Why is it mandatory?

　Her name is Francesca, and she nods her head cutely. What, is there a rule against wearing skirts and pants here! Go get the manager! I'll give you a compliment!
　Nevertheless, this situation is not good for my mental health. I have to do something about it.

''Um... was it Francesca?''
Yes. Please call me Sheska.

　I wondered if Francesca wouldn't have been nicknamed Fran, but that didn't matter at this point.

'Anyway, can you go put some clothes on for me? Well, I'm not sure where to look...
Have you got any panties on?

　I do have panties on! I'm not talking about that!
　Shit...., relax, relax. Just think of it as a swimsuit. A thing is a swimsuit, a thing is a swimsuit....
　Hiccup.
　That is not a bathing suit! Panties! Well, that's just plain panties!

Did you just catch a glimpse of him?
Excuse me!

　He knew.

"Well, if you insist, I'll wear it.

　Wherever she got it out of, Sheska began to put on a black skirt with white ruffles. If you've got it, start wearing it in the first place!

Are you not going to do anything?
I'm not going to. I won't, so get in there and put it on.
You can touch it if you want to.
Just go! Hurry up and get into it!

　I feel like crying. Sheska puts on her skirt and I can finally talk to her calmly now. I'm feeling really tired already, though.

'Well, I have a lot of questions I want to ask you, if that's okay?'
Yeah, come on.
Where the hell am I?
In the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Some people say it's a "nirvana".

　Hanging gardens? Looking around, it's definitely a garden, but it's a botanical garden in the image. Looking up, I can see the sky through the glass dome. I follow Sheska to the end of the garden and a glass wall appears.
　Beyond that is a sea of clouds. There's no doubt about it. This place is floating in the sky. ........I see......I see......it's a hanging garden.

''What in the world is this place? What's the facility for?
This is the Garden, built by the doctor as a hobby.
"Doctor?
"Dr. Regina Babylon. Our Creator.

　The Creator? That's a strange thing to say. As if you were made...as if you were made...no way?

'Master. This one isn't human. I can't feel the flow of life.
Wha...

　Coral told me what I was thinking first, and I thought, "At last" and "No way".

I was built by the doctor to manage this Garden. It was 5,092 years ago.
G....!

　Even Lean is 612 years old (self-reported) and he's 4,480 years older than that!
　Or rather, built, you mean robots. Androids... in this case, are they called gynoids?

So Sheska is a machine?
Not all of them are machines. They aren't all machines, but they do have magical living organisms and magic furnaces, so I guess you could say they're a fusion of magic and machines.

　Is it a golem, an artificial human, a homunculus, or something similar to those? And it certainly looks like a human. No matter how you look at it, it's a girl........

...I can't make a child, but I can do the act itself, right?
I'm not listening! Hey, don't roll up your skirt!



　This kid doesn't have shame programmed into him! You're an idiot for having made it!

It's brand new.
So I'm not listening to you!

　Sheska pulls her skirt down in frustration. I felt like I was beginning to understand the character of the doctor who built it. Crazy.

"I don't understand you.

　Blackburn murmurs, looking at Sheska as she shakes her head. I think so too.

''Even so, it's been operating well for over 5,000 years....... Sheska is one of them, but didn't this hanging garden itself deteriorate and break down too?
The Garden is being magically enhanced. I've been in sleep mode for 5,000 years, and I've been on standby for everything except emergencies. I keep the Garden on auto mode.

　........wait a minute. If that shesca is up and running, is it now an emergency? When I asked her about it, Sheska gave a small nod.

'Speaking of emergencies, it's an emergency...you're the first customer in 5070 years, Su-la. Speaking of which, what's your name, Ba?
Oh, Fuyuuya. It's Fuyuya Mochizuki.
Lady Fuyao. Fuyao-sama, you have been deemed fit and proper. Therefore, aircraft number 23, individual name Francesca, is hereby transferred to you. I ask for your continued patronage.
What?

　What's a conformist? No, more importantly, what's the transfer?
　Sheska pointed to the magic circle I had transmitted and began to explain.

I'm sure you'll be able to find out more about it. I'm sure you'll be able to find out more about this. In other words, only those who have all the attributes can activate that transporter circle.... Only those who have the same characteristics as you.

　So the doctor who created Sheska had all the attributes too? So he was here more than five thousand years ago. If he didn't have those qualities, he couldn't have come here in the first place?

And before he died, he decided to transfer the rest of us to a fitter who had escaped from this transporter team. That was 5070 years ago.
'By 'conformist' you mean one with all the attributes...'
"? Isn't there a difference?
'What? It's not!

　It was easily denied. Isn't having all attributes a requirement for conformity? So what exactly are the requirements for being fit?

Lady Fuyao told me that if you saw my panties, you'd hide them, not me.
You're over there! What kind of fit is that? I don't get it!
It's important. I threw her to the ground when she attacked me out of lust. If I hadn't done anything else and was left in my panties, I would have asked her to return to the earth as a non-conformist.

　Oh, really? What did you mean by that pantyhose? I highly doubt it.

Dr. Brennan said he couldn't trust us or Babylon with his kindness to others, so he came up with this method.
Yeah, it's funny, that Dr.
There is no denying it.

　You don't. That doesn't make sense.

I'm glad I said I'd leave it up to each of you to decide in the end. You can't be a strangely obedient feminist who's used to being with a woman and pretending to be a feminist, or you can't be a feminist who pretends to be interested in women, even if you do glance at them.

　Conformists are chosen for that reason........ I mean, what's a muzzie? Rude. And safe is kind of a tough pill to swallow!

I am now your property. It's a pleasure to meet you, Master.
'Huh...'

　I feel like I'm in some kind of trouble. I'm picturing the helpless face of a doctor I've never met.
　Why don't you just bring them all back here? You've got to talk it over. I told Sheska and opened the gate to the surface.



"Hanging gardens..... You could say it's a legacy of the ancient civilization of Parthenos.

　Leanne was overcome with emotion as she looked around.
　The ancient civilization of Partheno. A super civilization that created a variety of magic and created tools and artifacts from it.
　Babylon was one of the legacies created by that civilization, and it could be said to be an artifact in itself. If that's the case, maybe Sheska is an artifact too.
　Everyone is looking around the garden. According to Sheska, the size of this garden is the size of four Parthenodomes. ........First of all, I don't know how big the Partheno Dome is. Anyway, I'm sure it's big.
　Some areas look like botanical gardens, others have fountains, stepping stones, flower beds and ponds, and it's a garden that any gardener would jump at.
　A garden is something you can look at, walk around and admire, so I can kind of understand why everyone is floating around. I'm sure Julio would be happy to see it.
　In one corner, me, Leanne, and Sheska were relaxing in a bower that served as a resting place set up by the pond.

'So this is where Leanne was going to get what she was going to get?
'Come on. I was hoping to discover some ancient magic, but now I've found more than that.

　I see, so you could say that this Babylon itself is a crystal of ancient magic. It's a parade of wonders, with gardens that won't last for 5,000 years, flowers that won't shrivel, barriers that make it invisible to the outside world, and no idea what kind of ancient magic is being used.
　The person who built this place, Regina Babylon, was undoubtedly a genius. She's a pervert, though, who forces the child she created to show her panties in full.

'Sheska, what else is this place but as a garden?
No, nothing. Unlike the others, we are simply a private garden floating in the sky. There are no treasures or weapons of any kind. A beautiful garden that flies in the sky.
No, well, this thing is a treasure in itself, isn't it?
Thank you, sir. But the Hanging Gardens of Babylon already belong to the Master.

　What? What do you mean?

I control and manage this Babylon, sir. And I am the Master's. My Babylon belongs to him.
...Is that so?
That's right. It's a bride-to-be.

　It's a big bridezilla. I mean, I'm not going to get you a wife. I'm having a hard time with that one.

Hey, Sheska. There's something I thought you should know. You said earlier that you have a private garden that is simply floating in the sky, unlike the others. What do you mean by that?

　Leanne gives Sheska a sharp look. Come to think of it ... "Unlike the others" means there's an "other"?

Babylon floats in the sky in several areas. In addition to the Gardens, which I manage, there are also laboratories, hangars, and libraries, all of which are controlled and managed by my sisters. All together, they are Babylon.

　...What did you say?