Robocosan at your service! (A Hololive fanfic)

Chapter 8: Days of loneliness.

(Roboco's POV.)

It's been a day since that... That mistake I made, I was sitting down on the couch at home with Watson, Subaru, and one of Haru's friends at school Axel. Axel in particular was so pushy about what happened to his friend that the two officers with me look like they wanted to send him to the slammer, but I told them to stand down. He deserves to know how this happened too. After everyone finally settled down, it was time for the questioning to start.
"So... How'd this happen exactly, Roboco-senpai?" Ame finally asked me, and I took a deep breath as I mentally prepared myself to explain what happened. As I gathered my thoughts, the pang of guilt and sadness still lingered in my chest. This was all my fault and I knew it... I still haven't mentally recovered from what happened the other day, and as long as Haru isn't back home I never will. The guilt from what happened was still eating away at my conscience, how could I have let this happen...?
After what seemed like an eternity, I finally relaxed and started to explain just how this mess started.

"So... What happened was that Haru's brother Tanaka called me over to talk about something, I didn't think too much of it at the time, I knew I shouldn't have listened because Tanaka was a dirtbag but... I still felt obligated to listen to him, both as Haru's brother and as my creator's eldest son." I started off, as I spoke I couldn't help but feel like the guilt inside me was building up. It was becoming unbearable, this was all my fault...
"Okay... So you still kept in touch with Tanaka even when he's nothing but trouble to you and to Haru, correct?" The detective asked me, and I responded with a timid nod before I continued.
"When I came to meet him... We sat on the back seat of his car and that's where we spoke. And... And..." I trailed off, I struggled to get the words out. This was where the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life began, I listened and believed what Tanaka said and showed me.
"And?" Subaru-san asked, I knew I had to continue, no matter how hard it is. I have to.
"He showed me all these... 'Evidence' as he claims, evidence at the crime scene inside mister Izumo's home. Evidence that they said Haru himself hid away because he was the killer... They said that was why the crime scene was so clean, and they claimed it took alot of resources to find it." I said, racking my memory drive for more of the stuff they showed to me. Images of the supposed evidence they found, stuff that really should've raised my eyebrows but was somehow believable enough that I fell for it.

"What 'evidence' did he show you exactly?" Ame then asked me, and I sucked in another gulp of air before I answered.
"Stuff like... A supposed image of the murder weapon they found at a vacant lot some distance away from our neighborhood. A picture of a bloodied knife, it looks so genuine that I still think that it was the murder weapon, but it most definitely wasn't Haru that used it." I said, earning a nod from everybody else before Axel finally spoke up after being silent for a while. "I am still puzzled on how you chose a sack of shit over a kid you've spent your whole life with." Those words hit me harder than he probably expected, because I didn't even give Haru the chance to explain or defend himself. Something that I really should have done, instead I... I shot him. Which itself is already excessive... I can't even explain why I did that, there's no excuse for what I did. Creator-san gave me one singular purpose before he passed on and I failed miserably, and I even ended up hurting his son... I ended up hurting the person I loved with all my life.
"There were a lot more things they showed to me... A picture of the vacant lot where they claimed Haru dug a hole and disposed of the evidence." I added, now that I'm think about it. This evidence doesn't make much sense... Haru was with me the day the murder took place as well as the days before and after, there's no we he'd have the time to murder someone and hide away evidence this extensively...

"Okay... Next is uh... The 'arrest', how'd it go exactly? You said that you ended up shooting Haru but you didn't say much more than that." Ame then said, and Axel's facial expression said it all. Of all the people in Haru's life, the last person he'd expect to pull a gun on him and actually pull the trigger was me. The android that raised him.
"Hang on... Did I hear that correctly? You shot the damn kid?" He finally asked, and his question only added to the guilt I was feeling. Watson and Subaru wanted to kill him for asking that question but I shut them up, he's part of this talk like they are, and he gets to ask questions like they do.
"Y-Yeah... When I think about it now... It was really unnecessary... And we didn't even announce our presence before I shot him... I just did it." Those words only annoyed Axel even more, and it made me feel even more terrible than I already do. "Jesus Christ Roboco-san... I knew that you were clumsy because Haru tells me about it all the time but this is on a whole other level." He remarked, which only amplified the pain in my chest even more.
"... I don't think I can get myself to face Haru if I see him again... I don't know if he'll ever forgive me... I remember seeing the look on his face, he felt so betrayed when he saw that I was the one that shot him, and when I just stood there while two phony cops threw him in handcuffs saying that he was being arrested for something he didn't do."