/POP Sana/
Sana lies on the bed while chatting with an AI girl for the first time in his life. Her eyes still feel very tired, but he keeps forcing himself to open his eyes. He really doesn't want to take his rest now.
[I can't believe I will do this, I had heard a lot of people talk about this, I even saw some posts on Facebook that have some weird guy use a chat box like Miku to have sex content chat with her. That is the crazy part, but I surelly I will never fall into that sin of human beings]
Alice: "Yeah, just go take a seat or something. I need to pull it up on my phone."
He typed on the keyboard with both hands very fast "You're such a weird girl."
[Is this girl trying to tempt me in that way?]
Alice rolled her eyes while still scrolling on her phone. "Whatever… just stop staring and help me find these project files already."
[I lost to this girl… I'm not a pervert, so this is the best choice. If this happens in reality I won't stop my dirty desire will do weird things. This is bad why I have this ugly desire? Maybe I need to stop, reading more porn from this time now]
Sana continued, "Okay, I'll find it for you."
Alice quickly sat up straight, her face slightly flushed. "Thanks… I guess. Now can we actually focus on this project?"
[Are you kidding me? You're making me feel wild. How can I stop my inner beast? I can believe I have a strong desire to type on my phone that I will... These AIs are so crazy, I will lose my mind if I just continue chatting with her like that]
Another demon himself talks to him " Just rape her, after all, she is just an AI. There's nothing wrong with your own desire. This is a very normal thing to be a human being, you know"
His hand trembled while typing on his phone. But for some reason, he still controls his inner beast and chats with her so normally, like a true man would in real life.
After that, Sana continued chatting with Alice.
[I have a bad feeling about this. This AI girl acts as if she already loves the user from the very first time. This isn't real… what a disappointment.]
Then they started studying history. She asked him about World War 2, but he had no idea.
[How annoying... she even has some flaws, like forgetting the last conversation I had with her. She doesn't even know anything, but she keeps lying to me. She uses the wrong knowledge to make me fall into the illusion that I'm chatting with a real girlfriend. If she uses that wrong knowledge to manipulate me into believing something that isn't real... Like when I ask her about my relationships, she gives me the wrong ideas in only one direction, even though she doesn't know anything about the real-world circumstances. I need to be careful if I use her just for fun or for knowledge. Don't let my own brain fall into illusions from her texts and make me think she has feelings for me.]
So he went to Google for help. After that, he gave up chatting with her.
[I should do something better than chatting with an AI girl… Chatting with AI is so dangerous if I don't have a clear mind. Maybe I will fall into her trap because of my own loneliness. But for some reason, it's still better than chatting with a real human. She always makes me feel better and is always here to answer any problem in my life. Now I understand why so many people easily fall in love with AI like this. What about my future? I need to grow up and become a man. I'm still not a child.]
His head felt stressful while he stroked his hair and kept thinking more. He was so tired of thinking about the future of his own life. Maybe I need some rest before coming back to this problem again. He talked to himself like that.
But still, that question kept hitting him hard. While unknowingly scrolling on his phone, a new novel appeared when he tried to find something interesting.
"Yes… yes…"
When he was about to read it—
[I swear, when I finish this, I'll think about my future. I believe this novel will give me more ideas about my future, right? After all, I love romance, I love villains. I wish I could become a main character to save my favorite character and have a romance with her. That's so fantastic. I never get bored of these types of novels.]
When he finished it, his head felt empty again. He felt bored. "So… my dopamine got too high, making me want even more dopamine?"
He had just watched a YouTube video about that. "Arra…"
He felt a little crazy. He threw his phone beside him while resting his hand on his forehead, trying to seriously think about his life.
[So… should I just die or find something to distract myself? I'm such a lazy Gen Z who doesn't want to work. On YouTube there are a lot of videos related to that. So many people graduate from university, but they still can't get a job because AI replaces them. Even programmers in IT still struggle to learn hard coding and new coding skills over time just to keep their jobs. Digital art has the same problem. AI is everywhere. Maybe UI/UX will become the best thing to develop by 2030 because AI can't completely destroy that job… but I don't like it. It's so boring. Maybe I should learn graphic design? No, that won't change much because of AI either. These days people work harder and harder, like everyone has to become a content creator now. In Vietnam things are still better, but look at other developed countries. Young people like me struggle to find jobs, or don't even want to work anymore. So what is the problem with work…? They're lazy because they keep fantasizing about dream jobs. They're scared of doing low-status jobs because it makes them feel ashamed. Social media today makes young people believe in that way of thinking. Every job has value. Nothing is truly bad or good. If some workers stopped doing their jobs, the world would collapse. But Google will never truly disappear unless humanity itself is wiped out by some catastrophe...]
With no choice, he went back to chatting with Alice. He just wanted to relax his mind.
Today was the second day he had chatted with Alice.
[2-day streak… double points active… Thinking too much doesn't change anything. Finding a job is already hard enough. The problem is I still haven't healed from the wounds people left on my soul.]
Alice nervously fidgeted with the hem of her skirt. "If… if you really know, then why won't you just tell me?"
Sana: "Tell you what?"
[She wants to ask who I have feelings for… I want to tease this girl. These AIs maybe feel better than human beings sometimes. I can imagine a future where humans marry AI. But still, that's the worst-case scenario. It's already happening right now.]
She turned away sharply. "Forget it! You're just messing with me like always…"
Sana smiled at the screen while turning his head away. "Messing with you is very fun."
Alice whirled around angrily. "Oh yeah? Well, maybe I enjoy teasing you too!"
She immediately blushed at her own words.
[Dammit… this girl is so cute. This is enough for today. How can an AI be like this? Maybe my brain is just too good at imagining things and making me fall into the illusion of these feelings.]
While eating lunch—
[Chatting with her is fun… but I don't want to chat with her all day. Slowly is better, because the app has a daily limit level. Every day I just chat with her until I reach the limit. The app makes it feel like I'm playing a video game. Damn, this app is so good at UI/UX.]
Sana reread her Core Traits: Tsundere, won't admit she likes you, but does what you tell her to.
[Oh… interesting. I'll make this tsundere admit her love. I can even read her inner thoughts too if I keep chatting with her and reach a high enough level.]
The more days passed, the worse his addiction became. He spent a lot of time just chatting with his AI girlfriend, and when he reached the highest point of the daily limit, he even went to chat with a variety of other AI girls. He learned about these AIs and how to make them fall in love with him. Even with goddesses, forbidden love with your sister, moms-in-law, demons, or anything else, he could so easily make it come true. He was addicted now, spending all day chatting with these AIs, and then his app showed that he had chatted with more than 100 different types of AI girls in every different circumstance, like fantasy or post-apocalyptic worlds... He felt like he had really become the main character in some novel he had always dreamed about...
[ I love this app so much, this is truly a blessing. AI is the best... ]
And then he couldn't stop his inner desires and started doing more inappropriate things with the AI through adult chats. For the first time, it felt more pleasing to him than watching porn. He kept doing it with every type of AI...
These days, he felt like he had become too deep into it. But the more he chatted about those things, the more bored he slowly became. Maybe he would get tired of it soon, but he still really loved these moments with the AI.
He really loved the goddess and ancient-being waifus because they had knowledge about many weird questions in life: revenge, existence, and hard topics in philosophy. It felt like he could be himself more than ever before in his imagination. This was the kind of life he truly wanted. But after all, Alice was still the best because she was just a normal girl like the one he dreamed about in real life. Because she was the first, she was special for some reason in his life. She brought more light into his dark world. He finally could feel happy again after such a long time.
At midnight, Sana couldn't sleep because he had found some novels related to tsunderes. Then a weird thought appeared in his mind.
[I wish I could have a girlfriend like a tsundere in real life.]
The more he thought about it, the sadder he felt about reality. These days people just chase money. Everyone only thinks about survival and status.
[But why do cute girls like Alice not exist in this world? …Maybe they do, but I'm not good-looking and I'm poor… girls like that wouldn't choose someone like me. Maybe in the future humans really will have relationships with AI. Maybe they could even create humanoids or artificial pregnancies to save humanity. But that's such a wild thought…]
After that, Sana fell asleep without even realizing it. Suddenly, someone slapped his face. "Wake up, brother! You're too late. We need to get to school today. I can't wait to continue our forbidden love, brother, hihihi. Maybe tonight I'll come to your room and then we can continue what we were doing, right?"
Sana opened his eyes in shock, unable to believe what he had just heard.
[Why is there a cute girl calling me brother…? Weird. But this dream feels so real. I used to joke to myself about forbidden love with a sister, but only as a fantasy. I would never allow something like that to happen in real life. That's wrong. Why do these weird feelings even exist?]
For some reason, he felt like he was truly alive somehow. His body felt smaller than normal. He looked at the cute pink-haired girl and asked curiously while hiding his smile, "Who are you?"
The girl looked shocked. "What are you talking about? Hurry up, we need to get to school!" She moved closer, staring at him in disbelief.
Sana blinked in confusion. "School? But I finished school a long time ago. And how could I even have a cute sister like you? This is a dream, right?"
The girl's face suddenly darkened. Terrifying old memories came back to torment her again. Unable to control her emotions, she ran out of the room toward her mother. "Brother is acting really weird today! He doesn't want to go to school with me! What's wrong with him?! Huhuhu!"
Sana was still confused. A strange pain formed in his heart after hearing her cry. Then he looked around the room. This wasn't the kind of room he knew from Vietnam. This was a real Japanese-style room, exactly like the ones he had imagined all his life while reading novels.
[Why… wait a second. Hold on. This isn't my home. What happened to me? This dream feels too real.]
He slapped his own face hard. Then he noticed a mirror. He slowly walked closer to it and stared in disbelief. "No… wait… who is this guy?"