[Episode 146062] [Episode 146062]That the Overlord and his daughter had identical smirks thereafter was concerning to those few who knew.
There were things that the Overlord did not know. He was not the Omniscient Overlord, though he did have spies and advisors and he wasn't exactly dumb.
He did not know, for example, that the pet Ami was not quite as dumb as she acted. The sweets and other smuggled foods had allowed a certain portion of the original girl to survive. She had known as the process had begun that her very nature was being altered. She had retained parts of her intellect and faked it as long as she could hold out. She therefore had learned what they were doing to her when it was discussed in front of her, and what had happened to the others.
Unfortunately she couldn't see any way out of it at the time and had already been feeling a growing fuzziness in her thoughts.
The first time the boy had entered the chamber, she had been in the bondage outfit they'd selected to keep her under control. Her hands and feet encased and bound so that if she moved it would be crawling on her knees and elbows. She'd been mostly gone at that point, but had realized there was a chance when she saw something in the boy's face and body language. Had it been pity? Sympathy? Whatever it was - it had not been the cold dispassionate gaze of the scientists and doctors working on her.
It had been extremely frustrating when she'd reached out, trying to communicate and plead for help. Her speech centers had already been lost and even trying to form words in her mind had been getting increasingly difficult. Unfortunately, the boy had responded in a manner she hadn't quite grasped prior to that - scratching her head and awkwardly petting her. She had realized on the level that she had been operating on that he was trying to offer comfort and reassurance. She had been trying to ask for escape and had ended up simply relaxing as he found an itchy place on her scalp she had not been able to reach.
From what she'd gathered he was someone who had run of the complex, but what he was doing he was doing furtively. He was trying not to be caught. Unfortunately her thoughts had come slower and fuzzier and eventually had just stopped before she could come up with a plan.
She had no idea of how much time had passed between then and now, even the concept of the passage of time or her ability to count meals had been lost as her ability to think was degraded further and further. She didn't know much at all, though occasionally concepts and relations would bubble up from somewhere.
She knew the scientists and their labcoats meant pain, poking, prodding. She didn't like them and there was something frightening about them on some level she wasn't capable of recognizing at the moment.
She knew her boy. He offered comfort, treats, kindness. Sometime during the stay in her cell she had gotten to know his scent. Also sometime during her stay in the cell she had nuzzled up against him and came to realize several concepts. She was female. He was male. She liked him. He seemed to like her. She had wanted more than once that when he left the room that she would go with him.
Now things had gotten very strange and she was put in a room. Gone was the hard cold floor. Gone was the little grate in the floor. Gone were the bindings. She was sore in several places, and she felt very different in many ways. Most of her short term memory had been a little fuzzy, but she could remember the woman and the odd other men and going to sleep there and now waking up here.
She began to explore her environment, making little noises in her throat as she made each discovery. Soft carpeting was something she wonderously poked and stroked, observing the way the little strands of material bent and squished and shifted then sprung back. When she'd adequately explored that she turned her attention to the bed. The soft silken sheets felt wonderful sliding against her skin, and she wriggled against them briefly before her short attention span caught something else to explore. She wore something but it wasn't the familiar presence keeping her from moving. Her hands felt the thing encircling her neck and she flicked the little things hanging from it in her fingers, smiling at the noise it made.
A sound made her leap back in fright and crouch there on the strangely soft floor. One of those moving sections of wall had opened and now the boy was standing there.
"Gah?" asked Ami, relaxing some as there was no lab coat in sight.
The boy made some of those unintelligible but vaguely familiar sounds. His voice was soft and comforting.
Ami's eyes blinked as she considered this when a concept clicked together. Boy had left room, and this time he'd taken her with him! "Ah-GAH!!!!"
Her boy made odd gestures as she leapt onto him.
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