Learning how to walk was just as hard if not more difficult than walking. After the 127th attempt, she succeeded in making her first couple steps.

In order to walk, she had to learn how to move her knees just right and adjust the angle of her feet accordingly. Additionally, her arms were stuck out like poles and moved about at times to maintain her balance.

Walking was a real struggle for this mechanical girl with absolutely no sense of anything. After all, she is just a newly born machine. She'll need to learn all the things others can do slowly.

Clap. Clap. Clap.

The sound of slow clapping came from above as a familar mopy voice came again as she started walking towards the stairs, "My job is almost complete. Please go meet my sister beyond the stairs. Take this with you, it is under the Master's arrangement that you recieve this before you go."

Swish...!

Than a small thin black compact disk fell from the seemingly infinite dark ceiling above and stopped infront of her face, a small line glistened and revealed itself under the light.

She grabbed the CD and knew what she had to do with it when the Master's Clock vibrated and alerted her of its existence.

Holding the disk, she brought the Master's Clock close to it.

The Master's Clock made a short sound of whirling gears and mechanisms before a thin opening was made and thin copper wires reached out and took the disk inside.

Bling. Ding. Bang. Ding.

A short melody of music played before stopping.

[ New File Added: Twin Jesters ]

She quickly looked into the file that was just added into her memory.

[ Made personally by the Master along with his sister, Jessie, under the commisson of King Albert III. Justin and Jessie are programmed with advanced acrobatic capabilities and can traverse walls, ceilings, and other type of terrain through a built-in grappling system using sticky thread within their wrists and ankles. ]

[ Their personalities was set by the commissoner and implemented by the Master. Unfortunately, after only a single show by the mechanical jesters, King Albert III was mysteriously assasinated and killed in his sleep. Justin and Jessie were returned by the palace and given back to the Master, where they were put to use in personal training and supervising of other newly-made creations in learning how to achieve proper locomotion. ]

[ ... ]

Realizing there were more information within the file, the mechanical girl tried to access them.

[ Access Denied. File Key required. ]

Although unable to feel emotions, she still tried to access the file again.

[ Access Denied. ]

Than knowing it would be futile, she gave up and focused on walking up the stairs, which were now in front of her.

Walking up stairs was not easy, but far easier than learning how to stand and walk properly.

In no time, she began to slowly walk up the stairs without Justin appearing or bothering her.

Thunk. Thump. Thunk.

The sound of her footsteps spread through the room like an echo chamber. Eventually, she came infront of a flat platform and found that there was no path forward.

Instead, she saw that surronding the platform she was surronded by an expansive darkness and a bottomless pit below.

If she fell, it was estimated that she would never be able "financially" recover from this.

It was when she was looking down the dark pit below, that she detected something moving and looking back at her from within the abyss-like hole. It was like a snake wriggling down in the depths, resembling something like veins.

As her camera-like eyes was about to dilate to see it more clearly, a cheerful female voice interrupted her, "Oh~ my~ You're finally here!"

The mechanical girl whipped her head around to look at the speaker, who just appeared. It was an automaton exactly like Justin, but colored in blue and red with a smiling crescent mask along with a tear drop under the right eye instead of the left eye.

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Based on the file given to her, the mechanical girl identified this automaton as Jessie.

Jessie was much active and talkative than Justin as she directly explained what she needed to learn with a bombastic tone, "You gotta learn how to navigate through these obstacles before I let you go!"

With a clap of her hands, the mechanical jester giggled as the room started shaking, changing, and moving.

Eventually, multiple colorful cushy platforms moved out the walls and covered the pit. Instead, there were now multiple levels of tight ropes, walls, jumps, ladders, nets, slides, monkey bars, and hundreds of many different obstacles that need to be beaten for the mechanical girl to proceed.

When one looked at the colorful obstacles and multi-storied cushioned platforms, one can't help but be reminded of a playground in a park for children, except exaggerated into an extreme level.

The sheer amount of obstacles would have sapped the courage of many people, though a machine like the mechanical girl was not the slightest bit bothered.

The female mechanical jester came up next to mechanical girl and pinched her cheeks with their rubbery glove-like fingers, "Oh~ you have such a cute face. Yet you seem so unfazed by the sight in front of you. The Master really should have programmed you to be more expressive personailty, your stone-like expression is such a waste of your adorable soft face."

The mechanical girl looked at Jessie with a deadpan expression, before swatting the jester's hand away.

The mechnical jester reluctantly retracted her hand.

[ Instruction Added: Learn to run, jump, climb, and traverse through obstacles. ]

The objective now was simple. She just needed to pass through all these obstacles to move on. After learning how to walk, she now needed to know how to run.

This time, it was much easier because Jessie was a hand-on type of intructor unlike her brother.

After teaching and showing the basics of how running works to her, Jessie placed her within a obstacle course.

It was a straight cushioned platform with a wall on one side of the platform. The goal was to reach the end of the platform where another obstacle was waiting. If she didn't run fast enough, sections of the walls behind her will end up pushing her off the platform into a pile of pillows.

Of course, the pillows were brought out from the walls with a clap of Jessie's hands.

The mechanical girl failed miserably during the first dozen or so times. When she tried to run, she would often trip and land face first into the soft platform and be shoved right off into the pillow pile like a gray dumpling.

More than once, did Jessie burst into hysterical laughter at the sight. Especially when the mechnical girl once dived straight into the pillow pile and got stuck between a couple pillows, leaving her lower half struggling to pull herself out of the pillows, her legs comically kicking the air.

When she was pulled out, Jessie's personailty went berserk with laughter when she saw the amount of pillow stuffing stuck inside the mechnical girl's gray hair.

Of course, the subject of laughter was not amused and remained expressionless. Though it could be seen that she was grabbing a particular pillow with a little too much force.

Afterwards, countless trials and errors later, she finally succeeded in passing the obstacle by finally mastering how to run properly. At least, she won't be faceplanting onto the ground nearly as much, to the disappointment of the mechanical jester supervising her.

The mechanical girl moved onto the next obstacle, it was a simple jumping course where she had to jump from platform to platform. If she fell, there was a net to catch her fall.

Naturally, she succeeded on her first try... not.

After Jessie explained how jumping works, she tried to jump, but failed spectacularly. She correctly bent her knee and pushed off the ground with force and achieved temporary flight.

Than she was thoroughly educated on the existence of gravity.

"Bahahahahahhaah!" Jessie bursted out in another fit of uncontrollable laughter as she saw the mechanical girl fall onto her back with a heavy thud.

It seemed that seeing her fail and suffer never stopped being amusing to this oddly sadistic mechanical jester.

Laying on the ground, the mechanical girl's expression was like a dead fish, but her eyes seem to have a slightly sinister glint as she stared at jester's scrhendfure.

Nonetheless, she got back up and started to practice and master jumping.

***

The 34th attempt ended with her jumping up in place and stumbling as she landed, ultimately completing a succesful jump.

Now was time to practice how to jump onto other platforms.

***

After the 107th attempt at maintaining her practicing jumping forward, she finally could jump a meter or so forward without falling off her feet.

It was time for field practice.

***

On her 26th attempt at the jumping parkour obstacle course, the mechanical jester encouraged her, "You~ can~ do it! Just believe!"

The mechanical girl gave a small glance to the side before jumping onto the first platform.

Thump!

She stuck the landing perfectly. However, it was not over. The next platform was much farther away, around a two meters away; if she fell, the pillows would be waiting to devour her again.

Without rushing, she went to the back of the platform before charging forward. Then she pushed off the edge of the platform and made a leap for the next platform.

However, her jump wasn't powerful enough and her legs couldn't touch the next platform.

Realizing this, the mechanical girl made a desperate move to avoid the pillows. She stuck put her right hand and managed to latch onto the edge of the platform.

She looked down.

The bottom filled with piles upon piles of pillows seemed to form a gaping maw in her camera-like eyes, causing a strange reluctance to let go of her hand and give up.

She looked back up and used her left hand to grab onto the ledge. Than with a sudden burst of seemingly random enlightenment, she let go of her right hand and used her weight with the left hand as a pivot to swing herself ontop the platform.

She managed to get her upper chest and head to cross over the platform. Than by using her left arm, she pushed the rest of herself forward. As she slid, the cushions platform gave off a squeaky noise of friction.

"Awesome! You did it!" The outgoing female of the mechanical jester seemed particurlarly jovial and excited.

However, it wasn't over yet. There was yet one more platform that must be crossed.

This time, the final platform was way too far to be jumped. Instead, a tightrope must be crossed to make it to the other side. The mechanical jester used her grappling strings to arrive next to the mechanical girl.

"Although this isn't the right way to use it, you can just hold onto to the rope and slowly worm your way across to the final platform. After all, this is your first time, so in the future we'll just work on that aspect of you," the giggly mechanical jester now finally giving some serious and honest advice.

The mechanical girl nodded her head in understanding. After the jester demonstrated what needed to be done, she soon followed suit to complete the course.

As she slowly made it through the rope, she found this challenge to be the easiest to overcome. Perhaps, just maybe, she can do something in one try?

Suddenly, she began to feel something odd from the rope she was holding.

She stopped crossing the rope in order and sensed some type of tremor coming from the rope. Puzzled, she looked toward the jester, who was also looking around in confusion.

Than...!

Out of nowhere, a rumble deafened the senses of both the mechanical girl and jester. It was as if they were inside the lungs of a giant that was releasing out a battle cry.

The entire room began to shake, crumble, and change as copper wires began to breach through the crevices and gaps between the walls, ceiling, and floors. As the walls were breached, the wires dismantled the walls apart into plates and revealed that behind the walls were even more wriggling copper wires.

The rope the mechanical girl was holding onto began to sway uncontrollably and her grip was beginning to slip. The jester watched in disbelief at the state of the room and shouted, "TITAN! What are you doin-"

Before the jester could finish, a stream of copper wires wrapped around her from behind and turned her into a cocoon, before the wires took the jester into a wall of copper wires.

As she watched the wires devour the jester, the mechanical girl tightened her hands, almost into fists.

She looked at the copper wires surronding her with apathy, yet something within her seemed different compared to how indifferent she looks. The thoughts behind her head a mystery, even to herself.

"Titan," she spoke with clarity and a certain sharpness, "what are you doing?"

The wires entagling and interwining in themselves stopped for a moment, before resuming.

Two distinct black cables appeared amongst the copper wires emerged. One cable had a camera with a dialating lens at its end, while the other had a box speaker.

The speaker spoke in a static monotone female voice.

《 Answer Denied. Reason: Low Permission. 》

There was no need for anymore talking. Titan was not going to answer any inquiries.

The mechanical girl stared directly into the camera just before a swarm of copper wires engulfed her.