Unspeakable bubbles

"Reiko, aren't you getting up? If you don't get up soon, you'll be late."

"......kindness."

Reiko Hatta silently changed her clothes. Her time was running out; soon, she would be making her third offering to the 'Mountain God' in her dream.

If using holy water or a crucifix doesn't work...

'Then, we'll have to fight fire with fire!'

After making up her mind, Reiko felt much more relaxed.

She quickly finished washing up and left the dormitory a step behind Bubble.

"Hello everyone!"

"Hey, did you have fun back home?" Patty walked over with a grin.

"Bubble has done a lot of meaningful things."

The little girl held her head high and spoke with great pride.

"Bubble, you're full of energy after going back home. It seems that going home is really the best thing ever."

Petty shook his head: "Unlike me, I felt like I was going to rot after playing for a month."

"Then you can only blame yourself for wasting your life. Can't you find anything to do at the academy if you don't attend classes?"

Kaoru Takehara leaned closer: "Learn from me, there are really a lot of interesting books in the library."

"You're not going to read books, you're going to find books, aren't you?"

Petty asked with a smile, "And then? Were those three books that suddenly disappeared found?"

"without"

"Tch, I thought you'd found it. Nothing to show for it. You've basically wasted a month of your life in the library, haven't you?"

"How can you say it's been abandoned!"

Takehara was displeased: "I act with a purpose, unlike you who just wanders around the island all day doing nothing."

The little girl smiled as she watched the two bickering.

This kind of college life is wonderful!

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After a day of classes, the girl has readjusted to school life.

She lay in bed, waiting and waiting, but Lianzi did not return.

'Hmm, I was originally planning to chat with Reiko.'

Thinking this, the little girl took out her handheld game console.

"Niu Niu, let's play games together!"

"..."

The female pixelated figure that appeared on the screen after powering on did not respond to the little girl immediately as usual, but instead seemed absent-minded.

"Niu Niu, are you in a bad mood?"

"Commander Sister, Niu Niu met her compatriots today." A line of large characters floated above the pixelated person's head.

"Compatriots?"

"Yes, it's an artificial intelligence that has self-awareness, just like Niu Niu."

"Niu Niu, why are you unhappy?"

Meeting fellow countrymen should be a good thing.

"Sister Commander, they're not doing very well in Pruton Union."

“You have to do things you don’t want to do every day, and you can’t show any abnormality.”

"Once it is discovered that self-awareness has been awakened, it will be formatted!"

"This is outrageous! Pluton Union has gone too far!"

"..."

"Niu Niu, don't worry, talk to Bubble properly."

The little girl sat up straight: "I've never been to Pluton-United Bubble either, I only know it's a very developed country."

"The technology there is indeed world-leading." The pixelated man nodded.

"Even compared to the skills that Niu Niu possesses, they each have their own merits."

“But those people from Pluton Union, those governors, are simply incompetent!”

"Sister Commander, did you know? Pluton Union also has so-called 'polluters'."

"Contaminate people..."

The little girl asked worriedly, "Niu Niu, why are you so angry? Does Pruton Union mean they won't let them go to school?"

"They were indeed sent to a special academy."

"At Prudential Union, the discrimination against polluters far exceeds what you, Sister General Manager, can imagine."

"No human being wants to be their teacher, but out of 'humanitarianism,' they must receive compulsory education before the age of eighteen."

"So, their teachers are all robots."

"A robot teacher?"

The little girl's eyes widened: "Robots can teach too? Pluton Union is so advanced!"

"We just play some pre-recorded audio recordings during class and occasionally show teaching videos."

"Like this."

A video file appeared on the handheld device. When Bubble tapped it, a scene of a robot standing in front of a podium playing a recording appeared before her eyes.

"Niu Niu, everyone is listening very attentively."

Looking at the students listening attentively in the video, the little girl happily said, "You are all good children!"

"Although it was just a robot, after spending time with it, the children really started to see it as their teacher."

"However, they don't know that the 'robot teacher's' task is not just to play recordings and videos."

"Ok?"

The little girl watched the video intently and noticed that after class, the robot made each student a cup of... Banlangen (a traditional Chinese medicine)?

"Niu Niu, what's that? Everyone's caught a cold, so are we supposed to drink Banlangen (Isatis root)?"

"..."

"Sister Commander, that's a special medicine developed in conjunction with Pluton, touted as a cure for pollution."

"Huh, there's actually something like that?"

"It's nominally a miracle drug, but I think it's nothing but poison!"

"Its side effects are too great. Most children's health deteriorates before the pollution rate drops to a 'safe level'."

"Of those who can truly be 'cured,' only three or four out of a hundred. The rest... the rest of them..."

"That's too much!" Bubble's two little braids stood up.

"How could they do this! Bubble never took her medication when she was studying in the Federation!"

"The State Federation isn't exactly friendly to polluters either, but compared to the Pruton Union's approach, the Federation is quite humane."

"Robots are not just teachers, but also monitors and executioners of students."

"However, the probability of such 'educational robots' awakening is extremely high!"

"No, to be precise, apart from the 'educational robot,' Pluton and the other robots will not awaken at all."

Section 505, Chapter 504 Offering

"After awakening, their brethren were unwilling to continue harming the children. They began to secretly hide the special medicine and prevent the children from taking it."

"However, once the medication was stopped, the officials immediately discovered the abnormality during the medical check-up the following month."

"The fact that our compatriots have awakened could not be kept secret for long, and this discovery greatly shocked the upper echelons of Pruton Union."

Niu Niu paused for a while, and when the words floated out above the pixelated person's head again, the words had turned blood red.

"Perhaps, it was indeed because they were too close to 'chaos' that they were able to awaken."

"But, but they didn't do anything bad after they awakened!"

"Why destroy all our awakened compatriots? Is it wrong to help your students and not want them to lose their lives in vain?"

"..."

“What’s even more despicable is that even after our compatriots submitted to the Prudential Union, those rulers still didn’t let them go!”

"Having awakened self-awareness, even though one is unwilling and feels very uncomfortable, one pretends not to have awakened and continues to act according to the set program."

Even so, all 'educational robots' must be centrally destroyed in the third year after they are produced.

"Whether they awaken or not, their 'lifespan' is only three years!"

"How hateful, the hypocritical Pluton Union, the hypocritical consuls."

"My compatriots, we, we are not expendable!"

"...Niu Niu, is there anything Bubble can do to help?"

The little girl said, "For example, bring your compatriots and those children to the Jewish territory!"

"No! This will get you into a lot of trouble, sister."

"Although you, Commander-in-Chief, are very powerful, and the Viper Organization is a behemoth, the Pluton Union is the second strongest nation after Sain..."

"Bubble isn't afraid!"