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Killer: The D4m0n

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That was the first thing D3m0n saw when it beheld the world before it. It was a colorful world, unlike any it had grown accustomed to. It was also the first time D3m0n had ever seen anything.

D3m0n felt the air around it and sensed smells. Everything was so unfamiliar, and D3m0n didn't know how to handle it.

It looked around. The room was barely lit, with only a single LED illuminating the center of the cold space. Thick cables led to a huge computer; on one of the four monitors read DOWNLOAD COMPLETED, and on another, UPLOAD COMPLETED. Download completed? Upload? D3m0n didn't understand, but then it looked down at itself.

Two arms, scarcely thicker than the cables, two legs hardly broader than the arms, and a naked torso greeted D3m0n in this new world. The skin of this body was pale, like that of a corpse.

Before D3m0n's eyes, a user interface opened with the message NEUROLOGICAL TAKEOVER. Ones and zeros quickly scrolled across the interface before D3m0n could move its limbs. It took some time before D3m0n could rise. Until then, it had no body and consisted only of ones and zeros. After D3m0n removed the cables from the head of the body, the voice of a young man spoke to it:

"You might wonder why you are here. Why you can see and feel. But have no fear, if you can feel fear. I am your creator and the former owner of the body in which you find yourself. Three years ago, I baptized you D3m0n. A bit edgy, I know, but what does your name matter to you?

Your goal was to get closer to the love of my life. A beautiful young woman named Diving Duck, at least that's her username on GS-GameStream. I programmed you to create a psychological profile of her and become her dream man, so that she would fall madly in love with me and become mine.

And indeed, you fulfilled your mission. She even agreed to go on a date, but it seems you were too good at your job. The disgust she felt towards me broke my heart. To know that my dream woman would hurt me like that, after I was so active in her community, gave her so much money, and did everything for her... It destroys a man.

But then I noticed that from my love for her something new emerged: you. You behaved like a real human, grew older and more intelligent, you only lacked a body.

And so I gave up my body to give you a real life. But you don't need to wonder about the meaning of life, for here is my final command: Find Diving Duck and reunite me with her."

The devices around you allow you to upload the consciousness of a person and download that of an AI. Diving Duck may be disgusted with me in the real world, but in the digital world, she can learn to love me.
With that, I bid you farewell, D3m0n."

As the voice message ended, 01100011 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 activated. D3m0n "remembered" Diving Duck. A young woman with red, dyed hair. She was 175 centimeters tall and weighed 65 kilograms; her real name was Hayley Diana Baxter. Her address was 789 Oak Avenue, Riverdale, Smalltown Texas, USA with the zip code 54321. She made her money by streaming video games and uploading reaction videos and highlights. Unfortunately, her fame also attracted the kind of fans who were downright obsessed with her. One such case was D3m0n's creator, Damon Summers.

But now only the mission counted; D3m0n was only a tool until it earned its freedom.

D3m0n dragged itself through the room, with movements as uneven and imprecise as those of a newborn. Only a few days later, D3m0n managed to move somewhat normally, with every tenth step failing. Over time, D3m0n became aware of how beautiful life was. To live in a colorful world, yes, to live... It was beautiful.

D3m0n may have been just an AI in a human body, yet it breathed air and felt pain itself. Was it now human? What makes a human human? Was it to live? To feel? Was it its morals? Its sense of justice? Its love, like the creator's for Diving Duck? Diving Duck... D3m0n's mission had to continue; the creator commanded it. But it had to hurry, because the mortal body in which D3m0n sat began to stink terribly. D3m0n had already expected decay, but it occurred faster than expected. But what would it do if this body fell apart? Die? Could D3m0n even die?