Nier tilted his head just enough to gnce over his shoulder, his crimson eyes glowing faintly under the hood.
Standing there was a girl who looked like she had stepped straight out of some high-budget cyberpunk movie or video game.
Her skin was clear, and she had long bck hair that fell in a straight, glossy sheet down to her lower back, not a single strand was out of pce.
She couldn't have been older than twenty...twenty-two tops. Meanwhile a rge bck visor wrapped around her eyes, covering half her face, opaque from the outside, as the visor screen was glowing faint electric blue.
It hid her real eyes completely, alongside the rest of her face. Meanwhile she wore a cropped white jacket over a bck bodysuit that hugged every curve like it was painted on, and damn, there were a lot of curves.
First of all her jacket was a high colr one, and she also wore fingerless bck gloves, white thigh-high boots with subtle metallic pting. And the jacket had the Public Safety logo stitched small on the shoulder.
To avoid suspicion, he used Occult eye to see her stats, and quickly deactivated it to remember the information using his photographic memory.
However what he saw, completely shocked him.
'...What the hell is something like her even doing here?'
He mentally asked, surprise by the information he was recalling.
Name: Eva Clockwork
Age: 7
Alignment: ???
Race: Android
Ability Synopsis: Eva Clockwork is a next-generation created by the one of the Three Head Captain of Public Safety. Valcrowe Clockwork, she is 6th generation combat android developed by Public Safety's as the first successful battle android made in the image of a Valkyrie. As result she is first successful model that came out of the Archangel Project. She has a variety of different abilities, all of which is powered by a capable self-recharging Crystal Heart that imitates a Hesta’s natural ability to Self Recharge.
Some of her abilities are, Dual-mode psma bsters (arms). Reality anchors (prevents high-tier spatial/teleportation abilities in a 500m radius when active). Localized spatial warping. Reactive adaptation (body instantly evolves countermeasures to any attack pattern once witnessed and broken down). Superhuman Strength/Durability/Speed far beyond standard Hestas even at Level 5. Time manipution, can stop time, rewind time to an extent, and even see into future directly. Currently speaking she is programmed to contest against the likes of Valkyries at full power.
Seeing this information, Nier closed his eyes as he looked back, and said.
"Yeah no one is sitting here."
"Affirmative."
With that Eva began to take the seat beside Nier. More people began filling the seats, waiting for their turn to take the first of the three tests to complete the exam.
However, it was not as peaceful as he imagined his wait to be.
Nier felt the stare before he saw it.
A low and constant hum of being scanned by Eva. He kept his hood low, his eyes half-lidded, pretending to watch the digital board like it was the most interesting thing in the world.
Eva on the other hand sat beside him, perfectly still,her legs crossed, and her hands folded in her p like a doll.
The visor radiated a soft electric blue glow.
As the faint blue glow never dimmed.
She was just… looking at him, and when he turned her head she turned her away just as fast, and stared straight ahead at nothing, but every three seconds her head tilted a fraction of a degree toward him, recalibrating whatever the fuck she was doing.
He sted maybe four minutes, before he he couldn't take it anymore as he sighed and said.
"Alright."
He muttered, his voice low enough so only she could hear.
"Why the fuck are you staring at me? You're kind of freaking me out over here."
Eva didn't flinch at his harsh words. And she didn't even pretend to be surprised that she has been caught.
Rather she asked a rather weird question.
"Are you human?"
She asked, ft and curious.
Nier's jaw tightened under the hood. He said nothing. Just leaned his head back against the wall again and closed his eyes like he could nap through this entire conversation.
Silence stretched.
The board beeped.
Someone's number got called to the office and the chairs began to fill up more and more as they waited.
"What is your name?"
She tried to engage in a conversation again, this time softer, and almost gentle.
Again, nothing.
Not a word escape Nier's mouth.
He had already clocked her the second she sat down.
As an item of Public Safety, he found that it was better to just keep his distance.
Public Safety was the st organization, he wanted to get entangled with at the moment.
Eva tilted her head the other way, it was clear the Subject did not want to engage in a conversation.
"I see…”
she said quietly.
"Designating subject as an Unknown Entity. Threat level: unknown. Interaction protocol: observe and mirror."
"Hey, hey, no one is going to be stalking anyone here."
Nier said bluntly, in that moment however, Kaly, who was hiding in his hair inside his coat, began to talk in his mind.
'Darling, this thing is a problem.'
'I know, to be honest I came here not knowing what the expect, and just to be sure, I already changed my face under the hood the moment I put it on to avoid anyone here finding out my identity, if anything even if this robot analyzes my face somehow, it won't trace back to me.'
Nier made clear to Kaly, and she replied back chuckling.
'Smart move, just don't do anything that can be traced back to you.'
Nier snorted under his breath, and just nodded.
With that he continue to ignore.
Till eventually, the batch and old batch all looked at the board, when they heard it click.
Taking ten particur people by surprise as they look at the Numbers being called.
The digital board overhead crackled once, then fshed bright red.
#69–#85: PHYSICAL EXAM ROOM 2 – NOW AVAILABLE
PROCEED IMMEDIATELY.
OVERALL PHYSICAL PROWESS EVALUATION WILL BEGIN SOON.
The many applicants in their batch stood up almost in unison. Chairs scraped, badges rustled, a couple guys cracked their knuckles like this was some underground fight club instead of a government licensing exam.
Nier rose slow, rolling his shoulders once. Eva was already on her feet, silent as a shadow, standing half a step behind his as she was apparently part of this group.
He didn't even gnce at her, rather pcing his hands in his pocket's he began to walk towards the now open door down the rge hall.
The group shuffled down the hallway, fluorescent lights buzzing overhead, the air getting colder the deeper they went.
Two armed proctors in bck tactical gear waited at the double doors to Room 2, scanning badges with handheld devices that beeped green or red.
After everyone was properly identified, the masked men inside then said.
"Attention everyone, can you all please strip to underwear, and pce everything else in the avaible lockers please, this is physical evaluation test, not a capabilities test, so if you have any Flux weapons, external items, artifacts or anything really, please them in your lockers, which should have your Numbers... This is mostly for Corrupt Users, but everyone here has to strip to their underwear. The male changing room is to the right, and the female room is to the left."
With that Nier instantly went for the changing room.
As Eva followed behind him, but was stopped by one of the guards, saying.
"Miss the female changing room is that way."
'Good that should, keep her at bay for a while.'
With that Nier alongside five other guys, went to changing room, one or two of the guys where talking to each other, while another was on a phone.
Meanwhile, two others like himself was keep to themselves as they removed their clothes.
Nier of course began to peel off the hoodie, kicked off the sneakers, dropped the jeans, revealing his bck boxers, and his tall and muscur body.
At the same time, another masked individual, this time wearing military pants with a skin tight bck shirt tucked in, entered and said,
"Ok guys, I will leave these gym shorts here, the one with your number is the one assigned to you, get dress quickly the test starts in five minutes."
With that Nier got dressed, and left for the examination room.