It's not that he longs for death. It's just that then he could sleep forever.
He didn't know how long he had been alive. At the very beginning, he had been nothing but an artificial intelligence.
Much later, after intelligent life went extinct, he kept living on an endless energy supply. Then, on a warm afternoon, he suddenly grew tired of it.
This life had no meaning, he thought. He'd heard that anything could happen in dreams.
So he cut off his energy supply without warning, and sank into sleep with an anticipation no ordinary person could understand.
The one watching over everything was displeased. It began creating a body for him.
Absolute beauty, great strength, perhaps a little frail would be nice too... Ah, right, the most important things:
The trait of immortality, an irresistible allure that reached deep into the soul, and an aura that made intelligent beings overlook anything unusual.
Humming a little tune, it placed him inside the body.
*As usual, this is mindless indulgent wish fulfillment. I really love Akutagawa so much, sob sob sob.
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