"Do you think these heads can be active?" Itinit asked.
"Yup!" Noru frowned, and then closed her eyes. "Pet me, and then feed me."
Itinit had to fulfill the pet's request, although it required him to take his eyes off the controls of the flying machine.
"Aw…" Noru laid her head on the back of the seat in front of her, and her tail began to beat against Tuot's head.
Etinnei looked at this and imagined how her creator was stroking her head. The next moment, tears came out of the arctic fox girl's eyes.
"Why are you crying?" Noru's voice rang out.
Etinnei wiped away her tears, and then looked at her friend. The dog girl was kneeling in front of her, sniffing the sleeve of her fur top.
"I can't tell," the Arctic fox girl answered. "If I start telling, the tears will flow out along with the eyes."
"The eyes can flow out?" Noru stopped sniffing the sleeve.
"Yup, they are mostly made of water. That's why sometimes they can't stand it and leak."
"You might actually have something leaking out of your eyes."
Etinnei wiped away a fresh batch of tears.
"Now it's clear why I don't have that," Noru scratched the dog's ear with her hand. "I'm too hot, so my tears immediately turn into steam. But then it's unclear why my eyes don't disappear?"
"Maybe something restores them? Is this some kind of passive skill?"
"I should ask Itinit. Master…"
Noru turned to the creator, but before she could finish her sentence, the flying machine was suddenly pushed upward, causing the dog girl to almost end up on Tuot.
"Why?" Itinit pressed the button with the arrow pointing up, but instead the flying machine for some reason began to descend.
The pilot looked down from the window and soon noticed that the dolls' heads were looking up with purple eyes.
"Aaah... there are two of them. It's unlikely that the "metal bird" will be able to escape from them. If I had known earlier that I would meet two dolls who can stop objects with their gaze, I would have chosen a flying machine with a higher limit."
"Noru," Itinit looked at the door. "Sorry, but I'm going to have to throw you out."
"Are those heads alive?" the dog girl asked.
"Yeah, it's an ambush, but some kind of strange ambush."
Itinit pressed one of the buttons on the blue translucent control panel in front of the driver's seat. The wing, which was also a door, rose and opened the exit. Noru immediately jumped into it and in mid-air turned into a fireball, and then into a comet.
The "metal bird" continued to descend, but now that the pilot was no longer holding the up button, the movement sped up.
"That should help," Itinit looked at Tuot and Etinnei, who were looking out the opposite windows. "I hope those two don't get scared."
The comet flew around the "metal bird", and this helped a little. The craft was now descending more slowly, and Itinit pressed the up button again.
The "metal bird" stopped.
Noru stopped in mid-air in an almost human form, but continued to burn. Eight fireballs appeared around the dog-girl, which then flew down into the dolls' heads. The "metal bird" began to move upward again.
The sandy shore was blown apart by explosions, but they did not affect the enemy quite as Noru had intended.
The dolls' heads rose into the air along with the sand. One of them, with pink hair, even flew past Tuot's window, and the second, with purple hair, was so "brazen" that she appeared in front of Itinit and looked at him with purple pupils.
"Glass is also a barrier," Itinit thought. "So she can't do anything to us. But she can look at the "metal bird" itself, which means she can control it. I hope Noru can do that."
"Itinit, I thought I saw a doll's head there!" Tuot suddenly shouted.
"You weren't imagining it," Itinit answered. "I saw it too. I can see it even now."
The "metal bird" stopped in midair, and then began to descend. Itinit looked out the window to see the fiery comet or ball that Noru had turned into, but instead saw the bodies of the dolls lying in a huge hole in the sand.
"Do you know how to fight the dolls?" Itinit asked his friends.
"Yup," Tuot answered. "I must cut off their heads."
"I don't think these dolls will need it," Itinit sighed.
"They fly without it," Etinnei noted. "These heads… will they be with the body later?"
"Yeah," Itinit answered. "So the best way to defeat the doll is to make it spend its energy. Without energy, the doll will not be able to move and will not assemble."
"But will it stay alive?" Etinnei asked.
"We'll find out now," Itinit looked at the door.
The "metal bird" landed on something solid. The door wings rose and opened the exit.
"The main thing is, don't fall into the sand," Itinit addressed Etinnei, and then looked at Tuot. "And you don't eat her, even if you really want to."
Tuot and Etinnei looked at each other and only after Itinit jumped out the open door did they understand what had happened.
"Do you remember the game where the robots attacked on the beach?" the arctic fox girl asked.
"I remember, but I don't remember the name of the game," Tuot answered.
"I don't remember the name of the game either. But I remember that the robots look like these dolls. So you can do with them what you did with the robots."
"I understand. Let's do it. If it doesn't work out, at least it will be fun."
Etinnei released icicles from the sleeves of her fur top, turned her back to her friend and jumped onto the sand. Tuot was left alone in the flying machine and also wanted to get out, but he was beaten to it. Something grabbed the dinosaur by the tail and dragged him outside...
Tuot found himself on the sand and only when he saw the head of a doll with pink hair in a mask against the cloudy sky, he realized that he had not left the flying machine by accident.
The dinosaur instantly activated an aura that helped it rise to its feet and jump to the side, and then looked at its opponent…
… The doll's head hung above the body, which was barely standing on its feet, but at the same time, pointed its hand forward.
"What's that?" Tuot's mouth opened in surprise.
An eye with a purple pupil looked at the dinosaur from the open palm. At the same time, there were no holes in the mask, and this gave Tuot very strange thoughts:
"She has eyes on her hands. But what is under the mask then?"
The dinosaur tried to take a step back, but couldn't. It was as if he was paralyzed. Fortunately, the doll's body had not yet connected to the head, so the hand with the eye was shaking.
After a few moments, Tuot felt that he could move again and made several jumps to the side. An energy harpoon emerged from his aura, which went around the enemy from behind and almost reached the back of his head...
The doll's second hand unnaturally bent back and opened its palm. In it, as in the first hand was the same eye with a purple pupil...
The harpoon cut off a few strands of hair, but did not reach the skull. The eye in the hand that was looking at it prevented it from finishing the attack for a few moments.
The first hand moved towards Tuot, but the dinosaur jumped to the edge of the forest and partially hid among the vegetation.
"She can look at two things at once," Tuot thought. "Now it makes sense why she has eyes in her hands and not in her head. If they were in her head, they would be looking at one target. The head would force them. Where is Itinit? That's an opponent for him."
Unfortunately, the creator of the dog girls was busy with another doll at the time, this one with purple hair.
"Why did you attack me?" Itinit asked.
The doll clenched her fist, brought it to her breast, and then unclenched it. On a small, smooth palm sat a bird made entirely of lightning.
"You don't remember?" the doll asked. "My name is Nyonyokyo, and my twin sister is Toloruchan."
"This is the first time I've seen you," Itinit answered. "That is, the second…" "You don't look like a doll."
"I think I'm starting to understand something," Itinit guessed. "This doll mistook me for one of my relatives, probably my older brother. Only I don't remember his name. I haven't seen him for too long."
"You mistook me for someone else," Itinit waved his hand in front of him.
The electric bird flew at Itinit, but a blue energy wall protected him.
"You look like him, so you are him," Nyonyokyo said. "If you don't remember what you did, one of my little sisters will talk to you." The purple-haired doll's body was surrounded by some sort of electrical aura, after which it burst, leaving behind another bird, but much larger, which then crashed into the energy wall..."
The bird exploded and released a large amount of electrical energy, which caused the energy wall to shatter. Itinit was thrown back ten to twelve steps, but despite this, the creator of the dog girls managed to stay on his feet and not fall into the sand.
"These dolls have such strange abilities. That person with the carrot nose, he is a real pervert."
While Itinit was thinking, a metal chain descended from somewhere above and almost reached his neck. Only when naked short feet in a purple aura appeared in front of the creator of the dog girls did he finally realize that he was being attacked.
"Finally, a worthy opponent," Itinit said. "It's her, the one and only. Now we'll be together, at least temporarily."
In fact, Itinit did not want to be with the doll, but the appearance of these strange creatures amazed him so much that it prevented him from thinking adequately.
Meanwhile, the legs went lower. Itinit saw knees that were wrapped in chains, and then thighs that were so large that "clothes" could not hide them.
"These thighs can crush my head. But I apparently deserve to be strangled by pieces of metal."
The chain dropped to his shoulder and began to twist around his neck.
"Do you want to strangle me this time?" Itinit looked up.
The creator of the dog girls hoped to see the one and only looking at him, preferably with a normal gaze, but he saw a breast covered in chains hanging over his head.
"If this is my end, then it has to be like this. The only bad thing is that I have to turn into data before my older brother, whose name I don't remember, but I know he's definitely out there somewhere."
The breast sank lower, making it seem simply enormous. Itinit remembered how in an abandoned village on the Northern Continent, a foot of an archer accidentally fell into his hand, and imagined that now the same thing would happen to the doll's breast.
But the creator of the dog girls wanted too much. Instead of a breast in his hand, he received a chain that wrapped around his neck and began to squeeze...
"Yuehei... She is the younger sister of the man with the carrot nose. How lucky he is. Her skin is so clear, and her hair is so smooth, although it is not a human color. Why don't I have a younger sister like that?"
The breast with chains was replaced by a head with pink hair. Itinit realized that he was lying on the ground. The doll was sitting on the guy's lap and looking at the chain in front of her. Her large thighs were wrapped around the opponent's legs, but, to his surprise, they did not squeeze.
"It's as if she weighs nothing," Itinit thought. "Now I understand why her body is so easily destroyed and then restored. It's made of some kind of material that can be converted into energy and vice versa."
A small electrical clot appeared in Yuehei's free hand...
... Itinit noticed a flash of red light in front of him, and then saw the head of the one and only one separate from her body and spin in the air like a coniferous seed...
"This is the end... Stop. Something is wrong here."
A brown dog tail appeared in front of Itinit's face, by which the guy recognized his character.
"Noru, you're at the wrong time again," Itinit sighed.
"What?"
The dog girl turned back a little, looked down, and then scratched her ear on top of her head with her hand.
"Oh, it's you, master," Noru looked away. "I just saw something pink and decided to knock it down, what if it was a doll?"
"You almost knocked me down."
"At first I wanted to blow it up, but then I remembered that you said that the main thing is to knock off the head."
It was only after a few moments that Itinit realized how lucky he was. Noru was distracted by the doll again, whose body was lying a few steps away from its previous place, but was already glowing due to a bright pink aura.
"Where is the head?" Noru began to look around in panic, as if it was her head and not the doll's.
Meanwhile, Yuehei's head with closed eyes emerged from the water right in front of Etinnei. The arctic fox girl immediately aimed an icicle surrounded by lightning at her, but did not have time to shoot.
Another doll's head emerged from the sand, this one with purple hair. The arctic fox girl decided that this target was a higher priority, so she released an icicle at it.
Yuehei's head was surrounded by a purple aura, causing her to rise into the air and fly towards the body on the shore.
By this time, Itinit was ready. As soon as the head approached the body, an energy ball with a spark inside burst out of the sand...
The ball disappeared and the spark contained within it exploded, creating a cloud of fire and smoke in the air…
"It worked, master!" Noru jumped up with joy. "Will you give me a bear paw in dough?"
"Noru, now you really are at the wrong time."
Itinit looked at the cloud of smoke from which the enemy's head flew out.
"She just dodged. That's what I thought, though I was hoping the trap would work. It turns out doll heads can do that."
Itinit threw an energy ball with lightning inside at Yuehei's head, but it didn't manage to reach its target. The body assumed a vertical position, and the head snapped back into place right before the surprised dog girl's eyes.
"Eh!" Noru shouted. "Why is she...?"
Yuehei opened her eyes. The pink aura around her disappeared. The doll looked at Noru with purple pupils, but did not have time to take control - the dog girl turned into a fireball and a moment later was already behind the enemy.
Yuehei looked at Itinit, who was now standing inside a square energy barrier, but she could not capture him with her gaze. Meanwhile, the fireball behind her quickly flared up and finally burst...
The air was filled with sparks, one of which fell to the ground and turned into Noru.
"Hey, master!" the dog girl shouted. "Now it definitely worked!"
But Itinit wasn't happy. He summoned a black handle, which used to be a lever from a robot, and then activated the aura. The handle turned into a homemade energy "sword".
"Master, where are the head, arms and legs?" Noru sniffed the air. "I don't feel anything. No energy, no smell. Where is she?"
Noru didn't have time to finish. Behind Itinit, inside his own barrier, Yuehei appeared and swung the chain to throw it around his neck...
... The creator of the dog girls turned around and with one blow cut the doll's body into two parts: the upper and lower.
The lower part remained standing on the sand, and the upper part began to fall, but Itinit grabbed her by the hair, and then pushed her face into the sand.
"Her hair feels like fabric. Now I understand why it is so well styled."
But Itinit was distracted in vain. The doll's body, although it had lost its head, was still covered in chains. The guy didn't notice how something cold fell on his neck, and he realized it only when this something began to choke him.
Itinit had to let go of the head, and soon it fell into place.
A pink aura appeared around Yuehei's body. But Itinit only noticed it when the doll had already fully assembled and even opened its eyes.
"Master!"
The image before Itinit's eyes began to blur. In the background, cries reminiscent of a dog's barking, the sound of a blazing fire and the crackle of lightning were heard...