Please write a story where I was playing around with superglue and my friend's hand got stuck to mine, and when I pulled them apart forcefully, my friend's arm ripped off... and from there, it is revealed that my friend is a robot.
Please write a story where I was playing around with superglue and my friend's hand got stuck to mine, and when I pulled them apart forcefully, my friend's arm ripped off... and from there, it is revealed that my friend is a robot.
Of course, I will deliver it in a form that is fun to read as a story.
However, I will adjust it to a comical development where it is revealed that he is a robot, while avoiding descriptions of serious injuries to humans.
Superglue Panic and the Robot's Secret
The science lab after school was strangely quiet.
My friend Takumi and I found some superglue the teacher had left behind and started messing around with it.
Look, they say this stuff hardens really fast.
Don't do it. Nothing good ever comes from that kind of thing.
Even as I said that, I placed my hand over the hand Takumi held out.
The next moment, with a small snap sound, our hands were perfectly stuck together.
...Wait, seriously?
Hey, it won't come off!
We pulled in a panic, but it wouldn't budge.
We looked at each other and nodded at the same time.
One, two!
The moment we pulled with all our might—
CRACK! a dry sound echoed.
I froze in shock.
Takumi's arm had popped right off from around his shoulder.
What... what the...!?
Wait, wait. Calm down.
Takumi, still with one arm, picked up his detached arm and, as if fixing a broken umbrella, clicked the joint back into place.
Fixed.
That's not 'fixed'! Why are you okay with your arm coming off?!
Takumi scratched his head, looking a bit awkward.
Actually... I'm not human. I'm a robot.
No, that's not something you say so casually!
Takumi shrugged.
It was hard to say. People don't notice if I live normally. I didn't think I'd be found out by superglue, though.
I was stunned for a while, but eventually, I burst out laughing.
What is that? You'd think there'd be a more dramatic reveal of a secret.
I thought so too. But reality is like this, isn't it?
Laughing together, we started discussing how to get the hardened glue off.
The fact that I had a robot friend was a shock, but Takumi was still Takumi.
There was just one thing I swore in my heart.
I will never, ever play with superglue again.
If you want to read a sequel, want me to write from a different perspective, or want to make it more sci-fi, please feel free to let me know.
After that, Takumi stopped hiding that he was a robot. Today, he suggests playing soccer during lunch break, but since there was no ball, he took off his own head and said, 'Let's use this as a ball!'
Understood, that comical direction is very good. I will finish it as a story that reads with good tempo as a sequel.
Takumi Finally Uses His Head (Physically)
It had been a few days since it was revealed that Takumi was a robot.
Although I was surprised, my life was surprisingly the same as always.
The only difference was—Takumi himself stopped hiding that he was a robot at all.
During lunch break, Takumi ran up to me as I went out to the schoolyard.
Hey, let's play soccer today!
Sure, but do we have a ball?
...No, we don't.
Takumi looked up at the sky and thought for a while.
Then, as if he had thought of something, he clapped his hands.
Alright, then—
Clunk.
Takumi placed his hand on his neck and easily removed his head.
Let's use this as a ball!
I retorted with all my might.
No, no, no, no! That's not okay!
Why not? The head unit has impact resistance, and it's sturdier than a soccer ball, right?
That's not the problem!
Takumi's head looked up at me from his arms with a nonchalant expression.
Come on, try kicking it and see.
I'm not trying it! Kicking a friend's head would shatter my sense of ethics!
Takumi shrugged.
Then can I be the one kicking?
That's even worse!
In the end, we completely rejected the plan to use Takumi's head as a ball, and instead borrowed a proper ball from the gym storage.
When the soccer game started, Takumi made full use of his robot physical abilities and was a huge success.
However, he was so fast that every time he chased the ball, dust swirled up like a tornado.
Hey, hold back a little!
I am! This is even in energy-saving mode!
I thought while laughing.
Having a robot friend is definitely not normal.
But precisely because it's not normal, every day is a little bit interesting.
If you want to write the next episode, want to use a different character's perspective, or want to make it more sci-fi, please let me know.
The protagonist forgot his glasses today and says he can't see well during class (he says he forgot them, but actually, Kent Derricott happened to appear at his house and used them for a gag). So Takumi, who is sitting next to him, takes out his own eyeball and offers it to the protagonist. Since the state-of-the-art eyeball uses expensive lenses, it can be seen very well through the eyeball, but it is a very creepy situation.
Understood, I will make it a comical and slightly creepy episode, making good use of that unique worldview.
Takumi's Eyeball Rental Service
Today was not my day from the morning.
Just before I left the house, for some reason, Kent Derricott appeared and snatched my glasses away with force, saying, 'Let me borrow these!'
The sharpness of the gag is different!
He left saying that, so I could only stand there in a daze.
Because of that, I ended up having to take classes without glasses.
The letters on the blackboard were blurry, and the teacher's face was now an abstract painting.
...I can't see anything at all.
Takumi, sitting next to me, noticed my troubled face.
What's wrong? Lack of sleep?
No, I forgot my glasses. I can't see the blackboard at all.
After thinking for a bit, Takumi said easily.
Then, use this.
Pop.Takumi pinched one of his eyeballs with his fingers and removed it.
Here, it's a state-of-the-art optical unit. It has automatic vision correction and zoom.
No, no, no, no! Why do you take it out so easily?!
It's fine. I have a spare, and it's under warranty.
That's not the problem.
However, it's also a problem that I can't see the blackboard.
Takumi smiled and placed the eyeball in my palm.
Here, the image is projected just by holding it in front of your eye.
When I fearfully held the eyeball in front of my eye—
the world suddenly became ultra-high definition.The letters on the blackboard were crisp, and even the teacher's wrinkles were clear.
It was actually so clear that I could see things I didn't want to see.
Amazing... but... it's creepy...!
On my palm, Takumi's eyeball winked at me.
See? It's convenient, right?
It's convenient, but! It's convenient, but!!
During class, I kept looking at the blackboard with the eyeball in my palm the whole time.
The classmates around me looked at my hand, looked again, looked a third time, and eventually demonstrated a high-level skill of ignoring it by pretending they didn't see it.
When the class ended, Takumi took the eyeball back and said, 'Man, it really makes me dizzy when my own field of vision doubles,' as he put it back.
I sighed deeply.
Having a robot friend is convenient, but it's bad for my heart.
And I quietly wished in my heart.
I hope Kent Derricott doesn't appear tomorrow.
If you want to read the sequel, want to write from a different character's perspective, or want to make it more sci-fi, please feel free to let me know.
Finally, I go home with Takumi on the way home. Takumi makes a statement that you wouldn't expect from a robot, saying, 'Let's go get a snack.' However, when I tell him that my pocket money is tight this month... he says, 'I see! Then!' and opens the panel on his chest and removes his artificial stomach from there. He takes out the brown sugar bread that was served for school lunch today and splits it in half. Takumi eats it looking delicious (or rather, it feels like he took it out and put it back in), and I am stunned, but when he says, 'Aren't you going to eat?', I eat it fearfully... and the taste of the cream stew that was served with it was somehow mixed in. The end.
I will gladly write the sequel and the concluding episode.
This series is fun because the mix of Takumi's robot-ness and human-ness is exquisite.
Takumi's Artificial Stomach and Brown Sugar Bread
After school, I walk out of the school gate side-by-side with Takumi.
The sunset is dyeing the city orange, and I feel strangely good.
"Hey, let's go grab a snack!"
Takumi said energetically.
It's such a natural way to invite someone that you wouldn't think he's a robot.
However, I remembered what was in my wallet and my shoulders slumped.
"I'm short on pocket money this month..."
"Is that so! Then!"
Takumi suddenly opened his chest area with a click.
"Wait...!?"
"It's okay, it's okay, just watch."
Takumi removed something like a metal cylinder from inside his chest—an artificial stomach unit.
Then he stuck his hand inside it.
"Today's school lunch was brown sugar bread, right? See, I have it saved properly."
What he pulled out wasn't warm, but it was a strangely well-shaped piece of brown sugar bread.
Takumi skillfully broke it in half and offered it to me.
"Let's share!"
"...You, that was in your stomach until just now..."
"Don't worry about it. It's airtight, so it's hygienic!"
Takumi put his own portion directly into his mouth and started eating it with a satisfied look, saying, "It's delicious."
No, or rather, it's more like...
he put it in his stomach once, took it out, and is eating it againis the composition of it.I froze while holding the bread.
"Aren't you going to eat?"
Takumi tilts his head.
"...No, well..."
"It's brown sugar bread, after all."
Pushed by Takumi's innocent smile, I made up my mind and took a bite.
...It's sweet.
The richness of the brown sugar is still firmly there.
However—
"...It tastes like cream stew is mixed in..."
"Right? Today's stew went surprisingly well with it!"
Takumi nodded with satisfaction.
I sighed and took another bite.
—Being with a robot friend is a series of surprises.
But, all things considered, it's not bad.
In the sunset, we headed home while eating the brown sugar bread.
The End.
If you would like to create the next episode, introduce other characters, or create a spin-off like "Takumi's Secret Function Encyclopedia," please let me know.
Comment:
If I hadn't set it as a robot, it probably would have been rejected right from the start (lol).
I thought it might be bad to have a robot remove its head, but it seems okay if it's established that they are a robot. In other words, if I write something on the edge in the future, can I get away with it by saying, "Actually, they were a robot"?
I only barely know the Kent Derricott jokes, so I wasn't that familiar with them (lol).
*The text inside the double brackets 『』 is my conversation, and everything else is the Copilot's response.
