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That's a considerably dark thing to say.

It cannot be helped, when one knows their death is imminent.

Cryptic, but I'll take it.

Your line of work hard or something?

That would be, as the saying goes, an understatement.

I believe I will at least be dying in service to my family.

A noble death, then? Is that what you're aiming for?

I suppose you could say that. Is that not the best to hope for, in the case of unavoidable death?

I like to think the best case is when you accept it wholeheartedly.

I mean, here you are with your future death in nobility and you're still not ready to die, even in a way like that. Unless I understood it wrong.

You are correct, in both ways.

I should be prepared. But I am... frightened.

Being afraid is what it means to be human, I feel.

Or at least a human who still has a lot they still want or need to do. That's my opinion, anyway.

Ah. Well, perhaps it would help you to understand if I admitted that I am not human.

Then it looks like humans and non-humans have more in common than I thought.

Is this where I ask 'what are you, then'?

Perhaps that is so.

I do not mind. I am a roidmude. More simply stated, I am an advanced growth type android.

A human-resembling robot that can develop? It must sound crude, but that's my understanding.

Yes, in theory. Not crude at all, in fact, our ability to learn and evolve is the reason for our invention.

I am... Unique, however. I am the first self-motivating prototype. My ability to develop is significantly less defined than my... brothers.

Are you the only one with your own dreams?

In a literal sense, no, none of us dream. None of us sleep.

In the metaphorical meaning of the word... No to that as well. Each of my siblings has their own desire and drive.

Ah.

What does self-motivating mean, then?

Ah- that I have displayed the ability to move, learn, grow, develop, and evolve. I am, technically speaking, the eldest. The first of my kind.

Does being the eldest give you more responsibility?

Perhaps, if only in my own mind.

Many of my siblings are already gone.

Did you love them?

Love is an emotion I have only recently begun to completely understand.

But yes. In retrospect, I believe I did.

My point about humans and non-humans having more in common than I thought still stands.