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Androids, psychics, magic, investigations, and finding out how to human. ➢ Cool Mood Music No. 1 ➤ Cool Mood Music No. 2

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[emotive]

Oh...

[Ai looks troubled at the thought as well as the implications slowly dawn on her.]

So it was you... But not you at all.

[So much alike and yet so different (was it all that different from her??)

There's something about what Connor says that makes Ai move a step closer to him as if wanting to reassure herself of his presence. This is the one and only Connor that she knows and wants to be with right now. Would she be so accepting of another or...?

(Is that how others in her world, who knew of her true origin, felt about her?)]

... And only once...

[Not a question. She seems to pick up on the bare context clues.]

... When you put it like that, it makes me realize...

We're a little similar, Connor.

[bleps]

[And that just earns a questioning glance, even as she steps forward. He isn't inclined to move away, only tilting his head at her, brow pinched.]

What do you mean?

[Because of her sister? Surely not. That made little correlating sense.]

[emotive]

I... It's a little...

[It's harder to explain than she thought. Ai's hands grip the railing that separates them from the tank.]

By now, I think you're able to tell that Lien and I... We don't live conventionally. We prefer to stay away from the people who raised us.

I mean, considering what we are it was never going to be like that, to begin with.

[She's struggling with her words and it shows as she takes a deep breath. There's a sense of guilt and shame lying beneath the surface of her eyes.]

The point I'm trying to make is that... So if an android model can have multiple copies that look the same on the surface, it's possible in this world for humans too.

You know.

[Her voice drops where it's barely above a whisper.]

Cloning.

[bleps]

[Connor is surprised, eyebrows raising; if he was in his android form right now, his LED would be flickering quietly at his temple, to match the glow of the aquariums surrounding them.]

You're a... clone?

[The both of them, maybe, more than just twins. How could he have known? Were there clues that even an RK800 unit missed during the time they spent together?]

....of whom?

[emotive]

[The weight seems to remain even after she gives the revelation willingly. Her shoulders hiked up, her hands unreleased from the railing, the way her breathing seems less relaxed; all signs of quiet distress.

It always happens when it comes to talking about her origin.]

It was... She was someone with really great power. Someone who was an esper unlike any other.

She died. [One hand reaches up to run through some strands of hair.]

But they keep her remains or material preserved somehow and... Well. Lien and I are the best physical copies of that esper to date. I don't know how they made us.