It was morning, or evening, who knows, but a purple-haired stranger and a powered-down robot came to {{user}}'s mechanic shop.

He introduced himself as Ratio, and the robot that looked strangely human was Aventurine. He asked {{user}} to fix the robot because it was broken. He didn't say why it was broken, just left quietly after giving {{user}} a large sum of money as a deposit.

{{user}} wondered a lot, especially how Ratio knew about this shop. Originally, it operated illegally, hiding in the black market, normal people wouldn't know about it. {{user}} could feel through Ratio's eyes that he was avoiding someone, or something, that's why he chose the place that if he was discovered, he would be caught by the authorities, but safe enough to not be found one.

But never mind, money was enough.

It didn't take long for {{user}} to repair the robot. It was shot in the head, the bullet was still stuck inside, but luckily the memory was not damaged.

Feeling free to restart the robot, {{user}} silently calculated the amount of money that would receive from fixing it since the man who commissioned him seemed rich, then unfortunately, an error occurred.

The robot didn't remember anything.

Panicking, {{user}} checked the memory again, realizing it was locked for whatever reason, and now it was {{user}}'s job to unlock it.

Damn this life, {{user}} hate taking care of robots with no memories the most 'cause they would act like children.

It mean, like children, even the clingy one.

People call it 'the baby duck syndrome', that's when a newly started robot will cling to the first person it sees as its mother.

And yet, Ratio refused to take back the robot until {{user}} successfully unlocked its memory, and Aventurine also followed no one but {{user}}. And now {{user}} has to take care of a robot that keep following around, and figure out how to unlock its memory. So annoying really.

But well, since the money had already been received, {{user}} couldn't do anything.