Chapter 301: Out Of Control
“It’s the estrus period, right?”
Hearing Aoxi’s question, a girl with a low ponytail and blue safety goggles answered without looking up.
The other party was currently focused on fiddling with a card-sized card on the operating table, not wanting to pay much attention to Aoxi who had suddenly barged into the laboratory.
“Estrus… hey, Obei! I’m being serious with you!”
“Oh.”
The girl… that is, Obei, continued to brush her off without looking up. At the same time, with the press of a button, the small card on the workbench unbelievably began to emit light.
Unfortunately, this light only lasted a few seconds, followed by a faint sound of glass cracking—the card of unknown material cracked into a pile of fragments.
『Failed again…』
With a wave of her hand, a round red rubber ball-like small robot from the corner of the operating table floated above the pile of failed product.
Suck~
Splash~
The small robot opened its big mouth and cleaned up all the trash on the table like a trash can.
“Eh~ Did you make this little thing new?”
Aoxi’s attention was quickly drawn to it. Seeing this novel little gadget, she wanted to reach out and poke it, but it flexibly dodged and spun around to hide behind Obei.
【|wO】
“Yeah, her name is ‘Little Watermelon Number One’. She’s a trash disposal machine I modified from my own special weapon.”
Seeing the experiment fail, Obei simply took off her safety goggles and undid her low ponytail, letting her dark blue hair, specially trimmed to shoulder length for experimental convenience, fall loose.
“Don’t look down on her just because she’s small. The embedded decomposition program allows her to decompose things the instant she digests them.”
“With this, she can process trash continuously for twenty-four hours.”
Obei said somewhat proudly for some reason.
“Uh… good, very impressive?”
“But why did you turn your special weapon into a trash can?”
Aoxi glanced puzzledly at the small robot peeking out from behind Obei, which seemed to have some intelligence.
“Because as a pure weapon, I don’t fight much so I don’t need it. But after all, I put so much effort into making it back then; I can’t just let it be decoration~”
“Anyway, it’s just one mode. I can switch it back when needed.”
Patting Little Watermelon hiding behind her, Obei signaled that she could return to her standby location.
Float~
【Trash~】
“Oh? It even has voice?”
Taking advantage of the moment it floated past her, Aoxi flashed forward and clamped ‘Little Watermelon Number One’ between her two palms, holding it up to her face.
“Hehe~ Where are you gonna run now~”
【＞_＜】
【Trash~ Trash~】
“…”
“Tch~ What kind of crappy voice is this? It feels like it’s cursing.”
“And this little thing’s appearance…”
Looking closer, Aoxi then noticed that the simple facial features on ‘Little Watermelon’s’ display screen were very similar to a certain someone’s, along with that meaningless decoration on top like an ahoge…
【】
“Obei! You didn’t—”
“No.”
“I haven’t even said anything yet.”
“Yeah, I know. But it’s not; it’s just your illusion.”
“…”
“Is, is that so? But…”
“Alright, back to the main topic.”
Before Aoxi could continue questioning, Obei snatched Little Watermelon from her hands and forcibly changed the subject:
“You said you’ve been blushing and heart pounding lately, with your chest feeling like little deer are bumping around… That’s exactly the symptom of estrus.”
“At your age, it’s right—”
“Wait, wait! I don’t remember using that many flowery words?”
“I only said I occasionally feel a simple palpitation.”
“You trying to say your heart’s malfunctioning? Don’t joke; where’s your heart even now?”
Obei was right; Aoxi’s current body had no organs inside long ago, replaced by a profound divine power core and endless pure divine power.
“True~”
“Could it really be that estrus period?”
Being told this, Aoxi started to doubt herself a bit.
She touched her chin and pondered for a while, then suddenly pressed her hand to Obei’s chest location without warning.
Slap!
Resounding.
Like pressing on marble floor.
Compared to the well-developed Sister La and Aoxi who was showing initial signs, Obei’s current situation… well, optimistically speaking—”future looks promising.”
Of course, if those three prototype figurines’ appearances were the endpoint of their three’s external growth, then Obei’s future might not be so promising.
Or rather, current Obei had already arrived at the ‘future’ first.
…
But Obei herself actually paid no attention to these things at all, not caring even a tiny bit.
Rather, it’s better this way without affecting action; after all, they’re just two lumps of decoration with no practical function.
Right, this body is already perfect and doesn’t need any more additions or modifications to values.
Indeed, Obei had long surpassed the realm of caring about external things.
She wouldn’t produce any emotional fluctuation over something boring like figure.
Yeah, that’s it.
…
“Tch, no feeling at all~”
Aoxi moved her extended hand back and forth like wiping glass, but still felt no unusual sensation in her heart.
Just… very flat, very bland, no ripples.
Obei（ silence.）
“Maybe I need to try with a man?”
“But you’re no different from a man; probably no need for that~”
Obei（ silence again.）
Saying this, Aoxi withdrew her hand and pinched her own.
Hmm, physiologically there was some sensation, but psychologically still no ripples.
“Looks like it’s not related to estrus. Must be some other reason.”
“What do you think, Obei?”
“Obei?”
Boom!
…
“Tch, why’d she suddenly slap so hard~”
Covering her swollen right cheek, Aoxi was kicked out of the laboratory full of question marks.
Red light flickered in her palm; as divine power flowed, the swelling on her right cheek receded at a visible speed, recovering fully in a few breaths.
“Phew~”
Lowering her hand from her face, Aoxi looked back at the tightly shut laboratory gate.
“Was it because the experiment failed, so she took it out on me on purpose? So willful~”
“But this girl’s gotten a lot stronger these years… I’ll definitely go complain to Sister La about her later, hmph~”
With that, Aoxi flicked her sleeve and prepared to leave.
And just as she lifted her foot for the first step, an unprecedented, tearing palpitation suddenly seized her!
Immediately, Aoxi’s golden pupils contracted sharply!
“Hey, no… no way, right?”
“How is that possible… how could he…”
Crimson divine power exploded like an ignited planetary core, bursting without warning!
“Ha, haha, didn’t expect my authority to fail one day.”
Berserk energy turned into a tangible storm, uncontrollably surging and tearing outward, as if to shred everything around into fragments.
“Well~ Looks like it needs a proper fix.”
Sky, earth, ocean… everything began trembling uncontrollably under a terrifying pressure, as if doomsday had suddenly descended before people’s eyes.
“Aoxi, what’s wrong with you?!”
“What exactly happened?!”
No mind to care about the laboratory and equipment swept into the sky, Obei—who still didn’t know what happened—saw Aoxi’s out-of-control state and immediately stepped forward to grab her shoulders.
But this time her immense strength failed to restrain Aoxi. The crimson girl stared fixedly in a certain direction, silver-white particles beginning to emerge all over her body…
Super·Meteoric Burst（Hyper Meteoric Burst）!!!
