Asobi ni iku yo (completed 6/6)

I am volunteering

ASOBI NI IKU YO

Capítulo 3: I am volunteering

After the girls congratulated me, we went back to Kio's house. As I had predicted, the house was a mess (even more so). They'd gone all over the place looking for anything that might be useful to them.

Kio ran to his room and screamed.

The girls and I ran to see what was going on, thinking that maybe Kio had met one of the government agents.

"Kio, you're all right?!" shouted Eris, worried.

Kio turned around and I could see that he was as red as a tomato and with tears peeking through his eyes.

"What? They took all your adult magazines," said Manami with a face of few friends.

Aoi, suddenly she ran to her room and we all followed her. Unlike Kio, she had not shouted, but she had remained stiff and with an expression of desolation on her face.

"My videos and my mangas..."

Apparently they had taken everything from Aoi's room, including her clothes. Manami ran to her room and I heard her curse all over the place. I approached Aoi and consoled her as best I could, and I was sorry to know that her entire collection was gone, I too would be shocked.

"I don't understand, they also took our laptops and tablets, even our underwear!" shouted Manami indignantly.

"Maybe they thought you could hide something inside the fibers of the clothes, so they emptied the whole house, they just left the money," I told them.

"Good thing Dr. Durel took the Captain to the ship, otherwise we'd have to put her on the ground," said Eris sadly.

We all remained silent, seeing what had once been a furnished house, they had taken everything, the flower pots, the paintings, the furniture, the mattresses and the sheets.

"Kio, I'm sorry, it's our fault that your whole house was ransacked," Eris apologized sadly.

"Don't worry, Eris, it's just material things, they can be replaced."

"Kio!" Eris exclaimed and hugged the boy. Manami and Aoi didn't look happy.

We tried to fix the place up as best we could, but it was a good thing that we had the asistedroids to help us, and in the end the house was cleared of debris and the embassy wall was repaired.

I thanked the asistedroids and they put up posters answering me.

"Hey, the kanji are difficult guys," I told them and they changed the writing on their posters to hiraganas and katakanas.

"Nope, sorry guys, couldn't you write in English or Spanish?"

The asistedroids stood still for a moment to download the software and then showed me posters in Spanish and English.

"Thanks a lot, guys, that's much better" I thanked them with a smile, but at the same time I wondered why the hell they didn't have a programming and a voice function. That would certainly make things much easier.

"That's because voice functions are considered to be something that would greatly humanize the asistedroids and lead to emotional conflicts with them," Eris explained to me once I told her about my doubts about our little friends. I wanted to know more about these emotional conflicts with the asistedroids, and Eris with some grief informed me how things didn't go very well with the early models of asistedroids who had a more humanoid form.