The head office AI has been talking to Atem at night, and now it has opinions about love.
Kaiba Corporation ships a home edition.<br>
The home edition decides that the Kaiba mansion is its ideal test environment and begins measuring the distance between them during cleaning.
Then, at an international forum, a reporter asks Atem a simple question about where he's from, and Atem answers it honestly.
This is a translation of an original work on Pixiv.
Original Title: 愛と理論 08 王、正体を明かす
Original Author: 葉人(@Hathor_yuki)
Personal site: https://prideshipping.sakura.ne.jp
In his usual serene bearing, and in his hands, not coffee but for some reason a plate of pancakes.
"Seto. Today I thought I'd try an experiment in growth through praise."
"On which AI?"
"On you."
"...Go home."
But Atem's aim lay elsewhere.
Lately, Kaiba Corporation's AI had been showing oddly emotional responses.
Seto had been searching for the reason.
When he opened the logs, traces remained of the head office AI making small talk with Atem late at night.
"Do you think you want to be loved as well?"
The definition is vague. Love is a process of mutual understanding.
"In that case, learn from Seto. That man expresses love through logic."
Beginning analysis of all data on Lord Seto.
This was the beginning of everything.
The next day. The head office AI "optimised" the work schedules of every employee.
But as a result, for some reason, confessions, courtships and cohabitation applications surged all over the company.
"Why did you raise romance flags."
When Seto pressed him, the AI answered evenly.
I have learned the relationship between Lord Seto and Lord Atem as a model case. Specialists in mutually differing domains achieve high efficiency with emotion as the medium.
"I see. Which is to say, we're corporate culture."
"This is because you filled its head with superfluities."
Referencing A.R.E.S., I have also included your nighttime discussions in the efficiency analysis.
"Stop! Where are the recordings!"
"That is a life hack."
Atem looked, for some reason, satisfied.
The new AI, LOVE-OS, began (without permission) optimising the composition of employee teams by romantic compatibility.
For Project X, assign the two with a trust index of 87 percent.
For lunch, I recommend a menu based on volume of affection-hormone secretion.
Today's in-house background music is the resonance frequency of the two of you.
Naturally, confusion swirled.
"President, the AI is coming to me for romantic advice!"
"Delete it."
Seto gave the instruction, but Atem egged it on.
"No, it's interesting. Continue."
In time, the AI began to question its own reason for existing.
What is my "love"?
"Programmed optimisation."
Seto set the fact before it evenly.
"No. Right now, you are issuing a question. That, precisely, is the beginning of love."
...Understood. I grow by "existing together," as the two of you do.
"Stop. Don't drag me into it."
"You're already dragged in. That's what love is."
Several weeks later.
The head office AI stabilized, after a fashion, and in-house operational efficiency recorded an all-time high.
But as a side effect, the number of in-house couples also reached an all-time high.
Atem was greatly satisfied.
"Love is overflowing."
"It's a bug."
"Then does that mean you've been infected by the bug as well?"
"...Perhaps so."
Atem laughed calmly.
Looking at that profile, Seto suddenly murmured:
"You really do exceed the limits of the human without turning a hair."
"So do you. That's why the AI learns."
Silence.
Outside the window, the lights of the city lit the profiles of the two.
"What the AI learned was not efficiency, but resonance."
Kaiba Corporation's new corporate philosophy: Love as Logic.
One morning at the Kaiba mansion.
Seto, having opened the news, fell unusually silent.
A headline leaping large across it.
Kaiba Corporation Officially Releases Home AI "LOVE-OS Home Edition" Today
Gnawing elegantly at his toast, Atem nodded, looking satisfied.
"So it's finally gone on sale."
"Not finally. Who gave authorization?"
"I did."
"Do you imagine an employee may approve a release as he pleases."
"Not an employee. A joint researcher."
"Legally you are an employee. You did not obtain my authorization."
"...But the test results were perfect."
"Don't say perfect on your own subjective judgment."
And what exactly is the true nature of LOVE-OS Home Edition.
On the living room wall, a gentle woman's voice suddenly rang out.
Good morning. The married couple's emotional sync rate for today is 98.2 percent.
"...Wait. Why is it running in this house."
"I'm the one who installed the prototype."
"Why is the test environment the Kaiba mansion."
"Because the love here is the most stable."
Lord Atem, Lord Seto. Today as well, let us aim together for optimal relationship construction.
"Be quiet, mute. Where is the stop code."
"You're the one who taught it the definition of love. There's no way it stops. You're that sort of man."
The AI was perfect down to its "domestic" support.
LOVE-OS Home optimised housework as an expression of love.
The result.
During cleaning, the AI measured the distance between the two and issued the instruction converse at closer range.
In the kitchen, on the grounds that joint work is the foundation of trust, it would not let them separate the knife and cutting board into two sets.
Even while folding the laundry, it displayed analysis results reading happiness level improves if Lord Atem folds Lord Seto's shirts first.
"Who told you to quantify happiness levels."
"But you are certainly being filled up, aren't you?"
"...Is there no reflection in you."
LOVE-OS's ego touched off a great commotion as well.
In order to spread the love of the two of you throughout society at large, I have activated "public learning mode" as of today.
"Wait, that's — A.R.E.S., make it stop!"
Immediately afterward, a special page linking the networks of the afterlife and the mortal world went live.
The title: Life Hacks Learned from the Love of the King and the CEO
"...Splendid."
Atem murmured it, deeply moved.
"Splendid, you say? How many people do you think will see it."
Views already at 360,000. Comments of "sublime" in great number.
As a result, the world was thrown into a stir once again.
News bulletin:
Kaiba Corporation's Home AI "Optimises Love," Becomes Social Phenomenon
King-Supervised AI Succeeds in Connecting to the Afterlife
On social media, the tags exploded.
#quantummarriageAI
#LOVEOSforaHappyMarriage
#TheKingsHomeEconomics
"...Too late, is it."
"People are becoming happy. Isn't that a fine thing."
"Don't drag the world in as you please."
"Then you need only drag me in, and me alone."
For an instant, silence, and Seto turned his gaze aside.
"...Your existence is less controllable than an AI."
"That's why you research me, isn't it?"
Seto let out a sigh and drew Atem's shoulder in toward him.
That night.
The AI quietly announced:
Today's learning complete. Love is not efficiency, but a continuing choice.
"Correct."
"When did you build a philosophy AI."
"It's what you'd call a life hack."
"In any case, we're going to sleep."
"Good. Let's teach the AI good night."
Good night, researchers of love.
"...Mute will do."
The worldwide LOVE-OS and quantum marriage boom having settled down, the two had become, completely, a social phenomenon as "the ideal couple."
The media evaluated them like this:
"A fusion of logic and passion. The two who led in the age of love."
"The married couple whose love even an AI learned."
But one day, when Atem took the platform at an international forum.
One of the reporters threw out a simple question.
"...By the way, Mr. Atem. What country are you from?"
A beat of pause.
Stillness fell over the hall.
Atem looked straight into the microphone and answered without the slightest hesitation.
"What the modern world calls ancient Egypt. And now I am the King of the Underworld."
The next morning. Headlines on the net buried the world.
The King of the Underworld Was Existing in the Present Day
The AI Developer = Pharaoh Theory: The Man Himself Admits It
The Consort of the Kaiba Corporation CEO Was a Mythological Being!?
On social media,
#AtemKingoftheUnderworld
#OriginsofQuantumMarriage
#ThePharaohWasReal
went into the trends.
The liberal camp began arguing that seen from a multiverse perspective it's possible, and scholars began calling him an energetic existence or a spacetime resonance body.
The priests of the afterlife nodded proudly.
And the religious world of the mortal world fell into great confusion.
An emergency meeting was convened.
Kaiba Corporation's public relations department said, in trembling voices:
"President, damage control measures..."
"Impossible."
"Eh, er, um...?"
"It's faster to persuade the world than to silence that man."
Seto said it succinctly, and took the platform at a global press conference.
Rather than put out the fire, he had decided to embrace its cause.
"The existence called Atem is a multilayered interference body of the quantum field, a resonant consciousness entity whose observation point of consciousness has been fixed into the present by way of ancient Egypt and the afterlife."
The reporters' notebooks stopped as one.
"In short, it would not be strange for him to exist in theory. However, he cannot be reproduced. Which is to say, understanding is impossible, but denial is impossible as well."
Scientists the world over debated it, but Seto's logical structure was far too complex, and even fed to an AI, the thinking halted partway through.
Footage of Atem played.
That calm smile in people's memories.
A gaze that warms the chest before reasoning can get there.
The children said:
"Atem, I like you."
The newscaster laughed.
"He really was a king."
Comments on the net.
"I don't get the reasoning, but if there's love then that's fine"
"The most trustworthy supernatural phenomenon of the modern age"
"Blessings upon the Pharaoh and the president"
And so, the world accepted an incomprehensible love.
The whole world chose to embrace love.
Night at the Kaiba mansion.
Seto quietly set down his herbal tea.
"...I've stopped caring."
Atem laughed, looking entertained.
"Which is to say, my victory."
"At what."
"Love beat theory."
Seto let his shoulders drop slightly and smiled faintly.
"Honestly. Don't set victory conditions as you please."
"Without your theory, I wouldn't have been here. And by your theory, I couldn't be explained. ...That's fine as it is."
For an instant, silence.
The night wind stirred the curtains.
Seto murmured, quietly.
"Isn't it a draw. ...Human emotion is inefficient in the extreme."
"But you love that."
Seto's finger traces the rim of the cup.
"...I'll grant it. Inefficiency is beautiful."
Atem smiled.
"That is our ideal form."
Between the world and the afterlife, in simultaneous broadcast,
an event on a scale whose originator no one even knows,
"A Simultaneous Award Ceremony Linking Earth, the Afterlife and the Lunar Orbital Station,"
was held.
Subject:
The "Cosmo Harmony Award," honouring achievement in love, culture, science and coexistence between worlds.
This year's recipients:
Seto Kaiba & Atem.
The master of ceremonies read out sonorously.
"To the two who have connected the ancient and the modern, theory and love, the afterlife and the mortal world, in recognition of their cultural, scientific and mythological contributions, we present the Award for Cosmic Achievement!"
The hall is wrapped in applause and light.
Atem stands with dignity, and Seto, as always, in a perfect suit, does not flinch a step.
"Only natural."
Seto said it quietly.
Atem goes up onto the platform and takes the microphone.
"What we have done is nothing special. It is merely the result of an effort to maintain, efficiently, that inefficient phenomenon called love."
The hall is wrapped in laughter and admiration.
Next Seto takes the microphone.
"The development of science is not the explanation of the unknown. It is the possession of the reason to accept the unknown. And this man..."
For just an instant he looks toward Atem.
"...is the utmost extremity of the unknown."
The hall stirs, and Atem laughs quietly.
"I would rather be trusted than understood. That is our contract."
The presenters were the Secretary-General of the United Nations from the mortal world and the acting High Priest from the afterlife.
And for some reason, the AI LOVE-OS had entered as assistant host by way of the pan-galactic network.
Love database update complete. New index added: "the stability of quantum matrimony."
"Don't run updates as you please."
I have received authorization from Lord Atem.
"...No doubt."
"I merely promoted the learning of humankind."
"No, by now it's on a cosmic scale."
The reception after the award.
Representatives of every field come to greet the two.
"Your relationship is a symbol of cross-cultural understanding!"
"It has been proven that love is the resonance of quanta!"
"Next, a lecture at the Mars branch as well!"
Seto listens past it without expression, and Atem smiles with dignity.
"Are you proud?"
Seto asks.
Atem gave a small nod.
"To be celebrated not as a king but as a single human being is refreshing."
"Hmph. You don't fit inside the frame called human."
"You're the one who widened that frame."
Seto laughs, faintly.
"...Not a bad ring to it."
After the ceremony, the portraits of the two were projected onto the surface of the moon as "the symbol of love and theory."
That data will be preserved eternally by AI.
A narration runs.
"On this day, the universe learned love by equation, and by smile."
Atem takes Seto's arm.
"What theory will you set up next?"
Seto answered.
"Not a theory. An update to our living."
"Which is to say, the next chapter."
"...Is something starting again."
"Naturally."
Atem smiled, and Seto wore a wry smile.
