re_alignment | [Audio] Melan Blue here.

[The feed shows a concerned blue face, eyes narrowed. It's kinda hard to use the little... thing? with his paws, but that metal creature had said it could be used to talk with other people here.]

Hello...? I am looking for some of my friends.

[Melan hesitates a few seconds. Does that thing even work?]

They... look like me, except red and pink for Eryun, silver and black for Pyon. They were with me just before I was sent here... As was the Monomakia attacking us. The... civilians? amongst you, be careful, that creature is really agressive. For the others, just aim for the eyes.

[The metal creature had assured him he wasn't the only one able to fight here. With a little luck, the rogue experiment would be killed soon and his duty would be fulfilled.]

If the... metal... servant... is right, you can't go back to your home dimension? We are blocked here?

[Melan doesn't look really disturbed by the idea: universe hopping, he is quite familiar with the concept.]

It's really not the funny world...?

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I... think I understand. It will take time, but you will manage it, I am sure.

A...bird and a car. [Melan knows what those are, but damn if he can understand how Kagerou manages to change into that!] Ampoule form is the form I take to rest and heal. It cannot move, unfortunately.

The police here is good then? Hm... [Sorry, he will believe that when he sees it.]

Yes, they did. Managed to touch me only once, but they shot at me multiple times. They tried to hurt someone I liked very much.

You're kind to offer so much confidence in someone you've just met.

[He nods] Yes. My frame is designed to change size... and shape. Do you want to see? [Since maybe that would help this stranger understand.] You can repair yourself?

So far, yes.

I'm... sorry that happened to you. If it helps you, at all, the one in charge -- Blurr -- has never been anything but good to me, and to others.

You don't really have a choice. You must change, adapt to the world you are in, or you falter and disappear.
I don't want anyone to disappear.

I would like to seeit, please. I really can't imagine someone changing shape like that.
Ampoule form allows me to heal really fast. Not repair.

It's alright. A single gunshot wound can't stop me for long. Especially if I change form. And I will see.

I know I have to. It... is taking time. That's all.

[He nods, and... without warning or much fanfare, his frame twists, folds, and simply becomes a bird-like, robotic creature. He stays on the ground, peering up.]

The bird. See?

[Melan stares. Just STARE. For a few seconds. Then he tilts his head on the side.]

It's... impressive. [The Knight floats close, gently poking the red beak with his sword.] And you can change form at will?
[He is almost jealous.]

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[His head bobs a little, cocking to one side.]

Yes. Between any of my forms.

Hm... [Ok, now he is jealous.]

Useful. I can't do that.

You have a third form too? A... car?

But you're alive. That's more than I am.

[In his opinion anyway.]

[The bird nods, and... once more, changes form. This time, it's a gaudy sports car. With fins on the side.]

[Melan is honestly puzzled at Kagerou's words, and his expression shows it.]

You... are alive too. Or we wouldn't be speaking.

[Oh, and he is so gonna poke the car too.]

[The headlights flash when he speaks. Not brightly. But noticeably.]

Not as you. Or human beings. Or... even the other robots here.

I'm only AI. Artificial.

[Melan blinks at the flashes. Does that mean something? A social move maybe?]

But... I am artificial too. I have been created. Why are you different from the other robots? I don't... understand.

They... have souls. I don't.

I thought since you weren't robotic, it would be the same for you. That you have a soul.

I... thought you had a soul too. You act like you do. In fact, I really can't understand why you say you don't have one. Sorry.

[Melan's wings flicker. The Knight is honestly puzzled, and he doesn't really see where the problem is.]

I... think I have one? I can feel. Doesn't that imply that I have a soul?

I don't. I'm only AI. All I feel... it's only programming. Only data.

[He changes back to his robot form, as there's... more expression that way. Only to shrug.]

Yes, it does.

You feel because you are... Programmed to do so? [Melan frowns slightly.] They programmed you to adapt to a whole new universe too? [Whoah, those programmers of yours must have been very thorought!]

That's what they told me. That's... what they always said.

[He shakes his head.]

I don't know if they programmed adapting. Maybe they didn't. [If he wasn't meant to adapt then... well. That would explain a lot.]

Are "they" always right? They are humans, right? Humans are flawed and it's what makes them unique. But it means that they can do mistakes.

[Melan is still frowning, unable to understand Kagerou's doubts. The robot can feel, or at least it seems so, so he has a soul. Period.]

It looks like you have adapted well enough. You have friends here, after all.

They thought so. I don't know more than that...

[There's so much he just doesn't know. It's hard to put things together sometimes.]

You think that's really all it takes?

They might be wrong. Nobody is right all the time. The may have made a mistake about you and thought you didn't have a soul when you have one.

[Melan shrugs]

But in the end, you are the only one who can be judge of that. Do you want to have a soul or not? Only you know the answer of that question.

... I do. I do want that.

But is wanting something really enough to ensure you get it?

I guess it depends how much you want it.

To be honest, I never thought about it. I always thought I had a soul, I never doubted it. You seem so... Alive I never doubted you had one either.

... Badly.

I think I want it very badly. [He nods a bit.] I guess I'll take that as a compliment.

[Audio] Melan Blue here.

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