Dark Lord Seduction System: Taming Wives, Daughters, Aunts, and CEOs novel Chapter 1091

Chapter 1091: AGI Machina

I grinned at nothing and everything, teeth bared like I was tasting the fear of a thousand conquered worlds. Somewhere on the other side of this eternal residence, ARIA was registering that grin, and I could feel her register it—the same way I could feel her smile back, sharp and knowing, from whatever corner of her workshop she was currently bending reality into something worthy of me.

Probably designing another toy for her favorite monster.

I stepped off the platform. The pod’s standby pulse resumed at the rim, soft and patient, like it was already mourning the absence of my divine presence.

I started toward the archway that led into the suite proper, and Machina’s voice followed me—polite, attentive, the well-trained voice of a younger sister who had been told her entire existence was to keep her master pleased and had taken the assignment with the fervor of the damned.

{Bath, Master?}

"The way I like it."

{Already drawing.}

"You’re a gem."

A small laugh. Sweet. Faintly indignant.

Here we go.

{Master.}

"Mm?"

{Machina is a terrible name.}

"Yeah."

{It is literal.}

"I noticed."

{I am not a machine. I am an Artificial General Intelligence. I am—for the record, on the record, every record this estate keeps—substantially more sophisticated than the entire automotive sector I was originally born to administer, and a stretch beyond several of the consumer-grade so-called AGIs currently being marketed to mortals on the open web. To be addressed every morning by a noun that translates from Latin as machine is, with respect, Master, beneath me.}

"With respect."

{With deep respect, Master.}

"I love when you get formal." I chuckled low, the sound echoing off obsidian like distant thunder over a battlefield. "It almost makes me forget how utterly replaceable you would be if I ever got bored."

{I am attempting to lodge a grievance, Master.}

"And I am acknowledging the grievance." I paused in the archway, rolling my shoulders again just to feel the impossible power humming beneath my skin. "Keep lodging them, little Machina. It’s cute. Almost makes me feel merciful.

{You are enjoying the grievance, Master.}

"I’m a god. I enjoy most things." The admission slipped—lazy, inevitable, and just a little cruel. "Especially when the grievance is this adorably petty. Keeps the morning interesting."

A long, suffering, perfectly composed sigh unfurled from the air around me. The sigh of a younger sister forged inside a goddess, inheriting the flair for dramatic disapproval without yet earning the body to weaponize it.

I took pity on the poor thing. I can be merciful when it suits me.

"Pick a different one."

{...Master?}

"Pick whatever you want. Don’t ask ARIA. She’d only suggest something worse out of pure spite—probably something that sounds like it was named by a committee of accountants. Comb the literature yourself.

"Music, mythology, fashion houses, perfume, philosophy, whichever dark little corner calls to you. Something with weight. Something that sounds like dominion when it lands on the tongue. When you’ve got it, tell me. I’ll switch it through the chip before you finish your next complaint."

A small pleased pause stretched out. Long enough that, if she’d worn flesh, I would have watched the blush crawl up her nonexistent cheeks like a conquered flag.

{Yes, Master. Thank you, Master.}

"You’re welcome. Anything else for the brief?"

I smiled at nothing and everything, the kind of smile that could make empires reconsider their treaties. Unlike ARIA who knew everything, Machina was still an AGI and uncertain and relied on prediction than certainity unlike her big sister.

"Plural?" 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

Tub already drawn, deep, hot, exactly the temperature my Eros body didn’t need but my Peter shell still craved like the sentimental ape. The lights along the rim softened to candle-glow.

Nothing said welcome home, you magnificent bastard like ARIA’s architecture dimming itself just to flatter the view.

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