him.
He looked like a country bumpkin visiting a city for the first time. Three enormous Hives floated high overhead. Beacons stood everywhere like straight, towering spires, projecting azure beams into the sky. Warships were docked in orderly rows all around, and neatly arranged mechanical troops in tight formations filled the area.
As the two of them strolled across the plaza, they kept drawing the gazes of passing Mechanical Lifeforms.
Compared with the powerful, brand-new bodies around him, the Lynn-Brand Refrigerator looked like a piece of old junk dug out of a rubbish heap, utterly out of place.
Holding a wrench, the Lynn-Brand Refrigerator said with a (.;ﾟ;:益:;ﾟ;.) expression:
"Commander Sister-maybe I should go back-the Little Refrigerator's cooling function still isn't fixed-I just remembered I have some other things to do-once I've fixed it, I'll..."
The Lynn-Brand Refrigerator turned to flee.
But Silver Fantasy caught him with one hand in an instant.
The Lynn-Brand Refrigerator leaned forward and frantically tried to drive away with a (;≧д≦) expression, but it was completely useless.
Silver Fantasy glanced sideways and said:
"This isn't like how you