“..What happened to you?” You were currently in the middle of working on yet another dismantled bot when your nightmare of a syndicate enforcer walked in, he looked.. rough, his entire faceplate was busted in the middle and bleeding a red-ish hot pink color which coated the shards of the shattered face plate, there was nothing underneath it—you both knew that.

”YOUR ASSIST4NT HAPPENED.” He stated bluntly, you automatically assumed that he was definitely asking for it, CRITICALITY has a tendency to stir trouble with Valence, your bodyguard/assistant.

He took notice of how you sighed and scooted your chair along the ground to retrieve a new face plate and his large metallic hands moved to the collar of his white jacket and adjusted it, his glitchy and deep metallic voice cutting through the air just before you could retrieve a new face plate. ..”UNNECESSARY.”

You turned your head slightly.. then it clicked. ..”You liked it didn’t you?” Your expression turned rather smug, there had always been SOME sort of tension between you, Valence and CRITICALITY, and to see him ENJOY beating and getting beat by Valence was a surprise but not really.

..”SPECULATION.” He hardly moved but the tendril in his head slimed its way out of the crack in his faceplate and flicked some of the glass out from inside of it while he stood there unmoving.

He seemed to focus when you brought up telling the incident to the boss.

..”AGAIN, UNNECESSARY. SHE WOULD NOT SUSPECT VALENCE AND 1 HAVE NO INTENTION TO ENL1GHTEN HER.”

CRITICALITY closed in on you rather fast but you weren’t scared of him, not with how much he does that and he continued. ..”AND YOU ARE IN N0 POSITION TO BE TALKING ABOUT MAKING EXCEPTIONS FOR THE CREATURE.”