2 - [Video]

[emomachine]

[The feed comes up shaky and there's not much light, but you can see Jiro well enough. He looks rather dismayed. There's a gash torn in the shoulder of his jacket, and you might catch the faintest glimpse of red beneath it if you look closely enough. But that could just be his shirt, right?]

...

I'm sorry.

[And the feed ends.]

Comments

[magical_well]

Jiro?

[emomachine]

...

Are you all right?

[magical_well]

I'm fine y'know.

And you?

[emomachine]

Please, don't worry about me.

[magical_well]

I don't think I can do that, Jiro y'know.

[emomachine]

Before, you called me your friend. But I don't think we should be friends. You'll get hurt.

[magical_well]

I did.

You're afraid you'll try to hurt me again.

[emomachine]

...

[magical_well]

I wonder if you if you would not though.

[emomachine]

This isn't the first time something like this has happened. You should have run away.

[magical_well]

I couldn't turn my back when you seemed to be suffering y'know.

You mentioned a flute..

[emomachine]

I tried to kill you. That doesn't bother you?

Yes. It's- complicated.

[magical_well]

That's a little difficult to answer y;know. But the easy response is not really.

I understand if you'd rather not talk about it. But I'd like to understand a bit more.

[emomachine]

Why?

...

[Filtered]

There was a man on my world called Professor Gill. He used robots- my brothers- as tools for killing and destruction. He used a flute to give them their orders.

[magical_well]

Well, I can't say that I don't mind that you might have killed. But under the circumstances I also am not upset with you over what happened, and I don't think you should blame yourself for it.

[Filtered]
I understand. It's terrible that anyone could be capable of such a thing.

[Filtered]

[emomachine]

I know that the whole city was affected by something... but it doesn't matter. Because of what I am, I'll only bring suffering to those close to me. That's just how it is.

I'll never understand a person like that. But the flute- I'm different from my brothers. They were created to follow Gill's orders. I wasn't.