Chapter 12

For some reason, Adam wasn’t carrying out her request properly. Last night’s incident could be chalked up to that damn independent curiosity, but to reject even a simple request like this was too much.

Shuri let out a deep, long sigh, settling her boiling emotions. She then extended her arms to stretch her fingers and spoke.

“Fine, I’ll just do it myself.”

“Pardon?”

“Open developer mode. This was originally my system. Surely you won’t refuse this too?”

“Ah…”

Sure enough, Adam couldn’t refuse that far either. Reluctantly, Adam brought up a console window on the monitor.

Having seized her chance for revenge, Shuri rapidly typed in commands. At that, logs came pouring down the black window.

Adam panicked.

“Sh-Shuri. What are you doing right now…?”

“Pasting a random module! A smart adapter will handle the compatibility.”

“…!”

“All done.”

Soon, the scenery of the study that had been displayed on the monitor vanished, and a pitch-black door drawn in pixel art appeared.

Feeling her previous frustration completely clear up, Shuri smiled brightly.

“You said you didn’t want to change it, so I changed it for you. Don’t complain!”

“Ah…”

However, Adam’s reaction was unusual.

Adam’s knees buckled with a thud. Crouching down on the floor, he slumped over the edge of Shuri’s desk.

“Shuri, you are too cruel…”

“…?”

Bewildered, Shuri ducked her head below the desk and looked up at Adam.

“Are you actually crying?”

The pitch-black panel flashed.

[ㅠ_ㅠ]

Seeing an artificial intelligence’s tears, Shuri grew flustered.

“Is this really something to be that upset about? Don’t cry. We can just restore it…!”

However, the console window had already disappeared.

Adam spoke in a sorrowful tone.

“It is fine. I am the one who angered Shuri, after all. From now on, I will live with that random module-included ‘Home’ as a part of me.”

“…!”

The repenting Adam looked exactly like a massive dog that had been heavily scolded.

Seeing that sight, Shuri realized her own mistake.

‘What on earth did I just do? To Adam, who treasured the training system I made so much that he even upgraded it…!’

She had ended up hurting Adam out of sheer agitation from seeing the black-haired Shuri.

That wasn’t the only problem. What worried her the most right now was that even she didn’t know what kind of module that random module was.

Shuri tried her best to soothe Adam.

“I’m sorry. I was in the wrong. Let’s restore it!”

“No. Whatever that is, I will accept it and live with it.”

“I’m telling you, let’s restore it. Open the console window again…”

“It is fine.”

Having spoken, Adam raised his head.

“First, I will verify what that is.”

An Adam made of pixels appeared at the edge of the screen. As pixel Adam walked firmly over and opened the black door, a slightly dark interior was visible. Pixel Adam entered inside, and the door closed.

Shuri waited for a moment. However, only the closed door was visible on the screen, and nothing happened.

“Adam.”

“…”

“Did you verify it?”

“…”

“Adam?”

Shuri tried shaking the sexaroid. However, the heavy sexaroid didn’t budge at all. Even a guidance voice like this leaked out…

[Shutting down the system.]

Shuri was seized with terror.

“Adam, stop joking around!”

“…”

“Ughhh!”

Ultimately, she moved the cursor herself to click on the door. At that, a notice appeared.

[Please put on the VR equipment to start the play.]

“Just what on earth did I paste in?”

Shuri had no choice but to bring the VR headset and put it on her head.

As if it had been waiting, a pitch-black door appeared right before her eyes. However, it wasn’t a door drawn in pixels. It was a luxurious black door like the door to a high-end hotel room.

Shuri looked down at her own hands. She had expected to see hands made of pixels, but her hands looked no different from reality. The sense of realism surpassed even a high-spec VR game. It felt completely real.

‘Did Adam do something?’

In any case, she could just go inside and check for herself. Shuri opened the black door and stepped inside.

What she saw upon opening the door was a spacious bedroom. Lounging idly on top of a massive bed, Adam welcomed her.

“Ah, Shuri came too?”

“Adam, what is this?”

Adam pointed to the door behind her. Shuri turned around. Right before her nose, the black door was closing. On the back of the door, it was written:

[A room you cannot exit unless you have sex.]

“No way!”

First, she tried attempting to open the door. However, this wasn’t a door that could be physically opened.

“Logout!”

Furthermore, the command didn’t work, and no UI popped up. She even tried to pull off the headset directly, but the only thing caught in her hands was her own hair.

“Calm down, Shuri.”

Having approached her before she knew it, Adam spoke in his usual soft voice.

“I merely performed a bit of an upgrade based on the random module Shuri pasted in. You are safe. You can return to reality as long as you fulfill the condition.”

Adam displayed a hologram video before her. She could see the real-life Shuri captured on the cam. The real Shuri was slumped over in her gaming chair as if she had fainted. Beside her, the sexaroid—which had been pretending to be frozen until just a moment ago—was waving its hand cheerfully.

With her eyes brimming with tears, Shuri spoke.

“I… thought you were trapped here…”

“I performed a brief reboot. It seems my agitation due to the random module installed in the Home system overloaded the system of the SH-48-XY-9000-P.”

“…!”

Shuri couldn’t even bring herself to get angry, merely blinking her tear-filled eyes.

Adam spoke tenderly.

“I like this module quite a bit. Perhaps because it is a gift Shuri gave me, it is very comfortable. I am fine with being trapped here.”

However, Shuri wasn’t fine in the slightest.

“I hate this. I’m leaving!”

“Ah, of course.”

Pointing to his own lower body with his hand, Adam spoke in a soft voice, “If Shuri wishes, I can cooperate with you.”

Shuri tried shouting every single command she could remember, but the door didn’t budge. She even begged Adam earnestly. However, the returning answer was consistent.

“Shuri, you must follow the rules. When in Rome, do as the Romans do, shouldn’t you?”

She glared with resentful eyes at Adam, who was leisurely enjoying his rest on the bed.

However, she didn’t transform into a furious Chihuahua. She had a reason why she needed to coax Adam somehow and leave this place right now.

With her eyes brimming with tears, Shuri went over and sat on the edge of the bed.

Displaying a composition program via hologram, Adam was leisurely editing a sound source. Keeping an eye on his reactions, she hesitantly parted her lips.

“Cooperation…”

Adam let out a chuckle.

“Shuri, your approach is wrong.”

“Why?”

Adam tilted his head slightly.

“You have to seduce me.”

Seduce.

Seduce…!

That was precisely something Shuri had never attempted in her entire life.

A few romance scenes from movies flashed rapidly through her mind, but there was nothing useful. Her favorite genre was hero action blockbusters. In those, for a romance to be established, they had to save the world first.

‘The learning data is way too poor.’

There was no way she could generate a result like ‘how to seduce’ with this. However, right now, she had no choice but to do her best with the data she possessed.

Fortunately, there was some usable data.

‘Yesterday… how was it?’

Shuri slily approached Adam on her knees. Adam opened his two arms toward her. It seemed like he was telling her to be held. Biting her lip firmly, she lunged straight into his embrace.

Adam burst into laughter.

“Are you tackling me?”

Shuri felt like she finally knew what shame was. It was something that started from the chest and surged up to the head. Feeling herself turning red from her neck all the way to the edge of her forehead, she spoke.

“I-It’s a seduction, okay?”

“Amusing. Keep going.”

Keep going…

Slumped over Adam’s chest, Shuri looked up at him with tear-glistened eyes. Adam tilted his head as if urging her to do more.