"This is where you shall stay till orientation, rules shall be sent to your watch in a moment. As well as the timetable. Please read all the stipulations as failure to comply with given rules will result in strict disciplinary action taken against you."

The guide doll that I was saddled with took me to a quant-looking house while I took in the atmosphere, which was easy to do as low-level dolls acted completely like machines and the journey was quiet but not awkwardly so. The population was sparse and the scenery was breathtaking with high-tech gizmos strewn about in a calming park-like setting.

By the time I reached the building I was sure I was being guided by at least 10 different people who had entered the same one which left me confused, it was a one-story house big enough to comfortably fit maybe 5 five people on the high end. I wanted to ask but an E-class doll does not have a complex enough matrix to give me those answers.

Dumped at the door she gestured for me to enter then promptly left. Confused but with nothing better to do I entered. I did not know what I was expecting but the inside of the house looked like ones you would find anywhere in a cozy home. Something I did not find where the other people were, there was no one in the house outside of me. I heard a notification ding and a blue holographic screen popped up in my face.

Welcome to the C1 level-2 housing unit, you have been given student-level access to all our facilities. Please read the rule book at your earliest convenience.

If you feel uncomfortable with holo-tech, an assistant doll shall be assigned to you if you so choose.

Please note, the extra service is not free and you shall be charged for the service.

Also as per the agreement, your S.A.I. watch will not be able to send or receive information from outside the academy. If you wish to contact anyone please use the designated consoles assigned to your living quarters. Please remember that they are not able to contact you using this console and you must speak with administration if you wish to have an open channel with anyone.

There were still some people out there scared of 'super A.I.s' but I had no problem with such things heck like low-level dolls they had no emotions whatsoever. Also, no communication with anyone outside the dome I could understand why they do it but it still was shit being cut off from the internet outside of 'official channels, they are pretty strict but the no interaction with the outside world thing. Speaking of which, I completely dropped my dampeners, and outside of the familiar minds of my monsters who start making gestures of happiness, I felt no one.

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I was in the god damn a pocket world, a very expensive feature that only people of the fourth level or above could afford, but here we were completely cut off from the world and that meant no ambient emotions bombarding me out of nowhere. So I simply basked in the pleasant breeze that was monster affection, non-complicated, and easy to lose yourself in.

Warning! Warning! Warning!

The current user has gone 24 hours without sustenance of any sort. The user has been given light to sustain as the chlorophyll trait has been detected. However, consuming regular food and water is highly advised to not cause any health deterioration. Please, move to the kitchen and either order a free meal up to your level, pay for a meal of any level, ask for ingredients up to your level or pay for ingredients of any level if you wish to cook.

The loud blaring woke me up, including my cats who were hissing at the source of the sound. Completely disoriented I took stock of myself to get the world in order and found that I was still standing at the entrance but I was not supporting my weight. A web of vines surrounded and held me in a place like a baby. The moment I moved the entire structure slid back into my pants like the entry hall was not a jungle moments ago.

Surprisingly, I was not feeling hungry or even shocked of any sort, just happy laziness, these machines are usually not wrong but at that moment I found it very hard to care. Instead of going to the kitchen I looked around and found my bed that had a window frame next to the bed with light streaming. I jumped on and started rubbing myself across the sheets feeling the false sun bathing my skin.

Then I felt the hunger slightly hit, it was just not anything drastic as the notification might suggest, it was merely a slight peckish feeling. What was nagging at me was that a full day had passed but even caring about food felt hard enough, so I pushed the other problems to the back and ambled to the kitchen.

Welcome to A.H.K. Mk. IV

Do you wish to cook or be assigned a ready meal?

"Meal."

A full-course meal just popped into existence on the table, so it was space manipulation and not digitization, there was some significance there but the sight of food seemed to amp up my hunger to an unreasonable degree.

The food was scrumptious but picking up flavor profiles was hard as I wolfed it down like an animal. Again, I felt like something was off but found it hard to care. The moment I finished though, something happened that made me groan.

A meet and greet have been prepared for students to socialize.

This has no bonus grading, however, students will be marked if

they do not show up for more social training in the future.

"Well, shit..."

Socializing meant the dampeners went back on and it was tempting to just ignore this. I slapped myself before getting a change of clothes that were more in fashion than my hodge-podge gear, it was time to meet my colleagues for the foreseeable future.