After being threatened at length, Little Green fell silent for a long time, but he still refused to give up.
"Just take me outside the room for one look. Just once, then we'll come right back. I'll log into the game and grind for equipment, bringing you glory."
The robot tilted her head as if she were thinking. "Are you sure? Master, are you sure you want to leave the room?"
"Yeah. No one else can leave their rooms. If I've gone outside before, wouldn't that make you look even better?" Little Green had his own considerations. Though he was terrified, he was willing to take the risk to make his robot superior to everyone else's.
Don't ask. If you ask, it was for love!
She turned off the projector and walked toward the bed, her cute little mouth still muttering, "I really don't know what to do with you. My silly master is such a big idiot. Why go outside?"
"Because I love you, you little fool."
Little Green smiled proudly. Falling in love with one's machine servant was a rite of passage for everyone. Everyone on the online message boards talked about their happy lives.
They bragged about how wonderful and considerate their machine servants were, as if theirs were always better than everyone else's, even though they were actually all the same model.
The women of the planet had become unable to conceive due to physical degeneration. Back then, in order to allow its masters to continue reproducing, the planet's central processor AI had invented carbon-element egg printing and gene-editing technology. It equipped its servo machine servants with this new technology, completely replacing the functions of females, and the next generation produced this way would only be male.
As a result, the planet's last female had died