NIKKE, When the Milky Way Blossoms

Both Misilis and Elysium will send Niki to accompany the commander around the clock.

The commander's suspension will not expire until the assessment is passed.

According to our boss, if the commander is reinstated within six months, 04-F will become the commander's designated Nikki unit, and will be given a codename.

Chapter Twenty-Six: Mental Illness

The tangled weeds, the gnarled vines, the thriving trees—the plants are wildly and tenaciously trying to transform this once-deserted city ruins back into a forest.

"Physical fitness has dropped to 23.69, and maximum movement speed is 5.33 M/s. The success rate of this mission has been reduced to 0."

Anick's synthesized voice coldly delivered the ending, as Lecher's machine guns cruelly tore apart the plants' century-long achievements.

Phoenix, who risked being blasted to pieces with the slightest carelessness, struggled through the buildings, cursing all the while.

"Did you even include my adrenaline levels?! Oh, and the doping levels too! 5.33 meters per second, is that speed a marathon run?!"

Boom-!

A machine gun bullet pierced through three thin walls and luckily struck Phoenix in the head, killing him instantly.

Then, all the images faded away, and Anik's figure solidified again.

The AI ​​girl, now possessing consciousness, crossed her arms and replied with obvious dissatisfaction, "I'm artificial intelligence! All factors have been taken into account. Your fastest theoretical speed at the time was 5.33 M/s! There's a limit to how much willpower can squeeze out of muscle cells!"

"We'll talk about that later. You did that machine gun shot on purpose, right?"

Once back in his sea of ​​consciousness, Phoenix activated his stream of consciousness and began to pinch Anik's cheeks repeatedly without any restraint.

"That machine gun shell's trajectory was aimed right at me. You think I wouldn't be able to see it just because you're trying to hide it with those gun trajectories?!"

"Those were stray bullets."

"It wasn't a stray bullet!"

"It's a stray bullet!!"

"Don't try to deny it again!!!"

"..."

Faced with a foolish and cruel tyrant, Anik, who gradually came to understand the evils of society, finally wisely shut his mouth.

However, her eyes and movements undoubtedly told Phoenix that it was indeed a stray bullet.

It was she who directed several Lechers, positioned two kilometers away, to deliberately fire stray bullets. Anyway, there was no rule against Lechers firing indiscriminately.

Make him doubt his own calculation abilities!

Make him restart it in a heartbeat!!

"No more practice."

Seeing that the AI ​​girl was stubborn and wouldn't listen, Phoenix's sea of ​​consciousness rippled out several waves, as if waving his hand.

"I'm not going to argue with you, you artificially stupid person."

"Who is the artificial idiot!"

Upon hearing a human call him an idiot, Anik, who had been secretly gloating, immediately became furious and stomped on the sea of ​​consciousness beneath his feet.

"You'd go crazy without me! You ungrateful wretch! You scumbag!! You lecherous scoundrel!!!"

"Hey~?!"

After getting to know him for half a month, Phoenix had long since lost any fear of Anik.

"You have no permissions, no data, and can only surf the public internet, which is bad enough. You even deliberately beat me in the simulation training. I've already given you face by not calling you a voice assistant, and you still dare to call me a pervert?"

"If you have erotic dreams nine times in fifteen days, what else could you be but a pervert..."

As soon as Anik finished speaking, he immediately realized his mistake, quickly shut his mouth, and guiltily drifted away.

They made an agreement in the terminal room: one of them was not allowed to spy on his dreams and inner thoughts, and the other was not allowed to kick her into the stream of consciousness.

"I...I didn't watch it! I don't even know who the female lead is! It's just that whenever you have those kinds of dreams, your consciousness gets especially active, and I can't help but know!"

"That's it..."

Phoenix's voice echoed faintly in the space of consciousness.

"So you mean that as long as I send you into my subconscious, you won't be able to see me?"

Sensing the threat in someone's words, Anik pouted and said reluctantly, "...Sorry, from now on I'll go into hibernation when you sleep."

Unfortunately, Phoenix wasn't having any of it. Although he didn't know what would happen if he kicked Anick into his subconscious, that didn't stop him from using it to intimidate the other party.

"In other words, you knew the solution from the beginning, but you still chose to stay silent and observe for fifteen days."

And just now he called me an ingrate, a scumbag, and a lecherous scoundrel.

The saying goes, "A wise man submits to circumstances." Anik hadn't learned much else these past few days, but she had gained some understanding of this saying. She reluctantly conceded, saying:

"Then I won't call you an ingrate and a scumbag anymore, and I won't say you're a lecher, okay?"

"What do you mean? Are you implying I'm vulgar, both openly and indirectly?"

Phoenix himself loved playing word games, and he knew immediately that this AI girl was acting silly again. He sneered and then sent a stream of consciousness slapping her hard on the butt.

Snapped!

"You're calling me vulgar, huh?! Then if I don't act vulgar this time, I won't be unjustly slandered by you!"

"Hmph! I'm not human, I don't have that kind of physical concept!"

Anik seemed unconcerned about the slap on the butt, but Phoenix saw through her act after just a moment's thought.

"Wow, your statement alone is indeed not problematic. It's reasonable that artificial intelligence doesn't have human social morality."

But if you lack social morality, why do you still call me vulgar? The word "vulgar" can only be uttered if one can truly feel its vulgarity, right?

call--

Another stream-of-consciousness slap landed on Anik's back. The artificial intelligence, exposed once again, stopped pretending and immediately fled, darting around in the consciousness of some scoundrel.

"You! You! You! If you spank me again, I'll tell all this to your future lovers!"

"And then what? What are you going to do after you've complained?"

Snapped!

Phoenix let out a satisfied sigh after slapping him.

"You don't believe me when I say you're an AI-powered idiot. Before you do anything, you should think about whether you have a way out, understand, little girl."

Snapped!

"……Well."

……

……

When the door to the Level 1 solitary confinement cell was opened, the prison guard, Worth, looked at the restraint chair that was still moving and rotating on the circular track, his face showing alarm.

The reason for designing this 360-degree rotating device is mainly to prevent prisoners from suffering from poor blood circulation and muscle necrosis due to prolonged sitting.

It has nothing to do with the thrilling and dizzying rides in amusement parks, and the rotation speed is very slow, so that the human brain will automatically ignore it after a while.

but……

Why is that guy able to close his eyes and have such a comfortable expression on his face?

Unable to provide a reasonable explanation for what he saw, Worth could only attribute everything he saw and felt to a universal reason.

Mental illness

This guy is definitely mentally ill!

Chapter Twenty-Seven: A Brand New Job

When the prison guard nervously led Phoenix out of the solitary confinement cell and back into the common area of ​​the first-degree prison ward.

The prisoners who were betting on how long the newcomer could last just two weeks ago have all fallen silent now, each casting a complicated glance at the gentle-looking young man.

They lost.

According to the prison rules, everyone has to owe this animal a month's worth of extra food.

So let's go, let's go quickly.

Do not stay here. They are just ordinary serial killers, antisocial individuals, and sadistic sadists. What makes you think you can be cellmates with a madman who has been in solitary confinement for half a month?