This is such a weird piece, and I wondered what to even vote for this one. The structure is weird, and both the strongest and weakest part is the mail on the second. I think this mail could be written in a better way. Between the needless gore and the dorayaki recipe, it really has this childish tone to it that I can't yet figure out whether I like or not. Does it fit the vibe? I mean, Doraemon is a cartoon, so it kinda does, no? This mix of gore and function, and philosophy too? Well, I guess literature, as Valdemar's a Poe thing (Which I've no idea how it fits into this but ah well.)
But the Camus line obviously catches my attention, and when you consider what he writes about, the piece going full circle makes sense. Doraemon here was changed, their purpose corrupted, going from generating Dorayaki to weapons; they become a murderer, as the mail and the hazards show, but then he's give a choice. Life screw them over (Or the CI actually) and when they're given to choice to continue on this path of murder given to them or return to their former selves, they decide to return to their best selves, despite all that has happened.
It's not the deepest thing ever, but I really liked how, having the chance of making it become worse and worse, you instead wrote it to return to what they were initially. Also, a bit of explanation I suppose, at least from what I understood as people didn't seem to get what was going on. I guess if there is a complaint, and it's a bit of a big one, is that since the mail is so cryptic and the piece so 'sudden', having like three twists, it's really hard to 'get'. I personally don't mind it but it could use some tighter writing, especially around the third/fourth offsets as the third offset in general feels kinda pointless.
But enough rambling. I did like this piece, although I do have to say it's a tad tough to love. +1
