Chapter 10
Translator: True Detective
Chapter 10: A Golem's Nude...?
"Huh?"
A question mark was attached to the voice of Elena, who saw Pandora's naked body.
"H-huh?"
Elena shouted with a surprised voice.
"What's wrong?"
Since I had turned my back and couldn't see Pandora's body, I had to grasp the situation while listening to Elena's voice, so I focused all my senses on her voice. But why is she only making those sounds.
Is it because Pandora's body is actually too pretty, unlike her appearance? Or is she surprised because she's too glamorous? Because Elena is a bit on the flat side...
"Boss, I feel like you just had a very rude thought?" "It's a misunderstanding. But what's wrong?" "That's... I think you need to see for yourself, Boss." "You're telling me to see for myself?" "Yes. It seems..."
Trailing off like that is somewhat suspicious?
"Elena." "Yes, Boss." "Are you by any chance trying to create a weakness by capturing the moment I look at Pandora's body?" "Boss, just how much of a piece of trash do you see me as?"
Sincerity was contained in the voice of Elena asking me as if she was sincerely feeling wronged.
Mm, it really does seem like she feels wronged.
And it also seems she has no malicious intent.
"Understood. Then I'm turning around?" "You may turn around." "I'm really turning?" "I'm telling you to turn around?"
I turned my body and looked at Pandora.
Pandora, having taken off her clothes, stood in front of me. Having seen her naked body, I couldn't believe my eyes.
"This is..."
It was common for human-shaped golems to usually adopt a human's outward appearance.
Why, you ask? Naturally, for aesthetic reasons.
You can craft the most beautiful female body with your own hands, and you'd just leave it be? What kind of idiot would do that?
Of course, crafting it based on a human body like that was also because it was convenient for treating and diagnosing causes of basic exoskeleton injuries.
However, Pandora's body right now.
It wasn't a human's naked body.
No, it was indeed a human's naked body. But could this be considered a human's?
Her body, which had been hidden by clothes, was made of a transparent and smooth crystal-like outer shell.
Inside it, numerous micro-magic circuits created by the super-ancient civilization of 500 years ago were densely intertwined and glowing like human capillaries.
Whirrr- clank.
Thousands, tens of thousands of microscopic mithril gears and golden mana circuits were ceaselessly engaging and spinning.
Near the heart, a core pulsed red, and blue mana solution was being pumped throughout the whole body replacing blood vessels.
I could clearly see how she was operated.
She had the form of a human, but because of the structure where the inside was clearly visible, it didn't feel like a human's.
A work of art in every sense. It was a sophistication that overwhelmed one just by looking at it.
"It's beautiful."
I unconsciously let out an exclamation. There was no room for lewd thoughts to enter. A thrill felt as an engineer, as a laundry artisan.
"Elena, I think I know why you told me to look."
Because this is a structure that cannot be explained with words.
"Boss, even so, don't stare too intently."
Pandora shrank her body and covered her chest.
If the sound of gears engaging hadn't been coming from inside her transparent stomach, a slightly erotic atmosphere almost would have been directed.
Even now, I stared intently at her moving naked body, no, her inside.
"It's blocked here and there."
Tubes stretching out like blood vessels.
White sediment was thickly stuck to the inner walls of those tubes, obstructing the flow of mana. Like blood vessels suffering from arteriosclerosis, the paths where mana should flow had narrowed and were completely blocked in more than one or two places.
Centering around those places, dark blue sludge was forming.
Very fine mana oil and sludge flowing from several joints.
That was the main culprit currently ruining Pandora's body.
"Boss, what is all that?" "Mana sludge, it's a sediment some also call mana dregs. That sludge is one of the residues that magic doesn't work on. It's a contaminant that usually forms on unmanaged magical items, but..."
I clicked my tongue. I felt like I knew why the mages of the Magic Tower gave up on repairing her.
"Those Magic Tower guys, what would they have thought since Pandora couldn't use her strength? They probably thought, 'Ah, she lacks mana,' and poured top-grade mana stones into her." "Is that a problem? They fed her good stuff, didn't they." "It's a problem. What happens if you just keep pouring in new engine oil without changing the old engine oil? Dregs build up and harden, and the engine seizes, right." "I don't have a car, so..."
Unlike the flustered Elena, Pandora nodded as if she understood.
If Pandora's internal structure was simple, it wouldn't have been a wrong method. However, her inside was made up of microscopic equipment to the point of being no different from a work of art.
In this kind of case, unconditionally.
"It can only be repaired by dismantling the inside..."
As I said looking at Pandora.
I knew it would be like that.
"T-then is it impossible?"
Elena asked with a flustered voice. Pandora next to her also asked the same question.
Because it was a problem even the chief researchers of the Magic Tower shook their heads at. However, I shook my head.
"Mm, I have to try appraising it first."
I have no confidence in cleaning and fixing a golem possessing this level of technological prowess. Because it wasn't my field of expertise either.
How could I, merely a laundry boss, clean magical equipment.
However.
[S-Rank Skill: Cleaner]
Perhaps the system might give a different result?
Skills obtained through the system sometimes served as omnipotent weapons. Just look at how many hunters rely on system skills.
If I appraise it with the power of the system, maybe a path will emerge.
I began the appraisal.
The range was Pandora's entire body.
[Appraisal begins.] [Guardian of the Magic Tower, Pandora] Rank: S-Rank (Strategic Weapon) Category: Magic Doll / Magic Weapon Year of Manufacture: Approx. 538 years ago Main Materials: Adamantium Skeleton, complex materials made from relics of the Ancient Magic Era (Precision Detection Required) Laundry Handling Precautions: [Water Wash Prohibited], [Magic Wash Prohibited], [Excessive Mana Infusion Prohibited], [Handling Precaution: Sensitive Unit] (Warning: If washed with magic, unit contamination due to slush may occur.) Contamination Level: 88.7%
[Possessed Contamination] [Special Contamination: Excessive Mana Sludge] Mana sludge that cannot be processed with magic. As magic does not work, cleaning with general magic is impossible. [Special Contamination: Mana Tube Blockage] Several places in the tubes blocked due to sludge are in a contaminated and corroded state. If the sludge is removed and the tubes are unblocked, reconstruction is still possible. [Special Contamination: Mana Oil Leakage] Mana oil, which is magical trash, is leaking. It is blocking the magic circuits applied to the outer shell of the body. It might be helpful if utilized well. [Basic Contamination: Corrosion] [Basic Contamination: Old Oil] [Basic Contamination: Possesses various problems due to neglect] [Additional Problem: Mana Circuit Blockage] The micro-mana circuits flowing on the golem's surface are blocked due to old grime and oil.
[Warning: If general purification magic is used, there is a risk of the blocked circuits reversing flow and exploding.]
The system was saying it wouldn't be strange if Pandora's condition exploded right this moment. A precarious state as if walking a tightrope. It wouldn't be strange if she fell right away.
This won't be easy. Does this mean even the system ultimately can't resolve it?
Pandora, waiting with her inside completely exposed, looked at me with a desperate face. A golem shouldn't have facial expressions, so where does the desperation show, you ask?
You can't help but feel sufficient desperation already from the action of a woman exposing all her bare skin to a man she's seeing for the first time, right. No matter if the opponent is a golem.
It was when I was pondering how to say this.
[Precision Inspection Results] [A method exists to clean the internal unit without replacing its equipment.] [Secret Cleaning Clinic] [It is a secret cleaning method designed by the First Tower Master to create an understander who can understand Pandora.] [Communion with the golem is required.] [Currently, communion between the user and Pandora is low.]
The system was saying there is a path.
Bingo. I knew it would be like this.
Right. What is it? What is that supposed solution?
[It is discharging the sludge existing in the internal unit through the skin.]
That's possible?
[It is a cleaning method even Pandora herself does not know.] [It is a cleaning method only possible when there is high communion, and it is impossible to remove everything with just one cleaning. Only continuous cleaning can resolve this.]
The system's words had never been wrong until now. It was a little anxiety-inducing, but it must be right.
[The method is simple.] [You must create micro-vibrations through appropriate stimulation on the golem's outer shell, operating so that the corresponding sludge can fall off on its own via physical vibration.] [If she generates self-vibration, there is a risk of explosion because the mana circuits overload, but vibration caused by external impact is an appropriate method to safely knock off the sludge.]
[Visualized material of the cleaning method manual.]
And the system showed me a picture.
The picture the system listed to present to me was.
"Are you for real?"
It was the image of me massaging Pandora, who was lying face down naked, from above.
Are you saying I have to do this to clean her?
[Human Body Golem Specialized Massage. This is the Cleaner method to perfectly wash a golem.]