"Chi...Chi...please, wake up, for me, Chi!" I begged of her. But her beautiful gray eyes remained shadowed by her eyelids. They covered her life, her love, and my hope. Damn her. Damn her "father." But most of all, damn my heart, that gave itself away to something, an object, that cannot be loved with my senses.

The open window drew in the sunlight, the air, the scent of the ocean; all of the things we humans depend on for survival. Things Chi loved, even though she could not process them biologically. Even though Chi was, no, is; "only" a persocom, she is special. She is a Chobit, capable of feeling emotion, a feat known as impossible even in this time and age of technological development. Persocoms are no longer just toys anymore. They are units capable of feeling human emotion, even love. People used to say they are the ultimate humans, what humans wish to be. The ultimate power that which is to be unable to feel emotion was not even to be given to persocoms, our perfect replicas.

We became God, in that moment when the first persocom was created in its imperfection. Why was the first persocom imperfect? Because God created man in his image. Man was flawed because we were made only in His image. Persocoms were only to give the illusion of perfect life, when their only function was to move for us. That is how they repay our debt to us. However, like God we gave them a choice to be like us and be a part of us.

We believed that we were just like the persocoms, that we were perfect. But then people became "sad." They loved the persocoms as they loved themselves. Yet there was something blocking this love from being returned. Yes, persocoms are capable of love to some effect, but they only love humans as their masters, their owners, no more, and no less. That is why they took the machinery and turned them into functioning organs. Sex organs, to be exact. But that did not work either. Humans gained no satisfaction, nor pleasure, after a while, from soulless machines that could not return love.

But Chi returns my love. She loves me more than she loves herself. She would die without me, as I would die without her. But her death for me would be different from my death for her.

She says I am the one for her. There is a program installed in her that gives her the power to destruct the program that recognizes and differentiates between people in all persocoms. That would make love impossible. Luckily, though, the program only works if her love is not returned. If I fell in love with someone else, or betrayed her love and trust, the program would be activated. Everything would come tumbling down around humans, who depend on persocoms for businesses, household duties, sexual enjoyment, basically everything.

But what would happen when I died? My love for her would disappear forever and all persocoms would lose recognition of people that loved them. What would happen to her? I wish I could give her physical proof of my love for her, so she would never doubt our love even after my death. Loving her and being loved by her is both a blessing and a burden.

I did, though, give her my body just a few moments before. What a grievous mistake it was; I have ruined her forever. Betrayed her, betrayed her sister's trust that I would not complete my love for Chi to protect that love. Worse than that, I cannot trust myself anymore...