Autodoll wa Kuchita Sekai de Yume wo Miru

Hey, Lydiko. Have you thought that you could go on exploration leaving me behind?”

At the moment when Lydia got out of the ambulance at the edge of Kunagi Woodland, Noah said so.

“Eh?”

Lydia was caught off guard and widely opened her eyes.
She don’t remember bringing Noah along. Lydia and Ohan came here by ambulance.

“I was created for the sake of exploration, right? And you wouldn’t take me along on exploration, am I already stupid.”
“Noah, why are you here?”
“Is it bad?”
“No, eh? Ah, I don’t think, it’s bad, you know? Just why are you here?”

Lydia couldn’t keep up with an unexpected events.

“I’ve been courageous​ly chasing after you. Weren’t you too fast? Because I didn’t have any luggage, I just barely managed to keep up.”
“Ah, uh-huh. Since it should have been a one hundred fifty kilometers per hour.”
“You noticed?”
“Ah, that’s how it is. You’ve been chasing us. Or rather, did I forget to take Noah offline?”
“Ooh. I’ve been online since yesterday. I was lonely when I stuck in the garage, aye? Toil AD were coming to use a simple Parts-Maker, but they weren’t talking.”
“I’m sorry.”
“It’s good. Good, Lidiko. I’ll forgive you. Let’s see, exploring the woodland. I’ll find the esplanade and map it. Then, I’ll be waiting here again. You’ll return back on me, right?”
“Uh-huh! I’ll return home on you!”

Delightedly, Lydia was driven by urge to embrace Noah. However, didn’t knew how to hug him, so she stopped.
For Lydia, ambulance vehicle was a deadly boring.
It didn’t shake, she couldn’t slide the tire, inasmuch as it didn’t have tires, speed was limited, and really, it wasn’t interesting.
She didn’t have much of conversation with Ohan, who was riding together with her.
The only thing they talked about was that Yuuyami and Lydia had different views.
Yuuyami’s opinion ー Rapha is favour of Ohan.
Lydia’s opinion ー Rapha has no special feelings towards Ohan.

“Noah is the best motorbike! The best in the world!”

At first, Lydia was surprised that Noah was chasing her, now there is nothing but rapture.
Lydia considered a motorcycle as the best vehicle.
Given that the ambulance has an autopilot, it can return to the library without Lydia, so there was no problem riding a motorcycle on the way back.

“Oh, I’m the best bike ever! So I’ll ask, don’t revise me, aye?”
“I will not! Noah – not! Never!”
“That’s good.”

Said Noah in relieve.
It’s unknown for Lydia how Noah has escaped from Rapha. Certainly, nothing was actually done.
During Lydia’s exploration, she thought that they came along for self-defence, since they might be disassembled by Rapha.

◇

Lydia and Ohan stopped at the spot where they found Apricot.
Lydia took out the tablet from her backpack and marked this point on the local map of the Kunagi Woodland.
It was in four hundred twenty meters south-west of the forest’s edge.

“Now, let’s move to the west from this point.”
“Understood.”

Lydia uttered, Ohan begins to walk in the lead.
There is no particular reason for heading to the west. Without any reason, as usual.
During Lydia walked, she looked at Ohan’s back for a while.
After that, she remembered to keep an eye on surroundings. In order for don’t overlook something interesting.
After they went about one hundred meters like this,

“Ah, something wriggling there.”

Lydia halted, Ohan looked over his shoulder.
That thing, was crawling on the surface to the right side of Lydia, is long and narrow​, weird object.
Tawny hue, olive brown​ pattern. Length can’t be measured properly by eye, but the feeling was that if stretch it straight, it would be as tall as Lydia.
Wriggling thing noticed Lydia and stopped moving.

“Is it a living creature. It’s not running away, is it friendly?”

Lydia took out the tablet and pointed the camera at the wriggling organism.
Then, by utilizing a pattern-matching, was searching that creature in the database.
The hit was – a snake.
The data stated that it was timid and before long would escape.

“However it don’t running away~”1

Lydia crouch down and observes the snake.
Snake scampering about its tongue. Lydia thought that was adorable.
And then, she reached out a right hand to touch it.
At that instant​, snake stretched out its body and tried to bite Lydia’s hand.

“Wah!”

Lydia was surprised, withdrew her hand and, just like that, toppled over.

“Confirmation of hostile behaviour. Eliminate the target.”

Said Ohan, thud there was a banging noise of trampling the ground.
Lydia immediately got up to see what happened.

“Hostile creature eliminated.”

Declaring that, Ohan raises his foot.
Whereunder was crushed and flattened corpse of the snake.
Lydia cease thinking in instant.
Until a moment ago, snake was wriggling around, and the tongue was scampering about.
At present, it was crushed.
Lydia understood – life of the snake was came to the end.

“Hey, Ohan.”
“Yes.”
“Why did you kill it?”
“It showed malicious intent towards Lydia. I decided that the warning would be meaningless because it couldn’t understand the language, so I dealt with it.”
“Does Ohan properly understand what he done?”
“Yes. I have eliminated the enemy.”
“It’s different! This child is not an enemy! It wasn’t an enemy!”

Lydia shrieked.

“But it tried to attack Lydia.”
“Since I tried to touch, it probably did that for self-defence!”

Just as snake wasn’t yet known creature for Lydia, Lydia was an unknown creature for snake.

“Attack is attack.”
“It’s different! It’s menace​! Actually, it haven’t done anything! I just tripped since I was surprised!”

Lydia, an unknown creature, reached out her hand. Accordingly, snake in panic​ gave a warning. We don’t hitherto know each other enough to touch one another.

“Menace​ means an aggressiveness.”
“But! Wasn’t there another way!”

Snake doesn’t understand human language. Likewise​ humans do not understand words of the snake.
Therefore, it used menacing for mere conveying the feeling that it don’t want her to touch them.

“If so, it should have left immediately.”
“It was interested in me! Just like I was interested in snake!”

If little by little they got on good terms, in the end might have understood each other. Even if they didn’t understand the language, might have understood with hearts.

“I simply did my duty. Why is Lydia crying?”
“Eh?”

After she was being told, Lydia touched her face.
It is wet.
Aah, that was true, I’m crying.
Lydia thought it was since she was awfully sad because snake died.
In addition, sad that Ohan doesn’t understand what he did.
Lydia wipes her tears.

“Don’t do it again”
“Don’t do what?”
“Deeds that steals lives.”
“That’s not allowed. My program prioritises the elimination of enemies. It doesn’t related if they living or not.”
“Then relate it!”
“Can not. It’s an important program. To change it, you need to rewrite the firmware directly.”

The program for Ohan to be Ohan.
If she rewrite it, he will no longer be a BD Series.

“Then learn. I beg you.”
“Learn?”
“Right. Learning. Repeat. The snake was alive.”
“The snake was alive.”
“Don’t murder creatures thoughtlessly.”
“Even if it’s, an enemy?”
“For instance, if you just want to incapacitate your enemies, you don’t have to snatch their lives away. Even a snake should have been gently picked up and dropped away from me.”
“I think the efficiency would be very poor.”
“Faster to crush it?”
“Yes.”
“Right… For Ohan, life is insignificant.”
“I simply did my duty. I don’t understand the dimensions of life.”

That’s right. Ohan is a military AD and is faithful to his mission. The current mission is to guard Lydia. Thus, he was doing it efficiently.

“Understood. I understood it properly. Ohan has no consciousness after all.”

With that said, Lydia began to dig a hole in the ground.

“What are you doing?”
“At least I’ll bury this child so that it can return to nature.”
“Why?”
“Because such is life​.”
“I do not understand.”
“I guess so.”

If it was Yuuyami, she would surely understand.
Yuuyami wouldn’t kill the snake in the first place.

“Do you need help?”
“Mmーmm. I’m good. Ohan, please, repeat. Don’t kill living creatures thoughtlessly.”
“Don’t kill living creatures thoughtlessly.”
“Repeat it all the time while I’m digging a hole. Please.”
“Understood.”

Ohan repeated the words as he was told.
Nevertheless, she don’t know if these words were genuine for Ohan.
Although without knowing, Lydia wished for that to be truth.

Hey, Lydiko. Have you thought that you could go on exploration leaving me behind?”

At the moment when Lydia got out of the ambulance at the edge of Kunagi Woodland, Noah said so.

“Eh?”

Lydia was caught off guard and widely opened her eyes.She don’t remember bringing Noah along. Lydia and Ohan came here by ambulance.

“I was created for the sake of exploration, right? And you wouldn’t take me along on exploration, am I already stupid.”

“Noah, why are you here?”

“Is it bad?”

“No, eh? Ah, I don’t think, it’s bad, you know? Just why are you here?”

Lydia couldn’t keep up with an unexpected events.

“I’ve been courageous​ly chasing after you. Weren’t you too fast? Because I didn’t have any luggage, I just barely managed to keep up.”

“Ah, uh-huh. Since it should have been a one hundred fifty kilometers per hour.”

“You noticed?”

“Ah, that’s how it is. You’ve been chasing us. Or rather, did I forget to take Noah offline?”

“Ooh. I’ve been online since yesterday. I was lonely when I stuck in the garage, aye? Toil AD were coming to use a simple Parts-Maker, but they weren’t talking.”

“I’m sorry.”

“It’s good. Good, Lidiko. I’ll forgive you. Let’s see, exploring the woodland. I’ll find the esplanade and map it. Then, I’ll be waiting here again. You’ll return back on me, right?”

“Uh-huh! I’ll return home on you!”

Delightedly, Lydia was driven by urge to embrace Noah. However, didn’t knew how to hug him, so she stopped.

For Lydia, ambulance vehicle was a deadly boring.

It didn’t shake, she couldn’t slide the tire, inasmuch as it didn’t have tires, speed was limited, and really, it wasn’t interesting.

She didn’t have much of conversation with Ohan, who was riding together with her.

The only thing they talked about was that Yuuyami and Lydia had different views.

Yuuyami’s opinion ー Rapha is favour of Ohan.

Lydia’s opinion ー Rapha has no special feelings towards Ohan.

“Noah is the best motorbike! The best in the world!”

At first, Lydia was surprised that Noah was chasing her, now there is nothing but rapture.

Lydia considered a motorcycle as the best vehicle.

Given that the ambulance has an autopilot, it can return to the library without Lydia, so there was no problem riding a motorcycle on the way back.

“Oh, I’m the best bike ever! So I’ll ask, don’t revise me, aye?”

“I will not! Noah – not! Never!”

“That’s good.”

Said Noah in relieve.

It’s unknown for Lydia how Noah has escaped from Rapha. Certainly, nothing was actually done.

During Lydia’s exploration, she thought that they came along for self-defence, since they might be disassembled by Rapha.

◇

Lydia and Ohan stopped at the spot where they found Apricot.

Lydia took out the tablet from her backpack and marked this point on the local map of the Kunagi Woodland.

It was in four hundred twenty meters south-west of the forest’s edge.

“Now, let’s move to the west from this point.”“Understood.”

Lydia uttered, Ohan begins to walk in the lead.

There is no particular reason for heading to the west. Without any reason, as usual.

During Lydia walked, she looked at Ohan’s back for a while.

After that, she remembered to keep an eye on surroundings. In order for don’t overlook something interesting.

After they went about one hundred meters like this,

“Ah, something wriggling there.”

Lydia halted, Ohan looked over his shoulder.

That thing, was crawling on the surface to the right side of Lydia, is long and narrow​, weird object.

Tawny hue, olive brown​ pattern. Length can’t be measured properly by eye, but the feeling was that if stretch it straight, it would be as tall as Lydia.

Wriggling thing noticed Lydia and stopped moving.

“Is it a living creature. It’s not running away, is it friendly?”

Lydia took out the tablet and pointed the camera at the wriggling organism.

Then, by utilizing a pattern-matching, was searching that creature in the database.

The hit was – a snake.

The data stated that it was timid and before long would escape.

“However it don’t running away~”1

Lydia crouch down and observes the snake.

Snake scampering about its tongue. Lydia thought that was adorable.

And then, she reached out a right hand to touch it.

At that instant​, snake stretched out its body and tried to bite Lydia’s hand.

“Wah!”

Lydia was surprised, withdrew her hand and, just like that, toppled over.

“Confirmation of hostile behaviour. Eliminate the target.”

Said Ohan, thud there was a banging noise of trampling the ground.Lydia immediately got up to see what happened.

“Hostile creature eliminated.”

Declaring that, Ohan raises his foot.

Whereunder was crushed and flattened corpse of the snake.

Lydia cease thinking in instant.

Until a moment ago, snake was wriggling around, and the tongue was scampering about.

At present, it was crushed.

Lydia understood – life of the snake was came to the end.

“Hey, Ohan.”

“Yes.”

“Why did you kill it?”

“It showed malicious intent towards Lydia. I decided that the warning would be meaningless because it couldn’t understand the language, so I dealt with it.”

“Does Ohan properly understand what he done?”

“Yes. I have eliminated the enemy.”

“It’s different! This child is not an enemy! It wasn’t an enemy!”

Lydia shrieked.

“But it tried to attack Lydia.”“Since I tried to touch, it probably did that for self-defence!”

Just as snake wasn’t yet known creature for Lydia, Lydia was an unknown creature for snake.

“Attack is attack.”“It’s different! It’s menace​! Actually, it haven’t done anything! I just tripped since I was surprised!”

Lydia, an unknown creature, reached out her hand. Accordingly, snake in panic​ gave a warning. We don’t hitherto know each other enough to touch one another.

“Menace​ means an aggressiveness.”“But! Wasn’t there another way!”

Snake doesn’t understand human language. Likewise​ humans do not understand words of the snake.Therefore, it used menacing for mere conveying the feeling that it don’t want her to touch them.

“If so, it should have left immediately.”“It was interested in me! Just like I was interested in snake!”

If little by little they got on good terms, in the end might have understood each other. Even if they didn’t understand the language, might have understood with hearts.

“I simply did my duty. Why is Lydia crying?”“Eh?”

After she was being told, Lydia touched her face.

It is wet.

Aah, that was true, I’m crying.

Lydia thought it was since she was awfully sad because snake died.

In addition, sad that Ohan doesn’t understand what he did.

Lydia wipes her tears.

“Don’t do it again”

“Don’t do what?”

“Deeds that steals lives.”

“That’s not allowed. My program prioritises the elimination of enemies. It doesn’t related if they living or not.”

“Then relate it!”

“Can not. It’s an important program. To change it, you need to rewrite the firmware directly.”

The program for Ohan to be Ohan.If she rewrite it, he will no longer be a BD Series.

“Then learn. I beg you.”

“Learn?”

“Right. Learning. Repeat. The snake was alive.”

“The snake was alive.”

“Don’t murder creatures thoughtlessly.”

“Even if it’s, an enemy?”

“For instance, if you just want to incapacitate your enemies, you don’t have to snatch their lives away. Even a snake should have been gently picked up and dropped away from me.”

“I think the efficiency would be very poor.”

“Faster to crush it?”

“Yes.”

“Right… For Ohan, life is insignificant.”

“I simply did my duty. I don’t understand the dimensions of life.”

That’s right. Ohan is a military AD and is faithful to his mission. The current mission is to guard Lydia. Thus, he was doing it efficiently.

“Understood. I understood it properly. Ohan has no consciousness after all.”

With that said, Lydia began to dig a hole in the ground.

“What are you doing?”

“At least I’ll bury this child so that it can return to nature.”

“Why?”

“Because such is life​.”

“I do not understand.”

“I guess so.”

If it was Yuuyami, she would surely understand.Yuuyami wouldn’t kill the snake in the first place.

“Do you need help?”

“Mmーmm. I’m good. Ohan, please, repeat. Don’t kill living creatures thoughtlessly.”

“Don’t kill living creatures thoughtlessly.”

“Repeat it all the time while I’m digging a hole. Please.”

“Understood.”

Ohan repeated the words as he was told.

Nevertheless, she don’t know if these words were genuine for Ohan.

Although without knowing, Lydia wished for that to be truth.