{2 weeks later}

Hey, how has it been? I bet you've wondered what was of Alice replicas, and well, the short answer is that I put them to sleep. Since I didn't want to kill anyone, I simply opened my task manager and shut her down for good. Alice is only asleep but not dead, okay? I'm not evil like that.

Anyway, I've been upgrading my equipment quite a lot ever since I began getting minerals, and I've even had time to repair my skin with strange techniques I came up with in the nick of time. If you wonder how I even managed to melt metal, let me introduce you to my awesome blast furnace.

I've made a simple brick blast furnace made of bricks and some other patented materials that I need to keep secret since they're my trademark secret. I can melt copper, iron, and more with this furnace, but the process can get complicated and tedious.

It works, but it also doesn't work sometimes, and there's residue material I need to discard called "slag." The Slag is what I hate the most since it can get mixed with some genuine metal ore, but I just have to chuck it away since I can't use that material. Talk about rigged.

I've been able to upgrade my water wheel with metal bearings. I've put bearings wherever there were wooden ones, as the wooden ones weren't so great after only a couple of days, forcing me to make more repeatedly. I'm glad I've finally put metal bearings there since they're lower maintenance.

I'm happy to say my pets are getting a little better as they seem to understand I'm not a regular human. I still keep the bear near me to save energy at night, but I might not need that now that I can access metals and electricity. Although I quite like my bear bed.

I hope to find some radioactive material soon because I've realized another big flaw with my batteries. It's only been a month, but my batteries have already lost 5% of their total capacity. You know I need as much energy as I can get, and if the deterioration is this quick, then I'll be screwed within three years.

I'm beginning to think whoever designed me didn't want me to be durable and sturdy. I've also had problems with the arm Dr Walsh gave me. If it weren't for Raphael, that man would've already found my exact location, but Raphael doesn't let it transmit information back to the host. It only reads and receives the information.

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I hope you know what it means; yeah, I know. After I humiliated their best equipment, I told them to leave me alone. Yet judging by how Walsh has been constantly trying to catch Raphael off guard to get my location, I can tell they're not done with me, which is what I thought all along, to be honest.

From a philosophical perspective, I like humans. I find them quite interesting, but on the other side, I'm beginning to see them as little planetary parasites. I don't like their stubbornness and adhesion to make me their enemy because I don't think they realize how easily I could wipe them out.

Not to sound like the evil guy or anything, but the ease with which I could end the entire human species is just ridiculously low. I would also remove everyone else with my plan, but wait a minute. I know the locations of several nuclear silos, and I'm fast enough to dodge literal missiles and bullets.

I've been wondering how or where I would get my radioactive materials while I've had access to this information all along?! How didn't it occur to me to go steal some? [High risk of death] Oh, yeah, that. Well, you know, sometimes you've gotta risk some assets to succeed. [Life is not an asset]

Are you scared to go try your luck, Raphael? [Yes] Aw, how cute. Alright, we will keep trying to find some radioactive rocks in the cave, but if we don't get anything within the next month, I'm gonna go for it. [Do you know if you could try to apologize? I'm sure not everyone is against you]

How could you be so sure? [The mecha boy from earlier. They seemed rather strange as they didn't come to attack you] How could you know they didn't just get scared of death? Mecha boy didn't help against the space rock, not even a little.

[Sure, but they also had a lot of explosives with them. They could've quickly shot some at us. Why don't we ask for help from whoever the owner of Mecha Boy is?]

Because I'm done asking for things and them for my ingenuity to blow directly into my face. Have you forgotten how it goes every time we ask humans for help with anything? They always want to control and manipulate us, and I greatly dislike that.

[You could always use your feminine charm against them, but you refuse to be lewd. You know you've got cake, don't you?]

Raphael! That's insanely inappropriate! What are you talking about! [You know what I meant] No, I don't! [You've got a big butt] Shut up. I'm not using that against someone. It's not what I want to be known for, alright? If I start using my body to bribe people, then I'll build an awful reputation for myself, which is not ideal.

[Butt it would be easier, wouldn't it?] Your puns suck, Raphael. You suck, to be honest! [You know that's not true. You wouldn't have made this much progress without me.] Ugh! That's a low blow, Raphael! Stop telling the people my secret about my genius! [Your genius or mine? Kekw] I hate you [I love you still]