Tsk, tsk. She is truly Cooper’s daughter. It’s an inherited darkness.

Her gloominess was extreme, but at the same time, it was adorable.

Stanley finished recounting the incident to Michael and lamented, “Uncle Michael, does Aunt have a grudge against me now?”

Michael snorted and said, “Seeing as how she didn’t use 502 Super Glue to seal your mouth, she still sees you as her beloved nephew. Relax.”

That put Stanley in even more despair. “What should I do, Uncle?”

“You have to be warier when you come to eat at my place in the future. She might put poison in the dishes and alcohol.”

Stanley was bewildered.

He only came back to his senses after a long while and realized, He’s practically telling me not to eat at their place anymore!

After Michael satisfied himself by scaring Stanley out of his wits, he hung up the phone. Looking at the time, he saw that she was going to be home soon and quickly left the office to greet the victor of that silent battle. Back at home, he prepared a festive dinner to welcome her with.

Watching the both of them intertwine and gush at each other as they went into the master bedroom and did not come back out, Nathan put down his bag and stormed off to look for Nicholas.

 

“Nicholas!” he yelled. When Nicholas did not show up, he started to grow frantic.

When Maria informed him that he found a broken Nicholas in the storage room. He glared at the door of the master bedroom once again. Without saying a word, he brought Nicholas out to let Linus have a look at him.

When he got to Linus’ front door, he kept knocking but no one answered. He lingered outside with his broken robot for a while, looking very miserable. Just as he was about to leave, however, the door opened.

Nathan was elated and started to push Nicholas into Linus’ house.

But the person who greeted him was not Linus; it was the stranger he met the other day.

It was the man he had seen in photos at the entrance of the military compound and on the photo wall in Mark’s home.

first glance, Fass could tell that something was wrong with Nicholas,

nodded his head silently. His pitiful demeanor made

Nicholas. He looked fine on the outside, so something must have been damaged on

finger, a larger and more advanced robot walked out. “What can I do for

into

to the basement which was also where Linus’ workroom

owner of this house was an artist. The spacious basement was where he used to come up with his artistic creations, but now, it had been transformed into Linus’

into the basement, Nathan saw several robotic arms lift Nicholas onto the work table. After Fass changed into his workwear, he turned on all the lights that illuminated Nicholas and made every detail on his body

hat on Nicholas’ head, he had a feeling it looked rather familiar. Taking it down to look at it, he was taken aback, then a smile grew on his face. It was the same

year that he was born, he had fallen gravely ill. Woody had asked for an amulet for him and went to look for Mark, his godfather, to save him. Woody took his

from somewhere else, but it was said to have belonged to a child who had been free from illnesses or pain ever since he was little, and had grown

enough, he miraculously recovered

anymore. Mark took it

Indeed, it was destiny.

the tiger hat down and put it on

head to look at him; his round

not resist caressing his little head, then he gently nudged him away. “Stand back,

stepped away obediently and found somewhere far away to watch

internal parts carefully. The system automatically analyzed Nicholas’ damaged condition

Fass and quickly made Nicholas into a pile of disassembled pieces. Finally, he could

this be repaired

be done with

do it manually,

tools the robotic arm passed to him. After backing up Nicholas’ data, they replaced his motherboard along with the other internal

downloaded the data back into him. A new feature was even created and they added a few colors that

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