Analyzer reactivates and bonds with a captured Gamiloid robot. Yuria Misaki begins to sense a haunting presence aboard Yamato.
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The Heart of Observer 9
“Back when there were still no towns on Mars, a single observation station stood alone at the edge of Mare Sirenum. No one ever visited this forgotten tower, where a single, young observer lived like a lighthouse keeper. He had no name, only the number ‘9’.”
-a clockwork parable-
-Do Automata Dream if Electric Sheep?-
“One day, an old mechanical engineer named Houdin appeared at the observatory with a girl named Eve. The meeting was magical. Following the sound of a song to the sea, #9 saw a girl sitting on a rock, singing.”
“She turned and asked, ‘Who are you? What are you doing out here?”
“The old man sent Eve back on board the ship, and the observer desired nothing more than to see her again. For the first time in his life, he understood loneliness. He decided to go and see Eve. He felt that this was the only way to learn who he was.”
-Flow My Tears, the Automata Said-
-The Heart of Observer #9-
“Eve’s skin was peeled away, her joints torn off, revealing a body of gears and silicon. From the tower’s window, #9 watched her sink into the Mare Sirenum.”
“‘I no longer feel pity for that doll. Because I know that I am also one, created by Houdin,’ he thought to himself, alone in his small room in the observation station. Wether that beautiful doll did or did not have a heart, it didn’t matter to him. As he thought this, as well… ‘The fact that I have a heart is a secret that belongs only to me.'”
-Clockwork Prisoner-
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- The (fictional) book The Heart of Observer/Agent 9 was supposedly written by Herbert Quain, a fictional Irish author contrived in 1941 by (real) Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. In several actual books, Quain is claimed to have written quite a number of fictional books.