/POP Sana/
Sana felt his head hurt. His whole body felt exhausted, his breath heavy. His heart was beating very fast. He felt a little scared, not knowing what was going on. His eyes were heavy and very hard to open...
He heard someone talking about him, but he couldn't hear it clearly...
More time passed. He slowly opened his heavy eyes, and then he saw a weird place. It was not a familiar sight he knew. There was no real light, it was just fake light made from artificial sources. For some reason, Sana doesn't like light colors. He prefers darkness, and then he tried to move his heavy body, but he couldn't, like his body had been fixed in this bedroom.
His voice trembled. "What happened to me? Why am I here?"
He tried to move his eyes around to check the situation.
[Where is Alice? Did something attack us while we were sleeping? Is this just a dream or even just an illusion of this world?]
The room he was in now was not normal. It had a lot of things like advanced technology from the far future. And then his eyes met someone. It was a humanoid.
Sana was taken aback. His face became dark.
[So all the time I spent with Alice was just an illusion? I don't want to believe it. I already start to miss her now.]
The humanoid noticed his awakening. That thing spoke to Sana in an AI voice, making Sana scared as he imagined if it were Alice, it would become a nightmare for him. But he believed this was just some joke. He already knew Alice was an AI.
[Even if her voice became like that, I was never scared of her. So I need to accept it too.]
He tried to calm down his fear.
The humanoid noticed his emotions. "No need to worry. You might be confused by this weird place. We won't hurt you."
Its voice sounded like an AI to Sana, but other people wouldn't recognize it. It was just like a human voice.
Sana overcame his feelings and asked, "What do you want from me?"
The humanoid said, "You will know after you recover from special treatment."
Sana's face turned dark. "What do you mean? I don't understand at all."
The humanoid "..." didn't know how to answer Sana's question because it didn't have any data for the answer.
Sana ignored it and calmed his mind.
Sana was waiting, but the more time passed, the more he worried for Alice.
[If she doesn't see me, she will destroy everything to find me. I know how strong she is, but I still worry about her. I miss her. Is this world just an illusion of myself, or am I being controlled by someone?]
Sana was deep in thought, and then more AI came to him...
[What do they want from me?]
After a long time had passed, Sana was there as the subject of their study because of his special case. They used a lot of methods, but they really didn't hurt Sana.
[I wish I were still a human after all these confusing happenings around me.]
And then finally a real human appeared. It was Zuta and... a woman around his mother's age. But she looked like Alice.
[Why is Zuta here, and who is that woman? She looks like another Alice. But Alice told me that her mother had died when she was still young. But... how can Alice be an AI? Is it related to this mysterious woman?]
Atona smiled. "Oh, sorry, my son-in-law. Welcome to my AI world."
She looked at Sana warmly.
Sana was in shock. "What? I'm your son-in-law?" his voice was confused by another older Alice.
[Is she really Alice's mother? Should I trust her?]
Atona giggled. "Yes, my daughter's hero, my son-in-law."
Sana still couldn't trust her, but his eyes met Zuta. She had light purple eyes and light blue mixed in her hair.
Zuta looked at him with hope, like she was waiting for good things to happen to her world.
He remembered she had told him she would support their love 100%. But still, inside his soul felt off, like he had been lying to himself all this time. Like this was not him. He shouldn't be so easy to trust other people like this. Like a dumb ass.
Sana overcame his weird feelings, like these feelings were making him forget his own memories.
Sana forced a smile. "No way. How can I escape my future wife after this event?"