Largo's Work Journal. June 25, 2006; 10:03 PM.

"Development of the SDK is going great. I had some stalls and delays, some of them almost drove me insane, one of them kept me puzzled for 1 entire day, but the grammar is almost finished, and now I just need Ping to be able to understand dialects of English, like Jive, Redneck, Cockney, Valspeak or, of course, l337. Yeah, the gamer's dialect, synonymous of a righteous tongue that evolved naturally on the Usenet forums, the best dialect of English in the world. It just pwnz0rz j00. This dialect will, of course, be Ping's main dialect.

Teaching Ping the vocabulary will be pretty easy. I'll start with a basic 1000 word vocabulary, and I can teach Ping the remaining words.

These 9 days of coding and development so far have been so demanding and tough. I've never exerted my mathematical and programming genius at the levels I'm doing right now. I've barely got anything to eat, and I've never even left this room. It may seem strange, because I've lived enclosed in my room playing Quake 3 against Piro for days, but somehow... I'm starting to feel like I need some sunlight. Besides, the Undead Queen is out there, secretly infiltrating and corrupting the city with her 3vil influence. But Ping can be useful at this. She likes to hang out with her, because the Undead Queen can't do her any harm, and in case she was a victim of a mind manipulation, I just have to load Ping's latest save point. Now that I think of it, perhaps I need a fix of Quake instead of some sunlight...

Development status: 75 done!"

Piro has been worried about Largo during all these days. Over the last week, everything he's been doing was to sit in front of his computer for straight hours, writing computer codes on her machine, and saying strange, muffled words in the night while Piro was asleep. Though this is pretty normal from a geek like Largo, he's not like this. He always leaves the house at least once a day, if only to search for the Undead Queen. Besides, he's been seeing English method books spread all over the place, and Ping's SDK box in front of his computer. Piro was working with Erika at that time, so he eventually brought up the subject.
- Say, Erika... - said Piro.
- Wassup, Piro? - answered Erika.
- I've been noticing that Largo's been acting strange already.
- Largo never acts according to normal human rationale. Get used to it.
- I know Largo from high school, that's 6 years ago, and I'm already used to it.
- So?
- He's not acting normal, if we consider his weird behavior as normal.
- What could it be? Something must be going on with him.
- I dunno...
- Knowing him well, he might be into something he doesn't wants to tell you.
- You think so?
- Probably he's working into a secret project and you wouldn't like to find out what's it about...
- Maybe...

Piro began to suspect that Largo's into something strange. He started to think about the weird things he's seen around Largo. Ping's SDK... that could mean that he's into developing stuff for Ping. He doesn't gets along with her because he doesn't speaks Japanese, but he doesn't dislikes her, so it can't be something bad. The language books... he must be using them for something... who knows? perhaps a personal project of his, maybe he wants to become a serious English teacher instead of just a stupid "l337 m45+3r"... wait, Piro just remembered. Tsubasa said that Ping didn't had an English module installed. So Largo is working obviously in an English module. But... now let's consider that nothing that Largo does fits withing the bounds of social normalcy... oh no, that just rang all of Piro's emergency alerts! If Largo creates an English module, and considering his obsession with l337n3zz... he might as well build an l337 language module! Oh no! Piro had to stop that right now, as soon as possible!
- Sorry, Erika... I gotta go...
- Where ya goin'?
- I got some stuff to attend with Largo.
- You found out about what he's doing?
- Yes, and it doesn't looks good at all.
- Well, good luck then.
Then Piro disappeared in the stairs

Upstairs, meanwhile, Largo was on the final step: the upload. Largo plugged Ping into his computer, and transferred the finished learning file.
- OK, Ping. This is gonna feel a little strange. You'll get lots of flashes of language lessons within a really short time. I trust you're strong enough to resist it, the emulator did, so give me your best, OK? - told her Largo.
- Yes - answered Ping.
Then Largo ran the file using Ping's control interface. Ping sat on the floor, and closed her eyes. 30 seconds later, she moved her head downwards, and a forced expression appeared on her face. Then she gasped, and with her mouth open, panting, she dropped all fours into the floor. After recovering her "breath", she got up.
- I know English, Largo - Ping said.
- Good! Now you can communicate with me. Well done - answered Largo.
- Waaaa, it feels so cool! I can speak English like an American! And look! 3y3 4 5p33k l337!

- Largo! - screamed Piro with a very authoritarian, almost heroic air.
- Piro! You came just in time to show you my latest creation! - answered Largo, with a really energic air.
- Piro-neesan! - said Ping as soon as she saw Piro.
- (Ping! Are you OK?) - replied Piro. - Of course I'm OK, Piro! Largo tought me English!
- Fo' real?
- Fo' shizzle!
- Ok, ok, ok... first of all, what kind of English did Largo taught to you?
- American, Valspeak, Redneck, Jive, British Cockney, l33...
- Eli-what?
- l337+3h 64m3?z +0n6u3!
Piro sighed in frustration. "Ohhhh, Largo... when you do things right, you twist them off at the last minute", he thought.
- Ping, for the love of God, Sony and all that is holy, please, do not speak l337 in front of anyone, but Largo...
- Why not?
- Because l337 is a dialect only spoken by losers like Largo.
- Really?
- Really. Now, remember, anytime I'm around, please, do this little favor. Don't. Speak. L337. Got it?
- Got it.