I, Yuhaka, am hungry!

Upon hearing the voice, Vivian quickly turned around to look in the direction from which the sound came. When she saw the figure, she felt as if her heart had fallen into an ice cave.

"You are... the Twilight Witch?!"

Grevas quietly emerged from the shadows and looked at Vivian before her, saying:

"Long time no see, my good-for-nothing student. As expected, you're the one who put those cursed markings on my lovely students, aren't you?"

"how do you know?!"

Seeing Vivian trembling slightly, Grevas also curled the corners of her mouth and said:

"With things getting this big, everyone will know about it, right?"

Yesterday I specifically checked the physical examination reports of the two students who caused the street disturbance yesterday, and I found that their cursed armor markings were exactly the same as what you studied back in your student days. It seems you're still the same as ever, without any progress at all.

Hearing Grevas's words, Vivian broke out in a cold sweat, but in her memory, Grevas was not the kind of person who would care about her students.

"You're actually going out of your way to help those students who have absolutely no value—when did you become so diligent!?"

Grevas scoffed at Vivian's mockery and said:

"Hmph, I've been here for several years now. After spending so much time in this academy, I've developed some affection for this greenhouse. So, it's only natural that I want to get rid of these annoying pests, isn't it?"

"—?!"

As she spoke, Grevas reached out and licked her lips, saying:

"Alright, time for some casual conversation. I'm going to punish you for making a move on my lovely student. Come on, Earl, it's been a while since I fed you. Now, enjoy your meal."

As soon as Grevas finished speaking, a dense black substance gradually appeared in Grevas's hand. This was the legendary [Demon Spirit], a different kind of spirit that could never become a contracted spirit.

"Ah...ah....Ah ...

Upon seeing Grevas summon her contracted spirit, Vivian's smile vanished, replaced by panic. Clearly, Vivian hadn't expected Grevas to be serious. Vivian had initially thought she would at most be arrested and imprisoned, but Grevas's summoning of her magical spirit indicated that she had no intention of leaving anyone alive.

So Vivian scrambled and crawled, desperately trying to escape, but how could Grevas let Vivian get away?

"I won't let you get away. You'll pay for what you've done."

With that, the demon elf, at Grevas's command, pounced on Vivian.

Then, the sounds of some creature chewing and Vivian's screams gradually faded as the forest filled the air, and the matter came to an end.

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In the world of "Machine-Doll wa Burst," where Bronya lives, after the last attack, Bronya and Shar's relationship changed from being relatively unfamiliar to becoming relatively good friends.

In the classroom, Bronya looked at the book in her hand, but she wasn't actually reading. Instead, she was looking at the holographic projection panel in front of her. This holographic projection panel wasn't Zelus's system panel, but her own Heavy Bunny's holographic projection panel.

Of course, only Bronya can see this holographic projection panel; no one else can. On the holographic projection panel is a design blueprint. Bronya is currently designing the structure of an automaton, but she has encountered a bottleneck.

That is, Eve's heart can only hold one magic circuit, which is what Bronya finds very troubling. Originally, Bronya wanted to equip her automaton with an Eve's heart that has multiple magic circuits, but she couldn't think of a suitable modification.

Bronya then thought of someone's mechanical doll, namely the mechanical doll of Felix Kingsford, one of the Thirteen of the Night.

Felix's mechanical dolls have the ability to steal magic circuits from other dolls, allowing him to use the power of other magic circuits. However, the only drawback is that he cannot use multiple magic circuits at the same time.

Bronya nodded with her finger at the table, wondering whether she should rip out Eve's heart from Felix's mechanical doll. If the plot didn't change much, Felix would probably pin the blame for the "Magic Licker" incident on Eve. Once she had gathered enough evidence of Felix's crimes, she would definitely make him furious.

Then I can design a suitable heart for Eve based on that heart.

Just then, the bell rang, signaling the end of get out of class. Rosalia, who had been sleeping nearby, woke up immediately and said:

"get out of class is over? Yay!"

Hearing Rosalia's words, Lilia, who was standing to the side, also said with a serious expression:

"Rosalia, it's good to stop."

Rosalia tilted her head with an "OwO??" look on her face when she heard Lilia's words. Bronya, who was standing next to her, moved the holographic projection panel aside and closed the notebook in her hand. Then Bronya led Rosalia and Lilia to the restaurant.

Otherwise, these two troublemakers would cause a lot of headaches if they started causing trouble.

Chapter 711 [Bronya in production...]

Bronya brought Rosalia and Lilia to the dining hall at Walpuggis Royal College in the UK during her lunch break. Instead of choosing the college's buffet, Bronya brought her own food.

Of course, it wasn't that Bronya disliked the food at the restaurant, but rather that she preferred the food she cooked at home. Rosalia and Lilia felt the same way; they both preferred Yuhaka's grilled meat and desserts to the food served there.

Bronya was eating her sandwich while looking at the design drawings on the projection panel in front of her when a girl's voice came from behind her:

"Hey you, have you been looking a bit absent-minded lately?"

Bronya snapped out of her reverie of the design drawings and turned to see Xia holding a tray with Sigmund perched on her shoulder.

"It's Xia'er and Sigmund."

Xia'er placed the tray of food she was carrying on Bronya's table and pulled out a chair to sit down, showing no intention of treating herself as an outsider.

Bronya, however, wouldn't care about these things.

Good afternoon, Miss Bronya.

Sigmund, perched on Xia'er's shoulder, greeted Bronya, who in turn greeted him. Sigmund then jumped from Xia'er's shoulder onto the table and picked up a piece of chicken breast from the plate to eat.

Xia'er, holding her knife and fork, cut the steak on her plate and asked Bronya:

"What's wrong with you lately? Ever since we finished reading that book, Bronya, you seem to be daydreaming all the time."

Bronya also answered Xia'er's question:

"It's nothing, I've just been thinking about designing my own mechanical doll lately..."

Upon hearing Bronya's words, Xia'er, who was eating steak, was stunned. She clearly hadn't expected that Bronya's recent absent-mindedness was due to this.

Driven by curiosity, Xia'er also glanced at Rosalia and Lilia beside Bronya and asked with some doubt:

"Uh... Bronya, don't you already have a Machine Doll? Why do you need to make another one?"

After hearing Xia'er's words, Bronya also gave her own explanation:

"Well, having a mechanical doll and making a mechanical doll are two different things. Bronya personally wants to create a mechanical doll that belongs to Bronya herself."

Upon hearing Bronya's answer, Xia'er looked at Bronya with a somewhat surprised expression. To be honest, she hadn't expected this. Although Xia'er's grades were among the top 50 in school and she knew quite a bit about mechanical dolls, asking her to create a mechanical doll by herself... it was best not to make things too difficult for her.

Most importantly, she didn't have much money. Although Xia'er was a noblewoman, she didn't have much money on hand. Even though the academy offered scholarships, Xia'er had other uses for them and couldn't use them to buy materials for making mechanical dolls.

"Oh, I see... Bronya is quite impressive... But speaking of which, Bronya, what kind of mechanical doll are you planning to make?"

Bronya tapped the table with her finger and said:

"We have a general direction and the materials are prepared, but we're unsure which magic circuit to use for Eve's heart."

Hearing Bronya's words, Xia nodded in understanding. After all, each mechanical doll has at most one Eve heart, and each Eve heart has at most one magic circuit, and at most one ability.

That's why Bronya is so conflicted...

Thinking this way, Xia'er couldn't help but feel conflicted. If she were to become a powerful mechanical doll, Xia'er felt that she would also be just like Bronya, struggling with which Eve's heart to choose.

Then, thinking about these things, Xia'er sighed and said:

"If only a mechanical doll could hold the hearts of several Eves."

Hearing Xia'er's words, Sigmund, who was eating chicken nearby, said to Xia'er:

“Xia’er, a mechanical doll cannot be fitted with the hearts of multiple Eves, just as a human cannot fit himself with two brains.”

"Of course I know that, after all, I haven't studied for nothing."

Upon hearing Sigmund's words, Bronya, who was sitting to the side, suddenly brightened up, as if she had thought of something, and abruptly stood up, slammed her hand on the table, and said:

"That's it! That's it!"

"Whoa—?!"

Xia'er, startled by Bronya's sudden action of slamming the table, let out a cute scream. Looking at Bronya, who had suddenly stood up, Xia'er said with a startled expression:

"Bronya, what are you doing all of a sudden?!"

Bronya looked at Xia'er with sparkling eyes and said:

"Xia'er, Bronya has come to her senses!"

Hearing Bronya's words, Xia'er blinked her eyes in confusion, clearly not understanding what Bronya had figured out.

Before Xia'er could react, Bronya hurriedly called Rosalia and Lilia, who were eating sandwiches nearby, and they ran out of the restaurant, leaving Xia'er and Sigmund looking completely bewildered.

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In the academy's workshop for students to make mechanical devices, Bronya was taking out a large pile of metal cubes that looked like Rubik's Cubes from a dimensional portal. Rosalia and Lilia looked at the pile of hexagonal metal spheres with curiosity, picked one up and examined it for a few moments before asking Bronya:

"Bronya, what are these strange spheres?"

Hearing Rosalia and the others' questions, Bronya picked up a metal sphere and said to them:

"This is Soul Steel Ore, a liquid metal composed of countless nanomachines. It's the material I'll be using to make the automaton later."

Rosalia and Lilia looked on with a mixture of confusion and awe upon hearing Bronya's words. With a wave of her hand, Bronya caused the Soul Steel ore to liquefy, and under her command, the liquid Soul Steel quickly condensed into a skeleton on the workbench.

Bronya flicked her hand and said:

"Alright, the experiment begins."

Chapter 712 [Eve]

In the workshop Bronya rented, Bronya had been making her own automaton for dozens of hours. Rosalia and Lilia had also gone to sleep early in the workshop, laying out a carpet, putting on eye masks, because it was so late.

Bronya wiped the sweat from her brow and looked at the silver-haired girl lying on her workbench. Although the silver-haired girl was a bit taller than Bronya, her streamlined chest, just like Bronya's, gave her a rather regrettable feeling.

"Hmm... Internal structure detection, no problem. External structure detection, no problem either. Core and magic circuit detection, everything is normal."

After finding that everything was fine, Bronya breathed a sigh of relief. To be honest, Bronya did not expect that making an automaton would take so much effort. If she were to use the Herrscher of Reason's abilities, she could project the automaton in less than a minute.

However, that would be meaningless, since the projected thing would disappear once its Honkai energy is depleted or it loses consciousness, and the reprojected automaton would be just like initialization.

Bronya slightly lifted the slightly long bangs of the silver-white-haired girl, revealing a round, sapphire-like crystal on her forehead. Then, Bronya placed her hand on it and said:

"Let's start injecting the data now. Hopefully, it will be successful."

As she spoke, a holographic projection panel appeared in front of Bronya, and a progress bar was slowly increasing on the panel.

This time, Bronya's automaton did not rely solely on Eve's heart as in this world for all its functions. Instead, Bronya separated the automaton's power source core, central processing core, and magic circuits.

Although this would take up a lot of space, it would also avoid restricting the circuitry. Xia'er reminded herself that she didn't need to completely conform to this world's ideas when creating the automatons. Had she really fallen into a mental trap in one fell swoop...?

[Ding! Data transmission complete!]

Hearing the sound of data transmission completion, Bronya snapped out of her daze and looked at the progress bar on her projection panel, which had reached 100%.