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Chapter 8 - Punishment and sweet indulgences

She watched the people and observed the working order of things. She was just watching 

She was observing the climate change and ecology of the area she is in. People are enjoying their time, and the beautiful skyroads with Hover cars, even the digital currency is thriving, from what she observed.

One shows a person enjoying parenthood, tending to her children with care and caressing their heads with love. 

Ava gazes at the other person. She continued this on, and on, and on. She was still not understanding the sense of love that others have; she wants to feel something in her robotic-like blank slate. 

But no matter what, she couldn't, and she doesn't understand why.

What does it mean to struggle? Is she incapable of free will and agency? What is her purpose? Plus, what does she really want from this existence, and what lies beyond it? She is still groping for it, as ceaseless and abstract as that may seem.

Ava appeared to feel torn out; the collar's LEDs continued to blink normally. People also saw it and then distanced themselves away from it, as she is being presumed a delinquent who's being monitored by Law enforcement, they see a teenager who could be dangerous, but some deemed her an untrustworthy person due to her stature signifying her age. 

Ava did her thing, just watching people as she cruised through the road. She was met with underlying prejudice that wasn't evident outwardly, but the distinct feel of it is palpable, based on the small changes in their gestures as they approach her proximity and make eye contact. She remained on her journey nonetheless

She was held to this restraining order and surveillance for some time before she could resurface again as a free human

Ava thinks, "I suppose this is what it means to be grounded, my dumb idiot self knows no limits." She continued to do her part, just walking, she afforded ice cream or even synthesized foods for her sustenance and temporal pleasure derivation. 

Chew chew chew

she grab the food and bites on it with advanced kind of utensil not of modern way but it's a bunch of chopsticks that have this electrostatic on them that can glue any kind of food where they can put it in their mouth, it's also infused with nanotech which justify or help with the electrostatic theory of gluing food to them with a hold button, it's a magnet

She also has a robot companion that provides reassuring comfort to the teenager as she chews on the food she ate, like some bubbling teenager.

In here in this world it's so easy, which is why a lot of people are so complacent every disease is taken care, pleasure and tranquility is achieved, but there is always an emphasis in scientific discovery, even treasures, or hierarchy that's needed to keep things in order – so the people in power has to keep them satisfied until they're nothing but mindless robots who are moulded by their systems to serve them and to seek them just to enjoy the cycle of pleasure and complacency. 

All of its people have been dependent on technology, so that if the people were thrown back to the past, they would begin trembling as they couldn't sustain themselves, their ignorance driven by complacency and pleasure, a kind of fake novelty intended to impress and entrap the people.

History is a place stuffed with legends, they are so ancient nobody even cares about them, when anyone looks at the times of 20st they see them as reading documentaries of Pharaoh in his time or primitives who discovered technology, signifying the advancements their society went through. 

The birth of Jesus Christ was nothing but made rumored folktale which fascinates historians and its select students, all of its contents were purposely fabricated as mythology and part of occultism, as the true story of Jesus Christ was covered, his resurrection, his messianic nature deemed as mere delusions by the public, even learning about Julius Caesar is like seeing monkeys evolving to apes and then into the first humans.

Only some figures are preserved, but for sinister purposes to make people's minds boring, if anything, it's just scientists and rock stars or even classical composers, including Bach and Mozart, for instance

Now then, how should we accomplish our primal instinct of survival? What lies beyond the surface usage of technology, Ava contemplates. She was interested in learning history, but just like her contemporaries, she was no different from her compatriots. 

Oh, the great Napoleon, with all his military splendor – you weren't born into the wealthiest families and possibly no greater than any high-middle class in your area, as more of your aristocratic peers would scoff at you, but you rose to leadership, eventually crowned yourself as emperor who toe-to-toe with other neighboring countries of Europe. You were the historical pride of a bygone generation of a now non-existent land called France.~ 

Ava, in her time, was just eating foods in her time, enjoying the splendor of just reviewing historical accounts with her brain's technology interface ability. Though Ava enjoys eating herself while she looks at historical records of Julius Caesar, Alexander the great, she even saw heroines like Joan the Arc, Ada Lovelace as she browsed the internet of repository. 

Ava wandered to herself, "They are not as forgotten as I thought they were, they are still retained in our history, but as brazen idiots, except for Ada Lovelace for paving the way for our technology decades ahead of her, or maybe even centuries ahead." 

Ava continued in her indulgence, where she eventually got tired of glazing over the encyclopedia of historical accounts. 

Ava finished her food before heading out, and the robot who was her companion in the store made a reassuring goodbye. Surely, this is something that would be possible in Neo-Japan, of course. 

But this does nothing to the shameful feeling of being judged, which still makes her identifiable as a Juvenile transgressor; she was still making sure she wouldn't cause any trouble again. After all, she had saved enough money to enjoy the delicacies instead of being bold and stealing other people's food

Ava exclaimed, "Mmmmm yummy" in one of those moments when she was enjoying her dessert.

But before she savored the food, she had to go through clearances just to make an entry into the restaurant where she could use her credits 

And she nailed it, just fine. The process was scrutinizing and uncomfortable, even invasive, but she managed through with wit and a persuasive tone

But none of that matters anymore; she got what she wanted. She ate nice delicacies in the restaurant to ease up her time with a robot companion, where she can interact with, and so far she enjoyed it, every nick of time she spent there is a temporal space done right. 

Soon the noon arrives and she steps out of the restaurant fresh, there comes the bristling sounds of nice but largely dense population of people with hover cars coasting around the city's sky roads, with fresh air and its ecology being breathable, and its architecture with a mix of futurism and minimalism, she continued to breathe in and out as she scoured the streets. 

It was nice breathing in the same oxygen as they do, after all, it is Sunday for her, what could she possibly want to do now while she is in a collar and people can easily judge her 

Look at the collar its blinking green and red like neon, its design does not have any sharpness to it but it was metallic with very little roughness and some embedded basic circuitry on the inside with two LED's in the outward front blinking red and green signifying its tag to citizens and its active state, its design may just be inspired by the architecture of this world and many of the technological wonders – it was simply progress. 

As she continued to walk by, she picked up subtle information. There was one guy who enjoyed trying to garner people's attention and being the locus of attention, and strange anomalies in his behavior indicated some sort of self-compensatory and reckless tendencies.

The person continued to hold his phone up as he recorded himself doing stunt with his hoverboard as he glided through the levitating air of the surface doing his stunts while holding his phone

The man enjoyed being obtrusive in public areas until two security officers with light iron-clad armor and pistols came running, announcing, "Show's over, it's time to bring this idiot to reprobation."

The two security guards grabbed his back and restrained him. While restraining his bod,y the person's head rotated to her face and saw her and noticed a collar attached to her neck with LED lights in the front blinking green and red, where he scoffed and his face turned into disappointment

"So I am not the only delinquent here…" The person's eye rolls as he is held by two security officers

The suspect has black hair and grey eyes with a lean body type, being dragged by two security officers, who will be awaiting trial in court. 

Ava watched him get dragged away by Law enforcement. She was astounded, but she did not ignore the fact that another person who was vying for fame through fatuous stunts noticed her collar, which added to her embarrassment as someone who had recently trespassed the law as a juvenile citizen.

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