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[experimentality]

[ Oh look, it's Prism again--still stuck in the body of one of Liege Maximo's Acolytes. He doesn't appear any worse for wear otherwise, and he's currently seated on the berth that occupies one corner of his quarters. ]

Hello!

[ Still as perky as ever, if his bright tone is any indication. ]

How are you all? Well, I hope. Personally I'm rather bored. Incarceration is a dull affair, although I fail to see how this qualifies as any sort of punishment.

That said, I have a simple proposition.

Either Hal Nine-Thousand is brought to me immediately, or I will begin systematically detonating the devices currently implanted within several members of the population.

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[thxforthememories]

I didn't ask you to do...

I'm not like you. Any of you. If they remove my AI... keep it powered, then I can be rebuilt.

You have more at stake in this. All of you do.

[As long as there's power to the AI core... he should be fine.]

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[sword_redemption]

I know. You don't have to ask. You don't owe me anything than to live.

Kagerou. [This is hard to explain....] I've nearly died so many times already. Sometimes, luck runs out, and if it has to run out now, but it keeps you alive? It's worth it.

And you have a whole life you were robbed of back in Japan, here. You can finally live.

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[thxforthememories]

But -- Why?

No, you don't understand. You are all alive. You have... you're different. I'm AI. Only AI. I can be rebuilt -- Shadowmaru said so. He ...

[He stops. 'Robbed of'? Is that one of those phrases he's not familiar with? This is a terrible time to ask, but--]

... What does that mean?

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[sword_redemption]

You're alive, too. You think, you feel, right? That's not just some computer program. It's you. You're real.

I meant that you can live here. Really live. Without....[He grimaces.] I was going to say without the fear of others trying to kill you but...I guess not.

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[thxforthememories]

But all of it is stored in my AI... memories... included. As long as that is preserved, my frame can be destroyed.

[At least that's what he's assuming.]

And I am saying that I could. So long as my AI remains intact. Unaltered.

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[sword_redemption]

If we know how to do that. Besides, depending on the magnitude of the explosion, your brain module may not survive.

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[thxforthememories]

Then remove it.

... As long as it has power... it should remain intact.

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[sword_redemption]

I don't know how to. And if you're going to do it, we'll need time.

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[thxforthememories]

[Well crap there's a flaw there isn't there.]

I don't... know how either. One of the others might, but...

Stall it, maybe.

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[sword_redemption]

Ratchet might. I'm trying to buy you time.

[You and everyone. Maybe someone will find a way to stop Prism.]

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[thxforthememories]

Be careful. I'll... see if I can speak to the others.

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[sword_redemption]

[He nods.] If nothing else, I can buy us time this way.

Good luck.

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[thxforthememories]

They're working on it.

Don't... do anything foolish. No one has to die. Not for me.

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[sword_redemption]

Good.

And we may not have a choice of anyone dying; that's the problem.

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[thxforthememories]

Then no one will die for me!

There isn't any point to it!

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[sword_redemption]

Kagerou. Dying to save another is the best thing some of us can hope for. If you have to give your life, isn't it best to give it for a reason?

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[thxforthememories]

...

I don't know.

I didn't get to make that choice, I was told.