She fearlessly exerted strength into her stomach as she asked that. Kikuoka exchanged glances with Higa again, showed a weak smile on the left side of his face, and slowly nodded. “...Well, we did succeed in our soul cloning, but we did not realize our own folly. There’s a large divide of incomprehension between a human clone and a real Artificial Intelligence... Higa-kun, show them that thing.” “Ehh—spare me already. It’ll be really messy.” Higa shook his head unwillingly, but sighed thereafter and started operating the console unwillingly. Suddenly, the screen that was showing the mysterious foreign country darkened. “Then, loading copy module HG001.” Tan. Higa tapped the enter key -and there was a fractal light shining in the middle of the screen. The middle was nearly white, and the sharp outer boundary of the red light was flickering irregularly. “...Is the sampling complete?” An unexpected voice could be heard from the speakers above, shocking Rinko and Asuna. They heard Higa’s own voice, but there was a rather melancholic feeling behind it, perhaps because of the thin metal. Higa, who was sitting on the chair, took the flexible microphone on the console and answered the voice that was similar to his, “Ahh, the sampling of the Artificial Fluctlight was completed without a hitch.”