I wake up to see a white-haired girl beside me. Normally, I would freak out, and yes, I am freaking out on the inside, but my outward appearance seems as calm as ever—no expression, no nothing.
But inside, I'm freaking out, nai wa.
What do I do? What do I do? I mean, who even is this lady? Did she break into my room? Does she know I'm a cape?
Wait, she called me "master." Does this mean she's...?
"I want nothing from you right now, Queen Administrator," I tell her, despite my anxiety.
Oh, right. Why did you wake me up?
With the confirmation of her identity, my inner panic begins to dissipate.
As my inner composure returns, I remember that she was just a scythe before. I wonder why she's changed form.
It's not like I can just ask her. Well, I could, but I really don't want to talk right now, nai wa. This is so troublesome. I just want to lie down and think about powers all day.
My inner struggle is interrupted by my servant asking why I've been staring at her for two minutes.
What do I do in this situation, you ask? Well, of course, I stare harder to assert my dominance.
And then I look away because I realize my dad's going to wake up soon.
Panicking, I ask her to turn back into a scythe.
And surprisingly, it actually works—she turns back into a scythe. I quickly hide her under my bed, but then I realize—hiding people under your bed seems like kidnapping behavior.
Thinking about my immoral actions, I do the most logical thing I can do: I go downstairs to make some food because food is the most important thing in the world.
And I'm quite hungry from yesterday's debacle.
Walking down the stairs, I see Dad in the kitchen. He then asks me why I woke up so late, and of course, I answer him honestly.
Mentally, that is. In reality, I just stare at him. I didn't want to talk to anyone, and I was determined to stick to that.
My stare might have intimidated him or something because he just shut up and kept cooking.
I mentally gloated on my victory, thinking thoughts like, Work, my slave, give me the food I desire, and other thoughts along those lines.
While eating, he asked me why I was acting so weird today. I used the tried-and-true method of staring and not saying a single word, and it worked again.
He just looked away and ate faster. After that, he ran off, intimidated, by going to work.
[Queen Administrator's Point of View]
While my master was sleeping, I heard an unconscious ping from her, and it was to turn into the entity Shiraori, obeying her command.
I then scanned her memories and changed the form of the scythe projection into entity Shiraori.
But right as I was about to do that, the fork of my master asked me to update her body to become like entity Shiraori, and of course, I obliged.
Then I quickly used my connection to my master to locate the precise coordinates of the fork and used matter manipulation to change her form, which took quite a lot of my energy.
The fork appreciated my help and sent a little bit of MA energy as repayment.
And right as the fork repaid me, I was successfully able to transform into the entity Shiraori. Of course, I don't have her powers or her amount of MA energy, but hopefully, my master will be satisfied and not punish me.
Possessing this new projection body is quite strange. For example, smell and sight—why would you only need these limited senses? Of course, I can add some extra features to my multi-pupil eyes.
I do that, hoping my master won't punish me for doing something behind her back.
Using my multi-pupil eyes, I wake up to see my master staring at me. I ask her what she wants me to do while noting the strange feeling of this human-like projection.
She responds that she doesn't want anything from me, so I stay silent, but she just keeps staring.
For two minutes, she just stares at me.
I ask her why she's staring, and she continues staring.
Then suddenly, she asks me to turn back into weapon form, and I oblige her. But that was strange behavior from my master. Could she have been subsumed? No, it can't be. She could pierce my defenses, which are some of the best in the network, so there's no way she could have been subsumed. That's simply impossible.
Maybe it's because she just rebooted. I heard that humans are strange when they've just been rebooted from my network.