"I'll kill her... No, I'll take pictures of her and drop 'em all over school! Maybe she'll like ta try out my father's trainin' techinques..," growled the pigtailed boy as his face took a manic grin.
"Um... Who are you talking about?"
"Nabiki, that's who! Maybe I'll see how she likes how she likes bein' felt up by the old pervert all the time!"
"Okay... perhaps you need to calm down and explain..."
"HA! Just give me a glass of water."
Kumiko shrugged. Perhaps a small drink would calm his nerves and let him feel better. "Sure. Here you go."
"Thanks," he replied and grabbed the glass that she offered him.
"Aren't you going to drink it?"
"Nope," he told her and poured its contents over his head. Shaking the water drops out of her now crimson locks, she gave a wild look to Kumiko. "See why I got a problem?!"
That brought her to look from the android to the human and back again. "She... you... how?!"
"There's this place in China where there's these springs that had somethin' different fall and drown into each of 'em. If ya fall in 'em now, then ya turn inta one when ya get hit by cold water, and turn back with hot."
"And you fell in one of them?"
"BINGO! And ya made an android that looks just like me!"
"Well, this is different..."
"Ya think?!"
"There are proceedures to handle with this sort of thing. If I read your reaction correctly, and you did not authorize us to use your image."
"Damned straight! This thing's happened before?"
"Oh yes. Sometimes people like to have copies of individuals, some that they really like and want to have, and other that they don't like so they want to lord over them. And they try to trick us into making android copies of those people."
"So, what d'ya do now?"
"That's up to the legal department, but I do know that all production on your duplicates will be halted until this is resolved."
"Okay..."
"And it's likely that they'll have to recompense you for using your image without permission."
"So that's it?"
"Well..
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