Chapter 20: The Real Enemy

A man was sitting in his office as he typed in data for a document on his computer screen. His office was on the eleventh floor of the Entity, just one more floor up to the interrogation rooms. The clattering of keys on the keyboard echoed throughout the room as if the keyboard was a typewriter. He didn't want to be the one to type in the data for this particular document, but since he was in charge of everything regarding the Entity, he had to do it. It had been a day ago since an undercover team secretly snuck in that time period on Earth in March 2011 where they had to take a certain person away—in custody—back to the Entity for her punishment. There were negotiations about doing this action, but in his words, those who were with the Entity who violated protocol had to suffer the consequences.

He knew he could trust her to do her job, but she went against the Entity for her actions. Her job was to observe humanity and Haruhi Suzumiya due to a data flare that Haruhi created at the time, but her job was not to alter the universe to give the one closet to her a choice at life. He hated how even the littlest fault could cause an interface to engage in drastic actions on their own that could result in the modification or destruction of precious data. He couldn't take the chance of her or any other interface doing that again and decided by learning from Yuki's mistakes, he would set her as an example on what interfaces faced if they ever tried something that stupid.

After typing in the data, the man lay back in his chair and analyzed what he had put in the document. The title "AUTHORIZATION TO TERMINATE" was at the top in bold letters, followed by the data on the bottom, which consisted of her name, gender, species and reason for termination. Clearly, he had written six pages for Yuki's termination, but in shorter form, it was simply this:

Violation of Section 9, Article 6R5GST: Stole powers from being during mission to alter universe to become human being. Subject knew her actions and did not follow orders within herself or the Entity.

After overlooking the document, he printed the article and signed it in his name. On the last page was his signature in cursive and written: Tamotsu Hatoyama.

He glanced at the document for a moment before placing the article in a folder, which he would put in the file cabinet by his desk. He had closed the file cabinet when the doors to his office opened, revealing a woman of about 5 feet, 8 inches. Her long blonde hair swayed as she walked towards his desk. He knew why she was here. She had been working with a team downstairs to create a new humanoid interface that would surpass any current interface, including those of Yuki Nagato and Ryoko Asakura. She stopped when she approached his desk, leaving five feet between herself and the desk. She then spoke. "Tamotsu, I just got back from the Manufacturing floor. The interface is now ready and is upstairs in the conference room so you can speak with her. I hope this interface will exceed your expectations."

Just looking at the woman standing before his desk would make one person believe she was human. Her movements didn't resemble that of a robot but almost close to human. The woman that was standing in front of Hatoyama's desk was in fact a humanoid interface. She was the first of an advanced version than the normal interfaces that roamed throughout the city or inside the Entity. Of those advancements, one of them was her voice, which resembled what you would hear from a text to speech voice of a female in English, but that was one of her many voices. She could speak in other fluent languages as well. Tamotsu hated the typical monotone voice interfaces had when they spoke, and had hers changed to that of a TTS per request of the Manufacturing department. However, the woman before him was not only a humanoid interface or an associate to Tamotsu... She was his wife, which he created years ago.

He looked at her in awe, despite the fact that her face looked serious and lacked expression. He would of expected a smile to come from her after saying that or anything special, but any sense of emotions would have triggered her to either kill her owner—which she could of if the emotions within her caused flaws to kill Tamotsu—or cause herself to dismantle overtime and he'd have to resort to building another wife.

"Okay, Masako." Tamotsu said, "Let's have a look at this new interface you've created."

He got up from the desk and walked with her to meet the new interface. On the walk to the offices upstairs, he hadn't seen the development of her creation, for Masako would show him the new creation as a surprise for him. If she met his expectations, he would start the process of terminating Yuki shortly, but he didn't want any more screw ups. Not that anything occurred during the creation of the new interface, but he was referring to past screw ups involving those two girls that were sent to that boy and girl's time period for observation. He knew what that bastard and his group did by violating protocol long ago when he hacked into the interfaces to experiment with emotions, and the result caused them to dismantle or turn to kill like in Ryoko's case. Luckily, Yuki was able to terminate her for going on her own, but Yuki had to screw up later when somehow, a fault occurred in her due to the learning of emotions from the other four members of that stupid group. That was the information the officials in the observation floor told him the day the event occurred. If everything went as planned, he made sure the people in Manufacturing made a software program within interfaces to eliminate anything regarding emotional and social development within their brains.

Arriving on the floor consisting of interrogation rooms and security offices, Tamotsu and his wife approached the double doors to the conference room. Masako put her ID card in the swipe reader but before she swiped her card, she looked towards Tamotsu. "Are you ready to see her?" she asked in the same voice she had earlier.

He put his hands in his coat pockets. "Let's see her." Tamotsu said.

Masako swiped her card and the doors opened, revealing the size of the room similar to that of Hatoyama's office. Standing in the middle of the room was a young girl. She was dressed in a school uniform with a brown jacket, similar to that of the uniforms girls wore of the high school the boy and girl attended. Her hair was in a kawaii hairstyle, which was long to her shoulders and wavy at her face, and was a light golden reddish brown color. A black headband was in her hair and her eyes were the color red. The look on her monotone face showed an expression that indicated she was capable of doing something dangerous soon.

Already impressed by her appearance, Tamotsu smiled and crossed his arms. She may have the looks, but he wanted to know more. Hopefully, Masako made sure this interface was perfect like her and would obey protocol and her mission. "So young one, who are you and what association do you work for?" he said in Japanese.

The interface before them said the following: "My name is Kamiko Maruyama and I am with the Integrated Data Sentient Entity."

Tamotsu nodded. She responded in Japanese, her voice almost sounding close to the TTS Japanese version of Kyoko. At least Masako remembered in the creation of this interface that she would not have a monotone voice. He asked her another question in English, this time the question referring to her purpose of the Entity. "And what will be your purpose for the Integrated Data Sentient Entity?"

Kamiko's eyes blinked as she responded in the new language. "My mission is to alter the environmental data that surrounds Haruhi Suzumiya and to terminate her organic life form and the data of those close to her."

There was more to her mission than just the alternating of data. She would take away the powers that existed within Haruhi, including that from the esper and the time traveler, and use those powers against them. By taking away their powers, that made them all human and they wouldn't be able to fight against Maruyama when the time came to eliminate their existence. There was that one human with no powers, but he would witness everything before Maruyama terminated him in the end. That's what the boy would get for challenging Tamotsu when he said he would cause the girl to recreate the universe to bring Yuki back. That boy had no idea by recreating the universe, Yuki would never come back, but he would make it where Kamiko would be there to punish him by killing every member of the SOS Brigade: starting with either the esper or time traveler, before moving on to Haruhi and then him. If he thought life was Hell before he got that girl to recreate the universe, it would only get worse.

Tamotsu nodded again, his smile becoming a smirk. Masako had done her duty. He could have cared less for what the people in the Manufacturing floor did by creating this girl, but this interface was a part of Masako: she may look cute on the outside, but she was dangerous on the inside. "You've done more than impressed me Masako," he said as he turned to face her, "We will celebrate your creation once I've terminated that girl. And we'll celebrate again when the time comes that the boy and girl will try to recreate their universe."

Masako didn't respond but nodded, indicating her acceptance for her achievement of pleasing Tamotsu.

He looked back at the young girl that was still standing in the middle of the room. He again spoke in Japanese. "Wait here Kamiko. I'll be right back to discuss further on your terms."

"Yes, Hatoyama-san." She responded.

She even knew his surname without the personal introductions. Interesting, he thought. He and Masako left the conference room and took the short walk down the corridor to the room where Yuki was in holding. He had already made his decision that he would terminate Yuki and that was that, but he made sure that she would know what would happen to her in advance before he began the termination. He looked at his watch to check the time and it was 1719 hours. He originally set the process for her termination at 1800 hours, which was 41 minutes away. Too long for him, but he could always override his decisions to where he saw fit.

They were approaching the door—room 1211—to the interrogation room where Yuki was inside. The guard by the door noticed them and pushed a hidden button by the door to gain entry inside. Hatoyama, his wife and the guard walked into the room to confront the girl, who was strapped to the chair awaiting her interrogation.