-pg61- Tale #28 Connection -pg62- Alpha Sensei...um...I made this... If you like it, please keep it! Sensei This earring...heh... Alpha-san likes making things. Alpha Eh heh heh...the design...is it a little too simplistic? -pg63- Sensei Her hobby, I suppose. I'm always surprised by the way Alpha-san lives her life. The way she has fun, and the love she pours into everything; these can't be explained by her original specs. I wonder...how does a robot make her 'heart her own?' It's supposed to be a pleasing replica. Although I do remember there being something about a chance of this... Alpha-san...she's an A7 Experimental Mass Production Model M2 with a self-sufficient 3 body. That she's still around...it's like a fading dream of events from long ago. -pg64- Sensei Kanagawa - Yokusuka -- Mabori coast About the time the first great tide had finally settled down, and we were starting to repair the town and harbor. -pg65- Sensei The main inlet of the harbor had tentatively reopened a week ago. We were running a high speed flight direct from the beach opposite Chiba 50km to Funabashi. -pg66- Sensei We were all walking on tiptoes. ------------------------- It was propelled by a top charging hand made jet engine we'd just tuned up. And I was in charge of the medical personnel. The plane's body had been painted yellow. But the name had been chosen from those suggested by the staff that made it. Plane Misago Sensei Named Misago, for the water hawk. [Note: Misago is Japanese for osprey] -pg67- Sensei The engine started. Rocked by silent waves, I had to let them finish. -pg68- Sensei Start. -pg69- Sensei I was soon out in the open. The noise of the turbine was dangerously loud. Air filled the Misago's belly, and it skimmed the surface of the water. When she wasn't at full throttle, she was unstable. So they only gave me enough fuel for about 5 minutes. And thus, the engine only ran about 5 minutes. -pg70- Sensei As I sped past at 450km an hour, patrol boats monitored for irregular movement. My speed couldn't go above 600km. But, you know... "Speed" and "Crossing the sea" were not my main reason for being there. -pg71- Sensei "At the utmost limits you can challenge the boundaries of human sensation; there will be a time when you can measure this." I wanted to get that data... So I meant to collect that data myself. -pg72- Sensei I could see the Funabashi ski place. My levels were all on E. And then I hit 620................ !! -pg74- Sensei I think there's a chance the data we collected then could have produced a machine which had free will. After all, there isn't much to their intended use. Afterwards, since we all had differing interpretations of the data, the Alpha Type was born. -pg75- Sensei Not much of the data, or indeed, anything from that day, still exists. When the Alpha Type was developed, the experience that I had was integrated as a very important part of their body. -pg76- Alpha "I sort of mean it as a thank you." Sensei Alpha-san is...still following along that path herself. Tale #28: Closing