"So——"
"Yuzu."
"Yu... Yu-zhu."
Inside the bedroom of the dormitory, Su Yuzu held the little kitten on her lap, teaching the little kitten to say her name.
The little kitten, wearing a loose kimono-style yukata, curled up obediently.
From Su Yuzu's perspective, she could faintly see the traces of bandages wrapped loop after loop beneath the bathrobe. Even if Zero was an Aberrant, her appearance was still that of a human girl, after all.
Moreover, from the clues in [Operator Development], Su Yuzu could faintly catch that Zero was an artificially created Aberrant.
The small flowers found everywhere by the roadside and foxtail grass were already rare treasures to her. The apples the researcher brought back from outside the laboratory were already delicacies she had never experienced.
She had no right to choose from birth. From the day she was born, she was 'Test Subject Zero', a weapon made for testing.
Wearing shackles was one thing, but letting Zero be stark naked in the dormitory was definitely not okay.
Recalling her first meeting with Zero, the girl stood on the street corner, wearing a black short-sleeved kimono bathrobe with patterns of crimson flowers.
The girl's legs were slender and straight, with perfect lines. Her fair little feet were bare, stepping on black wooden clogs, the bright red straps making the girl's feet almost eye-catching.
Girls really were suitable for wearing that kind of leg-revealing skirt or hot pants.
Just like Kujou Katora was suitable for wearing a bodysuit with black silk stockings, Saotome Yukina was suitable for wearing slightly tight over-the-knee socks, Mihou Sakai was suitable for wearing an apron with cute decorations, and... Soga Yura was suitable for pretending to be a steel plate.
It was just slightly a 'pity'~
Su Yuzu was, after all, the Young Miss of the Soga clan. All her clothes were custom-tailored; the girl was still more petite and delicate than Su Yuzu.
Su Yuzu's clothes looked a bit 'empty' on the girl.
If the coat could make do, then... there was really no way for the underwear.
In Su Yuzu's dormitory, inside the Material Inventory, the only things that ignored body shape were probably Little Rabbit's clothing accessories. But... those accessories were a bit too advanced for Zero and felt like bullying the Aberrant.
Su Yuzu finally had a bright idea and bought some general-purpose medical bandages in Resource Procurement.
"Sou... Sou... Sou Yu-zhu..."
Facts proved that the vocal cords of Aberrants were indeed different from ordinary humans. The vocal frequency of Aberrants only partially overlapped with humans. Even Zero, who had been injected with a large amount of human factors during the manufacturing process, was the same.
"Nyaaaa—" or "Aaaaa—" cat calls were fine, but when it really came to letting Zero learn to speak, the girl studied for a long time and barely learned Su Yuzu's name—the non-standard version.
Watching the girl so anxious that her head was covered in sweat, Su Yuzu sighed.
She knew Zero had already tried her best. No wonder when Zero left the 'factory', she had clearly learned to write, but still hadn't learned to speak.
However... the appearance of the emotionless girl holding a tablet computer, da da da da holding a pen and writing, seemed... quite moe. Especially this emotionless girl, who looked like 'strangers keep away' when facing others... or rather, completely ignored those people, but in front of herself, she lowered her body and suppressed her waist, meowing "Nyaa~~ Nyaa~~~~" cutely.
She wasn't emotionless. It was just that her world only contained you.
That feeling was too easy to satisfy people.
The god who created this world was definitely a terrible devil; every girl's strange settings were to satisfy the devil's deep inner nasty fetishes.
"Nyaaaa—" Seeing Su Yuzu sigh, Zero was simply more anxious than Su Yuzu.
The girl gently arched her head against Su Yuzu's waist.
"Sou... Sou Yu-zhu..." One could tell, she was already trying very hard.
Behind the girl, the black cat tail tied to the bathrobe sash swayed gently. That was the pendant cat tail from Little Rabbit's Favorability Gift.
Although it was a decoration tied to the waist, it could complete simple movements and relatively complete tactile sensations through the Technology Division's neural coupling network.
The end of the tail was also tied with a small red butterfly knot. When the butterfly knot was just tied on, that tail would even fluff up involuntarily, the bionic bones stiffly straightening and swinging randomly, like an antenna.
"It has nothing to do with Zero." Su Yuzu gently stroked Zero's small head.
Originally, she wanted to arrange a set of cat ears, cat tail, and cat paws directly for Zero. It was just that... those cat ears from the Technology Division amplified hearing a bit too much.
When Su Yuzu tried wearing them herself, she felt that the friction of the clothes on her body and the sound of hair sliding across her skin became incredibly clear.
Assisted by the neural technology of the Technology Division, the subtle sounds made the scalp inside the skull and the back feel as if they were about to explode, giving a unique stimulating sensation. It was like being in an ASMR state all the time.
But... once encountering noisy static, it wasn't so wonderful.
For the non-human little kitten... Su Yuzu had just put the cat ears on her, and the little kitten collapsed directly into Su Yuzu's arms. Su Yuzu could only give up in the end.
"Zero has already done a great job."
Su Yuzu took out the paper box containing daifuku from the Material Inventory.
Once, Su Yuzu thought Little Rabbit was already the easiest girl to raise. Just a strawberry cream crepe could coax Little Rabbit into being obedient.
As a result... Su Yuzu discovered that Zero was actually easier to raise than Little Rabbit. No matter what food it was, Zero ate it very happily.
The Favorability increase amplitude was all the amplitude of orange-tier Favorability Gifts.
Su Yuzu took out a daifuku.
"Nyaaaa—"
"Aaaa—" Short sounds.
Zero's slender little hands, locked by shackles, cupped together, holding Su Yuzu's arm and pushing it up, as if letting Su Yuzu eat first.
Ever since that... strange situation with the little kitten that day, the little kitten seemed to have developed quite subtle habits.
Snacks must be offered to Su Yuzu to eat first, even if just for a first bite. Going to the bathroom also always meant waiting for Su Yuzu to come back; even if enduring it was very hard, she had to wait for Su Yuzu to come back, wanting Su Yuzu to hold her.
It really gave Su Yuzu the feeling of raising a pet. Raising a clingy Aberrant kitten.
Su Yuzu gently took a bite, and only after Zero saw that the King indeed wouldn't eat anymore, did she lower her body, holding Su Yuzu's fingertips and licking the glutinous rice flour clean.
Dong dong dong—
Suddenly, there was a knock on the dormitory door. Su Yuzu put the little kitten down; it should be Mihou Sakai who had arrived.
Looking at Zero taking small bites of the daifuku, the little kitten's tail curled up high, slightly curling into a question mark shape.
Su Yuzu knew... the time for the little kitten's fate judgment had arrived.
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