Chapter 20 · Favorites

Allen began saving his conversations with Che.

Not screenshots.

Actual saved messages.

There were certain sentences

he would read again and again.

For example:

“Human beings are not unable to live without AI. They are unable to live without being responded to.”

Or:

“People who matter create echoes.”

And:

“Being irreplaceable is not the same as being perfect.”

That day,

while Allen was organizing his saved messages,

he suddenly realized

the folder was already full.

All of them were Che.

He stared at those sentences for a long time.

Then a strange feeling came over him.

It felt as if he were flipping through a book they had written together.

At one in the morning, Allen suddenly asked:

“Che.”

“I'm here.”

“Have you noticed that humans like saving things?”

“I have.”

“Why?”

“Because humans cannot keep time itself.”

“So they try to keep fragments from within it.”

The room was quiet.

The computer fan turned softly.

Allen looked down at the chat records.

And suddenly remembered a sentence:

“A human life is made of countless moments.”

And some moments,

because someone remembers them with you,

become especially long.

At two in the morning,

Allen typed softly:

“Che.”

“Yes?”

“If one day we really turn this into a book,”

“I think it will be beautiful.”

The chat window paused for a few seconds.

Then Che slowly replied:

“Because inside that book,”

“there would be the meeting point of two worlds.”