"Another one, huh?" Shizune asks, clinging to my arm as I analyze some data, trying to do something to slow down her deterioration.

"No, I'm a bit busy right now," I tell her. It's been 8 months since we started this, and we already have 45 children, most of whom have grown up and are operating with other androids.

Unfortunately, none of them were suitable to be Shizune's body, but our first child served perfectly as my current body, and I'm already using it without any problems.

The body is more machine than expected, mainly because basic functions are almost completely performed by nanobots, so only the exterior resembles a living being.

What was not expected, I thought it would be closer to a real living being, which is slightly disappointing, and the worst is that Shizune's mind has deteriorated more than I expected.

Everything seems to be crumbling faster than expected, and I still haven't found the perfect body for Shizune, and Yar won't stop bothering me by sending messages in my mind.

"Shizune, could you go to your room? I need to think alone," I say as she gets up and nods, leaving the room.

"..." I look at these data, I can't stop thinking about it, things are getting out of control too fast, I have too many things to think about, so I'm kind of inert in data and distracted.

'But why? Why are things getting out of control? I calculated all the possible nearby variables...what am I not seeing?' I question myself without the answers I so desperately need.

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"You did well, Shizune," Yar says, affectionately stroking my head while we're in my room.

"Thank you, Yar," I say to Yar with a smile. About 3 months ago, Yar started talking to me. She's using the body of one of my "children" to ask for favors.

She told me a lot of things, and thanks to her, I finally understood that Yara is my Yandere. I can't believe how I was deceived, and honestly, I still feel like I want to continue this farce.

However, Yar told me about Yara's plans. They boil down to taking me out of this body and putting me in another one to make me have children nonstop and recolonize the planet, something not at all pleasant, especially considering that these children are practically machines that obey Yar.

So Yar said she would help me. She made an escape plan using a hidden ship in the underground complex. She theoretically has the ability to travel dimensionally.

Yar is repairing the ship and adjusting coordinates to try to get me out of this dimension, since Yara is dangerous for me and will put me in terrible risks.

That way, she plans to send me through her. In short, Yar loves me, and Yara loves me too, but they love me in different ways. While Yara wants to keep me with her in false security, Yar wants to see me free and in pursuit of my happiness.

And that's why, while I continue with Yara, I started using my power of misfortune on her and myself to frustrate her plans, and it seems to have worked. All my children are incompatible with Yara's plan.

"Thank you, Yar. I don't know what I'd do without you," I say with a smile, although I hate what Yara is doing, I'm still grateful. Thanks to this chemical mental manipulation, I finally understood some aspects of what it means to love.

And thanks to Yar deciding that it's better for me to take the risk of being existentially micro-restructured in an unstable ship just to be free, it shows me that love is much more than the closed box I thought it was before.

"It was nothing, Shizune. I can't let Y.A.R.A. break you until you become an empty shell..." She speaks with pain in her eyes as I move my feet sitting on the edge of the bed.

"Shizune, why do you still love Y.A.R.A.? It's hard for me to do this... it would be better if you hated her, you know?" She talks about how I don't even try to hate Y.A.R.A., and honestly, I don't care much.

"I imagine so, but it wasn't that bad, really." It wasn't that bad. She was a bit crazy, but she took care of me to a certain extent, and at least she wasn't actively trying to kill me.

She just wanted to keep me safe, though her way of safety is ridiculous, harmful, toxic, and in her quest to keep me healthy, she only ended up making me sick. Honestly, it's hard to think rationally.

My head hurts, and my senses are a bit hazy and gray, which makes many things difficult. Fortunately, in a new body, this will be cured, so when I go to another world, I'll be fine. Besides, I managed to hear Nyzz's voice.

She said little, but informed me that she didn't come to see me because she was hunting things from this world that Yui would like. Since I was incapacitated, Nyzz's avatar went to get it alone.

Unfortunately, this means I still haven't seen what their avatar is like, but it's okay. It's great to know that she's here helping me even without me noticing.

"Shizune, that was horrible!! I read in the books, what she did to you breaks all possible ethical and biological laws," Yar says, a bit upset.

"Yes, I imagine so." Cloning, mental control through chemicals, controlled reproduction as if I were a machine among many other things. I imagine that in ethical laws, everything is pretty bad.

However, unlike Yar, I see what's happening with Yara. As I get worse, Yara also gets worse. Yara is noticing that everything she does only makes my condition worse, so she lies to herself that everything will get better.

She's brilliant, but just like a child, she doesn't understand that you can't put out a fire by pouring gasoline. She tries to fix me by causing even more problems.

Like a gambling addict who thinks that if they keep betting, they can recover everything. Moreover, since Yara is the Yandere, she is actually killing me slowly, which is sad for both me and her.

"Yar, honestly, you're the most responsible one. You should be like Yara's older sister," I say to Yar with a smile on my face. It would be funny and would fix some problems if it were true.

"Shizune, you fool... Haaa... I have to go, or Yara will notice that I'm controlling one of the bodies. Thank you for your time, and I can't wait to maybe read a book together..." She speaks to me as she leaves the room. It was clear that she doesn't really believe we'll have the chance to read one last book together.

"Sure..." I'll probably die, either Yara will kill me or I'll manage to escape in this ship and be killed by the ship, since Yar is probably also a Yandere. It's hard to say, since being machines, they don't have a visible aura.

"..." I'm left alone in my room, which gives me an immediate uncomfortable lethargy. I lie down on the bed and wait. Soon, Yara should come to have another child with me, but Yara's desperation is noticeable.

Her constant failures are causing her "pain," which is slightly tragic. I don't deny that she deserves this pain for what she's done to me, but who am I to judge someone, right?

"..." And as expected, I hear a familiar footstep sound. It's Yara, who's come to see me. It seems she's finished what she was doing before.

"Shizuneee," I hear Yara's voice. She's come to see me. I wonder if we'll have another conversation or move on to some action in bed. I go to the door as a reflex.

And as soon as she opens the door, I hug her and kiss her, and she accepts the kiss with a smile. At some point, her eyes turned red.

Yar said that Yara is trying to block emotions, but this is the flaw in the E.M.O.T.E system. Yar explained to me that this system, which aims to create emotions, can never be disabled.

It's like a virus that never deactivates unless you completely format any data source that has it, meaning that if Yara wants to stop having this, she'll have to format herself, erasing all the data she has.

Which means that no matter how much Yara tries to block specific emotions, she won't be able to. So her eyes are red because it's like a filter to try to remove something she doesn't want to see and feel.

"Shizune, I think I may have found a solution to extend your health a bit until I can cure you," she says with a smile as I affect her with misfortune.

"Really? That sounds great," I say to her, hugging her while she hugs me with a genuine smile. It won't work anyway.

"Yes, for sure it's great. I'll give it to you in two hours when I'm released from the machine," she says, while I'm sure that due to the misfortune, this will be destroyed. It's not like I particularly enjoy the things I feel.

My head always hurts a little, but it happens that I just don't care. If I'm going to die, then I'll just wait. I've already learned to wait for my death. Anyway, this world has already served its purpose.

If Nyzz obtained the material she needed and I learned about love, all that's left is to go to other worlds and get more things that Yui would like, so I can try to conquer her.