It was a cold evening and the sun was setting.

As for me, I fall ever so slowly to the ground.

The wind simply became silent to me

And the ground came ever close to embrace this body of mine.

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It was during this fall that a familiar sweet voice spoke to me - it was my exoskeleton armor.

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"Mistress."

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"Gunvald."

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"Understood. Manifesting form."

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The armor then broke down into streams of what could be felt like liquid metal, pooling to the places where Gunvald would then be able to carry me.

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"Honestly, you do have a thing for the dramatic, mistress," he says in that sugary voice of his, "whatever shall this servant do?"

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Before reaching the ground, wings formed from his back and decelerated in time so as to not hurt me.

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"Oh Gunvald, you know I trust you to take care of me~"

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"A little too much if you ask me, mistress," he responds as he sets me down.

It was then that the rude ones decided to interrupt - pointing their guns in our direction.

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"Gunvald, by the command of your mistress," I say as I point my finger towards them and his wings unfurl to reveal me to the enemy, "eliminate them."

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"As you wish," he responds as he turns into a colorless mist that begins to move at the enemies.

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The poor souls try to fire at me - only for the bullets to be turned into nothingness by Gunvald.

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In but a mere moment, their flesh was gone.

Next was the tissues and muscles.

Then the organs.

And lastly the skeleton.

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All that was left was the equipment they had - not stained by a drop of bodily fluid.

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[Shall I convert them to suitable equipment for you, mistress?]

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[Make it tasteful, Gunvald.]

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In accordance with my order, Gunvald converted the clothing to quite convincing civilian clothing (any currency was then handed to me in a neat wallet and any metal not used for currency was converted for his use) and put the clothing on me without much trouble.

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"Jealous that I'm not wearing you, my ever-so-faithful armor~?" I teased whilst walking towards the nearest elevator, according to the map data.

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Gunvald then reformed into his male form and responds with, "you know artificial humans like me cannot actually feel emotions, mistress."

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"Doesn't mean you won't feel any in the future," I respond with a smirk.

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"... Where are we going, mistress?"

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"Going to go buy a double bacon cheeseburger, Gunvald."

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"... Honestly, what am I going to do with you, mistress?" he says with a soft sigh.

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"Make me your lover, of course~"

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"Please refrain from making such jokes, mistress," he says as he ties his waist-length blonde hair into a ponytail.

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"But I was being quite serious?"

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As we walk to the center of the floor - a beautiful meadow with flowerbeds where white chrysanthemums, a bunch of daffodils, daisies, and gardenias grow. In the center is but an elevator.

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"Well? What is your answer?"

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"It might not be now," he says as he picks a gardenia, places it into my hair, and smiles, "perhaps in the future, mistress."

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Heading into the elevator, I say, "then lets head down to floor 9!"

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"Looking forward to that double bacon cheeseburger, mistress?"

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"Indeed!" I reply with a smile.

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And so we leave floor 15.