Valerie wore an uncomfortable expression as she looked at the woman kneeling at her feet. She could feel the bond between them, it was even stronger than the bond between her and Beans, and she could influence it however she wanted.
More than the influence and supre authority it gave her, Valerie could also feel a sliver of power flowing through the bond, from Bai Yin into herself. It didn’t an much at the mont, it was like a kitchen tap dripping into a lake, but it did make her curious to if it could be increased and what she could actually do with that power.
However before all that, there was one thing that she had to sort out.
"Don’t call Master." She insisted.
Bai Yin nodded her head, keeping it bowed, and quickly replied, "Yes Mistress."
"Or that. Don’t call that either."
"Of course My Lady."
"Don’t use any honorifics when talking to ."
"My Apologies Supre One."
"Oh it’s a title now... I kinda walked into that one, didn’t I?" Valerie muttered before shaking her head with a heavy sigh. She rubbed her temples, already feeling a headache coming on from dealing with this, as she decided if this was really worth all of the circles she was going to have to go through.
In the end, she sighed again and lowered her hands.
"Fine, just go back to using my Lady. That one was the least bad of the lot, and it kinda makes feel like soone important which is kind of nice..."
"As you wish my Lady." Bai Yin eagerly replied, although she still expressed nothing on her face.
Valerie stared at her for a few more seconds, taking in her appearance. Her skin was still as pale as the corpse she had just been, and was sunken slightly adding to her deathly appearance and giving her subtly muscular body so better definition. Her eyes had turned completely crimson, which could be hidden behind the sunglasses she usually wore.
But the scars on her back were still present and not healing... Oh god. She was still half naked.
Clamping her hand over her eyes, Valerie cursed herself in her mind as her guilt ca back tenfold.
"Go get dressed, right now."
"As you wish my Lady." Bai Yin replied, before standing up straight, causing Valerie to let out a guilt filled whimper as so of the visuals peeked through her fingers, before Bai Yin strutted out of the room. Whether her lack of care when it ca to her dignity and exposure was a side effect of her transformation, or simply a carry over from her old personality, Valerie did not know.
But neither made her feel better about stripping the poor woman after murdering her. Well... maybe not poor woman but still... it wasn’t nice nonetheless.
When Bai Yin returned, Valerie was settling herself back into her comfy chair after cleaning up the teeth that the [Blood Well] spell couldn’t pick up, and making sure there was no evidence of whatever happened.
Thankfully, Bai Yin had brought extra clothes and had dressed herself up in a new suit, although this ti forgoing the tie and keeping her collar open, so that her neck was exposed, revealing the slowly healing scars from where Valerie had bitten her.
Glancing around, Valerie made sure one last ti there was no evidence, when sothing else popped into her mind.
"Shit! Surveillance! They said I was being watched. They said sothing about destroying it when they took ... but surely whoever was doing it had ti to set up new stuff. Crap... this is bad. How much did they see? If Sebbie took care of it last ti could he do it again? Are they gonna co after with garlic and wooden stakes?"
Valerie muttered to herself in a panic. When it ca to the last one, she wasn’t actually sure if those would work. When she had been checking her teeth, she still had her reflection, but she wasn’t eager to be stabbed through the heart in order to test if it killed her in case, you know, it did.
Much like shooting yourself in the head to test if you are bulletproof, it’s just best to assu you aren’t and avoid bullets going forwards, until proved otherwise.
"The surveillance is already taken care of my Lady. I took care of it. What devices I could remove were removed, the rest were hacked with advanced daemons that attacked the AI running them. It will have spent most of its ti focusing elsewhere whenever anything interesting happens.
Although, this doesn’t account for them recording all caras at all tis. That I cannot control. The most I can do is give them a reason not to waste their ti looking at the recordings, or at least ti to plan whilst they review days worth of footage."
Valerie let out a sigh of relief, relaxing back in her chair and wiping the sweat from her forehead. That was sothing at least.
If they did in fact record everything and spend the ti rewatching the footage to catch any issues with the AI, a strong possibility as even the more advanced ones still weren’t trusted completely, that ans there was a heavy chance her secret would be discovered.
Hopefully by that point, the rest of the world would be having issues with new awakened that they wouldn’t be able to focus on her too much.
Although if they did co for her with pitchforks, torches and garlic bread then at least she had a new bodyguard to protect her. Jinu 2.0, if you would. She had the sa emotional range as the robot, even before her transformation, with even more skills and she wouldn’t be able to get hacked.
A straight upgrade. However, it did leave Valerie with one question.
"So uh... Do you know what you even are now? Or what I am?"
"You are my Lady, my Lady." Bai Yin answered robotically, "As for myself, I do not know. If such a thing has a na, I have never encountered sothing like myself in my life, as far as I can rember.
Perhaps you would like to give what I am a na." She offered, almost sounding eager to be nad.
Valerie bobbed her head in understanding, muttering to herself,
"Makes sense... It’s not like this is common in this world, and you don’t seem like the type to play a lot of gas or read fantasy novels in your life but... Wait." Valerie said, raising her head and narrowing her eyes at Bai Yin.
"You can rember your life, like you can rember everything about when you worked for the Monarchs?"
"Not everything, no." Bai Yin answered without a hint of fear or hesitation, "So early mories seem to have been lost to brain death, whilst a few other pieces of information are locked away by a formation cast by sect leader.
But other than that, yes. I can. Is there sothing you wish to know?"
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