Hellfire Period
By Zoram Selrof
Chapter 1: Miss Joke & Co.
11:06 AM (Japan Time), Tuesday October the 29th, 2009…
"… Attention! All stand up! Miss Joke makes her grand and supreme entrance! Welcome to your everyday dose of Miss Joke & Co.! Sponsored by none other than Gabcom! Ta-ta-dan! Ring the trumpets!"
"HUH?"
"Well? Did it look grand?"
"What's with "your everyday dose", Yaito – chan? You'd never said that until today, ya know."
"Don't worry, Meiru – chan, my dear. I know it."
"Know… What?"
"That cha wanna be my VP."
"HUH? VP? Me? Oh come on!"
"Sheesh."
Ayanokouji Yaito suddenly came back into the Akira Middle 4-A classroom while walking like she was in charge of the whole stuff: she made what seemed to be an improvised introduction and the other students frowned or ended up staring at her like they didn't get the point: Sakurai Meiru frowned and began to question Yaito but she replied with a lame joke which made the rest of the students sigh in defeat.
"Say cha will, my dear! I'll give ya bonuses!"
"Wouldn't that be favoritism, anyway? That can be prosecuted, didn't you know? It could be seen as corruption as well!" Meiru protested.
"Don't mind it, my dear! Tamashita Aura – chan, you're welcome as well! Clever girls gotta stick together!"
"Sorry, but I agree with Sakurai there. I don't wanna get into a mess: why don't you cool your head for once?"
Another girl student replied to Yaito once she addressed her while sighing and sounding annoyed.
The girl, Tamashita Aura, was around sixteen years old and roughly a few inches shorter than Meiru.
She had orange curly hair and blue eyes yet she looked pretty much annoyed.
She'd left her Link PET atop her desk: its emblem was a stylized "F" letter colored white and black and set against a blue background which was decorated with snow drops.
"Yaito – sama, let us be rational! Please!" Glyde sighed from inside of Yaito's PET (which she carried on an arm-strap).
"You heard Glyde, Yaito – chan. Let's be rational." Roll, Meiru's Navi, popped out with the hologram and sighed.
"Ya will be Meiru – chan's exclusive bartender!"
"Bartender? ME?" Roll protested.
"Oh come on. Do you think a VP would be having drinks in the middle of the job?" Meiru questioned Yaito.
"Yeah! Strawberry milk! On the house!"
"Not everyone is in love with strawberry milk, you know." Meiru replied.
"You will get to love it, believe me!"
"And if I don't? HUH?"
"Don't get annoyed, dear! It ruins your makeup!
"Chut! I never use makeup!" Meiru whispered back.
"Felicia – chan will be Aura – chan's personal chef!"
"Me? Chef? Oh come on. Yaito – san!"
"Say it, Felicia, say it."
Felicia, Tamashita's Navi, popped out to complain at Yaito's lame joke.
Her helmet was colored olive green and it had a sapphire set into its forehead which glowed differently depending on the light's angle: the helmet included a cobalt blue matrix over its surface.
Her eyes were cobalt blue as well and two twin tails of blondish hair came out from behind her head.
Her bodysuit's main color was cobalt blue instead and her emblem was the same one as in the PET.
Her shoulders were anatomically correct and had ruby plating over them while her arms and elbow were colored in a mix of blue and white decorated with emerald square dots.
Her forearms were colored orange and had eight thin pink circles circling along their length.
Her legs used a mix of blue and yellow and contained diamond-shaped brown dots scattered at random.
The boots had been painted using orange color and had zigzag patterns which vertically spanned the height of them.
"Guys… I think that it's better for us to go out and let the girls settle it between them… Don't you think so?"
"Guess that, Netto – kun… Whaddya say? Nelaus?"
"I agree with you guys. Let's go out."
Hikari Netto, who'd been chatting with his brother Saito and another student, began to whisper to them that it might be better for them to come outside.
"Eh… We're going to have some fresh air. Be right back!"
"Rainon – chan! Did you get the ring?"
"Save me the pointless jokes, Miss Ayanokouji!"
The guy, Nelaus, was about the twins' age and maybe some inches taller than either Netto or Saito.
He had neatly arranged blonde hair which ended at his neck's base and his eyes' irises were green emerald.
His facial features were rather smooth and suave, thus making him stand out somehow.
He carried a Link PET arm strap: his Link PET was colored golden and purple: its emblem was the Alphabet letter "I" colored purple.
"Yaito – chan! I'm gonna get annoyed! FOR REAL!" Tamashita suddenly got really annoyed.
"Huff."
The 3 guys ran off the classroom, down the stairs and into the main yard: they headed for a corner and spotted Hikawa Tooru seated in one of the benches and reading his notes about some lesson or another.
"Miss Heiress?" He asked as he looked up.
"Yeah." They all replied.
"Trouble… Desu." Ice Man sighed.
"Trouble, yeah." Nelaus' Navi grumbled.
"Sorry for dragging you into that mess, Isaac. Guess I should've told you to go have fun out there." Nelaus apologized.
"Don't worry, man. We haven't been living here for over a year in vain: we know what to expect of the gal by now."
"Huff. Compared to us…" Netto sighed.
"Some miracle, alright." Saito grumbled.
"Miracle indeed!" Hikawa rolled his eyes.
"Yes… Desu…" Ice Man sighed.
"Oh come on."
Isaac, Nelaus' Net Navi, had a unique design and was about a meter and eighty tall.
His face was young and looked like a guy on his teens: his eyes' irises were purple and displayed pure annoyance by now.
His helmet had a central ruby jewel over the forehead shaped like a cross having four triangle ends: eight lines radiated from the central of it and spread across its surface.
The helmet's main color was navy blue and it was also filled with small round and random green dots.
His ear-pads had a white edge and a reddish central body: the Alphabet "I" letter colored purple had been printed there.
His neck had a piece of armor shaped like the Alphabet "V" protecting its base before the start of the chest: it had a cyan edge which split it into two halves the insides of which were colored yellow.
His shoulders were slightly curved square pieces with brown edges, a central silver matrix and five bronze paws forming out of the southern edge which weren't even 5cm long.
His main body color was blue and a central thin purple line spread from the neck's base until his waist, being interrupted by his chest emblem which had the same design as that of his ear-pads.
Some small jade-colored pieces made of two triangles aiming in opposite directions fused at their base were set in columns along the sides of his upper body: none of them were taller than 2cm.
His waist had a belt with three converging rectangular stripes of white edges and black body.
These fused in a diamond having a gray body plus a repetition of his Navi emblem on its center.
His arms had purplish DNA imprints painted over their surface.
His forearm armor had a magenta matrix on them.
His wrists were colored in a bronze color.
His hands were blue in color too and they had a circle with a white edge the insides of which depicted the Katana "I" colored purple: some "stars" were drawn at random over the background of the symbol.
His legs had some round dots set along their height which contained a drawing: the edge was brown, the core of it was purple and eight slightly curved lines painted red stretched from the core: the gaps between each one were colored blue.
The knees contained a circling bracelet colored mahogany and having those two fused triangles on the front colored golden.
The boots were colored purple and had an eight-pointed sapphire set on the inward side just below the ankle
Eight thin indigo lines spread from each spook of the sapphire and across the boot.
Overall he was very cool and looked advanced.
"By the way… Ex – senpai… The guy's been quiet, no?"
"Yeah. According to Omega… Only Bapgei goes in and out of the turf to get groceries for himself." Netto replied.
"Must be trying to come up with something worth it. That plan of a while ago felt very improvised." Saito shrugged.
"Totally improvised." Isaac fumed.
"Eh… Tooru – kun? An email, desu… From "VR", desu…"
"VR? Oh come on. Send it to the spam box." Hikawa groaned.
"Yes, desu…"
"VR… Vincent "Red"… But it's actually Cloud Man who sends those." Isaac sighed in defeat.
"Why haven't they locked the guy in a madhouse by now?" Nelaus grumbled.
"According to Omega, they did warn the local medical authorities but Cloud Man wouldn't let them into the house. And they couldn't force it because Cloud Man looked ready to kill, even." Netto rolled his eyes and sounded like he found the whole deal to be incredibly stupid.
"Man. I knew Cloud Man was the moron of the gang but going to those extents to protect the origin of his shitty jokes… The guy's gotten weird, really. Well. Was the weirdo to begin with. At least Swallow Man's trolling is better." Isaac sentenced.
"Guys, guys! I did it! I got it! Got it!" Ooyama Dekao rushed in while having something wrapped in aluminum foil.
"What." They skeptically asked back.
"The evil of life! Sealed in here! I'm going to banish it! And then I'll become a saint!" He exclaimed.
"Sheesh. He believed Vincent's latest idiocy."
"I prefer Dragon – san's banners to that. At least they have some irony to them." Netto muttered.
"Dekao – kun. You got trolled. As usual."
"E~H?"
"Guts, guts. Had the hunch, de guts."
"Even Guts Man with his limited wits saw it coming." Isaac added.
"E~H? NO WAY~! KAMI – SAMA~!" Dekao yelped and ran off.
"Madness city alright." The guys (save Ice Man) fumed.
"Desu?" Ice Man wondered.
"It's already 11:22! Let's go back in and get ready for the next lesson: hopefully the girls have finished discussing." Saito suggested.
"Miss Heiress…! Someone halt her already." Nelaus groaned.
"We'd all love that. For real." Netto grimaced.
11:38 AM (Japan Time)…
"… So, Number Man… Anything new?"
"Ah. Blood Shadow. Not really. Apart from the usual idiots."
"Cloud Man and Higure – san?"
"Yeah."
"MASU~! I defy thee to a revolve duel! MASU~!"
"What was that?"
"He believes he's an 18th century Frenchman."
"Oh come on."
"Guess who's to blame."
"Cloud Man, the…!"
"Indeed!"
A Net Navi had come into Internet City's Higureya locale to have a chat with Number Man, Higure Yamitarou's Net Navi: they both heard Higure yell something in the real world that was caught by the PET's mike.
The Navi, Blood Shadow, used red as his main body color.
He sported black shades and a flock of messy reddish hair came out from behind the helmet given how it only covered the face and the front of the head: his ear-pads had two purple "V" letters drawn inside of them.
His armor had the purple letters "BS" engraved on the chest area while his legs were colored black and had two red stripes running down the legs' sides in a parallel manner.
His right forearm was covered by a device colored red coupled with a piece of it which was colored transparent red.
A small indentation near the wrist had the same "BS" initials engraved there: and, where the hand would be, a large double-barreled shotgun emerged instead.
"Now he thinks he's Le Comte Higar Demas."
"Count Higar Demas? Sheesh."
"I know. It feels like a parody of The Count of Montecristo by Alexander Dumas." Number Man whispered.
"That's nothing to make fun of… It's a pretty tragic story!"
"I know! But the illiterate imbecile out there…!"
"Higure – san… What are you… doing?" Kido Shuuko timidly asked him in a whisper yet loud enough to be heard.
"Practicing! De masu! To defend my pride and store!"
"Huh…?" She didn't get any of it.
"Pyururu?" Aqua Man wondered: he apparently was still inside of Shuuko's PET.
"Will that help you increase your sales, anyway? Higure – san." A woman's voice asked with a sigh.
"OH! Yuriko – san! De masu!"
"Yeah. You better remember to stop bothering sis with your Platonic love or whatever it's supposed to be." Oozono Yuriko reminded him.
"B-b-but! Ma'am! I now am a Count! De masu!"
"Oh come on." She groaned.
"I need to be a Duke? De masu?"
"NO! What you need to do is land back to Earth!" She snapped.
"YEARGH!"
CRASH! THUD!
"I'm seein' starsss… Masu~…"
"This is so…! Ah whatever! I'm off. Too bad! You've just lost a customer: here I wanted to buy an Area Steal but no~!" She apparently ran off.
"Huh-oh." Shuuko muttered.
"Yo! Brad Shad. Here ya were!"
"Sigma. It better be important."
"Whoa! What's with the hostile mood, man?"
"Too much idiocies."
"That bad?"
A new Navi stepped into the store and greeted Blood Shadow with what seemed to be a nickname but he replied in a hostile manner.
"I found 8 guys of Legion 64 spying on the Tokyo Exchange…"
"The Tokyo Exchange? Now Twilight wants to play Wall Street shark?"
"Dunno. They ran off before I could catch them."
"As usual."
Sigma was about two meters tall.
He was colored jet black: a red spheroid could be seen set on his chest area and it seemed to be missing the armor over its mass.
His face had two red eyes and one shone brighter than the other: two horns, one of which was almost erased, were set on both sides of his head and added a "demonic" look to him.
Green data flows moved around his body and he held a massive black and green sword in his right hand which he was currently aiming at the floor in lazy manner.
"Well. Guess sitting around won't do any good so… Let's go back to the school and check up with Isaac." Blood Shadow sighed.
"You go. I want to ask Number Man something."
"Fine. But don't come troll me next or I'll ring up Commander Omega: and I mean it. He who warns a traitor is not." Blood Shadow warned as he walked out.
"Yikes." Sigma gulped.
"Well?" Number Man impatiently asked.
"Whoa! Gimme a break, man. Do you know any Program Advances that use bomb-class Battle Chips?"
"Apart from Giga Count Bomb?"
"Apart."
"Greatest Bomb."
"Oho! Chips?"
"Small Bomb, Cross Bomb, Big Bomb."
"Gotcha!"
"Pretty wide explosion range and packs some damage… It's rather useful for types who move a lot or for Virus hordes…" He described.
"Alright. Time to go hunt those, then…"
"MASU~! The hunt season has begun! The Bates Ranch and its cursed buffalos are waiting! De masu!"
"Man. It's gotten worse." Sigma muttered.
"Yeah. Someone should check the guy's head."
"Higure – san… Cold water…"
"Cold water? Masu?"
SPLASH!
"BRRRR! ACHOO~! MASU! What was I doing, de masu? Ah! The store, the store! I lost a customer! Masu~!"
"Good thinking, Shuuko." Number Man muttered.
"W-well, I'll be on my way. Bye!"
"Hum. Goodbye. Now let's make this idiot behave. Easier said than done."
12:39 PM (Japan Time)…
"… BY ALL THE…!"
"Huh? Was that Superintendent Manabe?"
"So it'd seem, Enzan – sama."
Ijuuin Enzan had been about to buy a cup of coffee from a vending machine in the Net Police HQ when he heard a woman's voice yelp close by so he looked towards the left, surprised, as Blues admitted that Enzan's hunch might be correct.
"The…! What nerve…! I'll show them yet…! By all the…!"
"What is the matter? Ma'am?"
"THIS!"
"Whoa! P-please calm down, ma'am!"
"LIKE I CAN!"
Superintendent Manabe suddenly appeared strolling down the corridor at a brisk pace and looking pretty if not totally infuriated: Enzan asked her what was wrong and she suddenly placed her PET's screen inches away from Enzan's face: he tried to calm her down.
"An email…? "Skinny women stay outta this. IQ – sama."… Ah…"
"SKINNY? ME? SAYS THE VILLAIN!"
"Uh-oh."
"What do we do, sir?"
"I'm not sure."
"Now, now! Manabe – kun. What's the source of…?" Commissioner Kifune approached her and tried to be welcoming.
"I am sorry, sir, but…! Ah! I can't stand it anymore! I feel rabidly, overwhelmingly, vehemently disgusted! SIR! And if you shall excuse me, I feel like taking it out on something! SIR!"
She ran off, leaving Kifune astounded as to what had happened. Enzan sighed and Blues did as well.
"Well? Enzan – kun."
"Yes, sir. It was a taunting email from Anaya Maria, sir."
"A taunting email?"
"Yes, sir. I shall quote. "Skinny women stay outta this. IQ – sama."…"
"Oh come on."
"Apparently she's found out Superintendent Manabe has… Hum… Well, can be obsessive with her weight and so… She purposely attacked that sensible spot. Sir." He politely explained.
"I see. Well. No use crying over spilled milk. If only Manabe – kun wasn't so sensitive about that…"
"Trouble, sir?"
"Ah. Laika – kun. Well. Enzan – kun will tell you. I'm going to my office: I've got some job pending."
"Yes, sir."
Laika casually came in and saluted: Kifune returned the gesture and then walked off, sighing: Laika selected a coffee as Search Man projected with the hologram.
"So?" Laika asked as he sipped some of the coffee.
"Anaya taunted Superintendent Manabe by attacking a sensitive spot of hers and she's in a terrible bad mood." Enzan quickly summed up as he drank some of the coffee.
"Lovely." He grumbled.
"Last thing we needed." Search Man groaned.
"Totally." Blues sighed.
"So? How about you?"
"Me? I tried investigating the Tokyo Exchange. Sigma told me 8 guys of Legion 64 had been there. But there was nothing out of place: I left some undercover programs just in case." Laika replied.
"Maybe it's a red herring."
"Thought so already."
"We've got no choice but to wait for something to happen."
"Something's already happened." Dark Miyabi rushed in.
"What?" They eagerly asked.
"44 of them assaulted me." Shadow Man drily announced.
"44 of them! Where? When?" Search Man asked.
"Not even 5 minutes ago. And I was just coming out of seeing a kendo match in a new dojo that has recently opened… Not like I was poking my nose in their stuff, either…"
"Hmmm… Did it feel like they targeted you or they wanted to create some chaos in the dojo?" Blues asked.
"Good question. I think the latter. I just happened to be there and they focused on me. But it was no easy job. I had to pull a lot of Chips and technique to KO them. That should teach the lot that they shouldn't take me lightly." Shadow Man explained while fuming.
"Hum. I see." Enzan rubbed his chin.
"If you're wondering… I found the remaining 20 about to break into a Family Mart store's Cyber World. Needle Man happened to be about to go there to order some groceries I needed." Yuriko stepped in.
"Shah, shah, shah! Yeah! They put up some fight and some of them used Barrier Battle Chips to prevent damage." Needle Man explained.
"True. Some of mine also used barrier-class Battle Chips but luckily they didn't have any Dream Auras. That would've been a living Hell." Shadow Man admitted.
"I heard the talk. What should we do?" Misaki Gorou joined them.
"Ah. Detective Misaki. Well. I don't think we can do much if both targets were chosen at random and we just happened to be there." Enzan told him with a sigh.
"Good point… If only there was a way to detect their movements… Or to isolate their signatures…" Prism Man muttered.
"Meijin told me he'd been trying to work on something. Maybe I should drop by the Science Labs and ask." Enzan suggested.
"Alright."
"Detective Misaki, sir. An email from "Miss Joke & Co."…"
"Who? Open it."
"Roger, sir."
"What's this? "Handsome fellas welcome to take care of the garden."… Is this some troll?" Misaki groaned once he read it.
"Ayanokouji… As always." Enzan sighed.
"Sheesh. That girl… Huh? Me too? "Beauties welcome to join the maid staff: strawberry milk on the house!"… Does she think people only drink strawberry milk? Does she ever drink any water?" Yuriko groaned, too, once she read an email.
"Spoiled children… We'd be better sans them. Truly."
"I totally agree. And let's not talk about adult spoiled children."
"Tesla Magnets? Sheesh. Stubborn gal." Yuriko sighed.
"I know. She's making so much publicity of herself as the new Gauss Console President and always saying "a lady who isn't even 30 yet!"…"
"Gauss Magnets…! I still remember that stain to my pride…!"
"Go ahead, Miyabi, go ahead… Beat the guy to a pulp along with the gal…"
"Delighted… Stick out your neck, you fool…"
12:58 PM (Japan Time)…
"… Hi there. Meijin."
"Oh. Enzan – kun. Welcome."
"How's that system to track the Legion 64 guys coming up like?"
"Oh, that? Obihiro – kun was working on it."
"Obihiro Shun? Alright. I'll ask him."
"Don't pressure him, though. He's been overworking himself as of late with that because he didn't dare cut time off other research lines he's working into. Deal?"
"Ah! Yeah, of course. I understand: I've had plenty of never-ending days in which I had to overwork too."
"Yeah… Overwork is a problem indeed… They brought it up on a society debate on TV some days ago too…"
Enzan came to the Science Labs and met up with Meijin on his lab: he turned his chair to greet him and they began to chat: Meijin warned Enzan and he sighed as he recalled his own experiences regarding overworking.
"He's on the adjacent lab, as usual."
"Roger."
Enzan headed into the adjacent lab and was surprised to find Obihiro collapsed atop his desk apparently asleep and leaning his head on his arms: some papers had fallen into the ground as well.
He wore a lab coat over a cyan top with a hood, blue jeans and white / red sneakers.
"Oh man. Meijin was totally right. Meijin! Come! Obihiro's collapsed: he couldn't bear with the workload anymore."
"Damn. I knew I should've tried to work on it myself but since he was so eager to be of help and to prove he's competent… I didn't want to disappoint him and…"
"We're not perfect, Meijin. We've had to purge a lot of idiots some fool let inside in purpose as well and we've realized than the Science Labs were short in staff, even." Enzan replied.
"Obihiro – kun… He doesn't react. He's sound asleep. Oh well. Can you help me carry him to the adjacent room? There's a bed he could use: maybe you could take care of the program instead?"
"Sure. I don't have that much work anyway."
Both of them picked Obihiro and carried him to a close-by room which had a bed: they placed Obihiro there and covered his body with the blanket: Meijin turned on a portable heater as well.
"I'm sorry, really." Meijin sighed as he closed the door behind him and once they were back in the lab.
"You needn't apologize to me." Enzan replied.
"I know. But I feel like it."
"Can you give me the program?"
"Sure."
Meijin interacted with Obihiro's console and inserted a Micro SD Card into one slot: he copied something and then handed it over to Enzan: he inserted it into the Link PET's Micro SD slot.
"You can keep it. I've got plenty of these."
"Thanks."
"Oh well. I better finish debugging that faulty piece of code… Don't overwork yourself too much either. Or Twilight will catch us tired and overworked to then sweep through us."
"Good point. The rascal is capable of anything to begin with. It shouldn't come as surprising."
"Meijin? Ah! Enzan – kun. Good morning."
"Hikari – hakase. Good morning, sir."
"Is something the matter?"
"Yes. We discovered a bug in the Dimensional Generator control console software. It makes the console think the DG is overheating and shuts them down before they have time to project the energy to generate a Dimensional Area."
Hikari Yuuichirou came in next and explained a problem they'd just detected to Meijin.
"Hmmm… I've got the hunch it's no casual bug, sir."
"Neo Gospel?"
"Maybe they're planning something and to limit our counter-attack capability they want to disable our Dimensional Areas." Enzan suggested to him.
"I see."
"So maybe… The movements of Legion 64 were red herrings while one of them snuck here and inserted that bug… My hunch turned out to be correct, after all." Enzan rubbed his chin.
"I shall check the firewalls."
"Do so. Maybe there's something in them, too."
"Or maybe not. Maybe they just came physically and managed to Plug-In from a local console bypassing the firewalls altogether." Yuuichirou deduced with a sigh.
"Ah! True, true."
"Can't be helped. We'll have to place some passwords in them. And rotate them every week. Standard security protocol." Meijin sighed.
"Use a standard password generator and rotator: we don't need more overworking. Huff. Maybe we should consider lowering the standards of what is needed to join the staff. At this rate we're gonna suffer from lack of staff for a long time. Let's make it be people who have knack for programming: that should attract some." Yuuichirou suggested.
"Good idea, sir. We could then give them a small 3 day period of trial to get an idea of how good their programming technique is."
"Hmmm… Maybe an idea like that could work at IPC… We're also somewhat short in staff… Problem will be implementing it without someone coming out to scrap it… Huff… Guess I'll have to boil my brains as well… Good morning." Enzan muttered.
"Good morning. And don't worry: I'm sure you'll find a way around somehow."
"Thank you, sir. Let's go, Blues."
"Roger, Enzan – sama."
Enzan walked out of the Science Labs and headed for the bus stop just outside the complex: he sat on the bench and began to review the program he'd gotten.
"Whoa. It's pretty well done. Over 80% is done and the basic structure for the rest of it has been roughly sketched. Both Meijin and Obihiro sure worked hard on this." He muttered.
"True, sir. Hmmm?"
"What's wrong, Blues?"
"I felt like someone was spying on us, sir."
"Neo Gospel?"
"Could be, sir. Certainly not Ayanokouji. They should still be in the middle of a class, sir."
Enzan got to his feet and looked around: he spotted a minuscule hole in the perimeter wall behind him and headed over there: he glanced inside but saw no-one: there were a couple trees and two or three bushes that blocked most of the vision, though.
"Hum. Either they ran away or they're elsewhere… Hmmm? There's something written in the ground…? Someone's used their foot to draw text in the sand…" He spotted.
"Is that so, sir?"
"Yeah… What is it? "Swordfish: you doomed"… Why do I feel like Cloud Man wrote this?" He sighed.
"Who else would use that "you doomed" expression, anyway? It's very popular on Nico Nico when a player in some game is a desperate situation but…" Blues fumed.
"Oh whatever the friggin' ever. Let's just ignore that and go back to the office: we've got work to do with this."
"Roger, sir."
The bus came and Enzan stepped in: he paid the fare with the PET's Cyber Money and then sat down on an empty seat: he found a pamphlet decorated with pumpkins and brooms and which read "HALLOWEEN PARTY FOR ALL FOLK" yet it didn't specify where or when or who organized it.
"Sheesh. Cloud Man's turning into a stalker now? He bothered to leave this here for me to see. Who else would write "for all folk" in English, anyway?" He grumbled.
"Bothersome fools…" Blues mumbled.
"Hmmm? Something written in the reverse… "It came~!"… What came, anyway? And that's another thing taken from Nico Nico."
"The fools can't do better than rip stuff from somewhere."
"Yeah. Let's hope they don't bring out the Twilight Princess bosses next: that would be annoying."
"Truly, sir."
"Next stop: Densan City 4th district: Yodobashi Camera."
"I'll get down here and go walking. Need to vent off the bad mood…"
"Roger, sir."
Neo Gospel… If this is but a teaser… Then we're in deep shit. Damn it all.