She was too sweet, wasn’t she? To think that she could openly say how she felt like that, and didn’t think that anything could make her feel otherwise. Perhaps ignorance was bliss and perhaps she was correct; only time would tell. He closed his eyes to steady himself for a moment, strangely relieved by the loss of sensory input from his vision; perhaps his neural-net was becoming a bit overstimulated by the stressful situation. To make him more lifelike, he had been programmed to respond to stress with symptoms that imitated adrenaline; sometimes that was helpful, but when it came to more ‘human’ moments like this it became a nuisance. Hopefully he would be able to get his point across to Shiori without scaring her too much–he could already hear her heart racing, and his sensors had already indicated that her temperature had gone up. Signs of nervousness, and of infatuation…Thankfully he had talked with Maman beforehand and she had helped him talk through this before moving forward. She was far more sensitive than he was to Shiori’s feelings, despite his best efforts to learn from experience. Etiquette told him that he couldn’t exactly ask Shiori what she was feeling, so he had to just jump in, and hope she would tell him herself…
“Shiori, I’m not human,” he began, “I never have been, and I can never be. My father entered me into the family competition as a test of his scientist’s abilities. Of course I was able to surpass all of them with hardly any effort, despite receiving all the same lessons and tests…I am, after all, an android.” There, he had said it. With the worst of it over, he felt able to open his eyes again, although it frightened him to look at her vivid green eyes and see her reaction.
Despite having accomplished the initial reveal, it lacked explanation of how, and what exactly being a mechanical man entailed. Strangely, despite all his planning and careful consideration, he still wasn’t sure where to begin his deeper explanation. At a loss for any other way, he decided to start with his engineering. “I have all the parts a human would, a pump in place of a heart, a mechanical brain, even veins and bones. I can do anything that a normal person would; I can eat, run, play sports, have children…But I felt that you needed to know the truth before we pass a point of no return in our relationship. To let you continue to love me, not knowing what I am, would be cruel, and I care for you far too much to hurt you that way.”
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