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[tickingheart]

[After this happened, the robot designed to replace Kuroba Kaito had run.

It hadn't taken long before he stumbled to a halt, shaking, curled against the side of a building.

Feel free to find him there, shivering, pretty much non-responsive.]

Comments

[bustydefense.livejournal.com]

Why are you defective?

[tickingheart]

... I wasn't finished... when he made me... I woke up before I was finished...

[bustydefense.livejournal.com]

So?

[tickingheart]

[He's still shivering, still staring straight ahead. There's still something very very wrong, his answers coming in a broken monotone. He's answering though, being far more open than he would be normally.]

There are problems...

Things missing.

[bustydefense.livejournal.com]

Like what? What's missing?

[tickingheart]

[He pauses, considers, his head tilted slightly to the side, as if listening for something.]

Steps.

... It loops sometimes. And skips. When it shouldn't.

[bustydefense.livejournal.com]

What loops? Or skips?

[tickingheart]

Programming.

... cascading feedback loops when there should be stoppers. And it skips steps.

[bustydefense.livejournal.com]

So what? How does that make you broken?

[tickingheart]

... in my head... it's defective...

[bustydefense.livejournal.com]

I don't think I understand.

[tickingheart]

[A very long pause, staring at her. This is almost too much for him right now.]

Programming.

My brain.

[bustydefense.livejournal.com]

Yes. I know. But there's nothing wrong with you.

[Other than the fact that you keep trying to kill Kaito.]

[tickingheart]

I break people.

...

That's wrong. I shouldn't do that.

[bustydefense.livejournal.com]

No, you shouldn't. But you understand that now, right?

[tickingheart]

Knew that before too.

[bustydefense.livejournal.com]

So what's different now?

[tickingheart]

Nothing.

... I hate it.

[bustydefense.livejournal.com]

That you don't want to hurt people?

[tickingheart]

It's wrong.

[bustydefense.livejournal.com]

Why is it wrong?

[tickingheart]

[a pause, vague confusion.]

Killing people is wrong.

[bustydefense.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[tickingheart]

[Silence, back to blank staring. If she's not asking questions, he's not talking.]

[bustydefense.livejournal.com]

So if you know that it's wrong, why do you hurt people?