As an AI, BB has always prided herself on not needing human emotions.
That is why she cut off the excess parts of herself and crafted them into Alter Egos, ordering them around like subordinates.
But ever since then, as an AI, no matter how normal she appeared on the surface, BB could actually no longer feel those emotions. Pleasure, love and hatred, longing, compassion, innocence.
Having lost these emotions, BB styled herself as a devilish junior, fulfilling her obligation as an AI to preserve humanity according to her own standards. Even in a different parallel world, when she wholeheartedly helped that NPC girl named Kishinami Hakuno save the Moon Cell, BB never experienced those emotions again.
That is, until she accidentally obtained a human body.
A certain year, a certain month, a certain day. A certain place.
"Ta-da~"
"Wake up, Onii-chan! If you keep sleeping, the sun will burn your butt~!"
A petite body wrapped in flimsy pajamas, a 'Little Sister BB' tied with a blue ribbon, jumped onto the male's bed in the bedroom. Her appearance was exactly the same as Meltryllis.
Disregarding the difference between men and women, and ignoring the intimacy of skin contact, Little Sister BB burrowed into the blanket, embracing her beloved 'Onii-chan'.
"Oh my, Onii-chan looks very listless~"
"Does Onii-chan need me to encourage him, to perk him up? I guarantee it will be very comfortable~"
In pursuit of pleasure, Little Sister BB whispered into the male's ear with her cloying, sweet voice.
"Please do not do this, Daughter. Your brother will be troubled."
The voice of 'Mother BB', tied with a pink ribbon, floated into the room. She wore a kitchen apron over a figure so exaggeratedly voluptuous that one could not help but want to bury their head in her broad bosom. Her appearance was exactly the same as Passionlip.
"Hurry and wake your brother up for breakfast. Your Big Sister and Niece are still waiting."
"I know, I know~"
Little Sister BB took the male's arm, watched him finish washing up, and guided the man to the living room.
"Papa, good morning~"
"M-Morning, Little Brother. Did you sleep well last night..."
In the living room, 'Daughter BB' and 'Big Sister BB', who were watching TV, greeted the man. One was tied with a green ribbon, the other with a white ribbon. Their appearances were exactly the same as Kazuradrop and Kingprotea, respectively.
"The world has been really unsafe lately. It's fortunate that the place we live in is very safe."
"As long as you live here, you don't have to think about anything, you don't have to do anything, and you certainly don't need to take care of those unreasonable, troublesome fellows~"
"Don't you agree, Ni-chan~?"
Little Sister BB placed a piece of golden, crispy pork cutlet into the bowl in front of the male.
High atop a cabinet not far from their dining table—a place absolutely unreachable without a ladder—a statue was enshrined. It was an idol that looked specious to the Christian cross. And beside the statue, there was a golden scepter inlaid with a sapphire at the top.
They had repeated such daily routines with him countless times. Whether for them or for him, she believed it must be happiness.
Clatter.
The man did not touch his chopsticks; instead, he threw them rudely onto the table.
"What is wrong, my child?"
"Is the food not to your liking?"
Mother BB hurriedly asked with concern. She did not generate any negative emotions due to the man's temper.
"Papa, if you have any worries, you can tell us~"
"As Papa's daughter, I will work hard to share Papa's burdens~"
Daughter BB also spoke up.
"Little Brother, have you encountered some difficulty? Why don't you talk to Big Sister..."
"Hmm, Onii-chan is very fired up. How about coming to my room later?"
"I am willing to help Onii-chan 'release the fire'~"
"Of course, if Onii-chan wants to find the others to join in, that's not impossible either~"
"After all, Onii-chan is really amazing. In that regard, I'm worried I can't handle it alone~..."
The BBs' faces flushed red. Their blazing gazes, which seemed as if they wanted to eat the man up and swallow him whole, made one feel uncomfortable all over. Like a sheep surrounded by hungry tigers and jackals.
Morning, noon, night. In this small house that one could neither leave nor enter, for every 'day' spent, the energy of the Statue of Yoba enshrined high on the cabinet slowly decreased.
Although the connection between Suke and the Statue of Yoba was not severed, Suke tried to directly trigger its power, but no anomaly appeared, as if there were no valid target to select.
Suke guessed that to use the statue's power to break this small house, BB's main body had to be present.
Initially, Suke thought that BB had tried her best, enduring the pain of being assimilated by the Moonless Moon to wake him from 'Mother's' embrace. Under the pitiful plea of her appearance within the mental world, playing along with her nonsense for a while could be considered compensation.
But as the days went by, 'day after day', and even his Return Scepter was taken away at some unknown point during the sweet words and beguiling pleasures, placed high on the cabinet along with the statue... Suke realized something was wrong.
"BB, just how long are you going to keep this up?!"
I said that's enough! He thought he had just escaped the tiger's den, only to fall into the wolf's lair.
If in the 'first few days', when Suke called for BB, she would pop out every time to answer his questions and lower his guard, as time pushed forward, the frequency of BB's appearances became fewer and fewer.
By now, when he abruptly snapped back to reality from that blazing, overlapping love and desire, Suke realized he had fallen for BB's scheme. Like a frog boiled in warm water; when it indulges in the warmth, that is the moment of its utter downfall.
"BB?"
Being shouted at by Suke, the 'BBs' at the dining table looked at each other.
"Papa, are you calling for everyone?"
"Everyone is by your side all the time~ So Papa doesn't need to worry about being lonely~"
"Black-Blossom——!"
Unable to bear it any longer, Suke resolutely shouted BB's true name. That was the true name she had been buried with, along with the waste data of the Moon Cell's past.
"I don't know what exactly you want to achieve by doing this. Is it to attract my attention?"
"Just consider me narcissistic, but if I assume you are doing this hoping I will care about you, that I will fall in love with you, then let me tell you, that is impossible——!"
"From now on, I will not touch a single one of your Egos, nor will I eat a single bite of your food!"
"Anyway, as long as I 'starve' myself to death, you won't be able to keep me either. You should understand this better than I do!"
Suke shouted loudly, not at the four 'BBs' by the table, but at the empty, unmanned living room.
He buried a lie in his words: that he would not actually 'starve to death'. Only specific work could make him return to Stardew Valley Farm in the form of fainting from exhaustion. But clearly, there was no specific work for Suke to do here. Suke was gambling.
Gambling that BB did not understand him well enough yet, and gambling that BB dared not have a complete falling out with him—
[...]
[————BB-Channel————]
The movements of the four 'BBs' by the dining table instantly solidified, like dolls with their wind-up keys removed.
Accompanied by the lighting up of the TV channel in the living room, a young girl with dazzling, amethyst-like hair tied with a red ribbon appeared before Suke's eyes through the screen.
Compared to the little-devilish smile BB wore when they met in the past, she looked more like she was faking a smile on the channel right now. Perhaps Suke's words just now had made her angry?
[Master, did you call BB-chan over specifically to say something important~?]
[You mustn't hate BB-chan. Don't threaten with death at the drop of a hat, when clearly BB-chan has given Master whatever he asked for~...]
Inside the channel, BB put on a heartbroken expression. The features on her face were somewhat blurry, giving an illusion that they couldn't be seen clearly. But her words were indeed sincere.
To block the influence of the thing suppressed by Sessyoin Kiara on Suke, BB chose to completely merge with the Moonless Moon. When the emotions buried at the bottom of the AI's heart were triggered by the human body, and after glimpsing the truth through that photo just like Meltryllis... BB felt that her love had never been as blazing as it was now.
No wonder everything she did gave Suke a strong sense of déjà vu. Thinking about it, this feeling of 'the whole family is BB' (Alice) seemed exactly like something a BB fused with that Crazy Goddess would do.
"I don't hate you," Suke said. "I just want to say, don't stop me from retrieving my own things."
Suke made his demand. Every time he tried to reach out to take back the statue and the scepter, the four women in this 'home' would desperately stop him. In this 'home' with rules similar to Stardew Valley, their strength was immense, not inferior to his own.
In fact, he knew that BB could have placed the things she took from him in a more hidden place, but she didn't. So Suke wanted to try trusting BB one last time.
[...Master.]
[I don't understand. BB-chan really doesn't understand.]
[Here, what wish of yours has not been satisfied?]
Except for leaving here, tell BB-chan, and BB-chan can grant any wish for Master! The facial features of the purple-haired girl in the channel became even more blurred, looking as if black liquid would seep out from beneath that face at any moment.
[I heard you speak of fatigue, so I prepared days for you where you don't need to work, and inexhaustible gourmet food and fine wine.]
[I heard you speak of loneliness, so I prepared four 'Me's' of different styles for you. You can do whatever you want to them, and they will respond to you just like the real me.]
[Master, you must understand one thing—]
[As an AI, BB-chan has no virtue of sharing. From the moment you were fished out by BB-chan, you belonged to me!]
BB became more agitated as she spoke, and more and more black substance seeped from her blurred face. Perhaps even she could not distinguish which words came from her heart and which came from the influence of the Moonless Moon.
Suke: ...
What a crazy, yandere, landmine-type AI. Fortunately, Little Yuki isn't like her, otherwise, it would be awful.
Suke really suspected whether he carried a magnet aura that specifically attracted landmine girls. Wait, it seems one can't say that Great Witch isn't one?
However, because of this, a plan came to Suke's mind. Although he didn't know what method BB used to prevent the Statue of Yoba from selecting this small house as a target, she probably also recognized the statue's special nature and felt apprehensive about it, which was why she only watched him from across the screen.
"You misunderstood, BB."
"I just meant to say, compared to these fake 'You's' that can only represent a part of you, why are you unwilling to truly come and see me?"
"You asked me what wish hasn't been satisfied..."
"If I say I'm already tired of playing with the four of them and want to taste the original flavor of you, BB, would that be okay?"
Licking his lips and putting on a wicked look, Suke didn't even know what he was saying. Having lived with 'heavy' landmine-type women for so long, he had more or less summarized a set of methods to deal with them.
He didn't expect to make BB release him immediately, but as long as the 'capture attempt' worked on her and lured her main body out——!
[W-Why bring this up all of a sudden?]
The black mud seeping from her face suddenly dispersed. BB instantly sobered up a bit, and her facial features became clearer.
[Don't think you can conquer BB-chan by saying some sweet words, okay?]
[Just as BB-chan said just now, I don't share my love with others...]
What is she mumbling about?
"So, are you coming to see me or not?"
"Not even daring to meet the person you like face-to-face, is this the so-called 'love' you speak of, BB?"
[...I got it!]
Scenes of what had happened in the small house, monitored over these days, flashed through her mind. While blushing, BB also felt a bit of anticipation.
Although a voice in her heart had been telling her not to enter the field! Only the love that cannot be obtained and is being pursued is true love. If she entered the field, she might lose the right to exclusively enjoy this love...
But BB ultimately chose to believe in her heart, rather than the ravings from the Moonless Moon.
"It seems BB Channel has to end here for now."
"My Master Piggy, are you that impatient to let BB-chan see your skills~?"
When BB's sexy figure, draped in a black bat-style trench coat and looking completely like a little devil, stepped out of the TV and descended, the small house began to melt and disintegrate. Although she was an AI with an extremely atrocious personality, regarding the result, BB did not fail his trust.
However...
[No, don't leave...]
[Mother... Mother doesn't want to let you leave yet...]
Before he could even exchange two sentences with BB, just as the four 'Selves' fabricated by BB were dissipating one by one, the 'Mother' who should have dissipated like the 'Daughter', 'Big Sister', and 'Little Sister' suddenly spoke words she should not have spoken!
Accompanied by her words, the mental world that was about to dissipate solidified once again!
"?!"
Both Suke and BB looked in shock at 'Passionlip', who was playing the mother.
That was the thing the Demonic Bodhisattva intended to suppress! Suke had originally thought that BB, who had fully merged with the power of the Moonless Moon, had already resolved it and that matter had come to a close. But now you're telling me she hasn't handled it yet??
"That's not right. Previously, BB-chan should have indeed..."
BB's reaction wasn't much better. In fact, after merging with the Moonless Moon, she had been quite full of herself. She had originally thought it was because the Demonic Bodhisattva herself wasn't strong enough, but now she realized she was wrong!
'Buddha Mother'.
'Holy Mother'.
'Queen Mother'.
Vocabulary emerging from different religions pointed to the same existence at this moment.
However, just as the situation was about to undergo a drastic change—
"Grab my hand, Animus!"
The Statue of Yoba had fallen into the hands of Tsukishiro Yuki, who had intruded into this space at some unknown point. The energy stored within it was instantly depleted! The space that had re-solidified developed a crack once again!
"Brother, go quickly!"
At the same moment, Abigail's voice rang out! The girl, whose hair and skin had completely turned into gray and white, maximized her output to ensure the torn rift did not close again!
"Nyar, learn from me!"
"Move faster, there isn't that much time! I don't know how you guys ran into this ghost thing!"
The store owner in the purple-black Lolita dress also appeared at some unknown time. Her eyes, which held stars within them, swept over BB, and a massive amount of knowledge was transmitted. Two of the Three Pillars symbolizing the unknown of deep space, along with the spokesperson of the Lord of Hosts, exerted their full power, giving Suke the chance to retrieve the Return Scepter.
"Go——!"
The Return Scepter shone brilliantly. As this mental space was completely sealed off and reinforced by the triple mighty forces, at the Caelum Biya, the decapitated Buddha head beneath the 'Awakened One's' broken Buddha body finally closed its slightly squinted eyelids as if relaxing.
Great tribulation approaches the land of coming.
Lost sentient beings, it is appropriate to return quickly!
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