Once she had a place to sleep, Yuuri went in and out and tried it, "It's true. It's warm."
And Chito asked a question that had been on her mind for a while.
"I've been thinking... You really seem like you're alive, even though you are a machine."
["Perhaps that is because we are programmed with a capacity for empathy so that we can communicate with humans."]
"What's 'empathy' mean?" Yuuri, who was looking from under the pipe, questioned.
["It means that when you are happy, so am I."]
"Naruhodo..." The three of them lay down on the blanket in the middle of the pipe, covering themselves with another blanket. Outside, the autonomous machine retracted its limbs and head, entering standby mode.
In the middle of the pipe, Chito and Yuuri slept together, while Senju lay on the other side, their heads facing each other.
"... It's warm isn't it?" The heat kept coming from the side, making the three of them a little sleepy, and they slowly fell asleep inside.
"Yeah"
They didn't know how long they had slept when a sudden vibration came from outside. The fish in the nearby tank sensed it too, swimming frantically in the water.
Meanwhile, the three of them remained fast asleep.
However, as the vibrations intensified, debris from above began to fall, jolting Chito awake. Still drowsy, she forgot she was sleeping under the pipe, and the moment she looked up, she hit her head.
"Ow, ow, ow!" she cried, clutching her head in pain.
Just then, a loud bang echoed from the wall beside her. A massive robot burst through—it was the same construction machine they had seen before.
Senju was also jolted awake and quickly noticed that the entrance he had just made was not far from him. A wave of fear and anger surged through him.
"Hey! Yuu! Wake up!" Chito urged, seeing that Senju was already alert.
She quickly shook Yuuri, who was still mumbling in her sleep. After a few moments of drowsy murmuring, Yuuri finally woke up.
The three of them stuck their heads out of the middle of the pipe and looked up, and saw that the autonomous machine next to them also stood up, and then found that the large robot began to work upwards, where sparks kept falling.
"Whoa, it's the big machine!" Yuri recognized after looking at it, but everyone still didn't understand its movements, "What's he doing here?"
["It appears he has initiated disassembly of this facility."] The autonomous machine replied, and sparks kept falling into the water tank next to it.
"Why?" Everyone didn't understand why, but the autonomic machine replied easily.
["I don't know, he sometimes disassembles unnecessary facilities to secure materials..."]
["I will ask."]
"You can talk with that?" Chito had some doubts, but autonomous machine did not answer, and walked towards the construction machine.
It seems that the signal of the self-discipline machine has been received, and the construction machine has also stopped working, turning its head to face the self-discipline machine, and the lights on the heads of both sides have begun to flicker non-stop, as if there is a fierce exchange.
(T/L: Quarrel between machines, interesting.)
After the three of them climbed out of the pipe, they watched as the two machines continued arguing.
The flickering lights on their bodies made it hard to understand what was happening, but the tense atmosphere was unmistakable.
"Are they arguing?"
After a while, the construction machine twisted its head back, and the autonomous machine walked back to them, and Yuuri nervously asked, "How is it, what does it say?"
["He says he is disassembling this facility. I proposed that he suspend disassembly, but he would not comply."]
"Useless thing," Yuri suddenly became angry, "But the fish...!"
As he was talking, two more steel plates fell on the wall next to him, and the autonomous machine still calmly talked about the information he had just gotten.
["Almost all of the sectors in this area were designated on his disassembly list. There is a strong likelyhood that a fatal bug has occured within the city,"]
"A bug... Is that bug a source of evolution too...? Chito looked at what was happening in front of her in disbelief.
["If 'evolution' is what you call the next creation brought on destruction."]
The three of them were silent for a moment, and then saw that rubble kept falling into the tank where there was still that one fish.
"Chii-chan, Senju, let's go save that fish!" Yuuri suddenly decided after watching for a while. Senju, standing next to her, was taken aback but quickly grinned, pulling out an enchanted bow with excitement.
"But what the hell should I do?" Chito also agreed, but found no way on how to help, and the autonomous machine had a proposal.
["It is impossible for me, However, perhaps it is possible for you."]
Just as the two of them were about to act, Senju lifted the bow, "Don't be so troublesome, I'll just kill it."
"That may be the case, but does the bow in your hand really work?" Chito has some doubts, this obviously can't cause damage to machinery.
(T/L: Prepare to be amazed on how an Enchanted Bow can do compared to a regular one.)
"Who knows?" Senju grinned, pulling back the bowstring with great force. An arrow materialized on it, and after aiming, he let it fly toward the construction machine.
The moment the small wooden arrow made contact, the massive machine was sent flying as if struck by a giant hammer, crashing into the space beyond and landing with a heavy thud.
"Is this real?" The two people who were in a hurry to take off the clothes hanging on the rope were very surprised when they saw this scene, they originally wanted to use explosives against this machine, but they didn't expect the bow and arrow to be so powerful.
However, Senju knew that it was the enchantment effect on the bow, the strength and the knockback, and seeing that the construction machinery was still struggling to stand up, Senju began to fight constantly.
Shooting arrows at it, a moment later, the huge construction machinery exploded into nothingness, and a few bright experience balls and a few iron ingots and a bouquet of roses fell to the ground.
"It's a lie," Chito and Yuuri, who were just about to put on their pants when they saw the construction machinery disappear, and they felt incredulous, but looking at the mess around them, they could only admit that this was the reality.
["Amazing."] The two stopped their movements, sat there, and the autonomic machine came over, ["It's surprising that with such a primitive weapon, the construction machine was completely destroyed."]
"Well, is that so?" Chito was a little puzzled, and then asked about the plan of the autonomous machine, "What are you going to do if Senju didn't finish it off?"
["These are the explosives that you picked up from underneath, and you can deal with it with half of them."] The autonomic machine pulled out a box from the side, filled with a box of explosives, and then projected an image of a construction machine on the wall next to it,
["Just place explosives in its torso and detonate it, you can destroy its internal mechanism and make it stop."]
"I see? But how do we go up if that was the case when it's so high? Yuuri leaned over and looked up, "Is it from the ceiling?"
"Well, there's a staircase leading up there, but that's no longer necessary."