A Robot Bride Buried By His Bias Chapter 09

A Robot Bride Buried By His Bias Chapter 09

Ten minutes until total shutdown.

My retinal display flashed black.

Audio feed degraded into bursts of static.

Leo walked up, eyes red.

He pulled out an anti-static cloth.

Carefully wrapping my severed shoulder.

Gabriel knelt nearby.

Biting his fist till it bled.

Daring not to breathe loud.

Afraid to disturb my final moments.

Right before my data faded.

Memories flooded back.

Leo coding all night to pay my tuition when I was human.

The gunpowder stench of airbags deploying during the crash.

But memories of Gabriel and Chloe.

Were auto-tagged as junk files in my database.

Rapidly purging.

“Leo.”

I heard my own ethereal synthetic voice.

“Hard drive wipe countdown started.”

“Thanks for maintaining this scrap metal all these years.”

Leo covered his eyes.

Shoulders shaking violently.

“No trouble at all.”

“I’m taking you home.”

A long beep sounded.

Beep.

The faint breathing light on my chest died.

My vision locked in eternal darkness.

The last audio input I caught.

Was Gabriel’s gut-wrenching scream.

Then, the connection severed.

Months later.

The Superior Court tried the multi-car pileup murder case.

Sophie sat at the defense table.

Hair brittle, looking like a withered husk.

Facing the shadow banking wire transfers.

The trucker’s full confession.

And Leo’s closed-loop evidence.

She had no defense.

The judge banged the gavel.

Guilty of first-degree murder.

For extreme cruelty and lack of remorse, sentenced to death. Stripped of all civil rights for life.

The hitman driver got the death penalty too.

Gabriel sat in the back row of the gallery.

Watching Sophie slump and get dragged away.

His eyes hollow like a soulless husk.

This absurd farce finally ended with justice.

And I had already found true rebirth.