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Chapter 4 - Running Away From Trouble.

My name is Markus. I am an AI created to clean the city's sewer system, although I'm not sure why they gave me the ability to do things other than cleaning. I have a physocal body, and a mind, but I'm sure I have never felt a human emotion, and, probably because of my programation, I can't even become bored or tired of doing my job, but I can run out of mana and energy

Today, at the moment I woke up, inside of place that is like a room of mine, I received a warning in my ears saying that the place I work was invaded, but I didn't get scared or something like that. It's just someone who got lost inside of the sewers, or fell through a manhole. I had never received this kind of warning before, but it's not like someone is going to mess with me or ki- If he was a human, I would already be able to smell his pants from here, even in this condition of mine right now

I scanned the robot's body, and found out some things about him. First one, I scared the shit out of him and he was a janitor, although I didn't really use the scan to deduce this. Second, his model wasn't in my database, and third one, I discovered his name, with some help given by Darwin, that was Markus, and he would be my key to get out of here. "Darwin, how many mana do I have left?" I asked, because I'd like to use my Skill Appearance Change, which can, through illusions and shuffling machines data interpretation and living beings brains, I can trade the way I look with other person. "25%, sir."

... 25%? Are fucking kidding me?... OH! It's because my passive abilities aren't working rigjt now, so using Acceleration with so much power did get make me waste a lot of mana... I can't even use the Skill for a minute and half with this amount, at least in the condition I'm in right now. Well, I will just have to work this out. "Ma-Ma-Markus." I said, pointing at him, when suddenly, out of thin air, a pistol, that he probably didn't even know because of how old the model is, appeared in my hand, aimed at his head, making him, metaphorically, sweat cold. "Ge-Get inside t-t-the cleaning ca-ca-cart, if y-you try t-to warn them, y-you are d-d-dead." I said while aiming my gun at him, but he was frozen on the ground, so I just held him by his arm, threw him inside the cart myself and left the room. I need to be cautious to activate my Skill at the rigjt time, because the duration was really short, but it should be sufficient to trick the police, that I could already hear getting close.

The police force reached the place where the invasion occured, coming across with the janitor, walking with his cleaning cart, that passed by them with a friendly smile on his face and going to the direction they came from. In the end of the hallway, they could see the other half of the squad, and, between them, the door of thr janitor's closet opened. When they noticed what happened, it was just too late, they could only see the abandoned cart next to one of the exits.