13 - [Video]

[emomachine]

[Bzzt. Jiro yelps and the communicator falls and lands on something, possibly a table, and you get a view facing up at Jiro's face, which is currently wearing an expression of utter shock. He's looking down at his gloved hand, possibly where he'd just been holding the comm, as if unable to believe it exists.]

What...

[Slowly, he reaches up to

Comments

[hakai_aniki]

Kikaider...? What are you going on about?

[emomachine]

Saburo! [Yes, he's even ecstatic to see you, Saburo.] I'm human!

[hakai_aniki]

....What?! You're not serious.

[emomachine]

It's true! I can feel my heart beating... a real heart.

[hakai_aniki]

... I don't believe you. Even for the Scientists, that sounds ridiculously impossible!

[emomachine]

I don't know how it happened, or who did it. But it's real. It's really happening... I'm human.

[hakai_aniki]

[He's going back to the video and studying it more closely.]

That's...impossible. I don't understand how this...

Do you think it's permanent?

[emomachine]

Does it matter how? [He's so happyyyy-

until you said that. Way to burst his bubble.] I... I don't know. I didn't think of that. But- it has to be.

[hakai_aniki]

[Well that's Saburo's job duh.]

Unless it's another of these power surges! I don't see how... what kind of ability could cause that?

[emomachine]

I don't know. [He doesn't really want to know, now. He just wants it to stay this way.]

[hakai_aniki]

Hmph. We'll see...