The task at hand

(chapter originally by faith on writing.com)

Aegis watched the retreating form of Yukari's naked body with a mix of fascination, pity and glee. She was striving to remain empathetic about her friend's unfortunate situation, but she could not deny the **** level of embarrassment on display was both amusing and surprisingly cute. Oh, she intended to track down and destroy this Temptation with all due prejudice, both because of her core programming and for the sake of the humiliation he was putting her closest friends through. There was no hesitation with that imperative. The fact that she would cherish every blessed second of this curse and the way it had allowed her to fully access and appreciate the unparalleled beauty of the young female human body in such a varied number of forms was completely immaterial.

Still, she wasn't quite so callous to openly laugh at her friend's predicament. She wanted to, of course, but that would be rude. So she stifled the giggle that was threatening to escape as she gingerly followed the path her naked friend had taken (fortunately, the shock of experiencing such responses as laughter to humorous events, a decidedly human reaction foreign to her artificial mind, had somewhat dulled to a happy feeling of mild elation at the apparent breakthrough her psyche had experienced as a result of the trauma suffered in her encounter with Minako and the monstrous Shadow). She found the girl cowering behind a pillar.

"Yukari-san?" Aegis asked.

"Aegis! Hi! Sorry! I was...I needed...I...I'm sorry! D-don't look at me!" Yukari poked her head and bare shoulders out from behind her cover, cheeks flushed and her words a stuttering mess from sheer humiliation.

"....I am sorry too, Yukari-san. I had forgotten that your...condition affects your emotions as well as your ability to dress. No matter how long you spend naked in public or how many people see you in the nude your mind is unable to desensitize itself to the experience. Your sense of shame and embarrassment are as acute in this moment as the first time you were **** to display yourself with clothing." Aegis said in a neutral tone, trying to sound sympathetic and hopefully hiding her delight at the situation. She DID have empathy for the agony her comrades were going through. It just came with other emotions as well, some fairly contradictory to the task of showing emotional support.

"Its...Its..." Yukari muttered, closing her eyes and biting her lip, her face burning crimson. "Its...worse than that, actually."

"Oh?"

"Y-yeah. E-every time I f-feel embarrassed about this, I can't help thinking of all the other times it happened. So it ends up being a combination of it feeling new and all of the old shame from everything that's already happened! Its like waking up from a dream or coming out of a marin karin and remembering all the stupid things I did when I wasn't thinking straight!" Yukari squeeked.

"I see. So your new feelings of embarrassment are added to your past experiences of distress. Or to put it more simply, each time you are seen naked is in actuality MORE humiliating than the last, thanks to your past memories." Aegis summarized, nodding to herself.

"Yes." Yukari squeeked, the soft wail of distress both a little heartbreaking and adorable to the robot.

"And to add to the misfortune, your body seems to respond to the feeling of humiliation with feelings of arousal. Each experience therefore makes you feel both more humiliated and more aroused than the last." Aegis continued.

"That's the wor...ummm...aroused? Heh. Wh-what are you talking about, Aegis? I'm...I'm not..."

"Yukari-san...you are aware that my design is state of the art, correct? You...realize my sensors make me aware that you are playing with yourself while we are talking?" Aegis asked gently.

"You...you...what? WHAT?" Yukari yelped, the fingers inside her pausing in shock....before fingering herself even more vigorously. "You can do that! That's not fair! That's...that's cheating!! Turn it off! D-Don't look at me!!!"

Aegis sighed, smiling sympathetically. "If they were not hard wired into my network, I would, Yukari-san. Unfortunately, I would have to shut down my operations entirely (which I am not willing to do) or retreat to a distance of several hundred meters before my awareness would grant you any sense of modesty."

"Noooooo." Yukari wailed. "For-forget everything you saw!!"

Aegis decided not to explain that her archival functions made it impossible to delete information without a total system wipe...or that she had no intention of ever removing a second of this day or any moment to come involving the misadventures of her naked friends.

"I do not mind waiting for you to finish the task at hand before we talk, Yukari-san." Aegis offered. "Ah. Task at hand is not meant to be a euphemism. My apologies."

"Sh-shut up! I can't do something like that! Not with you...watching. Or whatever your doing!"

"Have you not...done so several more times already? In front of far more people than-"

"I SAID SHUT UP!" Yukari screamed, shoving her fingers in deeper. "DON'T REMIND ME OF THAT!!"

"My apologies."

"And NO I HAVE NOT! Not...the real me. Everytime that happened was because the other me took control and humiliated me! I could never...do something like that...on my own. Not when I know your watching me!"

"But my sensors indicate you are very close. Does it not cause further distress to cease at a juncture such as-"

"HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO SAY TO SHUT UP, DAMMIT!!" Yukari squeeled, forcing her fingers to cease their pleasing work and dislodge from her inner folds. In the process she let out a moan of need and frustration and blushed all the harder knowing Aegis had heard it.

"In that case, may I lend some assistance?" Aegis asked, offering a handkerchief to the girl. "We will need to return to class in the near future. I presume you would feel no better about the other students noticing your aroused state than with me."

".....thanks." Yukari said, a slight sulk in her tone.

"Please wash your hand. You may also attempt to dry yourself..elsewhere. But I believe we will need several dozen more handkerchiefs to fully dry off the accumulation in-"

Aegis paused, looking at the seething face of her friend. "Ah, apologies. I have failed to comply with your instructions to shut up. I will do so now."

"Good!" Yukari snapped, wiping the juices off her hand and dabbing at the 'accumulation' between her legs. "And..thanks again."

"Of course. So...shall we?" Aegis offered a hand. Yukari stared at it a moment, then closing her eyes and drawing in a breath, she slowly reached out and took it. With a gentle pull and a soft moan of protest, Yukari nervously took a hesitant step out from behind her wall of safety and revealed herself in all her naked glory.

Aegis smiled, and took an unexpected step forward.

"Wha! Hey! What are you-?" Yukari yelped, finding herself caught in an unexpected hug.

"You have had a very long day. I thought you were perhaps in need of more than a handkerchief."

Or an orgasm, Aegis thought to herself with a smirk.

Yukari gave a sour expression, which gradually gave way to a relieved look as she returned the embrace.

"Y-yeah. I could."

Aegis smiled to herself, for once her mind free of distracting perversions.