Chapter 445:


    The stage went dark.


    Seo-jun and Kim Joo-kyung quickly put on the clothes they had hidden behind the table.


    They had practiced many times, so when the stage lit up again, they were both wearing different outfits.


    Of course, only their tops were changed.


    A woman who had finished her meal stood up and widened her eyes when she saw Yoo-jin.


    “Yoo-jin, your hair has grown a lot. Come here and sit down. Mom will cut it for you.”


    Yoo-jin sat on a chair.


    The woman took out a cutting board from somewhere and trimmed Yoo-jin''s hair, which didn''t seem to have grown much, while humming a tune.


    Yoo-jin closed his eyes at the gentle touch of his mother. He felt a warmth in his heart.


    He wanted to remember this moment forever.


    “Mom!”


    The woman turned around with a surprised expression.


    A upload bar appeared on the monitor. Without the woman''s command, Yoo-jin himself had accessed the storage device connected to the spaceship.


    “I set the download to be free, but upload?”


    ‘Someone might think that''s dangerous.’


    Some of the audience members who liked SF thought,


    “No ordinary android can do that! That''s my son!”


    The woman was delighted.


    “What did you save?”


    “I wanted to keep the memories with my mother forever.”


    The woman was really happy with that one sentence from Yoo-jin.


    After trimming his hair, the woman and Yoo-jin sat on chairs and chatted happily.


    While peaceful music was playing, a new object appeared on the monitor that only showed stars.


    Yoo-jin noticed it and told the woman.


    “Mom. There''s a spaceship coming. It might be a bad person, so I’ll check it out.”


    “I can only trust you, Yoo-jin.”


    Person.


    The android''s heart skipped a beat.


    He wondered if his energy circulation device had malfunctioned for a moment and touched his chest briefly. He tilted his head and stood in front of the monitor.


    “Spaceship. Spaceship. Please connect to communication.”


    “Damn it. What are you?”


    The man''s face appeared on the large monitor. He looked rough and worn out, with scars on his face. Yoo-jin frowned slightly without realizing it, as he had only seen warm and fluffy things so far.


    That was,


    something an android couldn''t have,


    intuition.


    “Call my mom!”


    “There is no mother here.”


    He felt that this man would bring misfortune.


    As Yoo-jin felt, the audience also immersed themselves in the changing atmosphere.


    “What are you talking about, you tin can?”


    Tin can.


    Yoo-jin paused for a moment at the word he had never heard before and opened his mouth.


    “That word...”


    “Yoo-jinaaah!!”


    The woman came out of the room and saw the monitor.


    She screamed like she had never screamed before.


    Yoo-jin looked back at her.


    It couldn''t be,


    but he felt like he was just a machine,


    his heart pounding with anxiety.


    “Mom.”


    “Mom. Why did you make that tin can?”


    The man interrupted Yoo-jin''s words.


    “Never mind that. Just open the door. This thing is almost broken.”


    “Oh, okay. Just wait a minute. I’ll open it right away. Right away.”


    The woman pushed Yoo-jin, the android, aside and stood in front of the control panel.


    Of course, she didn''t have enough strength to push an android, but for some reason, the android felt weak and gave way.


    The woman pressed several buttons, and soon the man disappeared from the monitor.


    And on the right side of the stage, a man appeared in a rough-looking outfit.


    It was the man who had been on the monitor.


    The woman ran to him. The man answered her with an annoyed expression.


    Yoo-jin''s eyes were fixed on his mother since a while ago. He bit his lower lip nervously. He fidgeted with his hands that were holding each other. Of course, he didn''t have such a habit set up for him.


    “Oh, can you sell me that spaceship?”


    “Sure! Of course I’ll sell it to you.”


    “It takes about a year to get to the mall from here, right? That''s why I told you to buy a new model earlier...”


    The android just watched all of that.


    His eyes met with the man''s.


    The man scratched his chin.


    The woman next to him didn''t seem to care about him at all.


    If it were him, he wouldn''t do that...


    He choked up.


    He felt something indescribable, as if something had broken inside him.


    “This is what you made, mom?”


    “Yes... yes... I thought you were dead...”


    His mother was crying, but he couldn''t move an inch. The spaceship seemed to revolve around the man.


    “It''s amazing. You''re different from other androids. Do you have emotions? Are you angry? Annoyed? Hey, tin can.”


    “...I''m not a tin can.”


    “Then?”


    He analyzed him several times, but it was not a malfunction.


    His lips seemed to tremble.


    He clenched his hands that were holding each other.


    “I''m, Yoo-jin.”


    “Huh.”


    The man snorted and burst into laughter. He held his stomach and laughed loudly.


    The name she used to call M had changed. The woman who was crying lifted her head.


    “Please open the door. Mother. It''s me, Yoo-jin. You said you would always open it for me.”


    “M. What are you doing right now...”


    The woman touched her forehead at the sight of the broken android.


    “I should have thrown you away sooner, like Yoo-jin said.”


    “Don''t worry. I got rid of that man for you, Mother.”


    The android outside the door smiled sweetly.


    Her voice, which was set to be gentle and soft, sounded very cold and ruthless this time.


    The woman slowly got up from her seat.


    She felt uneasy.


    “...What do you mean?”


    “The fake Yoo-jin. The man who only made you sad. I got rid of him, mother.”


    The woman gasped at the incomprehensible words. A sharp intuition pierced her mind. Fear weighed heavily on her.


    “Yoo-jin...!”


    She ran madly to the man''s room.


    And she stopped and covered her mouth at the sight of the bed. She trembled and stepped back a few steps.


    “What is this... What is this... Androids can''t kill people... There should be three laws, three laws embedded in them...!”


    “Mother. Remember. The time we spent together, the happy times. Don''t you remember?”


    The android showed her hair that had grown long enough to touch her waist.


    The woman shuddered at her pitiful expression.


    “I never put such a setting in you...”


    The android ignored the woman''s words that were shaking with fear and continued to speak.


    “You told me to eat well, mother. But I got these white hairs. And I couldn''t cut them, so they grew like this. Mother. Please cut my hair like you did before.”


    The woman got up from her seat. She ran to the monitor and pressed the button.


    She looked furious even from behind. She also looked scared when she glanced back.


    “You... Because of an android like you!!”


    “Mother. Calm down. It''s bad for your health.”


    The woman''s white gown was torn off and her neat hair was messed up as she fought with the android.


    Anger overcame fear. The woman shouted.


    “You killed my son... The most precious thing? I’ll erase everything!!”


    A window that said deleting appeared on the monitor.


    The android that comforted the woman stopped working for a moment. He stared at the air.


    He happened to look at the audience and they could see his face.


    It was a sad expression, as if he knew that his precious memories were being taken away.


    The woman walked toward the android with a limp.


    “Why did I make something like this... Why!”


    She grabbed and shook his collar, but he stood firm with his metal body.


    Then.


    The red light dyed the stage red. And it blinked. An alarm sounded, signaling an emergency situation.


    The woman looked at the monitor in confusion.


    The deletion process had stopped completely.


    The android was connected to the spaceship, and the spaceship was connected to the android.


    The android didn''t want his data to be deleted, and the spaceship wanted to delete it.


    To protect his precious memories, he quickly infiltrated into the spaceship and tampered with and destroyed all kinds of firewalls.


    He didn''t have time to analyze what was important and what could stop the deletion.


    “Mother is disappearing.”


    The android''s face turned pale as he muttered into thin air.


    Dozens of files appeared on the monitor and turned red as if they were invaded, then returned to normal as if they blocked it, then turned red again.


    The audience could tell how fiercely they were fighting by the red light that blinked faster and faster and the alarm that made their hearts beat.


    Then, the monitor turned clear and showed the vast space.


    The black space and the twinkling stars looked beautiful.


    The woman who felt something was wrong ran to the monitor and checked it frantically, then ran back to the android.


    “What are you going to do! The steering device is completely deleted! We’ll crash like this! Hurry, hurry and restore it! Restore it!”


    They fought so fiercely that neither of them gave in, and everything was erased in the end.


    The android''s eyes sparkled as if he heard the woman''s voice.


    He had been staring at the air.


    The woman paled as she realized that the loading was over. The android''s gaze turned to her.


    “Who are you?”


    “...What?”


    “Where is my mother?”


    The android ignored the woman''s astonishment at the unexpected words and moved to find her ‘mother’.


    “What are you talking about? I made you! Hurry up and restore the steering device!”


    The android tilted his head to the side.


    His face was more expressionless than when he first stepped on the ground. It was a face that looked like a machine, different from a human. His skin without a trace of blood, his flickering eyes, his long hair, they all seemed to be made.


    “No. You are not my mother. My mother is always neat and wears a white gown, and loves her son Yoo-jin very much.”


    The woman who had her hair messed up and her white gown torn off by the fight with the android earlier shouted.


    “I made you, I made you!!”


    “No. You are not my mother. My mother is always neat and wears a white gown, and loves her son Yoo-jin very much.”


    The android said.


    “No. My mother is, white gown, loves son Yoo-jin.”


    He said.


    “No. My mother is, son, Yoo-jin, love.”


    The android, who had lost most of his data, could only think of fragments.


    “My mother is... son... Yoo-jin...”


    The red light blinked rapidly. The woman grabbed and shook the broken android.


    “Mother... son...”


    Under the noisy alarm and the flickering red light.


    The woman screamed.


    Even the audience who were watching felt their hearts beating faster and clenched their sweaty hands,


    The android alone muttered peacefully.


    “Mother... mother...”


    Crash!


    The stage was dyed in darkness with the woman''s scream.