Valerie wore an uncomfortable expression as she looked at the woman kneeling at her feet. She could feel the bond between them, it was even stronger than the bond between her and Beans, and she could influence it however she wanted.

More than the influence and supreme authority it gave her, Valerie could also feel a sliver of power flowing through the bond, from Bai Yin into herself. It didn’t mean much at the moment, it was like a kitchen tap dripping into a lake, but it did make her curious to if it could be increased and what she could actually do with that power.

However before all that, there was one thing that she had to sort out.

"Don’t call me Master." She insisted.

Bai Yin nodded her head, keeping it bowed, and quickly replied, "Yes Mistress."

"Or that. Don’t call me that either."

"Of course My Lady."

"Don’t use any honorifics when talking to me."

"My Apologies Supreme One."

"Oh it’s a title now... I kinda walked into that one, didn’t I?" Valerie muttered before shaking her head with a heavy sigh. She rubbed her temples, already feeling a headache coming on from dealing with this, as she decided if this was really worth all of the circles she was going to have to go through.

In the end, she sighed again and lowered her hands.

"Fine, just go back to using my Lady. That one was the least bad of the lot, and it kinda makes me feel like someone important which is kind of nice..."

"As you wish my Lady." Bai Yin eagerly replied, although she still expressed nothing on her face.

Valerie stared at her for a few more seconds, taking in her appearance. Her skin was still as pale as the corpse she had just been, and was sunken slightly adding to her deathly appearance and giving her subtly muscular body some better definition. Her eyes had turned completely crimson, which could be hidden behind the sunglasses she usually wore.

But the scars on her back were still present and not healing... Oh god. She was still half naked.

Clamping her hand over her eyes, Valerie cursed herself in her mind as her guilt came back tenfold.

"Go get dressed, right now."

"As you wish my Lady." Bai Yin replied, before standing up straight, causing Valerie to let out a guilt filled whimper as some of the visuals peeked through her fingers, before Bai Yin strutted out of the room. Whether her lack of care when it came to her dignity and exposure was a side effect of her transformation, or simply a carry over from her old personality, Valerie did not know.

But neither made her feel better about stripping the poor woman after murdering her. Well... maybe not poor woman but still... it wasn’t nice nonetheless.

When Bai Yin returned, Valerie was settling herself back into her comfy chair after cleaning up the teeth that the [Blood Well] spell couldn’t pick up, and making sure there was no evidence of whatever happened.

Thankfully, Bai Yin had brought extra clothes and had dressed herself up in a new suit, although this time forgoing the tie and keeping her collar open, so that her neck was exposed, revealing the slowly healing scars from where Valerie had bitten her.

Glancing around, Valerie made sure one last time there was no evidence, when something else popped into her mind.

"Shit! Surveillance! They said I was being watched. They said something about destroying it when they took me... but surely whoever was doing it had time to set up new stuff. Crap... this is bad. How much did they see? If Sebbie took care of it last time could he do it again? Are they gonna come after me with garlic and wooden stakes?"

Valerie muttered to herself in a panic. When it came to the last one, she wasn’t actually sure if those would work. When she had been checking her teeth, she still had her reflection, but she wasn’t eager to be stabbed through the heart in order to test if it killed her in case, you know, it did.

Much like shooting yourself in the head to test if you are bulletproof, it’s just best to assume you aren’t and avoid bullets going forwards, until proved otherwise.

"The surveillance is already taken care of my Lady. I took care of it. What devices I could remove were removed, the rest were hacked with advanced daemons that attacked the AI running them. It will have spent most of its time focusing elsewhere whenever anything interesting happens.

Although, this doesn’t account for them recording all cameras at all times. That I cannot control. The most I can do is give them a reason not to waste their time looking at the recordings, or at least time to plan whilst they review days worth of footage."

Valerie let out a sigh of relief, relaxing back in her chair and wiping the sweat from her forehead. That was something at least.

If they did in fact record everything and spend the time rewatching the footage to catch any issues with the AI, a strong possibility as even the more advanced ones still weren’t trusted completely, that means there was a heavy chance her secret would be discovered.

Hopefully by that point, the rest of the world would be having issues with new awakened that they wouldn’t be able to focus on her too much.

Although if they did come for her with pitchforks, torches and garlic bread then at least she had a new bodyguard to protect her. Jinu 2.0, if you would. She had the same emotional range as the robot, even before her transformation, with even more skills and she wouldn’t be able to get hacked.

A straight upgrade. However, it did leave Valerie with one question.

"So uh... Do you know what you even are now? Or what I am?"

"You are my Lady, my Lady." Bai Yin answered robotically, "As for myself, I do not know. If such a thing has a name, I have never encountered something like myself in my life, as far as I can remember.

Perhaps you would like to give what I am a name." She offered, almost sounding eager to be named.

Valerie bobbed her head in understanding, muttering to herself,

"Makes sense... It’s not like this is common in this world, and you don’t seem like the type to play a lot of games or read fantasy novels in your life but... Wait." Valerie said, raising her head and narrowing her eyes at Bai Yin. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

"You can remember your life, like you can remember everything about when you worked for the Monarchs?"

"Not everything, no." Bai Yin answered without a hint of fear or hesitation, "Some early memories seem to have been lost to brain death, whilst a few other pieces of information are locked away by a formation cast by sect leader.

But other than that, yes. I can. Is there something you wish to know?"