Humans are bottomlessly good-natured [Fragment Specimen]

Humans are weak.

They cannot live without money.

They create invisible chains called laws for themselves and live within them.

Without love, they break.

Without a place to belong, they even lose sight of the reason they are here.

They truly are strange creatures.

I did not have those things.

I feel no hunger.

I have no need to sleep.

Even if no one acknowledges me, my existence does not fade.

That is why I thought at first.

Why do they suffer over such things?

One day, I met a human.

That person was someone who laughed often.

They would stop when they saw someone in trouble,

and reach out a hand without asking for anything in return.

They would spend their time for the sake of others,

and even cut back on their own meal money to try to help people.

I could not understand it.

What is left for them after doing that?

Is it money?

No.

Is it honor?

That is not it either.

Then, what could it be?

One day, that person said with a smile,

"I'm fine."

There was no way they were fine.

Their wallet was empty.

They were cutting into their sleep time as well.

Nothing about them was fine at all.

Even so, they told others, "I'm fine."

Humans are truly strange creatures.

To live, you need money.

You need laws, too.

You need work, too.

You need love, too.

You need a place to belong, too.

If you lose those things, you break easily.

Even though they are so fragile.

Even though they are so fragile.

They can whittle themselves away for the sake of someone else.

……

I never had anything like that.

However, since meeting that person, one thing has been born within me.

"I hope that person keeps smiling today, too."

I began to wish for that.

In that moment, I, too, became bound to something.

What is existence, I wonder?

What is it to live, I wonder?

Surely, to live is...

perhaps to be allowed to exist in someone else's world.

The reason I started thinking that way is...

that person's fault.

……

Humans are not stupid.

They are just bottomless pushovers.

So that's it.

I, too,

have found something precious.

[Note] This is a co-creation with AI. The "darkness" depicted here is a creative work filtered through the writer, Ryuto Natsume. This story is a "Ryuto Natsume style" creative world. I will depict darkness, but I have no intention of darkening your heart. Please enjoy it as fiction.

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