Chapter 11:
If You Really Love Me, Then You Should Love Yourself First!
I’m in the room with Shi-chan. Well, I’m tired to explained it to Kai-san…..well, Onii-chan is. Meanwhile me….. now I’m playing a kart racing game with Shi-chan.
“Ah, how do you use that? The turtle thing.”
“A button. For holding it…. L button”
“OK.”
For info, she already knows the control and basics. She just playing this game for a few laps……but she already in the pos 1. Only time when Shi-chan is outplayed me and Onii-chan, no…..maybe all of our peers in here.
“Ah!”
Yup…..Shi-chan won.
“Yeayy…. My first gameplay.”
“Congrats, Shi-chan.”
“You too, Touka.”
We paused for a second while we choose the next track. I decided to break that pause.
“Um, Shi-chan. Maybe this is too late, but, can I call you ‘Shi-chan’?”
“It’s OK. I want you to call me that as well. I like being called ‘Shiro-sama’. But for you, Rin-chan and Kai-chan, it’s an exception.”
“Onii-chan isn’t included?”
“Oh, well…… that’s include your Onii-chan. What? Do you already disintegrate yourself and becoming Touka as your own sister?”
Wait,…..hold on.
“Wait! Shi-chan.”
“Yeah?”
Why I didn’t feel that? I and Onii-chan is the same person, plus I still controlling myself both at the same time. But why I can differentiate it so quickly?
“That’s because of the code, Touka.”
“Eh?”
“I said again. All of it, because of that code.”
“Wh…what do you mean, Shi-chan? The code is not doing that kind of thing if you are….
Shi-chan overlapped my sentence, “…..you are adding the lines of functions. But the code is changed, because the code basis, is also changed.”
So that means, we can’t back from before?
“Unfortunately you can’t. I’m sorry. You have to learn how to live a live as two person at the same time with different identity.”
I’m mad.
It’s not my fault. I was the one who make that wish
“Don’t mad, Touka. It’s your wish after all. Even with bug, you can still do whatever you want to do. That’s the beauty of human free will.”
“For god, looks like you have enough free will.” I sulked to Shi-chan.
“Well, if to you indeed One is a god. But for another peers I knew, I don’t.”
“Huh? What do you mean?”
“What’s define a god?”
“A power?”
“That’s the one. But the other one is…..origin. What I mean is the origin of the world. I other world. I’m one of the creator your world.”
Wait!
“Wait…… So, this world….my world, is a simulator?”
Shi-chan a little bit confused. Maybe she’s preparing my answer.
“Uummm….. maybe I’m more like a super person who also building your world? I mean, in here, my age is,….oh I don’t know……20 millienia-ish? But on the other side, I’m just 17 years old.”
With a flat tone I replied, “You don’t like a 17 years old. Are you sure you’re not forget your own age?”
“Don’t tease me, Touka. Even though you are a girl, but it’s still rude to assume a girl’s age, you know.”
We laughed at that sentence.
Shiro is ready to beat me again. Oooh, no no, you are not.
“Anyway, let’s play again.”
“I hope I’m not lose.”
“Try it if you can.”
We’re having fun in my room. On the other hand…….
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……..I’m still here, trying to calm my own best friend for not crashing out.
“Sou……please, for the love a god. Are you joking!? Please tell me you are. Please. Even if it’s true, don’t play with my heart, my feeling. Don’t!”
I don’t like this too, man. But come on. Let me help you.
“No no no no no no NO NO!!!”
Kai standing from the sofa, and circling around the sofa.
“NO! Please, tell me you are lying to me. Please. Do not tell me who I supposed to loved!”
“I’m sorry.”
Kai is definitely stressed out from this.
“Man, so my feelings is split between the two, then.”
He pausing himself. But not long after that…..he pointing his finger at me, “Change it back.”
“Huh!?”
“You hear what I say. Change. It. BACK!”
I can’t argue him. He is right. It’s his feeling. He is the one who should control his own feeling, not me, or somebody else.
“Alright. I’m sorry. I should tell you about it first. But in my defense. Touka is also me.”
“I don’t care man. Just…….change it back.”
I stand from the sofa and opened my room.
“Come on. You want to stand there and wait for the change?”
With Kai’s anger, he say, “Don’t mess this up again!”
“No. I won’t.”
We entered the room and I click the mouse of the “World Code” PC, and it bootup instantly.
“You’re not turned it off earlier?”, ask Kai to me.
“No, I already turned it off. That was the booting process.”
“Wow, that fast!?” he’s see the PC monitor and he seeing the code lines presented in there.
“And that’s the code?”
“Yeah.”
I scrolled to Kai’s line and showing him what I add/change.
“See right here. This is your parameter.”
I highlight the code I add to his parameter, “And this is what I add. Because your love to Touka, for some reason.”
“So if you delete that line, my feeling is back to normal?”
To ensure him, I said, “That’s what I do when I add your line.”
To be honest, I still don’t know what happened if I edit the code too much.
I delete the added line.
“And, save. Now, how you’re feeling right now?”
He opened his phone and answered it.
“Yeah, I think it worked already. Thank you.”
“Good for you.”
I swear, in that phone, right now, he’s literally watching an old photo of ours, especially Touka’s photo.
When I want to close the PC again, I scrolled up the code and find my own parameter.
I found the lines contained the parent line and a child line. That’s me and Touka.
I see the default setting is on myself, of course. But now I wonder, ‘What if, I change the default from myself to Touka. Did that change will affect another lines, this world specially?
I’m curious. I tempted to change it. So I did.
When I hit the save file button. The PC is turned off, but turned on again for a next second. It’s like the PC is restarting itself.
“Wow…… dude, what have you done?” Kai asking me, but right now he’s more calmed.
“What happened? What changed?”
“Now my feeling is changed again. Maybe to Nina again.”
He clench his fist, Oh no. He’s mad again.
“Before I want to punch you, do you want to tell me what did you change to me. You had promised literally less a minute ago?”
“I just change my own parameter man, I swear.”
He look at me at the eye, like a hawk seeing his prey. He relaxing his hand.
“I think you’re not lying. But, what do you mean change your own parameter?”
“This!” I showed Kai what I change.
“So you change your default from yourself to Touka?”
“Yeah, I swear this is the only thing I change again.”
“Then……. How?”
I’m not scrolling down to see the code below mine. I’m scared, to be honest.
“Maybe, just maybe. This line make this world become, “What if the original me is Touka and she’s splited into two body?”
“And that new body is you right now. Like that?”
“Yeah.”
Kai put his hand and touching his own chin. After a few second he opened his phone again. He showing me a dress. A white one piece dress to be exact.
“What do you think?” Ask Kai to me.
“What do I think, It’s a OK?”
I’m not sure what Kai tried to test me. I know he is testing me.
I glanced a little from the dress picture, and my eye is focused on the photo of bag in there.
“But that bag on the other hand. Yeah, It’s nice. Aaahhh….. I wish I can buy it.”
Kai see his phone and showing me again the photo but zoomed in.
“This one?”
“Yeah, that one. Yeah…..It’s nice. It has a good style.”
While I seeing that bag. I just realize what’s wrong with me. No, what’s changed from me.
“Kai, I think I know what happened now.”
“Yeah, I also know as well.”
I watch the PC again, but I’m not scrolling or anything.
“I think, my perspective become Touka, a woman.”
Oh boy, I hope it wouldn’t last long. Well, at least Kai is not loving me again. Wait…… now my focus is on myself rather then Souta. A…ah…. Nah, I need to rest after this.
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