Succubus (3)

… Ah!

Crap, I wound up staying up all night. It's already morning!

… I can't stop myself when I get into making robots. For me of all people to prioritize something over sleep… I need to be more careful about this.

Well, thanks to that, I finished the Golem that will serve as the Succubus's container—

"What do you think? This looks feminine, right?"

"Ah, sorry. I fell asleep. You finished it?"

You need to sleep even though you don't have a body?

By the way, its theme is a robomaid. I remade an Iron Golem to have ball joints like a mannequin, and I'm confident in the feminine body curves I gave it. Other than the face, at least.

… The face is, well, it's simple—a round face with cyber-style red sunglasses. I tried making upturned eyes using artificial rubies, but I wasn't confident in them, so I covered them up with a visor made from artificial rubies that runs horizontally across its face.

I think I nailed the robomaid aesthetic though.

"Hmm, couldn't the face be a little more beautiful? It looks kinda plain, doesn't it?"

"No comment on the facial structure. This is my limit…"

"Eh? Hmm, well, I guess it can't be helped. I'll let this pass."

Oi, how arrogant you are, Succubus.

"By the way, where did Rokuko and the others go?"

"Rokuko-sama and the others went outside. She said they were going home to sleep… though where exactly does a Dungeon Core 'go home' to?"

"Ah, there's an inn I built outside. We usually live and sleep there."

… Still though, her reaction to my [Create Golem] was pretty weak.

"Well, I was already surprised enough yesterday. You started making demands about leg shapes and arm shapes and stuff—don't you remember?"

"Aah, yeah, maybe? I feel like that happened… yeah, as expected, these legs really did turn out great. It's iron, but it has such a soft shape to it."

"Well, you had me possess Niku-senpai to use her legs as a reference after all. You were saying it wasn't quite right while putting in all that wasted effort—such a turnoff, Master!"

I don't remember that. Did I really do that?

"Huh? You don't remember? … You were totally licking her feet. It was ticklish. 'Please stop,' Niku-senpai pleaded, but Master wouldn't take no for an answer and mounted her… and then the two became one."

"Eh, hold on. Sorry, did that really happen?"

"Nah, that was a lie. Specifically, it was a lie starting from the possession part. Rokuko-sama stopped you."

That was a lie, you bastard. Well, she's not a bastard, she's a Succubus.

For now, I put her ring onto the Golem for her to possess. I made some final adjustments with [Create Golem] so it fits perfectly and… there.

"Alright."

"Then I'll possess it now."

The ruby eyes flashed—at least, it felt like they did.

The Golem got up and started moving without me ordering it… Yeah, even though they're Golem legs, they look really cute. My attention to detail in shaping them is incredible, if I do say so myself.

"Oooh! This is… more human-like than I expected! How should I put it… the handling, yeah, the handling feels very human!"

"Of course. I mixed a bit of orichalcum into the joints, so it won't have that slowness typical of Golems in everyday activities. In fact, it should even handle hand-to-hand combat easily."

"Seriously? A Golem with orichalcum mixed in is no joke, Master."

The Golem threw some punches. Yeah, when I use orichalcum, the performance changes dramatically. It's too different to even call it a normal Golem anymore.

"Rather than a Golem, it's more like a Doll. It doesn't have the mechanisms to call it a machine doll, after all."

"This is wonderful, Master! I'll follow you forever!"

"Alright, let's go show Rokuko and the others! This is my greatest masterpiece!"

 

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"So, Kehma. Good morning. Are you back to normal now?"

"… Yeah. That was, well, I got high from sleep deprivation…"

After sleeping and waking up, I was sitting in seiza in front of Rokuko.

Next to me was the Succubus inside the Doll.

"Still, you made quite a cute Golem. I thought you'd just obsess over the legs though."

"No no, it'd be gross if only the legs were detailed and it had a normal Golem on top. If I'm going to do this, of course I'd make sure the whole body was done right."

"… So you detailed the whole body for the sake of the legs?"

"Yeah, so?"

Even with beautiful legs, if everything above them is some old man, it kills the mood. So coordinating the whole body—or rather, creating the whole body—is a perfectly natural conclusion.

"… Actually, maybe I should have made the arms bulky on purpose… unbalanced Golem hands on a delicate body, that's also a moe element in its own right…"

"Kehma, are you still not getting enough sleep? Are you okay?"

She's worrying about me for some reason. I'll shut up.

"Well anyway, we can't put a Golem like this in the inn, right? What are you going to do with it, decorate your room?"

"… Ah, right. I was thinking it might be good to have her possess the massage chair instead. I mean, that's a Golem too."

"I see, so the charm effect would get more repeat customers… Ah, but then couldn't you just say you got it from the dungeon like the massage chair? Like say it was in a treasure chest."

… Would that work?

Indeed, if I say I got it from the dungeon, anything goes, and I'm supposed to be the one who has ventured deepest into the dungeon as a pioneer. There'd be no problem at all if I said it was an item only I could get.

By the way, for the massage devices, I've also made it so that handheld versions that just need magical power to run come out of the warehouse's treasure chests, just like the Golem Blades. They're popular items.

"From now on, you could make Golems available from the treasure chests too. Ones that move when supplied with magical power and follow their owner's orders. Then yours wouldn't be a problem at all, right Kehma?"

"I see, just having them follow orders would be quite convenient."

Rokuko's idea was pretty good.

And if Golems I've made spread around, they might come in handy if something happens.

"Alright, let's make it so obedient Golems come out of treasure chests on rare occasions from now on. As an even bigger jackpot, there'll be Dolls like this one. Though without the Succubus possession—just a regular Golem."

"Right, that sounds good. Just tell the guild you got something new from the dungeon and there shouldn't be any problems. Even if there are, I'll silence them."

In other words, Rokuko borrowing Haku-san's authority.

And so, we got a new Golem employee.

"By the way, now that things are like this, how about the Succubus—should we make her a named monster?"

"Eh, seriously? I'm so moved that you'd name me!"

"Right. Well, you're a Succubus, so… how about 'Neru'? From 'sleep.'"

"Yahooo! So lazy! But I'm named now, woo!"

Looks like that made her happy. Well, I'll be counting on you to guard against Succubi, alright?