DIARY ENTRY 2: Discovery
A team was dispatched and searched the area. They found nothing.
"Nothing?!"
"Yes sir, it appears that the package was removed..." the aide told Ichiro "and carried someplace..."
"Good... split the team..." Ichiro replied "take a group towards waste disposal and try to find it before they scrap it... and the other group shall stay with me"
"Major!!!" a trooper called out from the garbage pile a block away "I think this is where our box landed... and take a look at this!!!"
The trooper handed Ichiro what he found- an MO (magneto-optical) disk. All around the pile there were traces of metal and amazingly, bandages.
"Bandages? Is this really a persocon we're really looking for?" Ichiro thought as he examined the bandages.
A few days later, the team that was sent to waste disposal reported back- nothing.
"Where could have that persocon be?" Ichiro thought as he walked around the streets of his neighborhood- and into his apartment. As he entered, a neighbor from another apartment greeted him.
"Nice to see you, Hideki... having trouble looking for a job?"
"Ha...ha...ha..." Hideki laughed "it's been a long time since anyone has seen you, Ichi... so how's Anamiya?"
"Very funny... you dare ask me that... so how's Yumi?"
Hideki blinked at the question.
"I see... still beaten down, I suppose... hehehe..."
"That is not funny and..."
Then at that point, a faint "cry" that was known to all (readers) reached Ichiro's ears. "Chi..."
"What was that?" Ichiro asked "did you hear that?"
"Um... no why?" Hideki answered, knowing that Ichiro had sensitive ears that had resulted from an accident a few years back during his ascent of Mount Everest.
"It's nothing, I thought I heard cats or something... ahhh... it seems that my hearing restraints are off..." Ichiro puffed as he switched them back on.
The two left and Ichiro went to his unit. His place was almost devoid of metal. Metals became a burden for him ever since he was diagnosed with a rare disorder called Magnetic Hemostasis Disorder or MHD as it is called. Sufferers of this sickness have iron levels that are 20, 30 or even 60 times the normal amount present in humans making them sensitive to magnetic fields - Ichiro has 63 times the normal amount. And if exposed to a powerful enough magnet, the person will literally stick to the magnet... so much for science. He then noticed something strange in Hideki's unit just across the street and checked with his penetrating binoculars- bandages with traces of friction burn on the floor. Then...
"Chii..."
"Oh my..." Ichiro gasped "I know that fool can't afford one... but how? That can't be..."
It was a persocon.