A-02 was sitting in a dark, empty basement.
Before that
There stood a man with the same face as himself.
Cha Eun-woo.
“Everything went wrong because of you.”
A-02 said.
“If the self is formed by instilling memories alone,
“The world can be manipulated at will.”
“But you…”
“You rejected that memory.”
Cha Eun-woo walked quietly.
There is a table between the two.
There were a few files scattered on it.
Project D.H.
A-01 – Self-Autonomy
A-02 – Observation and Control
A-03~A-07 – Assessment of the potential for proliferation
“I didn’t refuse.”
“I just accepted the memory and made a choice.”
“I lived with that memory,
I realized that that memory wasn't everything.”
A-02 laughed in disbelief.
“You are not real.”
“You are just a symbol created by the experiment.”
“I watched you.
“Your actions, your feelings, they were all within the designed scope.”
“That’s the difference.”
“You observed,
I lived.”
A-02 pulled out his gun.
“This face… I can write it better.”
“A world will come where the fake is superior to the real.”
“Then try it.”
“With that face, live like me.”
A gunshot rang out.
But the bullet hit the wall.
A-02 raised his head in surprise.
His hands were shaking.
“My memory is fading.”
“…your ego
“I’m telling you, ‘You have to stop.’”
Cha Eun-woo approached quietly.
He took a small device out of his pocket.
The control device sent by Hayoon.
It was a chip containing a program that reversed the memory implantation of the replicator army.
“Project D.H.”
“I’ll finish it now.”
The device is activated.
Blue lights surround the surroundings.
A-02's eyes slowly closed.
All the memories that were injected into my head…
It started to go off.
“You are nobody now.”
“Me too, I was like that.”
“…But in that state
“I created myself.”
The program ends.
A-02 lay quietly on the floor.
It wasn't dead.
I just returned to being an empty being.
A few days later.
All replicators were recovered.
Each person's memories were erased,
Measures were taken to enable a new life to begin.
Project D.H was abandoned.
The experiment left behind only one record.
“Memories alone cannot create a human being.
“Humans are made by choice.”
Hayoon asked.
“Are you real now?”
Cha Eun-woo laughed.
“With that face,
In memory,
Even after facing all the guys who pretended to be real—
“I didn’t waver.”
“Then that’s true.”
