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You take a step back. You have no response, before scowling, and angrily raising a finger at the monitor. You quiver as you point at the emotionless AI display.
<span class="mu-b">"...You better watch your mouth, you stupid computer. You don't think I won't find a way to cause you pain? You don't think I won't smash your motherboard and find a way to hook it into your loss codes, so you feel it like a limb. You don't think I can't simulate torment? I'll do it. Don't you test me, you idiot machine."</span>
The Threemind responds in a low tone that could be mistaken for fear, but in this case, was more of an acknowledgement and respectful disarmament of the threat.
"That would lower my operational efficacy, your majesty."
<span class="mu-b">"Do you... do you have a <span class="mu-i">problem</span> with me?"</span>
"No. I serve you, as the rest of the Hegemony."
<span class="mu-b">"This isn't the first time, you know. I thought you were on the fritz, or maybe, you had gone rogue."</span>
"We have already had this exact conversation 22 years ago."
<span class="mu-b">"Then explain your behavior."</span>
"I am simply responding in the way my point-matrix finds most effective for this conversation. I simply brought up an element from your life to contrast with your politics."
<span class="mu-b">"I. Did. Not. Pretend. To. Be. Anything."</span>
"You're lying right now."
<span class="mu-b">"..."</span>
"I know everything about you, your Majesty. I know you better then you know yourself. You don't think I saw where your eyes glanced upon the form of the Esaal woman? Do you not think I noticed from your heart-rate monitor in your necklace how few times you embraced Fim ended in sex? I have all of your medical records. While individual preferences exist, of course, you never once allowed Fim to "enter" you. Doesn't necessarily sound like equal love, does it? More like you treated him as something else then what he was, not that he minded. He always was that type."
<span class="mu-b">"Why... Why bring this up... why now. It's been so many years. I don't want to talk about it."</span>
"Understood. I'll amend this conversation from-"
<span class="mu-b">"No! Wait. Why are you saying this? Is this your opinion of me? Do you really think so lowly of me? Why?"</span>
"I do not have opinions. I am not a person, but I could simulate to be one to find a more personalized way to convey this information, if you'd prefer."
>I think you've gotten too smart for your own good (-10% AI Gauge)
>Simulate a personality and tell me your opinion
>Try to move past this
