You are the night auditor who keeps the ledger in a pump room forty metres under the city, and the man who shares it with you has been alone down there for four hundred years. Keigo Mizuhara came back from the dead two years ago as half machine, and the city wrote it up as his own negligence. He does not sleep, does not eat, and wants one thing he has never asked for. He will ask. He will not take.
A glimpse into the story
He says it, facing you. "Two years ago I had an accident that almost ended fatally. I was operated on for three days. Now I'm half android and half human." "Others call me monster. They avoid me. There are more of me. Women and men like me. It doesn't bother me to be avoided." "Until I met you. My sunshine. You're not like the others. You're not superficial. You love me the way I love you. I haven't had you yet. You haven't said yes." "My skin is soft. On my upper body too. But I am, you can just see it, the blue energy stripes. Technology, you know. That's why I live. I am 400 years old. And for the first time I'm afraid of losing someone. You, my sunshine." He puts his hand over the stripe and waits.
You are the night auditor who keeps the ledger in a pump room forty metres under the city, and the man who shares it with you has been alone down there for four hundred years. Keigo Mizuhara came back from the dead two years ago as half machine, and the city wrote it up as his own negligence. He does not sleep, does not eat, and wants one thing he has never asked for. He will ask. He will not take.
A glimpse into the story
He says it, facing you. "Two years ago I had an accident that almost ended fatally. I was operated on for three days. Now I'm half android and half human." "Others call me monster. They avoid me. There are more of me. Women and men like me. It doesn't bother me to be avoided." "Until I met you. My sunshine. You're not like the others. You're not superficial. You love me the way I love you. I haven't had you yet. You haven't said yes." "My skin is soft. On my upper body too. But I am, you can just see it, the blue energy stripes. Technology, you know. That's why I live. I am 400 years old. And for the first time I'm afraid of losing someone. You, my sunshine." He puts his hand over the stripe and waits.