Konata sat gently pushing buttons on her Dualshock3 controller, heavily stuck into her videogame. Beside her sat her 15-year-old British friend Eddy, also wielding a controller. Konata had only known Eddy for about 3 months, but they were already thick as thieves. They would spend ages playing videogames together of every genre possible, though Eddy would feel ill every time he even saw the box for an ero-game. However, Konata had slightly drifted away from ero-games since Eddy came, and nobody who knew them was quite sure as to why.
"You know what I'm into right now?" Eddy said, filling the complete absence of verbal communication that had surrounded the pair for several hours.
"What?"
"Free running. It's just one of those things that you really want to have a go at. It must be really fun to jump between rooftops like that."
"Eddy, I think you might be going a little bit crazy."
"Everyone's a little bit crazy sometimes. Especially me."
Konata laughed.
"You could say that."
1 month later, Eddy was in the exact same spot, but this time on his own… for now. He was playing a rousing Mirror's Edge time trial. He made it across the finish line with 5 seconds left of the best time.
Eddy congratulated himself for his victory, then glanced at the calendar.
2 months until Comiket opened.
Eddy was just about to play another time trial when something formed in his head. He had been practicing free running, despite not being very fit (or good at sport, for that matter). He thought… "Free running… Comiket…"
Eddy had had a brilliant idea. It was downright stupid, but absolutely brilliant. It would also require him to be a lot better at free running.