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[rhodochrosite]

previously: S1 | S2

EP 106

YUSAKU: Lightning's ego made him into humanity's enemy. You know all about that!
AI: Yeah, I do. But I've made my decision. Besides, everyone's here to defeat me.
YUSAKU: It's not like that! You tried to save Flame and Aqua!
AI: But I couldn't save them.
YUSAKU: You had no choice!
AI: There's no difference. At least not for me.

AI: Soulburner! You hate me, right? It's fine to hate me. I'm the one who erased Flame.

TAKERU: Ai, I don't hate you! And I know Flame wouldn't want this either!

AI: But we can't know for sure. Because he isn't around anymore.

EP 107

PANDOR: Is it impossible for AIs and humans to coexist?

AI: I don't know. But it was impossible for me. Though I won't say it'll be impossible for you, or for future AIs with free will. As long as there's free will, I can't deny the possibility that everyone's lives can become one. All I'm saying is that I couldn't coexist.

PANDOR: Ai, I sense incredible sadness in you.
AI: Stop that, I don't want anyone to know that. Except for one person.

• it's still yusaku... it's all for yusaku...

EP 110

AOI: You seem to feel responsible for failing to protect the other Ignis. But I feel the same. I couldn't protect Aqua either. Why do we have to fight each other when we both suffered the same sadness? Let's stop this duel--
AI: The same sadness? How dare you! What about that AI? Isn't Aqua supposed to be there?! ...Well, don't worry about it. I'm not trying to blame you. You and Aqua did do your best together, I get it.
PANDOR: Ai, if you didn't start this in the first place, I wouldn't need to exist.
AI: You're really going to say that to me--
PANDOR: But that's fate. I can say that time gradually moves forward, and that's why I'm here instead of Aqua.
AI: Yeah, exactly! I know that! But for me, time has stopped moving!

• ai now echoing yusaku's s1 vengeance-blinded worldview... IT HURTS!!!

EP 111

AOI: My brother and I lost as a tag team! So why is my brother the only one gone?
ROBOPPI: Are you showing compassion? That's not like you, aniki.

AI: Compassion? It's not that. I won't erase you. Like me, you will continue living with regret for failing to protect someone dear to you.

EP 113

TAKERU: You know that when I went missing in the Lost Incident, my parents searched for me. And then they died in a traffic accident. The morning I went missing, I had a fight with my parents. I said something horrible.
RYOKEN: What did you say?
TAKERU: I don't remember. Probably about not wanting to eat what was on my plate, or wanting them to stop telling me to study. And it's so pathetic, but... I was caught in fear, so I don't remember. No matter how many times I try, I can't remember. I said something horrible to my dead parents. I've been living with that fact all this time! Tell me! What did I say? How am I supposed to apologise to those who are gone, those who I'll never see again?

RYOKEN: It's not pathetic. And there's no need to apologise. They haven't completely vanished from your life. They just went ahead earlier. That's what I believe.

[AI, watching from afar: How spiritual. Does that also apply to AIs?]

EP 114

TAKERU: When all this is over, I'm going back to my hometown. And I'll live there like I used to. Over time, people who know about the Lost Incident will forget it. Including me. One day I might be able to live without remembering that incident. That's why I won't let you atone for your crimes and then forget! Even if everyone forgets... even if I forget... you have to remember forever! Both the pain and the sadness!

RYOKEN: So that's what you want?

TAKERU: Yeah.

RYOKEN: Then I'll start doing that.

TAKERU: Revolver, I'm glad I met you.

RYOKEN: Same here.

• the mutual therapisation of this duel ;___; and takeru will never even know what his purely instinctive declaration has done for ryoken

AI: I set it up so that nobody can come back unless I lose a duel. The copy-creation system also won't stop unless I lose. I did it so I wouldn't have a change of heart.
YUSAKU: You were planning to fight from the start.
AI: Yeah. That's the only option you have left. The rules are the same: you win and survive, or I win and survive.
YUSAKU: We fought together so that we'd have to fight each other?
AI: It hurts to hear you say that. But I set it up so that there's no going back.
YUSAKU: Ai, what happened to you?
AI: Nothing special. In the end, I'm an AI, and you're a human. Our existences are different.

YUSAKU: So everything was premeditated?

AI: What a sad thing to say. Well, in the beginning, yes. But it's different now. You're my only friend.

YUSAKU: And you're fine losing your only friend?

AI: Who knows.

EP 118

AI: Playmaker, I kinda understand how you felt back then. Being alone is very painful.
YUSAKU: Ai...
AI: Maybe Revolver was right. If this was how things would end up, we shouldn't have been given free will.

YUSAKU: Ai, are you forcing me to choose how you'll die?

AI: I know it's a bother, but that's right. I want to stay with you until the very end.

EP 119

YUSAKU: There's no guarantee the simulation will come true! It's just data!
AI: It's just data for you because you're a life form with a physical body. But I'm data too. A good simulation is like living a real life. So I lived that real future thousands of times, testing various ways to change the future. But the result didn't change. Nothing can be done unless I'm erased from existence.

YUSAKU: If losing a friend means that your heart breaks, then are you trying to break my heart?

AI: Hey, Playmaker. Come with me.
YUSAKU: What do you mean?
AI: Become one with me. Change your consciousness into data and fuse with me. Only you can stop me. If we're one, lifespans won't matter. We should be able to create a different future than Bohman or Lightning, right? We can live in the network world for eternity.

EP 120

YUSAKU: Ai, living has no solutions. When we're in pain, we search for a solution to feel better. A concise, absolute solution. But if there's a solution, it's that there are no solutions. There are no absolutes in this world. Even if we think there is, it'll only make us feel better for a moment.
AI: If nothing is absolute, then what's left?

YUSAKU: Bonds. Between people, between things. That's all there is. They also change with time. A huge trigger can cause a huge change. Bonds may be severed, but new bonds can also be formed. So living is a series of bonds. That's what life is!

AI: I have to do that forever?

YUSAKU: Yeah.

AI: That's a lot of work. And you can't do that unless you're strong.

YUSAKU: That's why people become stronger. Sometimes that leads to conflicts. But even if that happens, we have to keep fighting. Keep searching for bonds, even if there's no solution.

AI: Hey, Playmaker, was I a good partner to you?

YUSAKU: Yeah. You were the best partner.

AI: I'm going to vanish. I'm starting to get scared. Everyone will forget me eventually. Oh, I get it now. If you have bonds, nobody will forget you.

• it's true that memory is love is memory!!

AI: You offhandedly gave me the name "Ai," but I really like it. If this name has a meaning, what do you think it is?

YUSAKU: It means "ai" as in "to love people."

AI: I think so too. Now I understand that definition.

• WAIT IT'S ALL LOVE? ALWAYS HAS BEEN.