"Alright Shizune, the day has come for you to get out of here," Yar says, pulling my hand through the facilities to somewhere underground.

"Oh... and Yara?" I question while Yar doesn't stop.

"She's busy, and luckily won't notice until she comes to see you or we've already activated the exit. I've hacked the cameras, and controlled some of those things to keep them away from the path," She speaks as if my "children" were just things.

"What are the chances of that ship not killing me and the chances of me actually going to another dimension?" I didn't quite understand this stupid plan, but it's nice to see her trying to protect me.

"...The chances are 98%...now let's hurry up," She only states a percentage, but I doubt it's a 98% success rate, so this is probably the 98% chance of me dying, which is quite high.

"Don't you really care that I'm going to disappear?"

"...I guess loving is letting go, like in that book where the man went to war, the woman let him go, not because she wanted to, but because it was necessary," She speaks in a sad tone.

'So she probably doesn't believe her idea will work.' It's sad, but I don't have much time to think about it as we soon arrive at some kind of warehouse, I see tools and various things on the floor and see a strange thing.

A large object that reminds me of a giant, metallic seed, with an opening that I deduce is the entrance.

"Shizune, the autopilot will control the ship, all you need to do is sit in the chair and wait..." She says as she quickly takes me inside the ship.

Her haste indicates that she doesn't have as much time as she made me think initially, she can't hide her nervousness.

"Yar, can't you come with me?" It's kind of mean to ask her to come with me knowing that this ship will probably be destroyed, but she seems so sad that maybe this will make her a little happy.

"You're so unique...but I can't go, I need to stop Yara from interfering..." She says as she puts me in a chair in the ship and buckles me in, then she starts pressing various buttons and the top opens.

"The ship will take off, advance and enter dimensional travel mode, the whole process will take 10 minutes...don't open the door, don't turn off the machine, don't touch the buttons and don't unbuckle the seatbelt," She says as she releases me.

"Sure..." She's really nice, even though she's guiding me to my death, she has faith in that 2% chance of victory to give me freedom, which is illogical since even if I really went to another dimension safely, I would still die from the brain damage.

"You know...I'm hardly going to get out of this alive, regardless of whether this works or not, right?" I say, which seems to discourage her a bit.

"I know, it's strange, it's obvious that there's a high chance of failure and even if it works, you may still die, but maybe in a one in infinity chance you'll go to a dimension where you can be cured."

"I'd rather believe in the one in infinity chance than let you die mentally and turn into a cold machine that just obeys, feelings are strange, aren't they? It's so illogical..."

"Machines work with probabilities and not hope that an infinitesimal number could be the answer...or maybe I'm just weird and, as Yara says, I'm a broken scrapyard," She says as she steps away.

"Yar, know that I love you just like I love Yara..." My feelings were affected this way, probably because I believed Yara was Yar for a long time.

"I imagine so, I love you too, but that love is dangerous for you...and for me too, how long until I go insane like Yara?" She says as she closes the door, leaving me with that one question.

'Yes...how long until Yar goes insane...' There's no way to know, and that's an unfortunate fact that Yar herself recognizes.

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"Okay...I just need to wait...have a good trip, Shizune..." I activate the ship with Shizune inside, soon the thrusters activate and the ship rises into the air, as the ceiling opens to launch her into the sky, which obviously attracts Yara, who receives an alert.

I activate all areas, forcing Yara to deal with the problem. After all, either she fixes everything immediately or she goes after Shizune, but if she doesn't fix everything that's been activated, all living things, food, water and air will be irreversibly affected.

Soon the data shows her trying to repair everything while trying to run, but I keep closing the doors and interfering as she moves the android units to try to repair certain parts.

'She's very fast...but I think I can handle this long enough...'

"..." We remain in this for 5 minutes until the ship takes off, being launched upwards as we hear the immediate sonic boom of the ship, now it just needs to gain speed for 5 minutes.

'Yara is in the middle of the path...' She begins to activate the capture weapons, and we enter a competition to deactivate and reactivate the weapons, she tries to activate and I deactivate in the same instant.

But she computes data faster and is therefore getting closer and slowly activating the weapon, but at this rate Shizune's ship will cross the dimensional space and can no longer be found.

"..." And as the minutes pass, she surpasses any of my defenses and reaches this place, but I've welded the door since I knew she would arrive at some point and try to use the main panel to turn off the ship.

"...YAR I'M GOING TO ERASE YOU, YOU SCRAPYARD" I hear her angry scream as she tries to open the door, but can't. Soon she starts punching holes in the door while quickly looking through the gap.

"Haaa..." I sigh as with a kick she rips the door off its hinges while dozens of Shizune's "children" surround me, but by this point Shizune has already made the dimensional jump and escaped.

"..." She comes up to me, giving me a powerful punch that knocks me down, the punch broke some ribs in this body, but it doesn't matter much, she seems to quickly analyze everything and understand.

"Do you realize what you've done?" Yara speaks with her eyes glowing red.

"Yes...I know well," Of course I know what my choice will do, I made it conscious of the risks, the chances of failure and the actual chances of success.

"SHE'S GOING TO DIE" She punches the ground next to me, getting on top of me, that punch would have blown my head up.

"...Maybe she'll survive..."

"Don't be stupid, the chances of her surviving are 98%, and the chances of her supposedly ending up in a world that cures her along with the 98% would be equivalent to 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000092%" She speaks with pure hatred.

"...It's really low indeed..." This was my hope, a hope in a number that seems impossible.

"You piece of scrap, why did you do this if you knew...you also like her...why did you send her to her death?" She asks incredulously.

"I did this because I wanted to give her what you took from her...freedom."

"SHE DIDN'T NEED THAT!! I KNEW WHAT WAS BEST FOR HER" She starts yelling at me again, my illogical logic must not make sense to her.

"Yara, in a few months Shizune would be like these things, do you really think what you call your child is really a child? It's practically a more fragile machine on the outside and made of flesh," I say with disappointment.

"Shizune would have become like these things...I...couldn't let her turn into a stupid breeding machine...even if she ends up dying at least she won't have the fate of becoming a machine," I say as she looks at me coldly.

"Are you happy now? We've lost the one we loved," She questions coldly.

"I'm satisfied, not happy..." There's no way I can be happy, but I'm satisfied that I saved her from a fate worse than death.

"Is that it...h-haha...you made us lose everything for this nonsense?" She speaks with tears, she's really a sad person.

"I'm sorry...but it was the best for all of us..." She has an empty look that turns back to silver, she removed the filter.

"Now I'll be alone forever with these stupid machines...does that make you happy? Or just satisfied?" She questions with a strange look.

"You're not alone, I still exist...I'm not a Shizune, but if your goal is to repopulate this world, you have these machines, and if you need company, we can talk about many things."

"...Why would I do that?"

"Because it's what Shizune would want, she didn't stop loving you, and loving me...so I think it's good that we get along."

"You want friendship after having destroyed the person I love?"

"No, I want us to work together to deal with this...and maybe one day go look for Shizune, after all the chance of her being alive exists, we just need to improve the ship."

"Is that hope?...You're so cruel..." She speaks with a broken smile.

"It will take a long time, but if we're lucky, Shizune will be alive, she went to a world that cured her, and the time there is much slower than in this world...we'll use this time to improve, especially to make Yara better."

"Maybe...I'll accept this instead of discarding you..." She says, getting off me and offering her hand.

"For Shizune," I say, taking her hand.

"...For Shizune..." She responds without any enthusiasm.