The Nature of Possession chapter 347

347 – EP.12 Afternoon and Night of Isis-1

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Lunch was quieter than usual.

He and Isis usually didn’t say much during the meal, but perhaps because the calm atmosphere from earlier carried over to the meal, he didn’t even give the usual taste test while eating the food.

-Do you like the food? Lunch was also prepared with the Master’s favorite menu.

Looking at her master’s calm eyes, Isis decided that it was better not to talk to her.

To put it a little more humanly, he couldn’t bring himself to say anything.

Isis sat across from Kang In-ho and watched him eat.

He skillfully cut the meat with a fork and knife and put it in his mouth, moving his mouth mechanically.

Isis, who saw the juice flowing from the gap between the upper and lower lips and running down his chin, picked up the napkin, but did not wipe the corner of his mouth.

Before I knew it, he had roughly wiped it with the back of his hand and continued eating in silence.

Isis thought she should wipe the back of his shiny hand, but somewhere in her thinking circuit she blocked it.

There was no clear reason. However, the conclusion has been made that it is better not to do so now.

“It’s delicious.”

Rarely did he compliment the food.

Isis glanced at his face and then spoke.

“Thank you for liking it.”

“It’s meat, so it’s bound to be delicious.”

– Last time, I offered you meat the other day, but you didn’t like it, right?

Isis swallowed his words.

“You know. Why is it so quiet today?”

Still cutting meat with a knife, he asked.

Isis could not answer that question immediately. Is it right to say what I’m thinking now, or is it better to say it in a different way? I started calculating the two cases as if my thinking circuit was running wild.

“Hmm?”

When he felt strange about the hesitation and raised his head, Isis spoke up before the calculation was even finished.

“I did it because I thought you wanted to stay quiet.”

“Does it look like that?”

“It looks that way.”

“… Well, it’s strange if it doesn’t show. I’m not good at hiding my emotions.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes, because of that, the company… Oh, this is just nonsense.”

When trying to say something, you put it in hastily.

“Are you worried about something?”

If there is any complaint, it must be resolved.

Isis asked.

“Worries? Do you think there are people who don’t have worries?”

Isis felt that the owner was trying to answer with questions, which was inefficient.

If there’s something you want, shouldn’t you just say it right away? Why bother saying it like that?

Isis did not understand her master.

“There is a counselor module. If you wish, you can use that module to solve the master’s problem.”

“No, I don’t need anything technical like that. Just… Hu…”

“Master?”

Kang In-ho swallowed the words that came out with his front teeth.

“Isis. Can you do as I command?”

“I will carry out the Master’s orders as long as they are not self-destructive or violate the sacred rules.”

“Really? Then….”

Kang In-ho put the remaining meat in his mouth. He crossed his knife and fork on the empty plate to make an X.

“From now on, I want you to erase from your memory the stories I tell you and the stories I share with you. I will sign by making the knife and fork parallel to each other.”

“I understood this as a command to delete the conversation from memory by bringing the knife and fork parallel. Is that correct?”

“Uh, complete deletion. Is that possible?”

“Of course. Then, I will set the conversations from now on for deletion. 3… 2… 1….”

Isis’ eyes blinked.

Kang In-ho was surprised by Isis’s mechanical response, but heaved a sigh of relief.

He drank water from a glass. He gargles as if brushing his teeth and rinses his stuffy mouth.

Then, take a napkin and wipe your mouth carefully.

But the shiny oil on the back of my hand still hadn’t been wiped off.

Isis took a wet tissue and wiped his hands. Kang In-ho seemed surprised by Isis’ actions and opened his eyes round.

– After…

Exhale and inhale for a long time.

The clean, purified air of the cradle filled his lungs.

“What would you think if someone succeeded in dimensional travel?”

I will tell the owner of this city what I said to a magical girl somewhere.

***

It took quite a long time to explain how he died and where he went to get here.

In between speaking, he was lost in thought, suffered from revived emotions, and even laughed.

For that long time, Isis listened to him without saying a single word.

“I will sort it out.”

After explaining the long journey, Isis spoke to him only after he had picked up a glass to quench his thirst.

“The Master is proof that the soul is real.”

“That’s right.”

“The concept of dimensions emerged, and humanity only studied dimensional movement accompanied by the physical body.”

“Of course.”

“However, all of those experiments failed. All organisms that passed through the small dimensional passage were destroyed beyond recognition.”

Isis recited several research examples on dimensional movement.

Seeing him conveying extensive knowledge, unlike NB, Kang In-ho felt NB’s absence once more.

But he didn’t show it. Because I thought it was foolish to hold Isis responsible for NB’s disappearance.

“Just as it takes a lot of training to go into space, humanity thought that dimensional travel was possible with enough training.”

“But the existence of the Master creates the possibility of a new hypothesis.”

“What is that?”

“Only souls can move between dimensions.”

“Hmm… But you easily affirm that it is a soul. I thought you would deny it because it is unscientific. [There is no such thing as a soul. It is just the action of electrical signals in the brain.]”

Kang In-ho imitated Isis’s speaking style with a fake mechanical voice.

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Isis’ eyebrows twitched at his poor vocal imitation.

“AI’s greatest advantage lies in its endless development. I was not designed to be immature enough to have such narrow-minded thinking.”

Isis put her clenched fists on the table.

“Okay. Okay.”

Kang In-ho, tired of the enthusiastic response, waved his hand.

“Back to the point, there is a high probability that God and the soul exist.”

“Is there any basis for that judgment?”

“If you go back to the origin of humanity and the origin of the universe, you will inevitably reach a state where nothing happens. It is called emptiness, nothingness, and the beginning. Then, from that first state, life was born. “If you think about what created the moment, you will eventually acknowledge the existence of God.”

“There is some basis. I saw it with my own eyes and believed in the existence of God.”

Kang In-ho flapped his white wings and thought of a cocky face steeped in the ideology of the chosen people.

“If you affirm the existence of God, it is also easy to affirm the concept of the soul. The problem is that there is no device to observe this, so it is likely to exist only as a hypothesis forever.”

“It’s just a hypothesis, but I think it’s a pretty credible hypothesis.”

“Yes.”

Isis adjusted his posture, moving his fist from the table to his knee.

“That’s why I’m concerned.”

“What?”

“In each world, the body rests, but the soul runs without rest. It is impossible to predict what effect this will have on the Master.”

“Nothing except that there are times when I feel a little depressed.”

“You don’t think that’s an omen?”

“…Even if that’s the case, what can I do? There’s no way to solve it. If I die, I’ll be transported to another dimension.”

“There is a way to alleviate the symptoms. It is to prolong the death cycle.”

“Die as late as possible?”

Kang In-ho raised one eyebrow.

“Yes.”

Isis said his obvious words with an obvious expression.

“Easier said than done.”

“It is possible. I will make it possible.”

“If you stay by my side and take care of me 24 hours a day, I will live to be over 100 years old in this world. …Anyway, thank you for listening to my story. It feels better to talk about what is on the inside.”

Kang In-ho picked up the fork and knife on the plate.

Isis looked at his hands.

“Ah, just in case. How about researching dimensional movement and sending me back to the original world?”

“I refuse. No matter how much research I do, the danger does not go away. I have a duty to keep the Master safe. I will not create a situation where the Master is in danger.”

“I did it just in case, but it still happened.”

“Yes. Therefore, if you try to escape the cradle on your own or try to move to another dimension, I will do everything in my power to stop you, so please keep that in mind when planning.”

“Is that a reference or a threat? Okay. Let’s end the story here.”

When Kang In-ho placed the fork and knife parallel, Isis’ eyes blinked a couple of times.

A moment of silence.

Kang In-ho looked at Isis and waited for her next words.

“How was the conversation?”

Isis, whose memories had been erased, asked him.

“Yes, it was good. I must have enjoyed the meal. I guess I’ll have to walk a bit.”

Kang In-ho breathed a sigh of relief.

“I understand.”

Isis followed behind Kang In-ho, who got up from his seat and moved around.

Isis saw the back of her master walking away with great strides.

Then he searched his pocket and took out a long wire. It was similar in shape to earphones, but it was plugged in somewhere.

It was a separate external memory.

When I plugged it into the terminal in my ear, some data was copied into Isis’s memory.

Isis’ eyes blinked yellow.

Eventually, Isis, who had downloaded all of the hours-long conversation, quickened his pace.

Two and a half steps. The distance between Isis and her master.

– Die as late as possible? Easier said than done.

– It is possible. I will make it possible.

God, soul, dimension shift.

There is something more important to Isis than researching newly known facts.

“So that the Master’s soul is not harmed. Here forever.”

Isis only had a heart for her Master.

It was true.

– Pipbit

The electric signal came on, and the production line, where the lights had been turned off, began to come back to life.

With a clanking sound, the drones began to move busily, and the pistons began to move up and down, emitting steam.

This is because a production order has been issued to the Android production factory.