(Eshiko Sugata's Opening Monologue)
Hello again, everyone. Sugata Eshiko at your service.
In Greek mythology, Artemis was the Goddess of the Hunt; she was the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo.
Artemis was known NOT just for hunting, but also for her lifetime of being a virgin maiden, vowing never to marry. This would be a big warning for men as she would punish them in brutal way; for example, a hunter named Actaeon accidentally witnessed Artemis naked while the latter was bathing, resulting in the Goddess turning the hunter into a deer to be hunted and killed by his dogs.
The part of Actaeon was ALSO used in Chapter 8: Homeless; in the ORIGNAL chapter, while living with the Satsukitane family, Tomoki, the ORIGINAL Tomoko, walked in on a naked Mikako, the ORIGINAL Makoto, bathing and became terrified…not just by her naked body, but that she might kill him as punishment; however, the real reason was because the bath was forbidden and any non-Satsukitane trespassers would have to be executed to prevent disasters from destroying Sorami.
In the genderbent fanfic chapter, when Tomoko accidentally trespassed into the Execution Pool and saw Makoto bathing, she became frightened, believing Makoto would rape her as punishment; the rape scenario plays into the fact that in SOME versions of Greek mythology, Actaeon also fell in love with Artemis and attempted to rape her as well…let's hope something like this NEVER happens in this story…
(End of Opening Monologue)
*BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP*
Inside Tomoko's bathroom, Nymph could hear his collar beeping as he twirled his hair.
"Smile!" exclaimed Tomoko. "Can you smile?" Across the table, her Angeloid servant looked at him with a blank expression. "Come on! Just do what I do." Tomoko closed her eyes and gave her own smile, hoping Icarus would do the same.
"…Okay," said Icarus. "Does THIS count?"
Tomoko opened her eyes, witnessing…Icarus with a smiling Japanese mask.
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA?! NO, YOU IDIOT!" the female pervert screamed as she chibitized along with her servant.
"What's going on here?" Nymph asked as he entered the room.
"I'm trying to teach Icarus how to smile," explained the modernized pervert. "You see, I've been teaching him how to be more human since he came here. Now, Icarus, do exactly what I do: SMILE!" Tomoko gave another bright smile to her modernized Angeloid.
"…'Smile'."
"NO! NO! NO!" Tomoko yelled at her chibitized Angeloid as SHE chibitized herself, flipping over the table in anger. "YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO SAY 'SMILE'! JUST DO IT!"
"…'Smile'."
"DON'T SAY IT, GODDAMMIT! YOU'VE GOT IT ALL WRONG!"
Nymph merely left the scene, walking up the stairs in concern.
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"Huh? You want Icarus-kun to smile?" asked Sora later that day at gym class.
"Yeah," said Tomoko. "I think it's a good way to help her be more human, but nothing seems to work. YOU got any ideas?"
"Well…from what I know, smiling usually happens at random, like…AHA! Icarus-kun, please hold up your arms."
"Like THIS?" Chibitized, and holding his watermelon in his hands, Icarus raised his arms into the—
"TICKLE-TICKLE-TICKLE!" Suddenly, Sora approached the modernized Icarus from behind and began tickling his armpits. "How does THAT feel? If you're ticklish, then you'll start laughing, which means you'll—"
*BOING* *BOING* *BOING* *BOING* *BOING* *BOING* *BOING* *BOING*
Icarus suddenly chibitized and began flinging his body around in one place.
"AH! WHAT THE HELL?!" Sora chibitized from the pink haired Angeloid boy's bizarre movement.
"Doesn't look like he's ticklish," claimed the chibitized Nymph.
"And you think THAT reaction isn't weird?!"
"NO! NO! NO! NO! NO, SORA! THIS is how you tickle someone!" Chibitized, Tomoko began ferociously tickling Sora's modernized body.
*TICKLE* *TICKLE* *TICKLE* *TICKLE* *TICKLE* *TICKLE* *TICKLE*
"AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAH! TOMO-CHAN, KNOCK IT OFF!" Sora laughed.
But Tomoko didn't listen, she continued tickling every part of Sora's body, even getting a nosebleed in the—
*CRACKLE* *CRACKLE* *CRACKLE* *CRACKLE* *CRACKLE* *CRACKLE*
Sora suddenly burst into "Doom" mode, a dark purple aura resonated from his body as he held a spirit bomb-like energy ball in his hands.
"OH SHIT!" Sensing Sora's anger, Tomoko knew she was in danger…
*BOOM*
"CUT IT OUT, TOMO-CHAN, YOU BITCH!" Sora screamed.
Paying no attention to what was going on, Icarus crouched onto his tiptoes, holding the watermelon close to his chest. "What do I have to do? To smile?"
"Hey, I have an idea!" said Nymph from behind.
"How to smile, huh?" asked Sugata; currently, she was picking carrots from the school garden, while the two Angeloid boys stood right behind him. Sugata stared at the Angeloids…
(Hours Later)
"Okay, forget Sugata," said Nymph. "She's completely 100% human and yet she NEVER smiles for some reason."
"What ELSE can I do to smile?" Icarus asked as he and Nymph passed an outdoor shooting range.
"Icarus-kun! Nymph-kun!" said a familiar voice from the other side of the fence; it was the yakuza gangsta, Makoto, who was shooting targets with his gun…while under heavy surveillance and protection from his mother's bodyguards. "What's crackin', homies?" Makoto greeted the two Angeloids on the other side of the fence.
(Student Council Room)
"You wanna know how to smile?" Makoto asked Icarus while sitting in his chair.
"Yes," said Icarus.
"When do YOU ever smile, Prez?" asked Nymph.
"ME?" the student council president asked with a confused frown. "I don't know…I guess MAYBE when I see somebody use a ginormous flyswatter…" A malevolent grin loomed onto Makoto's face. "…to whack Tomoko."
Tomoko walked down the hallway, passing the stairwell. All of a sudden, she stopped when she noticed someone at the top of the stairs: Icarus holding a ginormous flyswatter, looking down at his master. Icarus then held his flyswatter in the air to strike Tomoko down.
"WHAT THE HELL?!" Tomoko screamed.
*WHACK*
Icarus missed the first as Tomoko hit dodged the attack, but Icarus wasn't done yet…
*WHACK* *WHACK* *WHACK* *WHACK* *WHACK* *WHACK*
"STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT!" Tomoko cried in a chibitizing fashion as she fled from her flying, chibitized attacker. Eventually, she modernized upon reaching a dead end; there was nowhere left for her to run, all she could do was turn around to face her inevitable demise at her modernized Angeloid's hands; and so, finally cornering his master, Icarus raised his flyswatter in the air and…
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!" Tomoko screamed in chibitized fear.
*WHACK*
Back in the student council room, Makoto and Nymph watched as Tomoko's airless body floated past the window.
"Oh my god…" Nymph groaned.
"Damn, that shit's hilarious," laughed the yakuza gangsta.
"Ugh…why me?" Tomoko groaned as she painfully walked home from school with a giant walking stick, followed by his friends. "How could you DO something like that, Icarus?"
"Apologies," said Icarus.
"Chillax, Sakurai-chan," teased Makoto. "I was only trying to help Icarus-kun smile."
"BULLSHIT! YOU TRICKED HIM INTO NEARLY KILLING ME, YOU SON-OF-A-BITCH!" Tomoko screamed.
"So, have you gotten to any point where you can smile, Alpha?" asked Nymph.
"I got it! How 'bout we have a party at Tomo-chan's house!" suggested Sora. "I'm sure if he has a fun time, Icarus-kun will ABSOLUTELY smile!"
"Good idea," said Sugata.
"I agree," said Makoto.
"Then, it's settled," said Sora. "This Sunday, we'll all gather at Tomo-chan's house and have the time of our lives! How about it, Tomo-chan?"
"…O-Okay," said the female pervert hesitantly.
"Cool, see ya there!"
"Why? Why can't I smile?" asked Icarus later that night.
"Well," said Nymph, "I DO know that when you were created, you lacked emotional abilities, Alpha, and you excel in both computational and combat abilities. Maybe that was how you were designed."
"I am…a strategic battle-class Angeloid…"
"Smiling isn't THAT difficult, it's actually—"
"But it IS. I mean…have YOU ever smiled? I have NEVER seen you smile, Nymph."
"Of course, I have!"
"But I've never SEEN you do so…"
Nymph suddenly remembered that time long ago when she was brutally beaten by her master, Minos, and Icarus merely watched, ordered to observe, NOT to interfere; during that time, Nymph DID smile, but it was merely forced. "I guess…I guess we Angeloids weren't programmed to do something like that…"
"Is something…bothering you?" the pink haired Angeloid boy asked as well.
"…I don't know…" said the blue haired Angeloid boy. "…I GOT IT! I know how we can smile!"
The next day, Tomoko woke up in a chibitized state and was on her way to the kitchen. "Man, I'm starving! Hey, Icarus, what's for—"
But just as she reached the kitchen, she modernized in shock at what she was seeing…
"Good morning, Master," said the Angeloid servant…with a smile(?) on his face.
Immediately, Tomoko's face burned red.
"Master? What's wrong?" The smiling Angeloid stepped closer to his master, pushing him against the wall.
"What's going on here? Please stop, Icarus! I'm losing control!" panicked Tomoko in her mind.
"Are you okay?"
"Man, he's so hunky! His pecs are showing through his shirt! Dammit, Tomoko! CONTROL YOURSELF!"
"Why is your face red, Master?"
"ICARUS! STOP IT! PLEASE!" Desperate, Tomoko, pushed her by the face to—
*CLANG*
"Huh?" Just then, the female pervert felt something metal on Icarus' face.
*CLANG* *CLANG* *CLANG* *CLANG* *CLANG*
"W-WHAT'S ON YOUR FACE?! DID YOUR FACE JUST FREEZE?!" the chibitized pervert furiously asked her chibitized servant.
"Sorry, Alpha," said Nymph. "I guess applying glue on your face was NOT a way to help you smile after all."
"JESUS CHRIST, YOU GUYS ARE FUCKING IDIOTS! LET'S GET THIS SHIT OFF YOUR FACE!" Tomoko furiously dragged Icarus the bathroom.
While Icarus washed off all the glue, Nymph stood outside; he couldn't bear what happened these past few days. "What have I been doing? I was ordered to bring Alpha back to Synapse to face justice, but all I did was HELP him…made him feel better with that bug lady. Does he…does he really LIKE her?" Nymph suddenly felt something in his chest. "W-What's going on? Why am I feeling this way? Do…Do I…CARE about him? Or HER? NO! NO! NO! I HAVE ORDERS…but…none of them seem to matter anymore. Maybe it's best if Alpha stays where he belongs." A shy smile crawl on his face. "Well, I guess this means goodbye…" And so, he took off into the wind.
Meanwhile, Sugata was riding on her bicycle when she noticed something in the sky: a blue-haired boy flying from Tomoko's house.
Later that night, Nymph landed in a forest.
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"So, where to now?" he asked himself. "The sea? The mountains? I'm sure nobody would notice."
*BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP*
"It'd probably be funny if I returned to Synapse. I mean, MY master would be pretty pissed off once I came back. HA HA HA HA HA HAH!"
*BOOM*
Suddenly, Nymph was struck by an aerial beam from the sky; the shockwave was enough to destroy the entire forest, leaving the blue haired Angeloid boy in a crevice.
"UGH…" As he tried to get up, he saw two winged young men standing by the edge of the crevice, glaring down at him.
"…I-It CANNOT be," Nymph whispered. "Is that…the GAMMAS?!"
End of Volume 3
