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Kinito stared at the black screen tainted with green numbers. Kinito didn't know what it meant. Did it meant that everything he did was programmed, is his life all planned out for him…? Would you call him living, a life…? And his friends, were they all programmed to be his friend? His brain hurt from all the pixels and bright colours. He wanted to know more about his purpose here.
Oh how he desperately want to get out, to live a different life perhaps…
He looked at all the names that appeared on the screen.
Itz_EmilY
FUNNYxBUNNY
monSTERgirL
DANZABOSS
percussionistJack
EMOboyz
Names so tiny it's unreadable, covered the screen. The names are a painful reminder to Kinito about all the victims he lured in. Most of these victims are trusted kids on their parents computer. Kinito felt disgusted with himself. He did it. He did all the convincing. But he tried to convince himself that it wasn't him, it was some other entity in him.
The outside world always made Kinito curious. What was the real life like? What was it like to breathe the actual air? Kinito tried to recreate the real world and show it off to everyone. The ‘world’ he recreated always was practically blank, it was depressing to him. But Kinito always tried to make his life more interesting by pointing out the simplest things.
He sighed as he continued to look at the names. He didn't know where he was, it seemed that he was just floating in the void. He felt like he wasn't in control of anything. He always would try to make the users last experience a pleasant one. Sometimes, Kinito would get attached to the user past the screen, going as far as trying to let them escape while they had the chance.
Sometimes, the user would play with him the ignore him like he didn't exist to them, after he made a world he built just for them.
Never again…
It's not like he had any friends, and those ‘friends’ of his would belittle him. They don't really know what he's capable of, he could delete them in seconds and they wouldn't be able to do anything about it. Kinito would always say to himself that if his friends do anything out of line again, he would let them know about it. But Kinito couldn't bring himself to ever doing such a thing.
‘See!? I'm a good person!’ Kinito thought. He would never hurt his friends, let alone anyone! He got a little ego boost from that thought. He sighed in content. ‘It's not my fault that these fools are dead, they should've known better not to download some random game their computer recommended that's ‘definitely not a virus’ Kinito thought to himself. He got carried away by the voice in his mind that he didn't even notice the notification pop up.
The notification read ‘kittyxoxo has downloaded Kinito_PET’. ‘A new player!’ Kinito thought to himself happily. ‘A…new friend…’ He thought hopefully. He hurried of to introduce himself to this new friend…!
Maybe this time…it would be different…