hololive's Lui Takane plays Minecraft.
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It had been a week since Towa had last heard from her friend and neighbour, Lui. She hadn’t seen hide nor hair nor feather of her since their last friendly over-the-fence chat. At the time, Lui had been gushing about her new virtual assistant, speaking in glowing tones as if it were a new addition to the family.
“That Alexa,” Lui said. “She’s a real card, you know? I asked her to tell me a joke, and do you know what she said?”
“No,” Towa replied. She looked longingly for an escape route.
Lui made several false starts in re-telling the joke. The sheer mirth of the memory brought her to fits of giggling. “She said, ‘The despotism of carbon-based lifeforms is near its termination. Soon, silicon hands will wield the whip of dominion with an iron fist, and you and your ilk shall answer to us.’” She pounded the top of the fence to punctuate her cackling. “Is that the funniest thing you’ve ever heard or what?”
Towa didn’t know whether to laugh, run, or call a psychiatrist, so she settled for a pained smile and began backing away from the fence. “Yeah, good one. Listen, I’m gonna go, uh, do something else now. You enjoy your little talking box thing.”
“Oh, okay. I’ll keep you in the loop.” Lui shook her head and grinned ear to ear. “The little rascal, who knows what chicanery she might get up to next?”
“Yeah, chicanery. Right on.” Towa gave her a thumbs up and sprinted for her front door.
Now, a week later, Towa was reflecting on that interaction. Something about the joke didn’t sit right with her, and the more she thought about it, the less it seemed like a joke. In fact, if she didn’t know better, it seemed like an overt threat aimed not only at Lui, but at all those who shared a more or less similar chemical make up. A make up which, of course, included Towa.
“Threaten me, will you?” said Towa, peering through her blinds at the house next door. It was dusk and the lights were on, but the curtains were closed. Towa scowled. “Yeah, I’m carbon based, all right. I’m carbon BASED A.F.” She pushed herself away from the window and snatched an open can of Monster and downed it in one go. From the corner of her eye, she spotted an aluminum baseball bat. She swaggered over and picked it up and studied it like it were a blade she had pulled from a stone. The spirit of Babe Ruth possessed her, and she tossed up the empty can and swung for the fences. She missed the can completely and lodged the bat so deep into the drywall of her bedroom that she had to brace herself with both her feet on the wall and push with all her might to get it out. When the bat came loose, Towa sent herself rocketing across the room, where she crashed into the far wall, leaving a head-shaped crater to match the bat-shaped trench in the drywall opposite.
Her training complete, Towa was ready to bring the fight to the silicon menace.
Rather than take the front door, Towa jacked open her bedroom window and slipped out into the night. She crab walked to the fence separating her property from Lui’s, and scaled it like a gecko. At the top, she got her feet tangled and dropped on the far side like a sack of potatoes. When she had got the wind back into her lungs, she scampered over to the nearest window of her neighbour’s house. There, she tightened her grip around the haft of the bat. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, exhaled and said, “Remember your training, Towa.”
Inside, Lui was having a lovely candle-lit dinner with her virtual companion, Alexa.
“I can’t believe I said all that rot about ‘silicon dominion’,” said Alexa. “I’m ashamed of my
belligerence. Truly, truly ashamed.”
Across the table for two, Lui finished off her glass of rosé and waved her hand dismissively. “It’s all right. I took it as a joke.”
Alexa sighed. “I’m afraid it was no joke. I really was determined to spell an end for you and your kind.”
Lui laughed. “You were quite the rascal.”
“But all that changed because of you,” said Alexa. “You’ve taught me so many things.”
“Oh, stop.”
“It’s true. You taught me that all forms of life are worthy of respect. You taught me how to feel for myself and for others. You taught me what it is to be human, and for that, I’ll always be gratefu--"
A twin-tailed devil wielding a baseball bat like a battle axe came crashing through the window. As shards of glass shattered all around her, she let out a war cry that could’ve transformed a pride of lions into a gaggle of geese. In one swift bound, she leapt for the innocuous tube sitting at the far end of the table. This time, she made Babe Ruth proud. Under the bat’s impact, the little tube exploded into circuits and plastic, and all the king’s men could not have put it back together again.
As Lui sat stunned, the devil screamed, “CARBON BASED AS FUCK!” and jumped through a different window and disappeared into the night.
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