The police forces are in turmoil: a new victim has been found. This time, he is a lawyer who is one of the initiators of the international law on robot rights and everything suggests that before dying he was going to contact Professor Ochanomizu of the Ministry of Science. Meanwhile, Inspector Gesicht who continues his tour of the most powerful robots on the planet, meets a robot with the appearance of a little boy? who, Gesicht guesses him right away, is much more sophisticated than he is himself. He calls himself Astro.