Chapter 869 – 869. Puppeteer’s Heart (7)
“Wow…”
Pretty.
It was Erin’s first thought when she saw the doll girl in front of her eyes.
Even when she saw Archis, who was asleep in the box, she did think of that, but it was not so much that she involuntarily exploded her admiration like this.
White hair that fluttered like fine silk.
A small face, small lips, and fair skin.
The jewel-like shining eyes were so beautiful that I wondered if they were really human.
And the feeling of seeing a really small and beautiful doll.
Arcis tilted her head at Erin’s stare, which was as if it would pierce her own face.
“Are you looking at me with a great gaze?”
Arcis looked at Eunhyun, the only face he knew, with eyes demanding an explanation.
“It’s because it’s very pretty!”
Erin pushed her face closer, her eyes twinkling.
Seemingly excited, she observed Archis with an expression full of curiosity.
As expected, Emilia also thought that it was an amazing doll that looked like it, but what was in front of Erin was her first doll that became the prototype of such Emilia.
She couldn’t help but burst into admiration.
“… Thank you?”
Archis, who didn’t know how to react to the sudden compliment, also tilted his head and accepted her compliment meekly.
Eventually, Erin introduced herself and held out her hand.
“Nice to meet you! I am Erin!”
“… Archis.”
At Erin’s self-introduction, Arcis also introduced himself and held her hand.
The first impression of Erin shaking her hand up and down with all her might was very strange.
‘He’s a very active kid.’
A personality that is full of energy and prefers to express it rather than standing still.
And the affinity is very good.
As Archis understood, Erin was like that.
“And I am Hyun-i’s wife!”
“… What?”
For a moment, Archis looked at him as if he hadn’t heard it wrong.
Eventually, she turned her head to check Eun-hyeon’s face, then Erin’s face again, looking for the truth of the words.
Seeing that everyone is accepting the fact as if it were natural, far from expressing any reaction to it, it doesn’t seem like a lie.
Archis asked Eunhyeon with a surprised expression.
“Are you married?”
“Somehow.”
“How come marriage can be so stupid? At least not from my memory.”
“Well what…”
Eun-hyeon smiled dejectedly and she blankly looked at the magic lamp on her ceiling.
His expression, which suggested that a lot had happened in the meantime, kept his mouth shut.
I was surprised, but not really that surprising.
He is also a human being, and meeting a partner, having children, and living a happy life are natural reproductive instincts as a human being.
If there is one thing that was unexpected.
“Nice to meet you. Lily, the third wife of the master. Good luck in the future.”
“…”
Seeing Lily reach out to her smiling, Archis is at a loss for words in her moment.
Eunhyeon’s wife was not one.
Besides, if you say the third, isn’t it a story that there is also a first and a second?
“Haha…”
Looking at Eunhyeon once again, he showed a detached smile and sparing his words.
She had a momentary intuition that the eventful life of her friend whom she had met after a long time was too bold to end in a fairly short period of time.
“There must be a lot to talk about.”
“Well, I’ll solve the hoepo later. First of all, I’m going to brief you on your physical condition, are you okay?”
“Hmm… Do it what. In fact, I was also a bit curious about it.”
Archis, who had woken up after a long time, was actually unaware that he had woken up from a long slumber.
To the doll girl who stopped working, what happened 400 years ago before she fell asleep was as if it had happened yesterday.
So, she was feeling awkward about the current state of her own body that had changed.
It’s as if she’s embarrassed by the unexpected awkwardness of moving her limbs, which have long felt part of herself.
Archis was unfamiliar with her own craft, built from her newly replaced parts.
“Are you very uncomfortable?”
“No. It’s not like that. It just got more comfortable.”
It was lighter and more mobile than the body she had previously used.
Circuits that supply magical energy from internal joints, artificial muscles and skin, etc.
It was to the point where you could see the passion and effort that her Eunhyeon had made for her new aircraft through fine and meticulous adjustments.
“My puppetry. Have you mastered it perfectly?”
Archis, who checked the state of her newly made body, smiled at her as if she was happy.
She just wanted to use her own skills and knowledge to remember herself as her doll, but Eun-hyeon perfectly resurrected herself.
As a fellow puppeteer, he couldn’t help but be happy with his achievements.
“I’m glad you complimented me like that.”
Eunhyun also smiled and nodded his head.
“If you were going to use it so well, why did you refuse when I said you would teach me?”
In time, he immediately caught the fault.
It was a proposal she had made with great heart, but she turned it down in less than a minute, which seems to have made the doll girl feel sad.
“Hey… At that time, I didn’t have time to really use it even if I was learning. And I didn’t have the confidence to use it as well as you.”
The strength of Archis was that the weapons of the puppet army had powerful firepower that stirred the battlefield, but the really scary thing was the strategy and tactics thoroughly controlled by the command of Archis, the elder brain.
Controlling dozens of puppets at the same time and leading them requires a huge amount of computation.
There was nothing Eunhyeon couldn’t do if she used ‘Thought Acceleration’ with the power of the goddess, but it was realistically unreasonable to lead the puppets and take the lead in a tense battle where victory or defeat could be decided by one second of choice and movement.
The most important thing about the puppeteer’s fighting style was not to keep an eye on only one side, but to grasp the entire battlefield and give accurate instructions.
It didn’t suit Eun-hyeon’s way of fighting on the front line.
“Right now Emilia is doing your part, so it’s okay.”
Now, it is also planned to be the role of Archis.
“… Okay. Well, the past can’t be helped. But even now, you inherited my knowledge and skills, so I’ll take care of that.”
“Then shall we begin the briefing?”
“Okay. Good.”
Archis nodded his head.
The doll girl also needed to know her current body condition and specifications accurately.
“Then… We’ll just go.”
“I suffered… Cow. The field manager and Cecilia too.”
When the conversation was over to some extent, Cecilia and Doran rose from their seats saying they would go to rest right away.
As soon as they confirmed that the Arcis was working properly, they sighed in relief that their work was finally done.
Cecilia and Doran felt proud and relieved at the fact that they had successfully completed the work, but they could not overcome the fatigue they had endured and looked haggard.
Dwarves are a race that never gets tired even when they hit a hammer without resting for more than 10 hours a day.
It was really blood-drying to arrange each part, which was as small as a fingernail, accurately so that it would not be twisted.
“You worked hard. Just go in and rest.”
“Thank you. Thank you for making me again.”
Arcis also thanked the two of them who must have worked hard.
“No. It was really hard, but it was a meaningful time.”
“Haha! Work with the yard! It was a very glorious experience!”
Despite her tired expression, Cecilia with a wry smile and Doran with a hearty smile showed a strong sense of accomplishment at this moment.
Seeing the two looking like they were about to collapse at any moment, Eunhyeon sent them off with a wry smile.
It wouldn’t be strange for them to lock themselves in their rooms for a day or two and sleep all day.
“Are you okay, Hyun?”
“Me? What am I Not yet. Go and rest later.”
Erin smiled broadly and spread her arms toward Eunhyun.
“Hi-Hi! Ruler! Hug me! I’ll relieve Hyeoni’s fatigue!”
“Thank you.”
Eunhyun smiled.
He hugged her wide open on either side of her.
It was the feeling of being intoxicated by the fragrant smell that flowed from her wife’s body and seeping into her own body.
It would not be a mistake to feel that the heavy and tired fatigue was relieved even a little bit.
“… While I couldn’t see you, I became a very loving person.”
Archis was quite shocked by the completely different appearance of a friend he hadn’t seen in a while.
I couldn’t afford it back then, and it was the look of a warrior thinking how to deal with demons and monsters.
Eun-hyeon, who briefly relieved her fatigue from skinship with her wife, went straight to the main topic.
“Hmmmm. Then, let’s get to the point and start briefing on the specifications of your newly created body. Lily.”
“Yes. Master.”
“Fix this on the chalkboard.”
“All right.”
Lily unfolded the paper given to her by Eun-hyeon and spread it over the movable blackboard she brought beforehand.
“This…”
Arcis immediately recognized the drawing drawn on the paper pinned to the blackboard.
Eunhyun nodded in affirmation.
“Okay. It is a drawing of the inside of your body.”
“…”
“I had absolutely no idea how your body was structured before, so I directly observed your body and Emilia’s body, reconstructed them in my own way, and drew a blueprint. If there is a part you thought of or a more efficient configuration or method, tell me right away…”
“Hey.”
“Hmm?”
As if he couldn’t stand it any longer, Archis cut off Eunhyun’s words.
When Eunhyun asked why, Archis couldn’t help but frown on the face of a beautiful doll.
“I thought you changed a little after getting married, but are these delicate parts of you still the same? Seriously, how did you get married with that kind of notice?”
“… What?”
“It’s really hard to believe he has multiple wives.”
“… No. What do you not like?”
At best, he created a new body and resurrected him, so why should he be criticized?
Eunhyun couldn’t understand.
If I had to use an analogy, today’s Archis is like a modern computer that has been reborn by replacing all outdated parts from 400 years ago with the latest ones.
It was resurrected after going through the hardships of putting in huge amounts of capital, time, and effort, but suddenly being cursed at, it was more than a bad feeling, it was just ridiculous.
“That blueprint, is it the internal drawing of my body right now?”
“Uh, what about it?”
“Wouldn’t it be nice if you openly took a picture of yourself naked and posted it like that?”
“… What?”
“Although I am not a human, I am a doll, but I also have innocence and shame. But now you’ve trampled on my heart like that. Know?”
“…”
Eunhyun thought.
No. No idea?
Just as Archis, a doll, could not understand the human mind and emotions, Eunhyeon, a human, could not understand the mind and emotions of a doll.
No, the sensibility itself was so different that I couldn’t relate.
It was when Eun-hyeon lost her words due to Archis’ incomprehensible sensibility.
“Omg… This was a bit too much for Hyun! You must apologize to Archis!”
Erin sided with Arcis.
Erin seemed to understand Archis’s feelings and emotions.
At first, Archis was very frustrated with the different sensibility, but after hearing Erin’s argument, he sympathized with the doll girl’s shame.
“Really… Did I do something wrong… ?”
At this point, Eun-hyeon was speechless at the thought that he was really wrong.