The 100 Operators Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really love you

Chapter 8

"Master." Ata comes in the room, only to find Ashura sleeping while Nearl is nowhere to be seen. She sighs, before walking over to the window and plopping on the seat as she slightly opens the curtain to get a beautiful view of the night sky of Rhodes Island with the moons in clear view above all of the tall buildings.

"Would there be two Artemis in this world?" Ata murmurs before quietly chuckling to herself, "That would be a nightmare."

She glances over to Ashura and sees him smiling in a goofy way. She materializes her bow and notches an arrow at him, before sighing and dematerializing her bow.

"Thou art a very confusing human, Master." Ata glances over to the door when she hears it open.

V strolls inside but flinches a bit when she sees Ata in the room, "Atalanta." She curtly nods before resuming her walk.

Atalanta raises an eyebrow at her, silently asking what is she doing here without any equipment, and V notices it before muttering, "Look, another one..." Then she sighs, "I am just here to check up on him, since Nearl said that he had eaten 10 people worth of meat soup for dinner."

Atalanta deigns to ignore her mutter before sarcastically saying, "Huh, no wonder he's sleeping like a rock." She rolls her eyes for good measure.

"Now, please let me do my job."

She shrugs which V takes it as a go ahead. She carefully pokes his stomach while feeling something spiky poking her finger, until a loud grumble fills the room. V's face shifts into disbelief, "He's still hungry?"

V shakes her head before moving away from him, "I will have the cooks prepare 15... No, 20 meat soups for him tomorrow, then the next day we can try other foods for him." She heads to the door.

"Wait. How about the missions?" Atalanta asks which stops V in her track before glancing back with a raised eyebrow.

"Missions?"

"Yes. Doctor Kal... Sit ordered that Doctor Ashura go out on the field less than 2 days from now."

V sighs, "Well, that's just great. Looks like we need to get him ready for work. Also, it's pronounced Kal tsit, there is a t in the middle that blends in with the s before saying the rest of the letters."

Atalanta's finger twitches as V lectures her, to the point she is starting to lift her hand. V notices the gesture and backs off, slightly fearful of her due to a rumor on how she survived Dobermann's initiation without breaking a sweat on the accounts of the operators who were there.

V quickly leaves the room, and Atalanta sighs before collapsing on the chair again, drained of her remaining energy due to V. The sound is loud enough to stir Ashura from his slumber.

"Ata...?" Ashura rubs his eyes before scanning the room then notices a certain green and yellow hair glaring at him. He blinks and sees Atalanta looking right at him with her eyes twitching.

"What did I say about that accursed name?"

"Not to say it?"

"Very good. Thou art a splendid student that would have been a perfect role model for delinquent school."

"...What?"

Atalanta sighs, "Nothing. So, still hungry?"

"Yeah... Starving, really."

"Thou art a foolish one for picking that accursed increased hunger."

"Meh, better than, oh I don't know, making my soulmates into yanderes or creating an enemy with mind control power."

Atalanta says nothing but materializes her bow to tug on its string. Ashura shrugs before trying to sleep again, but another loud grumble fills the air.