"Hihihi! You're so adorable, Ves! You're so warm, soft, comfy and cute!"
Gloriana snuggled against Ves' comatose body in her bunny pajamas as she woke up. She kissed her boyfriend's cheek before licking it like an ice cream cone.
Of course, Ves happened to wear a matching set of pajamas, courtesy of his girlfriend!
Several weeks after the nearly-botched operation, Ves was recovering according to schedule.
Though the newly-installed Archimedes Rubal bioimplant still needed to settle in, the gradual process of integration went smoothly without any complications.
Dr. Ranya no longer needed to observe his condition night and day. After guiding the connectors of the implant to connect to the right lobes and sections of the recipient's brain, the rest was just a matter of time.
This allowed Gloriana to take Ves away from the infirmary and put him in her bed in her stateroom aboard the Stellar Chaser.
"Miaow."
"Meow."
Nyaaaa.
No one stopped Ves from being used as a living doll by his girlfriend, not Nitaa, not her Glory Warriors nor their cats!
In fact, two of the three cats snuggled comfortably on Ves' body. Lucky and Clixie practically treated his belly like their nest!
There was just one problem with this situation.
Ves was not unconscious anymore!
Sure, his body may still be as limp as a noodle, but his independent consciousness had transcended his physical state!
With the help of a crude spiritual eye, Ves was able to observe the material realm in an entirely new fashion!
His eye, shaped like a miniature version of an optical sensor of a mech, was capturing the full details of his body being treated like a cuddle toy!
"Really, Gloriana, can't you wait until I'm awake?!"
Of course, Gloriana couldn't hear him at all, though Ves could probably find a way to connect with her and communicate with her through some spiritual means.
He didn't want to, though.
Since no one knew he had regained his 'consciousness', Ves figured he might as well take advantage of his state!
He never thought about it before, but observing reality through his Spirituality was a very good way to spy on other people!
Though he wasn't able to extend his spiritual projections too far away from his body, it was enough to extend it to another room or compartment!
Walls, shields and other technological barriers posed no hindrance to his spiritual projections!
"Well, that's not entirely true."
Ves guessed that the Big Two and other advanced states and organizations definitely developed technology to guard against spiritual intrusions.
The Five Scrolls Compact and anyone adept in spiritual sorcery could probably school him in this field.
Therefore, while his trick was fairly impressive, Ves did not dare to make brazen use of this ability to spy on others!
At the very least, he should make sure to never use it around the MTA and the CFA!
Fortunately, his body was aboard the Stellar Chaser, so Ves did not have to restrain himself.
The Golden Cat, who was comfortably perched inside the Larkinson Mandate, was the only one in the compartment who could view his spiritual manipulation.
Nyaaaa.
"Don't tell anyone, Goldie. I want to see how everyone acts when they think I'm not around. By the way, can you teach me how to perceive sound?"
Nyaa.
Goldie freely showed him the ropes.While Gloriana finally emerged from her bed in order to shower and dress herself up, Ves patiently attempted to construct a 'spiritual ear'.
Since Ves already comprehended some of the fundamentals of the spiritual eye technique, he caught on very quickly.
In particular, once he stopped treating the spiritual ear like a biological organ and started to treat it like a spiritual auditory sensor, he managed to construct a very basic but functional ear.
While he hadn't figured out advanced features like stereo or positional hearing, that could wait for later. Simply being able to interpret sound waves through spiritual means was quite a breakthrough!
"Is this what spiritual engineering is like?" He wondered.
Constructing a spiritual eye and ear was anything but straightforward. Yet it shared many of the same rules and paradigms as traditional engineering.
Ves became more and more interested in whether he could translate more of his mech designer abilities to the spiritual arena.
In fact, this was the entire reason why he decided to go through with implanting the Archimedes Rubal to begin with! While he regretted the fact that he lost patience and decided to undergo the operation while his enemies were waiting to pounce on him, what was done was done.
While Ves did not care that much about the deaths of nameless mech pilots, his heart bled at the loss of more than a dozen valuable clansmen.
"The Larkinsons are still disgruntled, but for now they are waiting for us to fulfill our promises. There is still a strain of clansmen who have already decided to leave the clan once we rendez-vous with the remnants of the Larkinson Family." frёewebnoѵēl.com
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