【Beginning】
“Escaping” is endless, so the metal puppet kept proceeding. It only rested when there was adverse weather. In the light of Red Boy’s ingenious skills, the puppet was never captured by Demons; it even brought down wrongful Demons on its way...
- Headless Clown: That’s him! The guy sought by Inferno Savant!
Demons swarmed the puppet; but it did not retreat and instead, it charged forward, moving swiftly in the Demon ranks.
【Before Battles】
- Headless Clown: That’s him! The guy sought by Inferno Savant!
【Enemy Dialog】
- Headless Clown: This guy...how come he is so strong...
【End】
These low-level Demons did not join the army in the battlefront. They merely lived by looting and naturally, they could not rival the puppet assembled from the parts of magnificent artifacts. Its high-pressure air blasts thrashed the Demons. The puppet’s gun was now pointing at the head of their leader; the frightened clown had to use its ace in the hole, transforming into the most important person in the puppet’s memory.
- Red Boy: Don’t kill me!
The puppet hesitated. The Demon, now as a child, took the chance of its hesitation and leapt far away. The puppet could not get within range again. It thought back and could only recall the image of the Demon jumping, as if it had never transformed to a child.
However, it was clear that the puppet stopped its attack because of the Demon’s change...From this, the puppet determined that it was malfunctioning. To fix the problem, it had to find the person who gave it its power. It allotted an area in its database to temporarily store its mind, so as to avoid contamination of other areas. Before the error is fixed, it decided to disable reading and writing of the area; to scan for data, it used only its superficial consciousness.
The puppet no longer “escaped.” Instead, it started to look for a person with the ability to repair it. Fortunately, it earned a positive reputation for eliminating Demons, smoothing its journey across the realm. It synthesized a voice with wind, asking if anyone understood its “error”. However, even mechanics were unable to tell. Not only did they fail to understand its structure, they also could not comprehend its “image” issue.
- Mechanical Sapper: You said you have error in your record...do you mean memory?
- Mechanical Logistician: But...I don’t dare take apart your armor and look inside!
In the end, the mechanics suggested the puppet to seek the wandering genius mechanic — Agnesi...
- Mechanical Sapper: But she has left for so long. She should be far away by now.
- Gusty Puppet: No problem. I will fly.