Milk/Story

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## Behind the Scenes

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Kim Na-yul

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Laura Stahl

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Mutsumi Tamura

## Profile

A Nikke belonging to Cafe Sweety, a squad of fixers under Tetra Line. Belligerent and confrontational, Milk is always eager to get into a scrap, and has a bit of short fuse. She also tends to be surprisingly low-effort, often being the first one to suggest taking an easier method if the squad's plan A goes south.

Milk's favorite beverage is milk coffee, though unlike her coworkers she is much more vocal about her like for her choice beverage and her distaste for the others. And also much more willing to punch anybody who she hears smack-talking milk coffee.

### Nikke Backstory

A combative girl who likes to provoke others. She sells milk coffee in Cafe Sweety.

## Personality

Holding true to her appearance, Milk plays the role of an archetypal tomboy character; strong and athletic. She would pick fights to anyone for the sake of thrill, as such she does not hesitate to engage in a fight against anyone who disparage her favorite beverage.

## Story

### Event Story

#### Miracle Snow

Milk makes a brief cameo alongside her squad mates Sugar and Frima. Milk is...trying to run after one of the cars on a merry-go-round to train her pursuit skills, apparently.

#### Maid in Valentine

Milk becomes a part of a squad lead by Privaty along with Signal and the protagonist in order for the Triangle Nikke to infiltrate the Sweets and Cocoa factory to learn how to bake some chocolate.

### Character Story

#### Episode 1 - An Easy Assignment

Café Sweety has been commissioned to retrieve something from the Grove, the Intelligence center of the Ark. Frima shares the issuer will pay a lot and the owner of their prize is currently on vacation for a while. However, many Nikkes are on guard duty and the building is highly secure. Seeing this as an easy assignment, Milk is ready to perform a smash and grab. Sugar refuses to partake since they would be committing theft and Frima's tired as usual and immediately falls to sleep. Milk threatened to take the job on her own and keep the reward for herself, something neither of her teammates cared about.

After they left, she asked the commander to act as her accomplice since he happened to be around in exchange for some of the cut. He agrees to help Milk and the two are ready to execute their heist. She was also happy to be able to blow off some steam.

Upon reaching the location, after admiring how luxurious it looked, Milk was ready to break in. He was worried about what would happen to them if they got caught reminding her that they were about to commit a crime, but she considered it more of doing a job she was entrusted with. For Café Sweety, their specialty is doing jobs and getting paid. The thing that they're trying to steal is a powerful weapon she thinks no citizen should have. She reasons removing it would save more lives than just leaving it alone, a point he agrees with. With a dubious morality shared between them, the two enter the building.

Once inside, the room they entered is colored completely red, a sign infrared detection devices were being used. Since neither of them can crawl through, Milk intentionally sets off the alarm alerting the Nikkes to their presence. Her plan is to fight every single one so no one can stop them. After she single handedly took on every Nikke on guard duty, the protagonist realized she just wanted to rumble, something she proudly admitted to. She was more interested in beating up the Nikkes than the actual job. With no more obstacles in their way, the two proceed to collect their prize.

What they seek was locked inside a safe deposit box that's too heavy to move. After shooting it with her gun, she manages to break it open revealing their target. Now in their possession, Milk is ready to return to the café and share coffee as a toast to their success. Before they could, they heard a ticking noise and the protagonist found a self-destruct signal on it that activated after Milk destroyed the safe. They ran away as quickly as they could and the two decided to jump out of the building before it exploded. After it did, the protagonist briefly lost consciousness until Milk woke him up. Turns out she lost their prize and it was sent further away because of the explosion. The two searched the rubble but with no luck. With the A.C.P.U. arriving on the scene, the two reluctantly agree to retreat to avoid being captured and sent to the Rehabilitation Center. The thing they were after is still missing.

Back at the Café, Milk's teammates inform her the client is furious with them with Sugar calling her too reckless. The client also told them to retrieve the thing or they'll get a complaint. Since this was Milk's screw up, Sugar and Frima wanted her to make up for it for the sake of the Scavengers' reputation. In order to fix her relations with her squad, she agrees to make things right.

#### Episode 2 - Carelessness

Unsure of where the thing went after the explosion, the two turned to Dolla for help. After sharing what the two already knew, she revealed it was taken by a random Royal citizen. After Milk paid to hear the rest of what she uncovered, she continued by saying they sold it to a broker through Dark Net. After it was sold again, it now sits as the grand prize of the Under Arena, an illegal private Nikke fighting arena. Because of Milk's mistake, the Under Arena was drawing more traffic than ever. Numerous contenders have joined wanting to get their hands on it causing attendance to grow and ticket prices to skyrocket. The tournament itself begins tomorrow and sign-ups end today. Working within her wheelhouse, Milk will fight her way to reclaim what she tried to steal. Dolla warns her she's in over her head and informs her she needed a Participation Ticket to enter. Fortunately, Dolla has one on her, but won't give it up for free.

After paying Dolla again, Milk has the ticket and is ready for a fight. The protagonist worries for her safety, but since they're just using their fists and not their guns, she believes everything will be fine. After warning her about a rumor where some Nikkes who enter die in the ring, she admits to knowing that already since aside from not being allowed to use weapons, there are no rules. She's even more confident because as her current record stands, Milk has never lost a hand-to-hand fight. With a perfect win and commission rate, Milk sees a challenge she was made to excel through so easily, she thinks it's a little suspicious. After cracking her knuckles, Milk confidently proclaimed to not need sleep as she waits to pummel her first challenger.

The next day, Milk lost in the first round of Game 1.

#### Episode 3 - Coward

Worrying about his friend after her immediate defeat, the commander decides to check up on Milk. As expected, she's frustrated at herself for losing to a mass-produced Nikke. Fortunately, even though Milk lost, she still has a chance to win the tournament if she clears the repechage. This means so long as she doesn't lose again, she still has a shot. It became clear that Milk became dejected from her loss and she gave up on reclaiming the thing and on bare-knuckle brawling in general. The commander was shocked by what he was hearing. Milk figured that since Nikkes were created to use firearms, that's what she should be proficient in. He is confused how she could abandon the one thing she loved so easily, but she clarifies that fighting is more of a hobby for her and a means to let off steam.

He then reminds her if she backs out now, she won't be able to get the thing and would lose her commission. After she then insinuated she planned on robbing it from the winner, the protagonist tries to bring Milk back to reality. Calling her despicable touched a nerve and she threatened to beat him up if he continued, regardless if he's her commander. Because he refused to apologize, Milk was at the point where she was ready to pummel her superior. Despite her bluster, the protagonist was not scared in the slightest because the only coward he saw was standing right in front of him. His response caused her to hesitate and he agrees to face her on her terms.

Not long after their physical fight, the commander easily beats Milk, much to her surprise. He exposes that her foible is taking the easy approach after failing and if she was actually diligent about combat, she would be able to defeat him. She thinks he gained a big ego from beating her once, but declares no Nikke perseveres more than her. After questioning why she backed out of the tournament, she lies by saying she was trying to find an easier solution, but he knew the truth was she had lost confidence in herself and isn't willing to apply herself. Having something to show her, he orders Milk to follow him. Though she doesn't respond, the protagonist hears her footsteps following behind him.

After the two reach the Commander's room, he shares a video Dolla gave him of Milk's next opponent. He intends to watch it with her so they can devise a strategy to win her next fight. Milk still worries she could lose, but he assures her victory will be hers. Though she is still not confident, she agrees to indulge him. After watching the video, Milk notices she has a fast, mean right kick, but since she attacks at an awkward angle, she can easily duck under it and give herself an opening to counter. She realizes that though her opponent looks intimidating, she can only perform the same two combos that are easy to work around. Milk learned a lot from the video and the two spent all night analyzing it.

The following day at the repechage, Milk easily dominated her opposition.

#### Episode 4 - Face-to-Face

After clearing the repechage, the commander congratulated Milk on her winning streak. She felt she only won because of dumb luck, but he felt her skills were also up to par. She worries that watching videos will only work for so long if she isn't training her body to compensate. Asking for suggestions, he gives the simple answer that practice makes perfect. Milk figures there has to be an easier way to get stronger due to living in a technologically advanced society, but after he caught her digging up an old habit, she relents and is willing to train. The two became sparring partners with the protagonist mimicking Milk's opponent. Though he's not as fast as her nor can he hit as hard, he will help her grasp who she's dealing with. While the two train together, he notices how happy she looks. Though she becomes embarrassed he can tell, she admits that she feels like she's accomplishing something that she once thought was impossible.

The following week held the final match of the tournament. As one of the two finalists, Milk closes her eyes lost in thought. She has become a fan favorite on her journey. Her opponent was the Nikke who defeated her when the tournament started. Before the match began, Milk confided in her Pal that this was the first time she really put effort into something instead of avoiding a scary situation or using underhanded methods. She has changed so much over their time together and feels she can understand things from a new perspective. She hates the person she was before and the commander knows she rose above her former self. She is determined to win and he will be watching her when she does. Following their heart to heart, Milk enters the arena and readies herself for the biggest battle in her life.

After it ended, Milk returned to Café Sweety having lost again. Though Frima laughed at her failure, she congratulated her for fulfilling the commission. As for how she got the object back, the Nikke gave it to her with no conditions since she only entered for the love of fighting and to test herself. Sugar mentions that doesn't answer the question, so she clarifies that Nikke noticed Milk had changed between both fights and gave her the object out of a sign of respect. She also admitted the Milk held her own pretty well. Because she used the phrase "blood flowing", Sugar became concerned Milk had a major system error and needed to be repaired as a joke. Frima could see the effort her squad mate put in paid off and she was glad to have worked hard for something, a feat neither Sugar nor Frima pictured would ever happen. After the two felt she was bragging too much, Milk challenged them to take her on.

#### Episode 5 - Revenge Match

The members of Café Sweety find themselves in a game of rock-paper-scissors. As she threw rock while the others threw scissors, Milk was the winner. The other two claimed to have used their scissors to cut through her rock, or "super scissors" as Frima calls it. Milk wanted the two of them to make her some coffee as the winner, but the two ordered her to do it instead. Since this argument was getting them nowhere, Milk buys herself one. Even though Sugar and Frima pestered her to get their favorite flavors, she told them to get it themselves. Before she could get her drink however, Frima received a new commission for the group to retrieve a file from the Old Data Center in the Outer Rim. The Center has been a hotbed of criminal activity and is very dangerous, but their client is willing to pay a lot for the file. Frima mentions that if they are to succeed, they need to be fully prepared. After Sugar suggests finding an easier alternative, Milk derides her for her way of thinking and suggests that they should prepare for the mission. Frima worries her teammate had a mind conversion and her personality changed because of it, but Milk was showing off what she learned while she trained. To her, hard work and self improvement will lead one to personal rewards. Sugar and Frima thank the commander for helping Milk better herself, but she then became annoyed they were ignoring her.

The protagonist and Milk leave the café together and she hands him some coffee as thanks for his help. After giving it some thought, she has one last score to settle. Now that she has become a better fighter, she wants a rematch with him. Though he feels the timing may be awkward, he decides to indulge her after being called scared.

Their second bout ended the same way the first did. Milk was surprised a Nikke lost to a human, but he reminded her that since they've been sparring together, he knows all of her moves. Despite knowing she would lose again, Milk realized for all her Pal knows about her, she knows very little about him. She appreciates all he has done for her and for molding her into a better person, even without asking anything in return. Wanting to grow closer to him, Milk wishes to get to know her commander better. After noticing her nervous fidgeting, he deduces that Milk has feelings for him. He agrees to grant her request and will be an open book towards her, a promise she easily reciprocates.

The two embrace each other tightly. Milk assures him she would never abandon him and wants to work hard so she can fully learn about the protagonist from front to end, no matter how long it takes. He then confesses there is one thing he still doesn't know about her. Since they've got plenty of time to get to know each other, she's willing to share with him anything he wants to know. He then proceeds to kiss her which catches her off guard. Though he's glad to know what that feels like, Milk tells him to warn her next time.

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