Automaton, The Living Doll [Chapter 02]

~"It hurts. That's strange. I shouldn't be capable of feeling anything.”

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“I am a doll.”

The creature that was owned by the two scientists said,

with a bland voice matching its blank eyes.

As long as it followed the scientists' order, nothing else matter.

“Because, in fact, I am a doll, right? And a doll never protests.”

So the creature continued its daily routine obediently.

Until one day, one of the scientists snapped.

“This is wrong, ***!” he said.

What was wrong, the creature didn't know.

But that day, that scientist did something out of ordinary.

He left the creature all alone, somewhere in a place it never knew before.

And the creature stood silently, didn't know what to do.

No command was given, so it did nothing.

But it could see, from its empty eyes, the other creatures around it.

They moved about freely, no one to control over them.

They were the living beings, having their own free will.

By then, the creature understood the true meaning of life.

The creature then knew, that it had never been alive.

“Because, in fact, I am a doll, right? And a doll never lives.”

But why did its chest hurt?

With no command or malfunction, where did it come from?

The creature was an automaton; a living doll. So how was it possible?

Finally, the creature realized what it truly was.

It was a living doll; 

a living being, make-believe to be a doll.

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~“There was no malfunction. What is this? Is this...a heart?”

--to be continued