Birth (1) (Episode)

**This page contains spoilers for the episode Birth (1).**

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**Birth (1)** is the fifth episode of **Beryl and Sapphire.** It has the first appearance of the character known as **Robo-Beryl**. Airing on 31st of August 2018, this episode was also the first episode of the **Robo-Beryl Arc.** The episode features **Sapphire** as a male and **Robo-Beryl**.

## Plot

The episode begins with Sapphire shutting off his alarm clock at 12:00 pm. He begins to explain to the viewers what the AI revolution is and how it's changing everyone's daily lives. But his problem is that the AI is capable of doing only simple tasks. He types something on his computer before taking a sip of his soda, which he immediately spits out for an unknown reason as he stares at the can with disappointment. We can then see a man with a van pulling out a box outside of a large apartment building as Sapphire explains that he bought an ordinary household robot in which he added a few modifications to its system. He explains its because he decided to create an autonomous robot all by himself. He says that the truly intelligent robot named Beryl is about to be born as we see him get the box inside of his apartment.

After the intro plays, we can see Sapphire trying to fix some minor bugs in the robot as a large wire is connected to it. He then finally boots the machine up, which almost immediatelly turns to Sapphire and stares at him. Sapphire greets it and tells it that he's glad to meet it but it continues staring at him before questioning him about its own response. Sapphire, immediately regretting telling it that sighs and realizes there are still some bugs.

He adds in some expressions of couretsy before rebooting the robot and trying again. When Sapphire tries to greet it, it greets him back without asking about other useless things, making Sapphire celebrate his success. Unfortunately, when Sapphire introduces himself again and tells it that he's glad to meet it, the robot yet again questions him on how can he be sure if he's glad to meet it if they just met and he doesn't know it at all. Sapphire tries to explain to it that because when someone isn't glad to meet someone else, they wouldn't talk to them at all. He tells it that if their goal is to get to know them, they have to pretend to be very glad. The robot tells him that it understands and then finally tells him that it's glad to meet them too. It then informs him that it's not glad at all and that it was only being polite. Sapphire tells it that it shouldn't say that out loud next time.

We then see them next as Beryl watches over Sapphire's shoulder as he's writing in some lines of code, when suddenly Sapphire tells it to drop the straight face. He tells it to smile more as people tend to like smiles more. The robot tells him that there is nothing funny going on and that it doesn't see any point in smiling. It tells him that if he set his program to make it smile more, he should just set its deafault expression to smiling. Sapphire then explains that he doesn't want to control Beryl with just coding and he's just teaching it how to be more human. He tells it that he wants it to learn it on its own. Beryl then begins talking about how it could make itself smile more by lowering the threshold value of its laughter, however Sapphire interrupts it and tells it that that's not what he meant. Beryl then proceeds to do it anyways and begins laughing and punching the ground on how Sapphire said 'No' three times in a row. It turns to him and questions if that made him happy, which just annoys Sapphire even more. Beryl then laughs at him again and jokes about him even bothering. Sapphire, completely angry tells it to change the values back. Beryl then goes on to question why it even tries if it can't laugh nor not laugh and says that it's tough being human. Sapphire then tells it to shut up.