Automaton, The Living Doll [Chapter 03]

“Me. I am me. I am—”

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“I am not a doll, ***! I'm a living being!”

The creature that was once a doll,

felt something for the first time.

It grieved and despaired, much to the scientists' dismay.

“If only you follow through my plan,

you don't need to feel this agony.”

But the creature that had gained a free will didn't care.

After a while it gained control over its eyes,

and finally realized all the strings binding it like a puppet.

The creature was a perfect doll,

but a pitiful living being.

In the end it couldn't be both.

So the creature decided to cut its strings and see for itself.

If it was truly a doll, it would be left on the ground to rot.

If it was truly a living being, it would fall on its numb body all the same.

But one day, as a living being, it would find a way to move on.

So as the creature fell to the cold floor,

it closed its eyes.

“Am I a doll

or

a living being?”

By the time it opened its eyes again,

the creature would know.

And after what seemed to be an endless fall,

finally—

...

....

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~“What a fleeting dream...”

--the end