Qualia was called to the bathing area again, so once again, he stood in front of the warm swaying water, fully clothed.
And his eyes were shut tightly to avoid the risk of seeing a naked girl.
“You really came here wearing clothes…! But you have your eyes closed like a gentleman…! Nothing about this sight feels right…! I don’t even know where to begin…!”
It was not just Spirito. Lobelia was also in the bath, close to collapsing from laughing too much.
Qualia could tell by the sound of fabric rustling and the sound of the surface of the water that neither girl was wearing anything more than a towel.
“Request explanation. Why is Lobelia also here?”
“Hn? This is my house. At the very least, let me take a bath when I want. Do you have a problem with me?”
“…It’s been a while but… Are you still growing?”
Unlike Spirito, who stared at her sister’s busty chest in the bath with a disagreeable look on her face and worried that the towel might fall off her regrettable chest, Lobelia stretched her arms and enjoyed the bath, completely unconcerned about a boy being present.
“I invited Ina too, because I wanted the sight of three girls bathing to rip that iron mask off your face. Does she hate showing her tail that much?”
“No, she just has shame, unlike you, big sister.”
“Mu… Ina was always with Qualia back in their old house, right? It wouldn’t be out of the question for certain misunderstandings to happen when you’re always around a beautiful girl, right?”
Lobelia asked with a curious look on her face as she looked up at Qualia. But she soon changed the subject to get to the main point.
“So? Why did you call Qualia to a female sanctuary?”
Much like the previous day, Spirito wanted to have a frank conversation with Qualia about something important.
She took a deep breath, and talked to Qualia, whose eyes were closed but whose ears were open.
“Qualia, I give up.”
That was the moment Qualia was authorized to start working as a member of Hello world.
But Qualia, who felt no joy or sorrow, simply looked for the meaning behind those words.
“Error. This contradicts the fact that you did not say ‘I give up’ during the previous mock battle.”
“After seeing you fight the fifth division of Troy, I accept you. How’s that?”
The reason mattered little. Spirito accepted Qualia, that was all there was to it.
“Understood. Acknowledged ‘I give up’.”
“But I’m still your teacher and you’re still my pupil. That didn’t change.”
She crossed her arms in the water that was forty degrees Celsius, showing at least some pride.
Still, Qualia only looked at things rationally and had no concept of that kind of hierarchical relationship, so he had no reason to say no. He needed Spirito’s combat data, and hearing her say ‘I give up’ did not change that.
“Affirmative. Request mock battles tomorrow.”
“Just watch. You’ll be the one saying you give up tomorrow.”
“But there is a specific time. Qualia is going to study the geographical data of the capital tomorrow morning. Therefore, the mocked battles will have to be in the afternoon.”
“So you’re going on a date with Ina and help her shopping.”
Explained Lobelia while laughing a little.
“Error. ‘Date’ is registered as a word to mark days.”
“No, that’s not it.”
Spirito let out an incredulous sound, and although Qualia could not see it, her face was twitching.
Lobelia smiled awkwardly, but decided to explain it to Qualia, as her senior when it came to being human.
“Basically, it means that you, as a boy, have to make sure Ina has a ‘tasty face’. I don’t like boys that abandon girls.”
“Qualia’s role is to create ‘tasty faces’. That is the most important objective at any time.”
“I wonder if you really understand. Girls don’t necessarily follow logic, you know?”
Mumbled Lobelia with her arms on the edge of the bath.
She looked at Qualia’s closed eyes, feeling both amused and a little worried.
Qualia was more interested in making a proposal to Spirito, now that his restriction from working as a member of Hello world had been lifted.
“Proposal. Spirito, Qualia recommends that you take up a role in Hello World. With your combat potential and reliability, the results of the activities of Hello World can be maximized.”
Spirito shot down that idea without hesitating, but there was some hope in her smile as she continued.
“I think with the creation of Hello World, Lobelia will continue to expand her self-interested relationships. That means I have to stay with her as her guard. I’ll watch over her to protect her from assassins and make sure she doesn’t overdo it.”
Spirito stood up from the bath, and faced Qualia directly.
There was a thirty centimeter height distance between them, and although he could not see anything, he could smell the scent of soap near his chest.
However, what he could not detect, was the dripping Spirito blushing because she was self-conscious about wearing nothing but a towel.
“A-as long as you are under my sister’s command, you’re going to have to fight a lot of times while also having to be conscious of her. But I’ll fulfill that role, so give Hello World your full focus… As your teacher, I won’t tolerate anything half-hearted.”
“Understood. Thank, you.”
Qualia felt like he was groping in the dark, as he looked for the appropriate words to use as a person. The artificial intelligence was still not used to this.
At this point, Lobelia relaxed, feeling like things had settled down. For the time being anyway.
Now it was time to heal and unwind in the bath.
“And you’re really not going to open your eyes, are you? You know you have two beautiful girls bathing in front of you, right? We are wrapped in towels, but a chance like this doesn’t come every day. And no one’s going to berate you or anything if you open your eyes.”
“Well, I don’t really want him to, but…”
Qualia then recited the exact same thing he said to Spirito the previous day, without opening his eyes or seeing her struggle to keep the towel on.
“Negative. Opening eyes would lead to seeing you naked. That would be a detrimental action for you, girls.”
“…He really doesn’t seem interested in seeing girls naked. You have a pretty androgynous face, so could it be that you’re actually a girl?”
“Error. Qualia is classified as male.”
Among the things Qualia learned in the magic books in the Sandbox mansion, female anatomy was one of them. But that did not activate a libido function.
Back when he was an artificial intelligence, in a world made for machines, there was nothing like charm to seduce and change calculations and decisions. In the first place, artificial intelligence had no gender, and did not have the instincts to create offspring.
That was also why the concept of a date did not exist in Qualia’s mind.
“Lobelia, let’s not push any more. I didn’t call him here to do something boorish like seduce him in the first place. I wanted to speak naked to thank him, so… Ah.”
And then, something happened that went beyond even Qualia’s optimized solutions.
The exhaustion from Kaitou Ranma made Spirito lose strength in her knees, just a little.
“Wah, oh no.”
As a result, the girl whose height did not quite reach a hundred and forty centimeters slipped, and her small slender body left the floor for a moment.
“Updating optimized solution.”
Qualia sensed an abnormality in Spirito and took action, which involved abandoning what was the optimized solution, and opening his eyes.
Basically, he held Spirito on her shoulder blades and around her butt, and finally saw what was in front of him.
The unknown world just barely blocked by the towel spread throughout his vision and sense of touch.
“Error… Error… Error…”
Qualia learned libido.
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Yep, Same with AI learning, you can teach them how to lewd.