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[Kagerou rarely uses his video feed if he can help it. But now... he's too angry to bother with altering the automatic setting. So the network is treated to a view of the tall, lanky robot standing on top of some building in Maurtia Falls, wings twitching in agitation.]

[... He probably also needs to rest and refuel but that's not important right now.]

You. All of you human beings -- how can you live with yourselves!

[Oh, well. Someone saw the news, apparently.]

Disgusting. All of you! Why would anyone want to decide to help you? To be a hero for you? If all you do is murder each other...

I want no part of this. No part of any of you.

You can't have built cities in every inch of this world -- I'll find somewhere you aren't.

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But it...

If you're data... why. Why would you be more important...?

I don't understand.

We aren't more important. And I think you're starting to learn that. It's hard to change the way you view things -- what you learned or were programmed to know. But that doesn't mean it's impossible. I think the more time you spend thinking for yourself, the more you will come to know you are on the same level as humanity.

But that's not what he said!

He told me human beings were more important. That your lives had more value than ours.

He can't be wrong -- he can't be.

Who told you this? Shadowmaru?

Yes. The last time I saw him.

Perhaps his beliefs would change in this world. Or perhaps they will change back home. No being is of higher value than other beings.

But I don't know they would! I don't know he'd think that way!

All I have is what he told me!

You know him better than anyone. You can't anticipate how he might feel about things if given the full information?

I don't want to assume. Not for him. If I'm wrong...

What? If you're wrong, then what? Then you would just be the one to teach him what you learned. Relationships are give and take. You learn things from one another and become stronger because of it.

I've finished teaching him. He's ready to do things for himself.

He... doesn't need to learn anything from me ever again.

Learning is a never ending process, Kagerou. There's no limit on how much you can teach one person or AI.

But that's what they said.

That I was finished.

Do you take all the things he has told you to be set in stone?

Yes.

I do.

I guess all I can say is that the more time you are here, the more you will learn. And the best case scenario, perhaps, is that he will come here to you as well -- to a place where you can learn together.

... that is the best case, yes.

I thought things would be all right, if I were alone. So long as I was in a world where he existed. So long as I had my memories of him.

But I miss him.