Simple evening

I sat cross-legged on the bed in Vio’s room and opened the box with Luna - she was still screeching in the exact same loud way as back then when I had used her as a decoy to escape from Adam.

I will have to treat her better for being so loyal.

Despite my earlier warning, alarmed Violet came from the kitchen. She saw me with a phone in the hand and I nodded to her with a smile that everything was fine.

“Can you turn the voice down at least?!”

Without waiting for my answer Vio went out and closed the door to the bedroom.

Displayed on the DOLL’s screen was Luna’s dark red room. It had gone through quite a lot of changes since the last time I had seen it. The squelchy floor was now covered with a soft-looking rug, the material it was made of seemed to be some kind of a black fur. The numerous tendons on the meaty walls were gathered together and braided to create gore ropes from which numerous K-pop idols’ posters were hanged. Lying in the corner was a life-size dakimakura pillow made out of real leather with an image of some stupid guy printed on it - I decided to make fun of Luna due to it later, but didn’t pay it much attention. At least the half-buried sacks of muscles beating rhythmically were doing their job of creating the slightly creepy vibe.

Luna was lazily lying on her black leather armchair. Her black full-face fox mask was slightly tilted to the side and a small piece of something that looked like an insect mandible protruded from under her. She was busily chewing on a piece of a diced bloody meat that came from the bowl standing on a stand right next to the armchair, it looked raw.

I couldn’t see any of her six incessantly moving blue pupils as she kept her three pairs of eyes closed, obviously relaxing while listening to a music coming from the smartphone she held and to which a pair of earphones was connected.

If what she's listening to is connected with the posters then her taste in music is shit, and forget about praising her for loyalty. I take that back.

In a corner stood a big speaker to which a laptop was connected, the looped screeching voice was coming from it.

“Luna, ooooi~, Lunaaa~, turn the screeching off.”

A thin rope made out of tendons with a hook at the end was hanging from the ceiling right above her armchair. Luna’s long white hair was kept in quite a unique four strand braid - it was standing upright due to being attached to the tendril rope. Probably to avoid the shiny bluish substance it was soaked with from gluing her head to the surroundings.

She’s either ignoring me or can’t hear a word.

I made an interesting observation, her thin pale skin underneath which was a nearly visible layer of muscles and tendons, was actually changing its color slightly from reddish pale to greenish pale and it seemed to be doing that to the rhythm of the music.

Luna wore a skimpy white t-shirt with ‘Today is a good day’ inscription. My newly opened inner girl’s eye could now easily recognize that, basing it on a strap visible on the side, she had a cute white bra and it was either padded or I lost in the size. The rest of her clothes didn’t change much, a pair of sneakers, purple striped white knee-socks and denim shorts.

“I promi…”

Got you.

She instantly reacted to the feeling of geas being activated and immediately corrected her mask to hide the sticking out insect-like part. Following that, she turned her head this way. The instant explosion of happiness and a clearly incoming cry 'MASTEEEEERRRRR!' stopped halfway when she noticed my current form... and went back to listening to the music.

Despite the constant high-pitch screeching, which was starting to be annoying, I sighed deeply and put on a smug smile.

“I promi…”

She reacted again and this time decided to treat it seriously or at least wanted to look as if she did.

Luna tried to stand up and go to the laptop, but failed and fell back on the armchair as her hair was still hooked. However, she remained unshaken, detached the braid from the hook and tried again.

Luna stood up and went to the laptop to turn it off, removed the earphones and came as close to me as possible - as if there was a big screen on her side, she moved to stand right in front of it.

“You lowly human female, listen well!”

What the heck…

I didn’t expect those words to leave her mouth, but it seemed interesting and I wanted to hear the rest of what she was going to say, especially since she raised both of her arms in an attempt to make herself look bigger and scare me into submission.

“You look intelligent enough to know that stealing is bad! But this is your lucky day! Feast upon my unearthly pale radiance and mysterious atmosphere which is like a moonlight night and take me to your leader to redeem your sin!”

“Leader?”

“Yes, you lowly being! Look at that, this is how our master’s face looks like.”

She pointed at each and every of the k-pop posters in the room. Only now I realized that despite varying colorful hairstyles, they all had the same face - my male version one. The handsome image on the life-size dakimakura was also me… only styled in a punkish outfit with a spiky red hair.

This girl's mind is really orbiting around the moon.

“I know that master must be nearby. Just a moment ago, twice I’ve felt master’s love for me! Move your ugly mug out of my vision and bring me to master now!”

From behind her mask, threatening clicking noises could be heard and she was additionally repeatedly standing up and down on her tiptoes.

“Luna, calling my lovely younger sister’s face ‘ugly’ is the true sin here.”

That was how I broke through her strange attempt at intimidating and made it worse.

“How… my true name… how dare you! ONLY MASTER CAN CALL ME THAT! COME HERE RIGHT NOW YOU UGLY SOW I WILL FEAST ON YOUR LIVER! Scared? Huh?! Come inside this moment! I can spit acid if I want to!”

And that was how I understood that Luna may be a bit lacking in the interpersonal relations department. On the other hand, knowing her true name equaled to being able to kill her so I decided to give her the credit for trying to prevent that.

“You’re breaking my heart, I did my best to retrieve you as fast as possible, only to found out that you’ve passed the job you were given to a machine. But my heart is big and wide, I was prepared to forgive you for that… but… do you not recognize me? Your own master? How can this be?”

This is fun.

The intense clicking mandibles noise stopped, each of her six eyes focused heavily on me and even her skin tone changed to a pale-pale.

“Excuse me for a moment, could I please may ask you to repeat after me the following words ‘I promise’, of course, only if this doesn’t inconvenience you in any way. Also if you could, please forgive me for the previous crude words, I’ve been under a lot of stress lately.”

Violet came inside the room with a tray full of snacks and was going to say something, but I gestured to her to stay silent and out of Luna’s vision - didn't want her to ruin the show. She gave me a strange look, but listened and turned back.

“Weren’t they corny pseudo-romantic lines? Now you use them to introduce yourself?”

“Ughh…”

Critical hit.

She moved a step back, this time doing everything to make herself look smaller.

“Feast on a liver?”

“Liver’s tasty…”

“So you want a piece of mine? Huh… good to know.”

“Uggghhh…”

Another heavy blow.

“Is being under a lot of stress due to the fact that you eat snacks, relax and listen to music?”

“But… but… there were so many free wi-fi spots I could connect to and it was boring to just sit all day and scream…”

This one was deflected by her hastily raised shield.

I pointed at my face and said with a hint of anger:

“Ugly mug? Female sow?”

“No one told me that humans can change gender just like that!”

She proved to be resistant to this type of an attack.

Luna was trying to hide behind the leather armchair, watching me from behind fearfully.

I still have the finishing blow in store.

I cleared my throat and used her own words with a very similar intonation to the one she had said them in:

“‘Twice I’ve felt master’s love for me!’”

“Please… forget about that, I was dreaming a bit. Could you show me the proof now? I want to call you as you should be called, but can’t…”

“I promis…”

“It’s really master! My master came for me! How did master liked the play I’ve prepared for him?”

“Since when did you know and can you really spit acid?”

In a swift motion, Luna jumped over the armchair, and stretched out on it, making sure that I had a good view on her chest that really was bigger than mine and tightly wrapped in kneesocks legs.

“From the moment master took me into his hand, the geas has been fulfilled and I instantly knew that master finally came for me. As for the acid… well it’s more like my gastric juices but they’re still dangerous and I can spit a stream of it like five or seven meters away. But never mind that, how I wish I could hug master now and glue my hair all around master’s naked back. But the male version of master, I’m not really into young girls like master is. By the way, master, Is that the true form of a lolicon obtained after thirty years of mediation? Ksksksks~.”

I already knew that she was just playing with me from the moment she had corrected the black fox mask, I was pretty sure that she wouldn't care enough to hide her face from a normal ‘lowly human’. Moreover, the whole part with raising hands to intimidate was something that only Xeli could think of doing seriously.

“Onee-chan, what’s that? An AI? Wasn’t this supposed to be a mana item?”

Curious Violet came closer, holding two cups of fragrant mint tea. She passed one to me.

“Two masters?! I’ve noticed that master’s mana has improved, but what kind of black magic is that?! And I’m not an AI.”

“Violet, meet Luna, my AI secretary and an insolent bug living in this phone.”

Vio took Luna’s vessel into her hand and scrutinized from up close.

“It’s a bit nasty yet cute. But this taste in music is… questionable. I don’t even know how to make a jab at you about that face… simple narcissist-nii-chan seems too much of an understatement.”

“Luna, meet Violet, my little sister and also my true last boss form.”

“Nice to meet you master’s loli slave! Don’t treat me like an object or an AI. I’ve got feelings as well, you know? And I was created through a long love session with your brother during which he had told me his deepest secrets, so I AM his final true last boss form. Make one more comment about my choice of music or my room’s decorations and I swear that I will spit on you.”

The slowly growing smile on Violet’s face and Luna’s happy-triggered voice were either a sign of them hitting it off well or being on a verge of declaring the other as an enemy.

“Guro-nee-chan, you’re into meaty flesh, tendons, insects and inhuman traits?”

“Just call it a ‘monster girl’ genre and yeah I like it.”

“Ksksksksks~ eat that.”

Violet pressed the button on the side which turned off the display and put Luna down on the floor. After that she sat on the bed and removed her delicate kneesocks in a particulary showy way.

“Eat what? You’re just a phone. Come on nee-chan, drink the tea and let’s start… do you really need to put the combat knife nearby?”

“Hey, that was our deal. Where do I start? How much pressure and strength?”

“Masteeeeeerrrrr!”

Before I started massaging Vio calves, I took Luna who was releasing one abandoned puppy like ‘master’ call after the other and put her into my cardigan’s chest pocket so she could watch.

The next two hours were spent on me increasing the knowledge of massages accordingly to Violet’s tips and Luna’s internet search. She had apparently learned how to make a good use of the ‘phone mode’ features yet was strangely fixated on us not calling her an AI.

When I proved to be unable to understand my little sister’s description on how to find the critical point with my fingertips and look for inconsistencies in the muscles to gently yet firmly palpate then with a circular thumb movements, she made me swap places and showed how to do that on my own version of her legs. It was both fun and pleasant. We both really needed something like that, simply to relax and release the pent-up steam.

On the other hand, Luna was loudly voicing her desire to join us, but when I decided to hear her request and used the phone as a massaging tool she apparently didn’t like it much.

To not destroy the atmosphere in which the three of us were making silly banter and constant teases or even some quite scary threats involving burning or acid, I made sure to keep any perverted thoughts locked under a key.

Later, I told Luna all that had happened during the time we were separated. There was no point in any longer hiding anything and her knowledge level quickly reached that of Violet's. On the side, my little sister was providing an additional comments and from time to time asked a question or two like: ‘what are the exact DOLL functions?’ or ‘how Luna has been created?’ or 'can you make an account for me on it?'.

“Really?”

“It’s nothing compared to what you already did and that way I can at least keep an eye on you. Just don’t dare to remove the underwear and come quickly under the quilt, I want to sleep already. Also remember, make any strange noises in the night and you will burn.”

“Me too! Me too! Master take me with you!”

My bed that was to arrive today would come tomorrow and Vio took pity on me. I neatly placed the clothes in a corner and slipped into the bed. It was big enough for us to comfortably sleep together.

I put Luna in between my and Vio pillows. She seemed content with that and even got herself a matching set of light-blue lingerie somehow, though it looked entirely different on her semi-transparent skin. The black mask on her face also gave me a feeling that all that she needed now was a bloody cleaver.

“Good night onee-chan and you insect.”

“‘night master’s loli slav- I mean sister.”

“Don’t start it again.”

They’re quickly becoming friends.

“Luna, sorry for using you as a decoy.”

“I’m proud of master for not using DOLL’s power, so don’t worry about it.”

I actually forgot about that at that time.

“Master, master, master, you’re stuck in repeat mode or what? At least call him something more fun like masterbator. But for now, shut up and let me sleep.”

“Ksks~, I will think about it, ksksks~”

This day ended with Luna’s slightly insect-like happy laughter acting as the silent background lullaby.

Tomorrow we were going to visit the place which was TET’s public face - The Checker.