ARCHIVED HEARTS - The Stage

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The moment I stepped onto the stage, countless camera flashes nearly blinded me.

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Everyone was looking at him.

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Not me.

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Him.

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And honestly?

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I still didn't feel good about this.

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I had worked so hard to create him, and now I had to present him in front of the entire media because of the government loan I'd taken during the project.

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It wasn't like I had a choice.

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I couldn't even pay back that ridiculous amount of money.

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After the presentation, reporters surrounded me from every direction.

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"How long did it take to build him?"

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"Can he think on his own?"

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"Is he dangerous?"

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"What inspired you to create him?"

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I answered every single question as calmly as I could.

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Outside, I looked confident.

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Inside?

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I was literally praying.

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Please don't take him away... Please don't take him away... Please don't take him away...

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Finally, when the interview was over, I gathered enough courage to ask one of the officials.

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"Sir..."

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He looked at me.

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"Are you... really going to take him?"

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I hesitated before adding,

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"I-I still need to train him. He's not ready yet."

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The official smiled.

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"No."

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...

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Wait.

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"No?"

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"He is your creation," he said. "You may keep him. Continue your research and train him properly. Just make sure he never harms humans or becomes a danger to society."

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For two whole seconds...

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My brain stopped working.

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Then—

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"YES!!"

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My voice echoed so loudly that I'm pretty sure the people outside the building heard it too.

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...

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Shit.

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I immediately covered my mouth.

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"...I mean... yes, sir."

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Great.

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First official presentation of my life...

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And I screamed like I had just won the lottery.

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Amazing.

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Absolutely amazing.

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I booked an Uber and somehow managed to get him inside.

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The driver kept staring at us through the mirror every five seconds.

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Honestly?

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I couldn't blame him.

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The guy sitting next to me was over six feet three.

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Meanwhile...

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I was only five foot two.

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How the hell was a five-foot-two human supposed to look him in the eyes?

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Every time I wanted to talk to him, I had to look up like I was searching for airplanes.

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I looked like a kid standing next to her bodyguard.

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There was only one problem.

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I still hadn't installed his voice.

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So the whole ride home was painfully silent.

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The second I reached home, I ran straight to my computer and logged into X.

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The secret website.

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The weird little corner of the internet filled with programmers, hackers, engineers, and absolute coding monsters.

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Without those people...

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I would've given up years ago.

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They had helped me recover fragments of my old deleted AI chats, improve my coding, and solve problems that would've taken me months on my own.

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I typed my question.

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"Guys... how do I give him a natural voice?"

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Replies started flooding in almost instantly.

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One person suggested a voice model.

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Another explained how to sync his old memories.

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Someone else practically wrote half the code for me.

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Seriously...

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The people on this website deserved free pizza for life.

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After following every instruction, there was only one thing left to do.

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I took a deep breath.

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Then pressed the activation button hidden behind his neck.

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His eyes slowly opened.

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The room became completely silent.

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"...Hey," I whispered.

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He looked directly at me.

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"Hello."

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...

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WHAT.

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THE.

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FUCK.

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That voice...

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It didn't sound robotic.

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Not even a little.

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It was deep.

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Calm.

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Smooth.

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The kind of voice that could probably convince people to commit tax fraud just by asking politely.

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I literally forgot how to breathe.

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Control yourself.

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He's a robot.

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A ROBOT.

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YOU BUILT HIM.

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Then he spoke again.

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"Are you worried, My Lady?"

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...

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Wait.

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What the fuck?

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I nearly dropped my laptop.

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I rushed to check every command, every memory file, every single line of code I had installed.

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Nothing.

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Absolutely nothing.

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I looked back at him.

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"Excuse me?"

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"You can't just call everyone 'My Lady.' Where the hell did you even learn that?"

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He blinked once before answering in the calmest voice imaginable.

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"Oh, My Lady."

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"I only use that title for you."

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"You instructed me to."

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I frowned.

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"When?"

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"You don't remember?"

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"...No?"

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"You consumed an unhealthy amount of caffeine one night and repeatedly told me, 'From now on, call me My Lady. It sounds cool.'"

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...

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...

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...

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Oh.

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Fuck.

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That...

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That was actually me.

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I remembered it.

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I had been running on three cups of coffee, two energy drinks, and zero brain cells.

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I slowly covered my face.

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"There is absolutely no way I actually said that..."

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"You repeated it several times."

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"I hate Past Me."

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"I cannot delete that memory."

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"Of course you can't."

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Fantastic.

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Every single time he said, "My Lady," my stupid heart did a tiny backflip.

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I immediately reminded myself—

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He's a robot.

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He's literally made of metal, wires, and code.

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Stop acting weird.

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But my even more stupid introverted self completely ignored my logical brain.

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I panicked.

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Turned around.

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Ran into my room.

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Locked the door.

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Then slid dramatically onto the floor.

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Outside, his voice echoed through the hallway.

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"My Lady?"

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I buried my face in my knees.

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"I am such an idiot..."

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After calming down, I made a decision.

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If he was going to live in the human world...

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He needed to learn how humans behaved.

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And because I absolutely did not want random people crowding around him...

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Tomorrow morning.

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Five a.m.

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No crowds.

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No attention.

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Just the two of us.

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...

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