LC::hokma4_introHokma — Episode 4SYSTEM: Set BACKGROUND: 'blackCG', effect: 'none'SYSTEM: Play BGM: '4 - Through The Mist'SYSTEM:SHOW character: Angela (id: 'angela') at 'center'Angela(Id: 'angela')I have finished casting the roles for the Upper and Middle Layer Sephirot.Angela(Id: 'angela')It’s likely that this will not be the last time I do so.Angela(Id: 'angela')I may have to tell them again what I have already instructed countless times. However, you two will be different.Angela(Id: 'angela')You clearly understand why this facility exists, and what your missions are.Angela(Id: 'angela')I expect that you will not exhaust me as the ones above do.Angela(Id: 'angela')Just keep this in mind.Angela(Id: 'angela')I will not come down here to the Lower Layer unless the circumstances require me so.Angela(Id: 'angela')That does not mean I will simply watch and do nothing, but I will not interfere for the most part.Angela(Id: 'angela')….….Angela(Id: 'angela')I hope we never have to face each other from now on.Angela(Id: 'angela')It would only lead to the both of us suffering.SYSTEM: Display CG: 'BlackCG'SYSTEM:wait ( time: '2' )SYSTEM:HIDE character: Angela (id: 'angela')SYSTEM: Hide CGSYSTEM: Play BGM: 'Lucid Dream (8)'SYSTEM:SHOW character: Hokma (id: 'hokma') at 'center'SYSTEM: Set BACKGROUND: 'hokmaBK', effect: 'none'Hokma(Id: 'hokma')Angela was the best Artificial Intelligence I had ever known.Hokma(Id: 'hokma')And you were the best architect that I was graced to meet.Hokma(Id: 'hokma')Back then, you simply could not let Carmen go. You were so desperate to keep Carmen on your side that you locked her in a cryostasis pod in an attempt to preserve her body at the very least.Hokma(Id: 'hokma')But during all this, you were perfectly aware that Carmen’s body had become nothing but a shell.Hokma(Id: 'hokma')Our faces were full of grief, yet we still ransacked her body and dismembered her core.Hokma(Id: 'hokma')In fact, I was rather relieved when you began to create Angela.Hokma(Id: 'hokma')You were wholeheartedly immersed in something, just like you used to be.Hokma(Id: 'hokma')……Hokma(Id: 'hokma')That day, when she opened her eyes for the first time.Hokma(Id: 'hokma')I remember you were just staring through the laboratory’s glass, not setting a single foot inside.Hokma(Id: 'hokma')You might have thought that you noticed me right away…Hokma(Id: 'hokma')However, I witnessed you standing there for a long time before you realized I was there.Hokma(Id: 'hokma')What inner conflict made you hesitate so?Hokma(Id: 'hokma')What did you think after seeing that piece of humanoid machinery, who did not display the warm smiles and gentle laughter Carmen had so naturally?Hokma(Id: 'hokma')I told you in so many words that no matter how many AIs such as Angela you create, none of them will ever be Carmen.Hokma(Id: 'hokma')Now poor Angela is merely assigned to direct us from a distance as we go through the motions of the play.Hokma(Id: 'hokma')If there is one thing I may have mistaken myself over…Hokma(Id: 'hokma')It is that I had thought you overcame everything.Hokma(Id: 'hokma')The truth is that you never have.
