It was apparently something to do with 'promises' though, as she'd overheard their discussion about it. There had been an event years earlier where they'd met up with somebody and had discussed arrangements for something of importance. Now, they had to return to that place, and react to something that had activated that promise. As a result, they had to do whatever was promised, and so she was being picked up on the way to doing just that.
Not that she minded, as her series tended to be cool headed no matter the situation. But she had the added bonus of having a connection in the person of Ranma Saotome, and so she wasn't quite on the slide that her 'sisters' were. A part of her wanted to stay with him, and the fact that it was stable, and had the possibility of growing made it something other than a miserable physical existence to contemplate.
"How are things going?"
The scientist nearly jumped before turning to face the Gehern executive that had just come into the room. "We're proceeding as well as we'd expected."
"I see. And how long before we can move on to the special projects?"
"It will take some time before we're ready for that. With the failures of the 'Rei' series, and the oddities coming up in the designing of the 'Kaoru' one, we have to work as carefully as possible."
"Are you saying that we'll be delayed?"
"Of course not," the scientist replied. "We just need to be sure that we can safely integrate the strains that we want without causing any sort of problems. The artificial slaves are helping out quite well in that regard."
"Just remember, don't use all of them for guinea pigs. They could be a high seller, and so far the ones that you've created aren't quite as good as we'd like. If we're to compete against the traditional slave sellers, we'll need useable products."
"Don't worry, sir. We'll have slaves who won't come with all the baggage that owning someone who was once free would."
"Some people like the idea of getting that sort of power over someone who was once equal to them."
"We can't help that. But we'll be working on that as a side project to what we are working on with our main object."
"Good," the executive replied, and looked up at the equipment that was working on Gehern's real masterpiece, while:
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