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"So you're doing this for her?" Tescadji ventured to say "You're here because of your wife?"

Jenius nodded, and then removed a marble-sized orb froe of a beautiful elfplait of luxurious platinum blond hair She was dressed in an ATF uniforly, she looked almost like her husband, as if they could have been related Only her hair was longer, and she had a slightly more prominent nose

"My wife, Raiya, was a special model," Jenius explained, "built by a friend of my foster father's, and so she resembled an elf physically Even I was none the wiser as orked together for years Ulti … well … let's just call it a very intense assignment In the end, it was the nurses at the hospital who told er of her true identity being exposed I'd fallen in love with her by then and married her, and to the rest of the elf community, she was an elf But I knew that because she was truly an android, I needed to work for the ideals of all androids That's why I chose to stay a part of the force even after she died So I guess you're right I did it all for her … Divine rest her soul"

"Sir, how did she die?" Tescadji asked quietly, "if you don't enially, shaking his head "I'm not as sensitive over the subject as I used to be It was a virus, actually, soned to infect androids It was an a how androids are built with self-evolving virus guards and complex firewalls around their h Unfortunately, my as one of the feere affected She died slowly afterwards Her father … or creator, I guess you could say, had died the previous year, and I couldn't risk taking her to a diagnostics center, for fear of being discovered So I did all the work myself But in the end, I just didn't have the skills There was nothing I could do She died in le tear rolled slowly down his cheek