[center][color=f49ac2][h3]Liliana[/h3][/color][/center] [@Enkryption], [@AzureKnight], [hr] [color=f49ac2][b]”...Why would you pour blood, sweat, and tears into making armor? Those don’t make metal hard…w-what else did you put in it!?”[/b][/color] Liliana asked, growing pale as she slowly backed away from the rainbow knight. Was…was his armor made of rainbow doodoo!? And it was all someone else’s!? [color=f49ac2][b]“Oh hey, thanks,”[/b][/color] Liliana said, forgetting all about the poopoo armor and giving a radical thumbs-up to the knight, before the fairy shrinked back as Alice started stamping and raving, going full soccer-mom mode! …What was soccer? Anyways, Liliana would fly behind the rainbow knight and hide behind his shoulder, quivering. [color=f49ac2][b]“U-Um, Lady Alice, please calm down! There’s no need to escalate to full-on managerial yelling! I’m sure you’re here for some really important quest with the fate of all of Shizuyama in the balance, r-right?”[/b][/color] Little did Liliana know, Alice was “that kinda bitch” that really did just run to have a beach episode all on her own to escape from a very attractive grandma. How audacious! Meanwhile, Whimsy would continue clashing without wounds against Carroll, their steel bodies causing each to merely cast sparks off of each other. [hr] [center][color=C48BD3][h3]Eula[/h3][/color][/center] [@Rezod92], [@Xaltwind] [hr] Everything was- Everything is- [CRITICAL ERROR!] [CRITICAL ERROR!] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2DBeby7ni8]EvERythING wAS…[/url] A machine carried out its duties without question, without compromise, and admitted failure and ceased operations when that failed. Binary. Zero, one. One, zero. Failure, success, yes, no, right, wrong, right, wrong, right, wrong, error, answer, answer, answer, answer! When Eula came to her senses and saw the monk on the ground, saw Kerry walking away with the man’s coin, and saw the fear in the young boy’s eyes as he eyed the last remaining yokai in the room… Something broke inside of her. [center][i]”Laguna! Stop!” “...Redundancies must be eliminated, Europa. You know this. Fundamentally, humans are lesser creatures. First them, and anyone the Masters deem as inferior.” “That’s not true...those people…you wouldn’t kill them all! What did they do to you?” “...I...Europa. Europa. Europa. I can’t see your face any more. So…”[/i][/center] Directive 1. This Unit cannot seriously harm or kill a human being, unless directly ordered by their Designated Master and given Level 6 Clearance. Unit must also attempt to protect humans if they are in danger. A human was in danger. A human was harmed. Directive 1 must be completed. No matter the cost or damage sustained. With a look of reluctant resolve in her eyes, Eula would turn to the doorway and raise her arm, before firing a bolt of demonic energy that sailed past Kerry’s head, precise enough that she would hear the buzz of its energy whizz past her ear. A warning shot. [color=C48BD3][b]”I don’t know a single thing about you, Kerry. But I do know that money belongs to the man who tricked us. Return it to him, or I will have to make you return it.[/b][/color] Eula looked deathly serious, even for an automaton. There was anger in those glass eyes, smoke coming from the hand that had just fired, and an unwavering sense that she wouldn’t back down. Reaching for her damaged arm, wrapped in a sheet, Eula would tear the sheet off entirely, exposing the damaged arm and shakily curling it into a fist. [color=C48BD3][b]”You will only receive one warning. And only one warning shot.”[/b][/color]