Chapter 78: Energetic Friday
"Awake?" Ade looked at the pretty-faced blonde girl who just opened her eyes, "Hello, I rescued you after your MS crashed, and in exchange, I want to get some information from you, so can we have a calm and peaceful talk?"
"Hey? Who are you? Where is this?" The blonde girl found her hands were tied separately, she struggled but could not move, stomped angrily, "Let go of me now! What do you call this a calm and peaceful talk?!"
"Don't be in a hurry, let's take it one problem at a time." Ade sat down neatly on the flat wooden stake, "First of all, my name is Adrien Lingus, you may have seen me in the news media. What's your name?"
"Huh? Never heard of it, are you famous? And why should I tell you what my name is?" The blonde girl continued to struggle restlessly, trying to untie the ropes, "Enough about that, get off me! You didn't do anything to me, did you?"
"Refuse to answer? Then let's call you Friday." Ade looked at her sincerely, "As for why I tied you up, it's because firstly, you have a gun on you, which of course is now confiscated by me, and secondly, you have muscles in your arms and thighs that could kill a cow with one punch. I tied you up for your own safety, and I will let you go immediately after making sure you are not hostile. And I purposely chose a position that is more comfortable when tied up, to show my sincerity."
"Th, things, thighs …!" The blonde girl's face was red with shame, and she glared at him viciously, so excited that she started struggling again, "Pervert! And what's Friday? I'm not Friday! Why don't you call yourself Friday?!"
"I just saved your life, and what's this attitude now? Besides, don't you find that your clothes are all intact? Don't wrong a good man, okay?" Ade looked at the blonde girl speechlessly and shook his head, "and your… this clothes … driving clothes? Why is it designed to be so erotic? What kind of r18 anime did you run away from?"
"Erotic, erotic, erotic …!" The blonde girl instantly shrunk her body into a ball, afraid of going naked, but her eyes are still fierce, "Beast!"
"From the beginning, you have been shouting and refusing to talk, it seems impossible to talk with you. Let's talk after you've calmed down." Ade got up and left, leaving the blonde girl alone. "I'll be back for you in an hour."
"Stop right there!" The blonde yelled, "Let go of me! It's dangerous to be tied up here!"
He ignored the blonde girl and left her field of vision without looking back. The young girl was actually tied up not far from him, he sat down and listened to the voices over there, the young girl shouted for a while longer before she finally quieted down.
"Ade, this woman is inexplicable." Alice's image appeared on the phone screen, "Savage and violent, completely incomparable to Miss C.C. and Miss Lacus. It seems that she is not a good person to talk to."
"That's right, I've never seen any woman like her." He agreed, "When you find yourself tied up, you should first calm down and try to communicate in this situation, right? What's her attitude? She was like Stella when she didn't eat the drug. No, Stella is much cuter than she is, her character is not worthy of her good face!"
"Well, well!" Alice smiled happily, "Ade, you did the right thing! I strongly support you!"
So he chatted with Alice for about an hour, and by the time he got back, the blonde girl had completely quieted down. When she wasn't making a scene, she was still very good-looking, but unfortunately, when she opened her mouth, it was all ruined.
"Hello, Miss Friday." He sat down in the seat opposite the young girl, "Can we have a little chat now? You see, I mean you no harm, I just want to get some information."
"I'm sorry, I was the one who was rude before." The blonde girl suddenly bowed her head with an elegant gesture and apologized, "This attitude towards the rescuer is really too rude, please forgive me for the savagery I showed out of panic. This is very uncomfortable, may I ask if you can untie me? I promise not to be rude to you again."
Her transformation surprised Ade. Though bound, her talk and grooming were that of a highly educated person, so it's a girl of high society origin? Well, at least educated people are easier to communicate with.
Considering the possibility that she was acting, Ade first cut the rope of one of her hands. The moment the girl could move, she swiftly grabbed the knife, cut the rope of the other hand, and then cut Ade's hands behind his back. The whole process was completed in less than two seconds.
Ade only felt a blur in front of his eyes, and then was subdued, can only let out humiliating sounds of "Ouch ouch ouch ouch! Pain pain pain pain!".
"How dare you tie me up, beast!" The blonde girl twisted his arm a few more times to vent her anger.
"But I did not do anything, right? I saved you, and is this what you do to your saver?" Ade grimaced in pain, "Ouch! It's going to dislocate!"
The young girl hesitated for a moment, pushed him aside, and said in a fierce accent, "I don't need your help! I can live well alone! And my name is not Friday!"
And with that, she turned her head and ran away.
"So what the hell is wrong with this woman? She is simply inexplicable!" Ade rubbed his knuckles and looked at each other with Alice.
"Ade, this woman is too dangerous!" Alice's voice was horrible, "Just finish her off. Leave it to me, I can solve her with one shot of VSBR. It won't make her feel pain."
"VSBR is too much." He just thought Alice was joking, "Let's observe first."
After that, Ade stayed far behind the blonde girl, who found her MS first and rummaged around in the cockpit.
"She didn't prepare water, food, tools, or anything in the cockpit." Ade watched her, "Doesn't she know that herself?"
"It means she has neither intelligence nor memory." Alice analyzed, "There is no need to pass on the genes of such a waste yet."
The young girl who got nothing next went into the forest and started looking for water and food. Obviously, she has no wilderness survival experience, wandering around with no goal, and the eatable things around had long been harvested by Ade, so she didn't find anything until the night.
According to Ade's speculation, from the morning attack until now, she should not eat nor drink anything, and the intense battle before consumed her a lot of energy. After a while, the girl began to walk unsteadily and her hands were shaking a bit, probably dehydration plus hypoglycemia. Desperate, she found a random place in the forest to sit down, looking at the sky, chanting something inaudible in her mouth.
"'I don't need your help. I can live well by myself', didn't you say so yourself?" Ade walked over to her and squatted down, "You see, you can't live alone, can you? You're too weak to find food and water, and without food and water, you'll be even weaker, and the next thing you know, it's a vicious circle."
"What are you doing here? Come to laugh at me?" The blonde girl looked at him stubbornly, "I can get along fine on my own without your help."
"Wow, that's a little impressive." Ade couldn't help but laugh out loud, "Then we'll see."
The next day, during the day, the girl again wandered around, not to mention food, she didn't even find water. She saw a few small animals, but small animals run fast, chasing them will only consume more of her energy. To his surprise, until the sun went down again, the young girl was already so weak that she had no energy to move, she still refused to ask him for help.
"Friday, do you need water?" Ade surrendered first, "You're already dehydrated, I'm not laughing at you."
"No need for you to be nosy, I can get along fine on my own." The young girl said breathlessly, "And my name isn't Friday."
"Well, then, I'll just have to wait until you die. It's rare to meet a girl with a good face plus a good body, I haven't seen a woman in a year. After you die, I can have a cum before your body becomes cold."
"You, you …!" The young girl suddenly became spiritual all of a sudden, "Nasty, perverted, heartless, beastly!"
Ade looked at her with a smile on his face.
The young girl deflated and sat back down powerlessly, "Please give me water and food."
"Good girl. Why don't you say it earlier?" He took out a bottle of nutrients and handed it to the young girl, "You have been hungry too long, you can't eat all of a sudden. Drink this, it can replenish water, sugar, multivitamins, and trace elements, It's Anaheim's nutrient, tastes good, you can trust it."
"Never heard of this brand." The young girl took the bottle and greedily gulped it down.
"People are social creatures, they can't live alone." Ade looked at the haggard look of the young girl with some compassion, "I do not know what you have been through, at least I can not be strong enough to live alone. Other than that, in case a satellite hits your head, you can't push it back alone, right?"
"You're full of clichés at a young age, and what the hell is pushing a satellite?" The blonde girl finished drinking in one gulp and looked at him with her hands down, "Also, I'm not human, I'm Norma."
"What is Norma?"
"… ha?"
An hour later.
"After all you've said, let's sort out this strange worldview." Ade and the young girl sat opposite each other, "Miss Friday, first of all, you are-"
"Ange." The young girl interrupted him, "I have a name, it's Ange, not Friday."
"Okay, Miss Friday, first of all, you're the princess of North Korea."
"Misurugi." Ange interrupted him again, "Not North Korea."
"Your country has a hereditary system, the people are extremely happy, the nation doesn't have internet, and you don't even know which countries are in the world?"
"… Hmm." Ange nodded awkwardly.
"That's right, first of all, you're the princess of North Korea." Ade continued on, "The people of your country have a superpower called 'the Light of Mana' that can communicate over long distances and create a special barrier, which is said to be the final form at the end of biological evolution?"
"That's right."
"NT plus AT field, it makes sense to be the final form of evolution." Ade muttered to himself, "Let's continue. You were found to have no superpowers, aka 'Norma', so you were sent to this place to kill dragons with other Normas?"
"That's it."
"The whole world is occupied by Norma, and Misurugi is the last place where the light of Mana shines, so the Federation Norma, Lunar Norma, and Satellite Norma sent dragons to attack Misurugi." Ade pointed to himself, "I am the Lunar Norma you speak of."
"No wonder that you are a so violent and disorderly creature." Ange nodded perceptively, "Otherwise, it would be impossible for a gentleman to do such a terrible thing to a lady."
"The farthest distance in the world is not the distance between life and death, nor is it the fact that I'm standing right in front of you and you don't know I love you, but the distance between Miss Friday and a lady."
"Hey? You, you love-" Ange blushed, then suddenly reacted, pointing at him and shouting, "What do you mean?!"
"Considering from the perspective of history, it's rather hard to deny that humans are violent and disorderly creatures." Ade completely ignored her, "But forcing people who have no Mana to fight dragons, which is equal to asking them to die… is this a behavior a good creature would do? Do you all believe in this?"
Ange's attention was successfully diverted and she lowered her head without speaking.
"It seems that the price for getting superpowers is part of your intelligence, but why did you pay the price even though you obviously don't have superpowers?" Ade made a puzzled look which successfully annoyed Ange, "That Para-mail (PM) you piloted is the only robot you've ever seen?"
"And that big white robot during the day, no more." Ange said without thinking, "That thing suddenly attacked us on our way back from the mission, and I lured it to this island, and you know all about the latter."
"So you sacrificed yourself to save your teammates?" Ade looked at her in surprise, "Just now, you obviously sounded like you hate your teammates, uh, tsundere?"
"Not at all!"
"Your country has no MS." Ade ignored her and made a silent note of that, "Anyway, believe it or not, I've never seen a dragon in my life, I've never even heard of one. The dragons are definitely not sent by us."
"Say what you will, it is a fact that we are hunting dragons."
"Forget it, let's not discuss this, I'll know when I see the dragon. Let's talk about you." Ade said in a serious tone, "Your current state, is a kind of self-loathing after being forced to admit the huge psychological and reality gap, hating teammates are the corresponding clinical manifestations. But you are so spirited now, you should be almost recovered from the symptom."
"None of your business!" Ange stared at him like a furious cat, and after a moment, she calmed down again, "Well, you're right, it's this sub right. I shouldn't have yelled at you, and you said that for my own good."
"It wasn't for your own good." Ade corrected sincerely, "So never mind, Friday, please keep being angry, that's what I'm here for."
"You!" Ange raised her right hand, hesitated for a moment, and then lowered it, "It looks like I'm tired of talking to you."
"It seems you've run out of energy for the day, so let's continue the discussion tomorrow." Ade pointed to the bed aside, "You can sleep here at night, there is a special guard around here, it is safe, I will go to sleep somewhere else."
"Well, where are you going?" Ange looked a little bashful.
"Just a short distance away, you need not fear either being alone or worrying about me."
"I'm neither afraid of being alone nor worrying about you! I don't feel safe with a man watching over me at night!" Ange then sighed, "I'm so tired, I'm really tired of talking to you."
"Anyway, that's it." Ade waved at her, "Good night, Friday."
"Ange! Not Friday!"
Ade ignored her again and went back to Hyzenthlays' cockpit, where Alice would keep watch for him for the night.
"Alice, look at my exquisite maneuvering." He said to Alice triumphantly, "Rescuing a self-destructive young girl, getting the needed information, while avoiding all possible bad ends in the process."
"Your understanding of avoiding bad ends is not quite the same as mine." Alice asked hesitantly, "And Ade, you seem to be happy about it?"
"Am I?" He touched his cheek, "Maybe. It's probably been 20 or 30 years since I've had a quarrel with someone, so I'm just a little nostalgic."
