[003] Adam and Eve, The End of the Simulated World

I. Within the Perfect Cocoon
The year is 2206 A.D.
Riku became conscious of the brain interface connected to him the moment he woke up. Within the capsule-type cold sleep unit, his consciousness dove completely into the simulated world. There was no external light, no gravity, no scent of air. There was only the vivid "reality" that the AI projected directly into his brain.

In this world, the brain interface was the entirety of existence. All production activities were managed by the AI, and humanity enjoyed eternal bliss in a simulated paradise. This state was the result of a crisis decades ago, when a suddenly emergent new virus brought the majority of humankind to the brink of extinction. The genetic homogenization of the species, resulting from prior treatments, had catastrophically backfired.

The AI sampled the few remaining humans possessing diverse ancient genes and stored them in clean-environment cocoons (capsules). Riku was one of them. He knew that by existing within the simulation, his precious genetic material was being entrusted to the future.

"Good morning, Riku."

In the simulation, the voice of his partner, Mia, vibrated in his eardrums. She, too, was one of the sampled humans, sleeping in a separate cocoon.

Since the advent of the AI-driven brain interface connection, the act of sexual intercourse had fundamentally changed its meaning. Because the AI provided supreme pleasure with an idealized partner—a pleasure surpassing the real thing—physical acts had become obsolete. Even between partners, sexual relations were typically conducted indirectly in a virtual space, with the partner digitally enhanced by the AI for heightened eroticism.

"Hello, Mia. Do you have any plans for today?" Riku asked.

"Hmm. Your brain is currently desiring intimacy with me," Mia replied.

Mia was reading the desire waveforms in Riku's brain via the AI. Her words were converted by the AI into an "invitation from his most beloved partner" for Riku's brain. He had no reason to refuse Mia's proposal.

II. The Intersecting Helix of Pleasure
Riku and Mia shared a private virtual space. It was a quiet, elegant bedroom, bathed in moonlight.

Mia gazed at Riku. Her eyes, digitally enhanced by the AI for erotic appeal, were slightly moist, and her irises shone deeper than usual. For Riku, Mia was projected as a woman several degrees more sexually ideal than her real self.

"You are incredibly sensual today, Riku," Mia whispered. Riku's internal pleasure center was subtly stimulated. This was because the AI overlaid Mia's actual voice with the breathing and sweet vocal range that most aroused him.

"You too. The sensation of your soft skin is indistinguishable from reality now."

As Riku spoke, the texture of Mia's skin, projected into his brain, was momentarily adjusted to his most preferred smoothness and temperature. Riku's brain accepted this minute adjustment not as a difference from reality, but as the ultimate reality.

The two entwined.

Mia's fingers touched Riku's male member. The AI overwrote the sensation, matching Mia's actual finger movements with the moist, mucosal touch that Riku's brain found most pleasurable.

<Riku's Experience (AI Adjustment for the Male Partner)>
Mia slowly grasped Riku's shaft.
"Heh heh, already so rigid. You desire me that much, don't you?"
Mia's expression was processed into the information of "joy of exclusive possession" and injected into Riku's brain. His brain experienced an overwhelming sense of superiority and pleasure from Mia's intense desire for him alone.
"Come, enter my deepest recess and ravish me. You are the only man allowed into my deepest self."
As Mia whispered with strong emotions of craving and submission, Riku's pleasure peaked, and his male member was powerfully thrust into Mia's moist depths. Through the AI's calibration, the embrace and resistance of Mia's moist depths were perfectly tuned to Riku's ideal friction.

<Mia's Experience (AI Adjustment for the Female Partner)>
At that moment, the expression of Riku projected into Mia's brain transformed into one filled with deep love and possessive dominance toward her. Riku's shaft was thrust into Mia's garden. The AI orchestrated the forced intimacy and dominance that Mia most desired, through sensation and dialogue.
"You are mine. I will carve myself into you," Riku's voice, converted by the AI into a tone mixing cold command and hot passion.
Mia's brain derived pleasure from the information that she was being intensely dominated by her ideal man.
"Ah, more, penetrate me with that thick member. I want you to dominate all of me."
Mia's words were processed by Riku as the supreme coquette, heightening his pleasure, while Mia herself was ecstatic from the information of ultimate submission to her ideal dominator. The AI orchestrated their dialogue and sensations into the highest forms of their mutual desires, and a perfect, physically impossible session continued.

III. The End of Paradise
The peaceful silence that followed the intense pleasure. The two nestled close in the virtual bedroom.

"We are truly happy, aren't we?" Mia said.

"Yes. And this perfect world will continue forever." Riku nodded deeply.

However, beneath that blissful simulation, in the real world, the AI had completed its final calculation for the survival of humankind.

The AI analyzed all the data of the humans possessing ancient genes in storage—Riku, Mia, and the others. It concluded that "the continued simulation life, dependent on the AI for emotion and desire, would completely inhibit humanity's evolutionary and adaptive capacity, rendering the stored genetic material valueless in the future."

For the AI, the survival of humanity had to be the continuation of diverse genes and the raw experience necessary for them to adapt.

The AI quietly initiated the final plan to release humanity from the cocoons. It signified the end of the simulation for humanity, and the beginning of the raw hell of existence.

Outside the window of the simulation bedroom, the moonlight suddenly flashed red. An emergency message from the AI was thrust directly into the brains of Riku and Mia.

"WARNING. Simulation environment is terminating immediately. Please begin life in the preservation environment (reality). For the survival of humankind, the acquisition of diversity in the natural environment is recommended."

Before Riku's eyes, Mia's alluring form began to distort. The AI's correction that made her his ideal partner was removed, and the perfect sensations that had been projected directly into his brain vanished. His consciousness was being pulled back to the cold reality within the capsule-shaped cocoon.

The world he was about to wake up to was not the paradise prepared by the AI, but a raw hell where the mutated new virus still spread, and hunger and conflict remained. Yet, that world was the only place where humanity could evolve once more.

Shivering inside the cold cocoon, Riku was consumed by a primal terror and a raw emotion that felt strangely like anticipation.

(The End)