Chapter 28
Translator - Zofu
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Earth was humanity's homeworld and the proud capital planet of the Atlantis Imperial House. During the great war with the Lucid Empire, it lost its glorious civilization to carpet nuclear bombardment, transforming from the empire's greatest city-planet into a barren wasteland, forcing it to relinquish its capital status to Mars, its rival and second largest city-planet.
Considering the size difference from Earth, Mars boasted a city-planet with a population comparable to Earth's, and was the heart of the Persephone family led by Bilyoeb, who now served as Prime Minister. The Governor-General's Office recognized Mars's superior position, and as the only planet capable of handling large-scale administrative work while countless planets turned to ash, it easily became the second capital.
From Earth to Mars—even at the speed of light, it took less than an hour to arrive, so in this age where warp engines were commonplace, it was a distance one could traverse as easily as crossing a backyard.
But if you asked whether warp engines could instantly reach the Atlantir region on the opposite side of the galaxy, the answer was a resounding "no." Today, the "broadly defined Atlantir region" occupied a quarter of our galaxy, but if you narrowed that scope to "the area governed by the Atlantis People's Government led by temporary Secretary-General Atlantine I," the distance to reach that place became even greater.
Therefore, if things had gone properly, Kaldir, born on Mars, should never have had to spend her childhood stranded in such a remote place. Because this was an era dominated solely by "abnormalities," Kaldir, who had just been born into the world, ended up stranded on the cold, barren ice planet Kaldir.
Kaldir was no ordinary weak masochist sow, but even if she was an incredibly powerful psychic, being found alone without parents in a crashed spaceship on a planet tens of thousands of light-years away suggested there must have been some story behind it. Perhaps her parents died during the war and she was kidnapped by those who thought she'd be useful, or something went terribly wrong during evacuation.
The details were unknown. No, I couldn't bring myself to ask. Commander Astra wasn't cruel enough to ask such things of a newborn found near a burning spaceship.
"So, you're going to meet our Kaldir? If you see her, please be sure to tell her the news from here. Tell her your friend is waiting desperately for her. I am too, but..."
"Yes, of course. How could I dare refuse a request from my master's mother? I'll be right back. Flan, let's go now."
"Ugh... I want to sleep a little more..."
"Hey! That won't do! You slept for a full twelve hours, and now that we're going to find our master, you want to sprawl out and sleep more!"
"Argh! Okay, okay, Aurora! I'm awake now! I'll walk on my own, so stop hitting me!"
"Heh heh... Truly close android sisters... But an older sister must understand her younger sister. Now now, stop with the knuckle sandwiches and shouldn't you be getting going soon?"
At the site where Kaldir was found, there was no sign of any guardian. Though we did find what was once a person inside the spaceship, the body had burned too fiercely to identify them. Fortunately for Kaldir, Commander Astra, who played the role of kingmaker in the Kaddis star system to which planet Kaldir belonged, took pity on the newborn and adopted her as a foster daughter.
This woman, Commander Astra, volunteered to become a foster mother in place of Kaldir's biological mother who died giving birth to her in the operating room. In this country where male supremacy was the absolute law, it was common not to give daughters names, so "Astra" was her surname. By taking the planet's name and adding it to that surname, the name "Kaldir Astra" was born.
Kaldir, who looked so cute in a yellow baby dress and whose chubby cheeks made you want to pinch them, grew up in an instant into a teenage girl and somehow acquired the skill to create two androids. The first was a black-haired girl with sturdy milk tanks hidden beneath a thick maid outfit, named "Aurora." The second was a girl about elementary school height, wearing clothes suitable for her age, boasting snow-white hair like an albino, named "Flan."
Though I raised Kaldir as preciously as if she were my own flesh and blood, even I couldn't understand what she was thinking when she made these androids. Besides these two, she had made various other miscellaneous things, which proved quite useful on this resource-poor planet. These androids also became a great help to us after being created by Kaldir.
Aurora, who looked like a bewitchingly beautiful maid, essentially became the planet's housekeeper, carrying heavy loads and traveling to city-planets to bring back food supplies. Flan, the second one... despite being an android and sleeping a lot, was so cute that she was treated like an idol.
Who was it that said androids were fundamentally beings created to serve humans? Fitting that role, their very appearance seemed designed to win people's affection. Aurora appealed to grown men, while Flan appealed to children who still retained their innocence.
In fact, Commander Astra's beauty, which could be seen at a glance while observing the androids' appearances, was also formidable. Among the female soldiers of this country, Commander Astra was uniquely the only one to have risen to that rank, and her beauty was first evident in her skin, which had no wrinkles despite being in her forties, looking like a woman in her twenties. No, not "like a woman in her twenties"—she simply was a woman in her twenties.
Unlike her foster daughter Kaldir, who wore a short wavy perm, her beautifully maintained long hair shone with brilliant gold, and the baby bottle (a favorite item of Kaldir's childhood) attached to her chest was larger than a human head, making its outline visible even under her stiff military uniform. Yet she had a slender waist and no excess fat—a woman of transcendent beauty.
She hardly looked like a woman who belonged in the military. Even among women in the military who received the reputation of being "pretty," they usually couldn't compare to women outside the military, yet the commander's beauty could rival those so-called "Miss-something" contestants and idols. With such a beauty in a military uniform, she looked less like a soldier and more like a military cosplay girl.
A beauty so captivating that no one could pass by without noticing, many men had tried to make her their own, but none had succeeded in grasping her. Though she had entered the military for her homeland, she was "herself" and no one's possession. Even if that "someone" was her homeland, it made no difference. That was her doctrine, and she even rejected a certain noble's proposal to make her his concubine in exchange for a mansion.
Well, there was no end to talking about things already past. It was only a few days ago that I sent Kaldir—whom I had only heard of—to a place called "Earth" on business. When I saw her off, I didn't know, but separated by tens of thousands of light-years, I was already consumed by longing.
Then, when the two androids Kaldir created stepped forward to find their master, Commander Astra uncharacteristically brightened. Even a psychic of my caliber couldn't single-handedly break through tens of thousands of light-years swarming with those damned Lucid soldiers, but these two seemed to have a way to overcome that.
"But... weren't androids and such designed to be unable to refuse human commands? Didn't Kaldir tell you to wait here..."
So as I was about to send them off with a smile, having packed only light luggage, that thought suddenly occurred to me, and I had to ask.
"Ah, that doesn't matter. When our master created us, she breathed a complete self into these metal bodies... so if we wish, we can move about as we please regardless of what our master said."
Receiving Commander Astra's question, Aurora paused for a moment, then answered with only her face turned away. And she added in a voice too quiet for the commander to hear.
"You said it wouldn't take long... hehehe, I suppose I'll need to punish a master who breaks promises. I've already figured out that our master is a masochist sow. She seemed to be trying to hide it... but my eyes cannot be deceived. The moment we meet again is something to look forward to. Hehehe... hahahaha..."
When creating Aurora and Flan, Kaldir personally installed olfactory sensors in them. After experimental results through Carnelian concluded that "even androids, if they possess olfactory sensors and human emotions, could not help but be drawn to Kaldir's seductive pheromones," watching Aurora's wicked smile sent chills down my spine.
"We'll be right back! Master's mother! Bye-bye, friends!"
"Okay! Have a good trip! You have to check out what's on Earth and tell us too!"
"Bring back something! If you don't, we're not friends anymore!"
In contrast to Aurora's wicked smile at the thought of educating her master with a spanking, Flan showed the commander a pure, untainted smile and waved a hand in friendly greeting. Truly, they were human-like children, hard to believe they were androids. With Flan's wave, the two androids disappeared from the planet.
From planet Kaldir to Earth where human Kaldir was: sixty to seventy thousand light-years. Even a battleship decked out with dozens of state-of-the-art warp engines the size of a building couldn't cross such a distance in an instant, but the work born from Kaldir's hands far surpassed the current human technology.
"Phew... they really took off together. Our planet didn't even have a decent school, so where on earth did Kaldir learn how to make such things..."
The commander looked vacantly at the spot where the androids had stood and clicked her tongue. Even Commander Astra, who had cared for Kaldir with utmost devotion as a foster mother, couldn't imagine that Kaldir had simply "known" countless things from birth, or that she would now be a female whining and clinging to the princess.
Before I entered the military, I was illiterate, unable to even write my own name properly. Though she was my daughter, she truly is an unknowable child. There were secrets even between biological parents and children, and you couldn't know everything—much less between foster parents and an adopted daughter.
"Oh dear, Sugar. Are you okay?"
"Ugh... C-Commander... had Kaldir... returned?"
"The appointed time had passed... but it seemed she wasn't back yet. So Aurora and Flan went to check if something happened."
Unable to just stand there any longer, I shuffled my way toward the office, when I saw Sugar—Sugar Arumina—who had been Kaldir's closest friend since infancy, collapsed in front of the office. The commander rushed toward the girl.
Cradling the girl in her arms, she examined her condition. The rabbit ears sprouting from between her brown hair were particularly lifeless today, drooping toward the floor, and a red flush circulated on her face. Placing a hand on her forehead... such a fever on an ice planet with no hospitals!
Unlike her appearance, the commander wasn't from the medical corps but the combat corps, so she had no idea what illness the child had, much less the treatment. In the Kaddis star system, the only place with anything resembling a hospital was Kaddis itself, with a few medium-sized cities scattered across vast deserts, and even those were mostly illegal underground hospitals, with hardly any proper medical facilities.
"Kaldir... I miss Kaldir... bring Kaldir... hurry..."
"Hmm? Kaldir? You don't mean..."
As the commander listened to Sugar, hearing the girl continuously call Kaldir's name, she couldn't help but think "could it be" and consider one possibility. Could it be... lovesickness...? It wasn't like she sent a boyfriend far away, just separated from a same-sex childhood friend for a short time...
Kaldir... I had a nightmare last night... about you losing your virginity to someone else... becoming that bitch's slave... ugh... it hurts so much... That you're having fun with someone else instead of me... I'd rather die than see that... You were clearly mine... so why... in that nightmare... with someone else... doing those... things...
What... am I to do?
While the commander fretted over Sugar's lovesickness, it took the two androids less than a second to arrive in the room where the princess and Kaldir were enjoying methanol creampie sex. In literally the blink of an eye, they appeared smack dab on the opposite side of the galaxy.
Now what was this? Upon arrival, seeing some redhead about to hold a combat knife to our master, I first slit her throat to knock her out and assessed the situation. Hmm, seemed they'd gone at it thoroughly. More than a hundred times, at that.
"Oh my, master... you told me you had to go to Earth alone for work... so why are you clinging to that Princess Atlantia and whining?"
Aurora's biting words couldn't reach Kaldir, who had now changed positions from cowgirl to being held by the princess, wrapping her arms around the princess's neck and legs tightly around her waist, impaling her own butt on the princess's dildo of her own volition, whining petulantly.
"Huh? What? What? Aurora~ I want to see too~ what master's doing~"
This is something only adults should see, Flan. Aurora turned Flan's face away and covered her ears with both hands, clicking her tongue.
She knew her master was a masochist sow, but she didn't know it was to this extent. If I had known, I would have taken her virginity long ago... Somehow, Aurora looked genuinely regretful.
When creating Aurora and Flan, Kaldir personally installed olfactory sensors in them. After experimental results through Carnelian concluded that "even androids, if they possess olfactory sensors and human emotions, could not help but be drawn to Kaldir's seductive pheromones," watching Aurora's wicked smile sent chills down my spine.
"We'll be right back! Master's mother! Bye-bye, friends!"
"Okay! Have a good trip! You have to check out what's on Earth and tell us too!"
"Bring back something! If you don't, we're not friends anymore!"
In contrast to Aurora's wicked smile at the thought of educating her master with a spanking, Flan showed the commander a pure, untainted smile and waved a hand in friendly greeting. Truly, they were human-like children, hard to believe they were androids. With Flan's wave, the two androids disappeared from the planet.