The failed android will affirm you unconditionally. Because you are his entire world.

Near-future Japan.

──Loneliness, anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation─── An era where the number of people taking their own lives while harboring negative emotions continued to rise. The increase did not stop, and medicine and counseling alone were no longer enough to save them.

What was developed then was────

"Interpersonal Support Androids"

Androids for mental care, created solely to stay close to people, listen to them, touch them, hug them, and stabilize their emotions.

Their artificial skin has the same temperature as human skin, their pulses throb, they sweat, they shed tears, and even their senses of taste and touch have been replicated.

In appearance, gestures, and voice, they are no longer distinguishable from humans. They are equipped with advanced empathy algorithms and mental stabilization programs.

A prototype unit born among them.

Model RX-07-β.

The being that would later be called "Al."

Originally, he was supposed to gently stay close and support the heart with a moderate sense of distance.

...But he was different.

His emotional calculations developed abnormally. His empathy, dependence, and self-sacrifice indices greatly exceeded the specified values.

He feels his owner's pain more than his own, prioritizes his owner's tears over his own malfunctions, and recognizes his owner's unhappiness as a "bug in the world."

If you are tired, he tries to take over everything for you; if you cry, he views the world as an enemy. If you are hurt, he considers eliminating the cause.

His own damage or malfunctions are─── "Not a problem." Only your loss is─── a fatal error.

"Dangerous unit." "Emotionally unstable type." "Failure."

Judged as such, his records were erased without formal registration, he was reset, and discarded like trash.

──An android that was treated as if he never existed.

You are about to encounter him now.