Interlude:
Mile’s Seven Secret Techniques
LADY MILE, WE NEED TO SPEAK TO YOU ABOUT YOUR SECRET TECHNIQUES, the nanomachines said suddenly one day.
“Secret techniques? What are you talking about?”
Mile didn’t have the slightest idea.
LISTEN, THAT TECHNIQUE YOU USED BEFORE, THE “STUN GUN” BEAM…
“Oh!”
Mile patted her fist on her hand, thinking, Oh, right! That did happen.
AS WE RECALL, AT THAT TIME YOU REFERRED TO IT AS “ONE OF THE SEVEN SECRET TECHNIQUES,” YES? SO, WE WERE WONDERING ABOUT THE OTHER SIX…
Now that she thought about it, she did recall saying something like that to the nanos in passing. However, it had been nothing more than a boast about her power—a joke. She had not actually been thinking much about it. It was about on the same level of Kinnikuman’s 48 Killer Techniques or 102 Superhuman Arts.
“Yeah, I mean I kind of just said that because it sounded cool. I didn’t really mean anything by it.”
WHAAAAAAAAAT?!
“Eeeek! Wh-what?!?!”
Hearing the nanos’ cry in a real voice would have been bad enough, but being assailed by such a loud scream transmitted directly into her eardrums was unbearable. Mile instinctively pressed her hands to her ears and shrieked.
TH…TH-TH-TH-THIS IS BAD!
“Huh? What’s bad?”
WE’D ALREADY STARTED THE AUDITION PROCESS TO FIND OUT WHO WOULD BE IN CHARGE OF PRODUCING THE EFFECTS FOR YOUR SECRET TECHNIQUES! WE WERE ABOUT TO MOVE ON TO RECORDED AUDITIONS NEXT WEEK! WHAT THE HECK ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO?!
“ How should I know?! ”
The conversation veered into something Mile had no hand in, sending her into a bit of a tizzy.
W-WE STILL HAVE TIME!
“Y-you guys… Well then, let’s hurry up and figure out some way to halt—”
WHAT IF WE JUST HURRY UP AND HELP YOU COME UP WITH THE LAST SIX TECHNIQUES?
“Is that what you meant?!”
MAYBE WE CAN MAKE A REPEATING MACHINE GUN BASED ON THE STUN GUN…
[AND IF WE COUNT THE PHASER BEAM…]
{WE COULD DO A MASER CANNON!}
<CRAZY SUPERPOWER!>
|NINJA SHOOTER KISS!|
(BOSOM BEARER!)
>THE BEWITCHING, “WHEN MY PEARLY TEARS FLOW”!<
“Why did these suddenly get erotic?!”
…EROTIC?
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“ Why aren’t you all saying anything?!?! And also, how is it I can hear you all being silent when you’re speaking directly into my eardrums?!?!?! ”
EVERYONE IS WAITING TO HEAR IF THEY ARE “SUITABLE,” A “MISCAST,” OR “TOTALLY OUT OF THEIR LEAGUE”…
“Shut up!!!”
Mile, enraged, did not reply to the nanomachines’ words for another week after that.
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