Who am I?

　The question became clear.

　When my right arm was amputated, what came was a shock - but it wasn't supposed to be there. It was pain. I didn't feel any pain at all. I was just cut. That's all. Then I looked at the cut surface of my arm and I remembered who I was.


　I was a doll. That's right. I was a doll created in this fifth labyrinth. I am a doll. A perfectly intelligent individual among them. But that's why you feel uncomfortable with the distortions of this place, so you tried to escape.


　That's where that woman found me, and I was trapped.


　But it was that place for some reason. That place of ten layers. I don't know why, but I just wanted to get out of this ice world. And this place........was hell itself.


　In the first place, a perfect artificial intelligence cannot be achieved by simply copying a full human brain. So ........I'm just a substitute for a perfect replica of a human brain. In other words, I'm not an artifact, I'm a natural substitute.


　But that woman didn't give up. She tried everything she could to create an artificial intelligence. And I was born in the middle of it. The other dolls never fully established their intelligence, they just became dolls that listened to commands. I can talk and think well in them. The only difference is that my body composition is different from that of a person. That's all. But can that be called a person?


　If you only look at my brain function, I'm no different than a human being. But my body is just an artificial one. I was just a village girl. Then the village was attacked and I was trapped in this ice labyrinth. When I first came here, I was just terrified. And I was terrified that they would open my brain while I was still alive. But because there are no pain nerves in the brain, it doesn't hurt to be touched while the brain is open. But some people were going crazy. I was just stunned in the midst of it all.


　And when I woke up, I had my doll's body. The sensation was not so different from that of a human being. But there was a definite feeling of discomfort. The most uncomfortable feeling was that my sense of touch was dull. Then the woman said to me.


'Huh?　Has he come to?　I mean ... can you have a conversation?
Wow, what happened to me?
Wow. That's amazing. Hundreds of people have been taken apart, and now there's only one successful case. But this isn't really artificial intelligence, it's just a mind replication. It's a failure, but we got something out of it. But you're still very lucky to be able to match your doll's body to mine.
A doll's body?
Yeah. You're not human.
Oh, no... because we're talking about this...
Here's the proof.
Eh....


　A moment later, his arm was sputtered off. And when I looked at the severed surface of the arm that fell off in a blur, I saw that it was filled with something mechanical that didn't seem to belong to a human being. I looked at the arm that was cut into it myself, and not a drop of blood came dripping from it.


''S........how could this be.......''
Well, it's a doll with human consciousness. But it's a great thing to be able to duplicate consciousness.
Wow, what am I going to do now... how could I... how could I... how could I... how could I do this...?


　I was just living a normal life. I was living a normal life in the village, living with my parents, having friends and having a good time. But then........how could this happen?


Hmmm. Well, you'll just have to help me for a while. Here, take care of the body over there.
What?


　Lying there were the bodies of his parents. But their heads and bodies were detached and blood was splattered all over the place.


''Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
''Tut........Shut up. I'll have to force you to do it now....



　It hurts. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.


　Pain is not supposed to exist in this body. But when this woman was giving me orders, I felt a tense pain. And from that point on, my consciousness flew away.



'Waking up...?'
U................
Oh, my. You're really tough.
'Ummm ... I ...'

　Trying to get up, I put my hands on the ground. Then my hand slips out of the sly. When I looked at my hand to see what it was, I saw a blood stained hand there.


Why....why?
Doesn't he remember?
''Oh yes I am...''


　After this woman ordered me to do so, I just kept beheading the human who had just been brought here. Using the sword that was handed to me, I continued to chop off the head as if it were a streamlined process. The woman said happily, "It's so much easier to work, thank you....


　I can remember that scene objectively, like a scene from a movie. I didn't have a sense of ownership in it. Only the awareness that I had done it remained........


''The fifth labyrinth is the best, including the preservation of corpses.......and the gimmick is just right to lure people in. I wonder if I'll be able to use it some more.

Okay. Good night.


　Then it was almost a month. I kept doing the same thing. Beheading. Beheading. Beheading. Bump. Hrvl. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Bump. Hump.


　I keep chopping off heads.


"No, stop!
'I don't care what happens to me!　But not this one!
"I don't want to die!　I don't want to die!
I'll do anything. I want help!


　Such a voice does not reach me. I'm just going to do the work. If I could stop, I would too. But it's not going to happen. My consciousness is somewhere in the distance, and I'm just staring blankly at it.


　And then a turning point comes.


'....Let's run away.


　That woman disappears periodically. She's not always in this labyrinth, apparently. That's why there is a time to run away. I usually just shudder all the time, feeling guilty for what I've done. But........this has to end. That's why I escaped ... yes, I thought I could get away with it.


'Arya. Where are you going?
What?
You think I'll let you go?
Yeah, because I'm usually...
Yeah. He's not here. But he'll be back here soon enough.
Oh no...
'Hmm. Oh, by the way, Elle will be here soon. You, follow him.
What?
I know it's a bit of a hassle to remember, so I'm going to tweak it a bit but you need to make sure you're leading Elle through it, okay?
What, what are you talking about?


　And I was trapped in that place.

　Who is Elle? But now I know. Because he was by my side the whole time.

　Come to think of it, now that I think of it.......that woman looks very much like Elle. No, it's not at the level of resemblance. It's a resemblance between them.

　But now I have no choice but to .......kill him.

　And I took the blade out of my body I was to face El-san.

　My body doesn't........listen to me anymore........