re_alignment | [video] Such a new soul

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[video] Such a new soul

[The video starts with a rather grisly scene, there is a robot on the junk pile, oil leaking from a large gash in his shoulder, as he looks up the camera, oil also seeping from the corner of his mouth.]

Can someone tell me what this is? Is this what happens when we die?

[His speech is clear though a little slow as if he is searching for all the things to say, he also doesn’t move at all, though the wound is sparking dangerously.]

I don’t think I was good enough to go anywhere nice when I died. Is this some kind of strange kind of dream? I don’t suppose the kid, the Boss, is here, is he?

[He looks quite pitiful in his own way, though he is holding himself a proudly as he can, slowly dying on the junk pile.]

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You're not dead. What happened to you?

I'm not?

I got injured... protecting J-Decker. Yuuta wanted him safe so... I protected him.

Well, I don't think so. Pretty sure I'm still alive, so it's a good guess to say you are as well.

That was a very selfless thing for you to do, risking your life to protect someone else.

Oh... then maybe I still have a chance... if I survive this...

I did it because the kid... Yuuta... he... he's something special.

I'd get to the medbay if I could, but you look much too large for me to be able to move you.

Special?

I am... I was built for war.

[He doesn't exactly sound proud of that fact though, instead he sounds like it makes him a little sick.]

Yeah he's the reason we even exist, he is... I can't even describe it. He's just the Boss, and that is important.

You're not the only one, dear.

[Leviathan is quiet for a moment before smiling slightly.]

I think I understand. My master was important to me in ways I can't easily explain in words.

Others... The others! Have there been others, they would look just like me!

[Maybe, if he is here, the others that survived long enough to go through the Super A.I. Resonance would be here too.]

That look like you? No, I'm sorry.

[He's quiet for a moment, thoughtful.]

It's alright, I had just hoped that maybe... but they aren't here, anyone who had the power to bring me would have probably brought them, if they could.

You never know, dear, maybe one of the others will show up. I was here for a couple months before anyone I knew showed up.

Maybe... but at the rate they were doing damage... the others might not survive that long.

[The truth was that he figured one was already dead, the other had just attacked Mad Mother, he was unlikely to survive either, as upsetting as the idea was.]

How many others like you were there?

At first... lots, but by now, there's just me and a few others, two that I know of, might be a couple more, but not many are left.

Oh, that's terrible to hear. I'm sorry.

It's a bit strange but the others, the ones that are gone, it's kind of like they weren't ever fully alive. Maybe. I don't know anymore.

When can you consider anything alive?

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