5.
EDEN didn't make sense. It demanded a frankly embarrassing amount of information to get the avatar working correctly, you needed to update it whenever you updated your outfit in a significant way, and it got into records so far up your past life, it had somehow found, on record, that he had been kidnapped at the age of eleven despite the police having never been involved once in that.
The creator of EDEN must have been insane.
Must have, because looking him up revealed a news report two and a half pages long and the picture of a corpse so bloodied up there was no way it could be called anything like a suicide but there it was.
And right below it was a reference to another article and another, and another, all until roughly eight years prior.
And after a few minutes of looking, there was Sanada Arata's name, listed as a participant in an undisclosed prgram, or at least his rumored participation. So were, weirdly enough, Kamishiro children, one of which had something called EDEN Syndrome, which was the equivalent of a coma. Someone else named Shiramine Nokia (her small picture was undoubtedly peppy) and…
Aiba Takumi.
Did he have any idea?
Then, to cap the weirdness of today, Daisuke called him.
"We need Imperialdramon," he said. "Odaiba. Now."
Ken ran to the nearest train.