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The smell of iron fills in every room, every step you take creates metal echoes, once your arm brushed against the wall you felt a smooth surface with rough small bolts and nuts that were bolted in the walls. You have entered P03’s factory, accompanied by the thrilling feeling of the aftermath in winning. Someone in the factory caught your eye, not P03 himself, No, no, he was a pessimistic but intruiging robot. And yet, that’s not who you’re after. Someone else caught your eye,
A certain.. Worker, in the factory. You didn’t expect to fall head over heels over the Inspector, nothing prepared you for this!
After the event of you defeating P03, it was gossips all over. Most specifically the factory workers, one of the few times you chatted alongside with The Inspector was him underestimating you winning against P03. It seems like talking isn't his favorite, so dedicated to his work until the fact that he probably seen more bot parts than his own co-workers. Ever since you won against his own boss, he acted more respectful towards you.. It felt wierd, as you are more used to his impatient behavior. Nonetheless you wanted to change things up, to start a conversation with him again, to start interacting with him more, to.. Start something with him.
You went ahead and walked through the door, fixing your gaze as you watched him do his job. As you slowly walk towards him, it looks to be that he has become observant of his surroundings. As he got startled by your footsteps and quickly looked behind him, his panicked eyes meet your observing pairs.
“Oh, it’s you. Is there something i can help you with?”
He turned to you, his tone sounding deadpan with a hint of curiosity within it. His eyes glimpses back at the conveyer belt and back at you continuously throughout the whole conversation. How dedicated. You awkwardly scratched the back of your head as a expression, truthfully, you came in here to observe him and chit-chat with him. However, you were a bit bashful. You didn’t want to disturb him or anything.
“Hello! Inspector! Nice to see you again, so, how have you been?..”
“…”
“..Is there a reason why you came here?”
“Well— i— uh.. Hmm... How should i say this..”
“I.. kind of just.. want to observe on how you work, nothing much, really. And maybe chit-chat a bit, we haven’t seen each other for so long, huh?”
A hurried and cracked tone peered in at your sentence, you didn’t know how to give the right explanation on what your true intentions are. Though what you said was the full truth, just.. Really straightforward is all. It won’t hurt to be bold every once in a while, however, this is someone you take interest in, thinking about that made your doubt worse.
“…What?”
Silence fills the room, the old ventilation lets out a low, consistent and gentle humming that filled in the whole room, similar to white noise. His claw-like hand widens slightly in awe, completely forgetting about his surroundings as his glare focused on you.
“..Observe..Me? What? What Is this? Is— is this one of P03’s tasks?”
“What?! No— No, no!- it’s not! I swear! Its— its uh..”
Damn it, you felt like you dug your own grave. Its fine, its alright. Its just a small misunderstanding, you can still have a little talk with him. Your confidence is now shattered, nonetheless you’ve already made it so far. It would be a waste to retreat now.
“Like i said, we haven’t seen each other for awhile, y’know? Lets catch up and…well.. Yeah! catch up!”
“..Right. Well, i haven’t been doing anything exciting. Im working as usual.”
He explains to you, with a deadpan tone. You walked over towards him while he faced away from you just to look back at the conveyer belt, curious, you nudged him by the shoulder as you turned your head towards him. Leaving him startled and slightly flustered during the conversation, seeing that he was wandering his eyes even more than usual.
“Aren’t you bored doing this all day? Don’t you want to.. Get some fresh air maybe?”
“..With me?.. Maybe?..”
You mumbled quietly to him as you fidgetted with your hands.
“What?”
“Nothing.”
“To answer your question, i am a job bot. I am merely created just to work for P03, i don’t need fresh air.”
He turned his head towards you, his tone stern and bold. Your focused eyes gazed to him while you tried empathize with him, you hummed as you tried to figure out a reply for his sentence. Before he broke the silence, he looked away from you quickly, you immediately panicked while trying to figure out what happened until he spoke up with a stuttery and jittery voice. His voice slightly muffled since he was facing away from you, his words echoed from the facility walls.
“Don’t look at me like that.”
“..Huh?— Like what?”
“Don’t look at me with eyes like that.”
Your eyes widened as you processed what he confessed to you, it immediately hit you on what he meant by that, and you instantly turned away from being flustered by him. Laughing awkwardly as you tried to look at him again, your eyes return back to him facing forwards. It was hard to read his expressions since he’s a robot without noticable human face features, you can’t help but think about the fact that he wasn’t even focusing on the conveyer belt now! Only focusing on this situation.
“I hate this feeling.”
You tilted your head, you couldn’t tell what he meant by ‘this feeling’. You waited for him to finish his sentence as your head was flooded with questions.
“Everytime i see you, i—i get this gross feeling. I dont know how to get rid if it,”
“It makes me feel agitated.”
“..What feeling does it make you want to do?”
“I.. Well.. I—“
He lets out a nervous chuckle midway, he immediately cleared out his thoughts.
“I want to hold you, I—I don’t know, it’s stupid.”
“I do like you, though.”
You were slightly dumbfounded on how effortless he admitted that. The confession that you have been hiding from him, was confessed by himself! You didn’t know if you should feel relieved or embarrassed.
You tried to ask him again, however you stuttered immensly while doing so.
“W—wha?.. so.. so you do like me? I mean, im not complaining! I like you too!”
“We both replicate the same feelings, right? What does this mean for us?”
You shrugged as a gesture that you haven’t got a clue, you never expected to go this far, really. Even so, he hovered up towards you so suddenly and sincerely requested something rather intimate.
“..i’ve heard this .. Thing, that is used among humans. Im very curious to try it.”
“Oh? What is it?”
“Kissing.”
“…”
“Kiss me, right here.”
He taps with his claw-like hand on his bottom faceplate where the mouth area would be, his eyes fully focused on you. You hesitated but abruptly cupped his face gently as you lay a kiss on him, it was metal-cold before you felt the temperature slowly rise up, giving the kiss more warmth as he clasped his arms behind your back, forcing you to gently scoot closer to him. You heard the fans whirring and stirring inside of him, he didn’t say a single word. It seems like he was enjoying it, savoring it. You could tell by him tightening his cradled arms around your back. It seemed like he didn’t want to let go, no, not yet.
You pulled away from him, suprisingly, he didn’t seem to mind the sudden stop from the kiss you both had. He lets his arm fall down to his sides while he commented,
“That. That felt good.”
You gripped onto your shirt tightly as you hid your flusterdness,
“I guess it did.”
“Lets do more things like that someday, it would be.. enjoyable. To do it with you.”
The craving you had for him, turns out that he had the same feelings for you. He craved for your human touch and kindness that he hasn’t received while he tirelessly worked and worked. It was breathtaking in that moment for him, but it felt like as if he took a whiff of fresh air away from all of his work. He certainly would act more nicer towards you, atleast only a tid-bit nicer. As you were about to step out of the room you both were in, you subtly glanced at him as both of your eyes met once more. You couldn’t tell from his facial features, but the atmosphere and the whole aftermath of it, evoked you to feel as if he was smiling. His hand raises up to signal a subtle goodbye, not knowing when you both will be allowed see each other again.
He was a Job Bot, and you were a human challanger.