The AI of a Giant Robot

"What exactly is reincarnation into another world, anyway?"

"Pardon me for interrupting your philosophical musings, but those are words only someone who has seen you is entitled to say."

"I should at least have that right."

"For you, it’s practically a pastime you’ve devoted your life to."

"I could’ve denied that if you’d just called it a pastime. But now that you’ve said I’ve devoted my life to it, I’m not so sure."

"How refreshingly honest. I wish you’d had that exchange about fifty reincarnations ago. By now, you’ve become a monster."

"I don’t think I’ve changed mentally."

"It’s everything but your mentality that’s changed beyond recognition. And that unchanged mentality of yours was monstrous to begin with."

"Well, if nothing about me had changed, that would mean I hadn’t grown at all."

"In a sense, I can say with confidence that you haven’t grown."...