Want to be human, but cube-like

Fortunately, the villager didn't actually kiss her; Alex remained nearly a meter away, and for the first time, the villager resisted.

"Snapped!"

It raised its hand and nudged Alex.

"Eh?"

The latter immediately took two steps back, and even saw that his health points had dropped by one.

This time, it was clear that the villagers were in a bad mood; it turned its head back and forth, seemingly agitated.

"...Alex?"

Xiangzi, at a loss, stood there for a moment before taking two steps forward and cautiously asking Alex.

"Are you OK?"

"Well……!"

Then I saw her raise her head angrily, and suddenly a sharp knife [white sheath] appeared in her hand.

"How dare it hit me!"

This audacious scoundrel cannot be allowed to live today!

"calm down!"

Startled, Xiangzi quickly hugged Alex.

"It took a whole month and eight gold ingots to transform! You need to calm down!"

Xiangzi, who stood in front of Alex, shouted loudly.

…………

P.S. Well, I watched the entire recording of Fanshi's talk show today, and now I feel much calmer.

I'll definitely have to cut ties with Mother Hen later on. I might reuse the Metis character design a little more. To be honest, the character designs are definitely a bit out of character—it's hard to imagine that I'd ever say a character from an original animation is out of character; it's just too absurd.

My outline actually has quite a few interesting plot points, and I hope everyone can watch with a positive attitude. However, seeing that some fan creators really couldn't stand episode seven—some taking leave, some stopping updating, and some even unable to continue writing and having to revise—and recalling the fan creation environment before the show aired, it's indeed a bit disheartening now.

Later on, there were really a lot of interesting ideas for building Mygo. I even stopped writing more about it because I wanted to wait for the end of the "Mother Hen Card" series. Some of the ideas for building Mother Hen Card in this book were things I'd thought about before. Adding Alex's character made them all quite interesting, but the more I thought about them, the more upset I became.

Volume 1: Chapter 121 Did you ever use me as a tool?

Finally, Alex managed to calm down her dissatisfaction after being comforted by Xiangzi.

Having never suffered such humiliation before, she pouted and swiped open the villagers' interaction interface again.

I wasn't interested in seeing what the other options were for.

Simply follow the instructions in the task book and get the villagers to follow your lead.

Then she closed the interactive interface and knocked down the boat that was no longer needed.

"Let's go, go up first."

Holding Xiangzi's hand, the two of them went up the stairs together.

"It just followed you like that?"

Looking at the villagers behind him, Xiangzi asked in confusion.

He was clearly in a bad mood just now and even attacked Alex, but now he's obediently following them.

It's like a puppet without any self-awareness.

She thought to herself.

"So don't worry about its attitude, it doesn't matter, as long as it can be used for trading."

Looking back at the villagers following closely behind, Alex said to Xiangzi beside her.

"It feels...like a tool..."

With a slight frown, Xiangzi couldn't help but turn around and glance at the silent villagers behind him, muttering something under his breath.

"It really is just a tool."

She hadn't expected that Alex would say those words so bluntly.

"...Elise...Kiss?"

These seemingly indifferent words, uttered by the other person, made Xiangzi uncomfortable. She pursed her lips and softly called out in disbelief.

Xiangzi subconsciously tightened her grip on the hand that was being held, and suddenly felt as if the air itself had turned cold.

Even holding her little hand felt warm and comfortable.

"Xiangzi?"

Sensing something amiss in the other person's expression, Alex turned around in confusion.

"..."

Hesitating, Xiangzi looked up at Alex, gazing into her clear, pure eyes.

In a daze, she suddenly realized that she seemed to have never truly understood Alex's past, nor had she ever truly comprehended her thoughts.

"But it is also a living person, isn't it? Or, like you before, a blocky person..."

Xiangzi gritted his teeth.

I still feel that I need to correct Alex's thinking.

"Do not."

But Alex interrupted her.

"That's not right, Xiangzi."

She shook her head gently and spoke calmly.

"It's different from me, and it's different from you."

The two had reached the first floor. The villager who had been following them like a little tail, listening to their conversation without reacting, now stood blankly behind Alex, staring at them.

To be precise, it was Alex who was watching and giving it the command to follow.

"It is not a living person."

Standing on the central avenue on the first floor, Alex slowly released Xiangzi's hand, letting his palm touch the cold air again.

"It is the only difference between it and me in the past that they are both blocky humanoid in appearance."

Quietly turning around and looking at the villagers, Alex spoke softly.

"Apart from that, we have no connection whatsoever."

Even in the past, Alex was merely a puppet in the hands of her manipulator, a puppet controlled by the other party. But at the very least, Alex possessed something fundamental: a sense of self.

She is free in her thoughts.

Although it wasn't until after she was born into this world that Alex understood the true meaning of the word "freedom".

"But……"

Xiangzi gently bit his lip, glanced at the villagers who stood quietly and no longer moved, and then looked at Alex again.

"It can talk, it has feelings of joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, and it can also actively resist..."

Xiangzi instinctively didn't want to attach such a cold label to these villagers.

Even those blocky animals that she always found noisy and annoying, Xiangzi regarded as living beings and would eat the meat that Alex brought back with gratitude.

More importantly, she felt somewhat frightened by Alex's indifferent attitude towards these things.

"Those are just its instinctive reactions; they're all fixed lines and fixed behavioral logic."

On the other hand, Alex was surprised that Shoko would have such a concern about something she thought was completely insignificant.

"Snapped!"

After thinking for a moment, Alex decided that she still had to make Xiangzi understand the true nature of other entities in this world besides her. She casually punched the villager next to her on the shoulder, making a soft thud.

【don't want! 】

【Ah ah ah ah ah! 】

Almost the instant after being hit, the previously still villager suddenly became agitated again. Two boxes with words appeared above its head, and then it began to run around wildly.

Immediately afterward, in the eyes of the two, the villager, who had only run a dozen or so squares, slowed down, and the square above his head gradually disappeared.

"like this."

Leaving behind those words, Alex walked over to Xiangzi, who was somewhat stunned, and reopened the interaction interface, once again selecting the option to have it follow her.

Then, he led the villagers back.

"In essence, it is no different from the animals that are kept in enclosures over there."

Alex looked up and gestured to Xiangzi, then looked towards the noisy breeding area not far away and continued.

"how come……"

Staring in astonishment at the villager who didn't seem like someone who had just gone mad and run around, Xiangzi didn't know what to say.

"Therefore, do not treat it as a human being."

Alex tried her best to explain to Xiangzi the proper way to treat these creatures.

"Just use it as a tool. It's not a living creature, just an inanimate object that follows predetermined rules."

I glanced at the villager's health bar. She had only lost one bar of health after being hit by him with her bare hands, but it had recovered immediately. She was still quite safe.

"If you feel unhappy with it, it gets in your way, or it's no longer useful, just destroy it. There's no need to have any emotional attachment to it; it's meaningless."

After saying that, she turned around and prepared to lead the villager toward the several single rooms she had built in advance.

Behind her, Xiangzi, still standing there, staring blankly at her back, opened his lips but couldn't say a word.

Suddenly, she recalled the night she first met Alex and was taken in by her.

"Villagers..."

His eyes widened suddenly.

"Alex...!"

She hesitated.

"And... what about me? On the night we first met, the night you took me home..."

With slightly disbelief, her lips trembled as she asked the question.

"Do you also mistake me for one of these...villagers?"

…………

PS: As the most important prerequisite for understanding Alex's inner world, I think we should first understand how her incredibly indifferent attitude towards everything in the world came about.

This is also the biggest obstacle for Alex in wanting to become human.

Volume 1: Chapter 122 Protective Desire, and Empathy That Cannot Be Empathized With

"Aren't you a villager?"

……

I recall our first encounter a month ago.

Xiangzi can still clearly recall every word of the conversation and Alex's gentle attitude.

But at this very moment, as she gazed at Alex's calm back, the gentle face of Alex from their first meeting in her memory began to fade.

A barely perceptible chill ran through my heart.

She seemed to realize that, at that time, Alex had faced herself with what kind of attitude and in what way.

tool?