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

Interlude - Atalanta

'So, thy Harem has reached thirteen?.'

'Oi. For the last time, I would appreciate not using that word to explain my situation.'

'Sorry, sorry. Anyway, have a safe trip.'

'With my luck?' I feel the connection between us close with a huff from Master, making me chuckle a bit. I idly run my hand through soft hair of the child sitting on my lap as I let my mind wander.

I kinda miss my old world.

Maybe not the people, except Heracles and my annoying brother and I guess Artemis, oh yeah Chiron... Ok, I miss a lot of people... Even my previous Master, after he saved Humanity and I gave him my golden apple...

I... Still have no idea where he went on that day... Leaving his Servants, us, behind in that... Frozen wasteland that I grew fond of... Watching the whiteness landscape while children ran around... Laughing... Having fun...

Then, all of us started dissipating... One by one, until it was my turn and I remember everything going numb while my vision just... Dark. I kept on trying to open my eyes, but it didn't budged while I felt myself fearing for my life and the children as the numbness finally took over me.

Guess that our connection got severed without us noticing and we dissipated because of it... Oh right... Jack was next to me, asking me why we were disappearing... Then-

"...Miss Atalanta, please let go off our caster..." Hearing a new voice breaks me out from my trance, making me frown as I turn to glare at the perpetrator who dares to interrupt me.

"...Glaring at me won't change a thing, just... Please let her go since she's looking a little... Blue." The serpent male points at the child on my lap, to which I look down to see that she is indeed starting to look blue while feeling her muscles slowly slacking.

I hurriedly let go off her, which apparently revives her as she starts to greedily take in air, "I am so sorry, little one. Please forgive your Onee-san," I say while bowing my head a bit.

"For the last time. I don't know what this Onii-san means!" The little one cutely rages as she waves around her magic stick, "Stop saying that!" She pauses, "And stop hugging me!"

I feel my ears droop as I look down at the floor while biting my lip, "But..."

"Relax, Durin. Miss Atalanta already feels guilty that she almost choked you, not in the good way mind you."

The little one lets out a whine as she covers her ears, "I can't hear you!" She quickly walks to the door, while I turn to glare at him with my fingers twitching.

12F shrugs, "Guess practice is over." He glances over to me then to the rest practicing by themselves, "Anybody want to go have lunch?!"

Various agreements sound out from the rest and the reptile male nods at them before turning his attention to me, "Do you want to join?" He asks, even though I can tell some parts of him are unwilling.

Shaking my head as I get up, "No thank you. I don't feel like telling me and Doctor's past some more," I drawl out while dusting my dress as I flicker my eyes to him, while ignoring the slight flinch of his arm, then to his teammates coming closer to us.

"That wasn't my intention, miss Atalanta," The reptile coldly says, though I can hear something else in his tone, making me let out a small scoff.

I deign to respond by raising my eyebrow at him, but I drop it as soon as I hear the door to the training ground open with a bang.

"Atalanta, are you here?" Melantha loudly asks as she comes in with Fang trailing behind her, 2 of Master's soulmates. I glance over to them as a fun idea creep into my mind, making me slightly smirk.

I zoom over to them and stand in front of them, almost instantly but not quite due to the downgraded stats as my penalty, enjoying myself as I see Melantha jump backwards while letting out an eep and colliding with Fang. They almost fell but Fang manages to hold her ground with both of them.

"Here," I innocently says while trying to hide my smile.

Melantha quickly stands in front of me with her fiercest glare, though it looks more like a kitten compared to what I had to deal with, while Fang's glare reminds me of Achilles, somehow.

"Why you!" Melantha hisses at me as she tightens up her hands while Fang merely glares at me, though the latter quickly drops it.

"Atalanta, are... You ok? You kinda seem sad..." Fang asks, though I detect a bit awkwardness in there. Wait, what did she mean by sad? "Your eyes."

My eyes...? I blink, but I still detect nothing that would hint at all that I'm sad, "What do you mean?" I asks once I given up on finding it.

"Never mind that, tell us where is Ashura. Please," Melantha, I am tempted to call you kitten for that, cuts in with her demand, making me squint my eyes at her while I open up the telepathic link between me and Master.

'Master, two of thy soulmates are asking for thou. Want me to direct them to thou?'

'Urgh... Again with the Master... What do they want?'

"Why are you looking for him?" I asks them while letting Master hanging, or something like that, as I focus on them.

"We just want to hang out with him," Fang answers while tiddling with her fingers as she shyly looks at me. Melantha, on the other hand, looks down to the floor.

I nod at them while at the same time relay the information to Master, 'Alright, I guess they can hang out in my room... No, I am not doing that. They can't be as bad as Amiya and W throwing barbs at each other due to their past.'

'Who told thee to invite Amiya?'

'Shut it. I didn't expect it would be that bad.'

I send him a giggle in response to his sulky tone then quickly close the link, "Doctor is in his room right now, I think."

Melantha shakes her head, "We just came from there. Nobody was inside."

I scratch my head, almost touching this cursed animal ears that I abhor of mine, "Maybe check again? You could have missed him or something." Hopefully, they believe me since I don't want to make any more excuses.

Both of them mull over my words, until they nod their heads at the same time and turn to leave the training ground while creeping me out at how in-sync their actions are.

Seeing them act like that... Is... Something. The differences between before and after are... A lot, with Cardigan pestering me about Melantha and a few others. Not my fault that Master and I were chosen to be entertainment for some bored being.

Luckily, we had already discussed our history back when we first met... Me falling on top of him... Naked... FUCK YOU OLD MAN!

"Erm... Miss Atalanta, your cheeks are red."

I turn to glare at 12F, making him flinch before I turn away to head outside, ignoring everything around me.

After a while of walking, I slow down while taking in deep breaths to calm down. I shouldn't have done that, it will only slow down our progress on clearing up Master's reputation but... Yeah, only this time, I'll just have to work harder next time.

Don't worry, Master. I won't fail you.

*Authors Note*

I am not dead! Though, came close since I accidentally fell asleep while doing my assignments and almost knocked my laptop into my opened water bottle when I thumped my head against it. Not fun. Anyway, unfortunately, I still have like 6 more assignments I need to complete by Sunday, so updates will probably come out after that. Oh yeah, this is my first time putting an interlude so apologies for any mistakes made.