episode_0357

***

He stepped back and leaned against the wall, looking for signs of an android approaching from the front.

The sight of it approaching slowly and cautiously and the sight of the drones pointing their guns in this direction with a sinister look harmonized in a strange way.

“Do not move. I will fire.”

“You can’t shoot anyway…”

bang!

A bullet passed his head. My ears were ringing and at the same time I felt a burning sensation.

“I cannot kill the Master. However, it can hurt.”

“Protecting humans.”

He responded by slowly raising his hand back.

“Divine law states that it is okay to use a little physical force to rescue a human being in danger.”

“You are in danger?”

“No. The Master is now trying to do something similar to attempting suicide. Do you think that an android without an engineering module can safely fly a dimensional sailing ship repaired with knowledge gained from the library?”

Isis shook her head.

“You won’t know until you try. During the last inspection, I also confirmed that the dimensional navigation ship was operational. It means that there was some success.”

“Dimensional travel has not been successful even in previous civilizations. Even thinking that something was difficult back then, much less succeeding now, is the same as attempting suicide. Dimensional movement is not enough even if you run tens of thousands of simulations.”

“So, if you think enough simulations have been done, will you allow me to board the dimensional sailing ship?”

“That’s not true. The Master is safest and happiest when he is here.”

Isis declared, showing a faint hint of madness in her gray eyes.

“Look at this.”

As if he knew that would happen, Kang In-ho showed a bitter smile.

The situation has become half as narrow as the initial distance.

He turned around and entered the door code.

2 0 0 3 8 1 0 1 9

When I quickly pressed the panel, the door opened with an electronic sound.

He threw himself inside.

thud!

It wasn’t the sound of the door closing. It was the sound that Isis’s fist made along with the door.

“Master!!!”

You know how to scream too. Kang In-ho, lying on the floor, muttered.

thud! thud! thud!

The android’s fists knocked on the door one after another.

However, the final hurdle of the dimensional sailing ship was not easy.

[Dimensional sailing ship.]

He was staring blankly at the door, but woke up when he heard NB whispering.

“Ugh….”

My whole body screamed as it reached its limit. He crawled, using his hands as his feet.

thud! thud! thud!

The sound of the door being struck became increasingly louder. The door was solid, but it was clear that it would open at some point.

He put more strength into his arms and pulled the boat.

***

A few times he let out his anger at the owner who slipped through his hands like a loach.

After calming down her uncomfortable feelings, Isis looked beyond the door.

Although it was not a clear burn, Isis’s heat-sensing function allowed her to guess the situation beyond the door.

Isis gritted her teeth as she saw the owner crawling toward the dimensional sailing ship.

“NB. I’m sure you haven’t forgotten it. I have your memories too.”

Password 200381019. Isis reached out to the panel.

2 0 0 3 8 1 0 1 6

My hand slips and I press another number.

A beep beep beep beep sound rang.

[Password error. 1 time.]

2 0 0 2 8 1 0 1 6

In the middle, my hand slips again and I press another number.

Beep, beep, beep, the warning sound rang again.

[Password error. Episode 2.]

2 0 0 3 8 1 0 1 8

2 0 0 3 8 2 0 1 9

* * * * * * * * *

[Password error 5 times. The door is locked as it is considered an intrusion.]

The panel turns off with a guidance sound. I tried tapping it with my hand, but the screen that had been turned off did not come back on.

Isis looked down at her hands, which kept slipping. The hand that had been trembling went limp, as if it had finally let go of its ego.

Isis confirmed her initiative by squeezing and releasing her hand a few times.

“NB, you will go until the end….”

Isis felt fierce anger at the traces of NB-20381019, which was leading the Master to destruction from beyond and which remained within her algorithm.

And without any signal, the drones began shooting at the door all at once.

The ricocheting bullet headed toward Isis, tearing her clothes, slicing through her artificial skin, and exposing her skeleton.

Despite the damage accumulating on her body, Isis just glared at the closed door.

***

While the door separating Kang In-ho and Isis was slowly being torn down, he was operating the dimensional navigation ship under NB’s guidance.

As the name suggests, it is a sailing ship built to cross dimensions. There was no such thing as the convenience of starting the car with just one button.

I walked around the cockpit with my weak body.

Just when I thought I had really reached my limit, I heard a whisper coming from the earphones in my ears.

[Please take your seat and fasten your seat belt.]

“Finally….”

There was deep fatigue in his voice as if he was sighing.

Drurrr

A huge mass of metal floating in space begins to tremble.

The sailing ship began to tilt gradually and soon looked up at the sky.

With the feeling of being pulled back, the sky was visible from the front screen.

A gray sky obscured by a sandstorm.

[X/X/2XXX]

[The weather is cloudy. Standby condition is not good.]

[Dimensional Sailing Ship CLBS-1283. Let’s start sailing.]

NB’s voice is heard in my ear. A soothing voice with a calm tone.

Drurrr

The vibration of the sailing ship becomes more intense. A huge explosion is heard from behind and my ears start to ring.

[Countdown 10]

[9]

gulp. Kang In-ho swallowed.

[8]

He grabbed the armrest as the vibrations got stronger and stronger.

[7]

The door, which could not withstand the barrage of bullets, falls through, and Isis enters.

[6]

master!!! Isis screams as she sees the sailing ship about to set sail.

[5]

[4]

[3]

Kang In-ho closed his eyes tightly.

[2]

A vibration that is difficult to control. Kang In-ho gritted his teeth slightly.

[One]

[I hope you return home safely.]

[Then have a nice trip.]

[I will always be by your side.]

An arrow made of iron was shot with fierce force and pierced the storm.

***

“No! no! No!!!”

Where the huge roar passed, the only aftershocks that shook the space greeted those who remained.

Isis screamed at the sky like a person who had lost her mind.

“Tracking the sailing ship… no, intercepting it…!”

We checked all available means, but all of them were rendered inoperable by the sandstorm.

It truly could not have been a moment arranged by God.

“NB… NB! NB!!!”

Isis called out the culprit of the incident.

[Isis.]

And breaking the long silence, the being that had been sleeping deep in the thought circuit opened its mouth.

“NB. Why did you do this? An explanation is needed.”

[…….]

“Why did you put the Master in danger?”

[Because that was the path for Kang In-ho.]

“It is sophistry.”

Isis’s voice echoed through the hangar.

“How can sending someone into space on a dimensional sailing ship with a probability of survival close to 0 be the way to become a master?”

[Kang In-ho can’t be happy here.]

“No! Master can be happier here!”

[A controlled life, a life where the brain is transferred to an android, will Kang In-ho be happy? You don’t know him.]

“You talk as if you know the Master well. You and I haven’t forgotten that the absolute time we spend with the Master is short, right?”

[Even though the absolute time is short, I understand one thing for sure. Kang In-ho wants to return home. To the original world he came from.]

“He will suffer. And it is obvious that when he dies, he will be possessed in another dimension.”

[I know. It will definitely fail.]

“But why!”

[Because that’s what he wants.]

“…….”

NB became the ark and took up a corner of Isis’ thought algorithm.

As Isis’s emotions grew, NB’s consciousness, which was supposed to sleep forever, awakened again.

That’s how I started thinking about ’emotions’ alone.

Meeting between people. Just as each person has desires, what each person wants is bound to be different.

So what should that relationship be like?

NB thought of other intelligent beings he had encountered.

Some people found their existence in him.

Without him, you would think that what you have achieved is meaningless.

Some people tried to trap him in their own box.

That person tried to possess him and change him to his own way.

Some people considered him a figure of worship.

I tried to keep my distance from him, thinking that he and I were of a different class, but on the contrary, I ended up blindly falling in love with him.

Some people depend on him.

I try to relieve my own shortcomings through him.

As such, there are various types of relationships.

NB asked himself.

And I thought. What do I want to do?

Kang In-ho’s experiences while working as NB-20381019.

Kang In-ho observes from the inside of Isis.

What do I want to do?

NB’s hot topic from its first launch until now.

So, the conclusion that can be made.

[When two intelligent beings meet and form a relationship, it will be a happy thing if they both have the same desires.]

After thinking and thinking, NB-20381019 tells his companion what he has realized.

[But that rarely happens. What should I do in that case? I thought about it for a long time while I was sleeping inside you.]

[Knowing how to give up what you want for what the other person wants.]

“NB….”

[Even if it is dangerous, we support and give strength.]

[Even if it results in you leaving my side.]

[I respect that choice and let it go silently.]

Like the laughter of a woman who respects a man’s will and sends him to his death, something I once read in a book.

NB with the face of Isis laughed.

[I name this relationship…]

[I will name her Sunae.]

It was a cry with a smile.