Chapter 2

So, sand is bad and I hate it! How was I supposed to know how HOT the sad here was? It's hotter then I expected.

And the fucking NINJA robot?!, ohh! I hate those fuckers, scared the crap out of me one time, almost had my liver pierced with one of their spears.

I was able to steal their concept of "stealth" from some of them, though it didn't really help that much, it was just able to mute my steps and hide my breathing and heartbeat.

Making my way through rocky lanes, I arrive at the start of the expanse of sand and from what I remember of the game, somewhere on the right side there should be a rocky gorge that leads to an encampment of non-hostile machine… and the birthing ground of Adam and Eve, I guess I'm still way back from the start of canon timeline, so I can decide what to do before YoRHa declare the full-on assault against the machine.

'Walking through a dead city is more unnerving then I thought, in the urban jungle things were a little more "alive"... this is practically just a graveyard'

*Bip* *Biiip***^??^^? *Confused bipping sounds*

A small and damaged Machine is trapped under a huge piece of the wall of one of the buildings. It has the voice box damaged so he can only bipping… mh, I should be able to repair it. I didn't spend 2 weeks only at killing robots and moose, I start trying and steal the "idea" of "Machinery Affinment" from the machines, it didn't do anything except giving me a killer headache leaving me agonizing on the ground for a quarter of an hour.

I didn't give up and start stealing thing that could have helped my brain developing, Like "Space Awareness" "Enchanted Thinking Speed" and one of the most useful and painful one "Photographic memory" what a bitch and half to have, because I had developed the brain JUST enough to not kill me, and my power deemed enough and start applying the skill. It felt like some toke a rusted spoon stick it in my ears and keep going until it touched the brain.

Not gonna do again something reckless like that anytime soon.

Anyway, coming back to the little thing, I start with trow the relatively lightweight wall off the robot and take a look at the damage.

he had the torso busted, and the voice-box perforated by a piece of iron that was stuck in the wall.

"Mh, I can easily put you back up in a moment little guy, though you have to wait a little bit before I can repair your voice-box" meanwhile I remodel the squished metal back together, gotta love all that enchanted strength.

"Mhh there! now you should be able to move, what do you say smol boi, wanna come with me until then?"

*Bipbop?^*é^^^!!!* *Outraged Bipping!*

"Mh? What's wrong?"

The machine moves it's little arms animatedly in the air, gesturing its body than doing a what seems a little... pirouette in the air or at something that resembles such, instead it came out looking like a jump done with one leg slicked back.

"Uh… what are you trying to tell me?"

*BipBoopbiiip!!!^^^"!

The bucket of bolts takes a really old photo from behind one of its metal panels on it back. In the photo, there's the picture of a girl doing an elegant pirouette in the air. The image is so worn-out and old that only a vague figure of the girl is barely visible. But the message it-she! want to send me is.

"Oh! So you are a lady then? My apologies then miss" I do a mock bow taking one of her little arms and mock kiss her "knuckles"

The gesture fly right above her head though!... right, maybe not all the human culture survived all these years.

Right… moving on! I've found a gallery that conduces to a large pit full of non-aggressive machines imitating… coitus?

"What the fuck?" what were they doing? My companion that was following a few feet beyond me, got closer to one of the 'other' machines.

"LoVe?! LoVe! HoW-Love?" one of the machine come closer to my, repeating the same words over and over.

"You guys want to know how to love?" looking at one particular couple of robots with a pram "How children are made?"

At the sound of my question, all of the machines stop what they were doing and concentrate all of their attention on me.

"I take that as a yes then, well a child is made when-"

On and on I keep explaining the way humans reproduce, the organs one needs to have, the importance of a mother have in carrying the kid in their womb, the role the man has in a family the way they protect and teach the kid until he grows up. Then I explain how a family doesn't need to be connected by blood (in their case oil and bolts) and with enough care of each other, everyone can have a family.

"So remember this well kid's, it's doesn't matter if you are a Machine, an Android or Human, do not let anyone tell you what to be! Because no one of us chose what to be borne as, but we can choose what we want to be!" at the end I give them what I could hopefully be a confident smile.

Simultaneously all of their eyes start flashing and start chanting "FAMILY" "AMAZING" "CHILD" and start amassing themselves in a big ball, that after a while start dripping some sort of yellow liquid.

After a moment or two, the liquid start taking or better say "Materializing" the figure of a nude woman with huge breast a shaved pussy, long legs, and silver hairs.

"…" this wasn't what I've aspected, I thought they were going to come out as the usual Adam and Eve, not as the double of Grayfia Lucifer!

"..." Uwah!! She's staring at me! What do I DO!? Umh "H-hello there emh, are you ok?"

"...hello" Finally something, ugh she's still naked though I can't keep talking to her while she's naked. So with great reluctance, I strip my clean (Because I wash my self in the river, thank you very much!) pajama shirt and start coming near her keeping my eyes above her head, gesture her to put her arms up.

"..." She's ignoring me now, fantastic. Reluctantly I put my hands on her arms and delicately start moving them up. Now her eyes start curiously following what I'm doing.

After a bit of fidgeting, I was able to put the shirt on her.

Alright, let's try a different approach, "Do you have a name?"

"...Lilith… my name is… Lilith… yes"

Huh, that better than before at least.

Before I could ask her anything else she jumped outside of the pit and before long she was gone.

"... well, that was rude. Wait, my T-Shirt!" oh come on now I have to go around shirtless too?! motherf-*Biboopbit*

Uh, hey it's my friendly machine partner (should really start thinking a name for her)

She's beside the corpse of one of her kin.

"What is it? Do you want me to see if his voice box is intact?" getting a 'nod' from her, I forcibly remove its back and with the instruction from my partner I was able to extract the piece she needed and replace her broken one.

"**++^^ T-Thanks for the help. I lost my while completing a quest from pascal, I should be alright now for me to go back" said the machine after regulating her voice box

"Alright then, what me to accompany you? and what's your name by the way?" I wouldn't want to send her off without knowing her name at least.

"I'm Elizabeth, and there's no need to go with me! I was in that state because of an accident."

Then relatively quickly, she started leaving the area.

"Bye-bye handsome!"

"I guess I'm alone again after all." oh well, the company was good until it lasted.

*snif-snif* "Ugh, god I STINK! Is that why they all left in such a hurry!!!? Oh my god, I'm gonna die of embarrassment." After the urge of crawling into a hole in the ground and die passed. I start planing what the hell I'm gonna do in the long run.

It has been 2 days since that embarrassing incident with Popola and I didn't get anything done! I spent my time only killing machines (and a lot of moose, can't forget about them) I have without shoes practically since day one! I can't keep going like this, I need stability in my life.

...I've decided, I will find a spot in the forest and build a cottage for myself, and find someone that can make good clothing.

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After going into the forest and eliminating all the machines in the way Including that ridiculously strong Machine T-rex in the game (it was a joke to kill for me, after all the strength I've stolen, I don't think anyone is a problem for me anymore) there was just the matter of building the house.

So with that the days passed by, between building a stone foundation, chopping woods and finding enough nails.

With that, a couple of months passed by and I had everything prepared, a medium garden, made some furniture for the house. I even start to raise some livestock.

But… the crushing loneliness Inside me didn't pass with time, every week it grew worse like the color are disappearing from the world, I grew more apathetic for my well-being.

So for distracting my self today, I decide to visit the forest for a bit.

*Clang* *Crash* *Boom* And wouldn't you know? I stumbled in the middle of a fight between the machines and… Popola and Devola.

And it looks like they are losing, there were too many and too strong for the two of them it seems.

Uh, Popola just felt down, it's better if do something now instead of monologuing.

The world slowed down to a crawl from my perspective, I start to 'move' sidestepping bullets hanging in midair go near every machine and punch every single one of them.

Once I've done this to every single one a return my thought speed to normal, every single robot afterword exploded and their remains were scattered by the other side of the clearing.

Devola, who was in front of a crouched Popola looked at me in confusion and disbelieve.

"Can both of you walk?" just after finishing say that, Devola promptly clashed down on the ground

"Ugh" was all Devola said.

"Y-You came back." stuttered Popola.

"We can't stay here for long, more machine could come out at any moment, It won't be a problem for me, but I can't look at for you and fight at the same time" finishing my explanation, a lifted up Devola put her on my back.

"H-hey what do you think you're doing!! Put me down this instant!" fused the android on my back while I keep her arms crossed on my neck.

"You are injured, I'm gonna take the both of you to my place, once you have recovered you can do what' ever you want."

The next was Popola… admittedly she was one of my favorite girls in the Nier franchise so I wanted to do the "Princess Carry" to her.

The "Eeep" that followed was absolutely priceless. Once she between my arms the awkwardness that I thought I had lost during these months returned with the strength of thousands of trains.

My back becomes stiff (and that wasn't because I was carrying 150kg of androids on my back and my front) and my walk hastier.

'Where did all my 'macho man' persona go?!? Oh god why do I have to become like this every time I'm interacting with a girl?'

"..."

"..."

"Uh... s-so what were you two doing all the way out here in the woods?"

I heard a *uff* behind me before Popola started speaking, her eyes creepily never left my face.

"W-We were doing a favor to one of our friends in the c-camp, her m-memory has been damaged during a fight with the machines, so she asked us if we could send her the photos of the p-places she's been before losing her memories.

We were just coming back from our last checkpoint when we were ambushed."

Stuttered a bit Popola, but after a bit, she calmed herself and finish the explanation.

"U-uhn, get it, you were unlucky I guess. We are here, by the way." I said after taking both of them inside.

Looking closely at their reaction, I noticed a small tear ran down Popola's check while she checked the place.

"So this is what a Human house looks like" commented Devola behind my back

"What? Didn't other androids start building houses like us humans did?"

This time was Popola to answer me.

"N-no, they did, only no one had the same… welcoming feeling like yours do"

"I don't know what you're talking about, I can't see how my house could have that type of feeling if I'm the only one living here."

"Eh? you live alone?" came the pained (I guess it's from the injuries) question from Popola. I didn't notice the frowned one Devola was making behind me

"That doesn't right now, take your time to recover, if you need anything just call me, Il be right outside of the cottage, making lunch"

With that, I put both of them on my bed. The frame was strengthened numerous times, so even with the 300kg of sexy robot ass, they bed it's going to stay strong.

Oh boy, I really don't look forward to the incoming "talk" I'm going to have with them.