Without You

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Ai Cole, the host, blinked away his fresh tears as he stared at the black void surrounding him. He was at the System Space, again.

His heart hurt.

It's hurt so much he just wanted to obliterate himself.

But he wouldn't, not unless he wanted to leave the growing light in his original world.

He promised him, anyway.

He couldn't just back out now, no matter how much it pained like a bitch.

Floating in the air, he stretched his limbs, feeling the soreness of his muscles from his last mission, wiped away his tears and calmed his turbulent emotions. "Is there anything new you can offer me?"

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Ai covered his mouth, holding in a whimper as he remembered the troubles he went to be promoted. He was tired, immensely so. Tired of life, tired of feeling, tired of everything. "Simply put, you have nothing new to give."

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What do you think I'm feeling right now?

"You tell me ah, how am I supposed to fall in love if I had to die quick, die smart, die strong?" Ai lifted his right arm to comb through his messy, black locks. Releasing a sigh, he dropped his arm and floated as if he were lying in bed. "That's what you kept repeating when I just started world-hopping."

And that's what I kept doing, no matter how pained and forlorn he looked—no matter how much it hurt me.

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"It wasn't part of my mission, it's useless ah."

And yet here I am.

Where was the supposed perks of being a cyborg? The light was blinding him and he didn't have any function on his android body to configure the brightness.

"You asshat, cover the f.u.c.k.i.n.g windows! He won't be able to see shit!" Ai graciously thanked the man for his quick-thinking.

Ai heard the scampering of feet, and in the next second, the light was reduced. When his eyes finally adjusted, he gazed over the whole vicinity.

The room was crammed with highly advanced modern technology, which he guessed was used to create androids. For such extensive and tedious work, there were, suprisingly, only two men.

"Oh, right! We need to transfer information into his motherboard!" A man hurried over to Ai as he plugged in a plain, grey wire in Ai's palm.

The same man then went to a machine and pressed numerous buttons leading to the wire turning a green light.

"Let's see here—" another man went to a pile of papers and took out a stack off the pile— "they asked for...Infinite Knowledge."

The room instantly went quiet. The other man stopped what he was doing and looked at the man if he was serious or not.

"I wish I were jesting, but, unfortunately, I'm not," the man murmured. "F.u.c.k it. If it fails, it fails."

"There must be a mistake."

"It's no mistake, Fye. We're just gonna have to take the risk."

"What if he becomes unstable?! We can't just shut off S-196! He just got here, Myles!"

"What can we do? The f.u.c.ker wants S-196 to have Infinite Knowledge."

"Why—"

"They're obviously making him a factotum."

"They're going to overwork him!"

"Androids aren't like f.u.c.k.i.n.g humans, Fye! Yes, they can do basic shit that humans do like eating and whatnot, but they don't f.u.c.k.i.n.g need to!"

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"Fye, you have to stop being attached. It won't do you any good," Ai felt that he could have possibly gotten along with this person named Myles. Myles was a realist, he could tell. He was one before, and he could tell they would've been the best of friends. Sadly, with the system and all it's other capabilities, he doesn't believe in reality anymore.

It's as if this was all just a dream—a coma, of some sort.

"I don't understand why the boss even told them about Infinite Knowledge! It's supposed to be confidential."

"Just do your goddamn job, Fye. No one's telling you to yap about this. The boss surely isn't paying you to."

"Fine then," Fye, who was the man operating a machine, growled and pressed a red button resulting in the wire, connected to Ai, turning a bright red.

Observing the heated argument happening between the two, Ai barely noticed the switching colors of the wire connected to him.

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'This never happened before...'

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