♣ FIFTH ♣

[mechaeonical]

Deactivating my secrecy protocols may have been a mistake. Divulging information on my nature does not prompt panic and dangerous investigation, as I am informed it would in my world of origin, but it does cause undue confusion and surprise. However, at this time I have...chosen not to reactivate that programming for two reasons. Many citizens

Comments

[denyinurgod]

...There is no need to return the reds.

[mechaeonical]

Nevertheless, I judged it correct to offer.

[denyinurgod]

Hm.

You can keep mine.

[mechaeonical]

...Did I provide a worthwhile service?

[denyinurgod]

...There is no such thing as fate.

[mechaeonical]

My programming could be seen to correspond to what humans consider fate.

[denyinurgod]

What?

[mechaeonical]

I was created to destroy Shadows for the protection of humanity. This is my only purpose. If I fulfill it, is that fate?

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[denyinurgod]

[denyinurgod]

...Fate is only an excuse to explain certain actions or outcomes that humans have made, when such outcomes are the result of their own decisions. There is no such thing as fate. The future is something we make for ourselves.

1/2

[mechaeonical]

I see.

Then fate may affect me, but not you.

[mechaeonical]

All the same. I hope that the reading I performed was of some value to you in a way.

[denyinurgod]

...Why would it affect you?

[mechaeonical]

I would like to be useful, even here.