DISCLAIMER

Sword Art Online (c) Kawahara Reki, Detective Conan (c) Aoyama Gosho.

環太平洋擬装網 (romaji: Kantaiheiyou Gisoumou; official English title: Pacific Rim Imitation Network) (c) Hirasawa Susumu.

OK, here's the second installment. Let's get it rolling, shall we?

By the way, real personal names of Japanese (wo)men written on this script will use the 'family name – given name' format usually used in East Asia in general. Pseudonyms, however, will always be written in 'given name – family name' format, even when the pseudonym used is a East Asiatic name. Be aware that Western names, real or otherwise, are written with their given name written in the front as well.

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Chapter 2A – Really High Imitation Diva, Side A

8 August 2035, 1150 JST

The moment Kazuto regained his consciousness, he thought he's in an ambulance. However laidback he is, he feels vexed, yet powerless. It's not about who's around, but who's not. He can't find Rika inside the ambulance. However, the only hints he had about he's in an ambulance is the roar of a siren – not the mythological siren, the mechanical one – heard inside the vehicle, since the car is devoid of outside light save from the front compartment. Since he can do nothing about it, he decides to feign sleeping while trying to find out who's kidnapping him and stealing his newlywed wife from him in silence.

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Meanwhile~

Haldyn Restaurant
Beika, Tokyo
8 August 2035, 1145 JST

Time has changed just about ... everything. James Black has died of old age just after the ALfheim Online Incident was over. Akai Shuichi, although repeatedly asked to take the vacant seat, refused to comply, instead recommending an agent he know: Gouda Akihiko. A similar series of incident also happened to Jodie Starling, and she even recommends the same guy.

This same Gouda Akihiko founded Haldyn Restaurant about six years ago. The restaurant was made on two parts. The upper floor, which lies on street level, is where he runs his daily job as Takeshi Kayaba, a ramen businessman that steers the helm of Haldyn Restaurant. The basement floor is split into two: a parking lot, accessible from the street outside, from where a ladder is available to enter the restaurant; and a guest room, inaccessible from the street, where he receives personal guests, from middlemen for his ramen restaurant, family relations, until fellow FBI members.

That noon, he got a radio call from a field associate of his in FBI, Sera "Shizuka Uzumaki" Masumi. Knowing who was calling him while he's in the upper floor, he made excuses to get down. Easier than you'd thought, since he's the owner of the restaurant.

"Yes, Uzumaki-kun? ... You've got them? Good. ... I see. OK, I'll write you in the mail the rest of the details. Check them out by noon, OK? ... Thanks. Inform Honekawa and Kataoka of this information as well. Be warned, out there be monsters." After that call, Kayaba returns to the surface.

If there's anything weird with his life as Gouda Akihiko, he keeps a list of two-way shared e-mail addresses with his field associates, like Sera, along with their corresponding passwords. The usual procedure to pass messages to them would be to write the message, then to save it to the Draft folder instead of sending it. Then, he'll inform the field associate to check the message. That way, it can escape scrutinizing more easily (since they won't be logged, unlike when one actually sends it), and even when a field associate is captured and accused of receiving e-mails from a superior, (s)he can, hopefully, disprove the claim without the hint that they're lied. After all, technically, they were not receiving emails, they were reading drafts their superior have made.

A few moments after noon, Sera checked her phone. True enough, when she logged to the shared e-mail address, she found a new message in the Draft folder. It ran something like this:

Subject: Disguise

Uzumaki-kun, I trust you have the two men she have said about Operation: Kantaiheiyou Gisoumou under your control. I'll inform you that I have gotten the two disguises for them: his pseudonym would be Stoner Stanley, and hers would be Yoko Okino.

May this operation run in accord to our grand plan.

PS: Before Stanley and/or Okino get informed, be sure that Honekawa and Kataoka are informed beforehand.

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8 August 2035, 1210 JST

In the car Kazuto's in ...

From the limited space he's confined at, at the moment, he can only hear woman voices, apparently speaking on the phone, "Good day, can I speak to Sakura? ... I see. You should thank God you got such good wife, Tommy! ... Okay, I'm sorry. Would you inform her that ... Oh, thank you. ... Sa-Sakura? Have you checked the mail Kayaba have made?" The rest of them goes unnoticed to him since Kazuto fell asleep for real. He didn't hear that she informed this 'Sakura' that she thought a man she's carrying has woken up.

He didn't know that the car was not an ambulance at all – it was an armored cargo car. It also has no sirens, and those out of the car cannot hear the siren. This is because the siren noise was simply an audio file of a siren's roar played in the car's audio system.

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8 August 2035, 1225 JST

That moment, a woman with a long blonde hair have just known she got a message on her phone. The timestamp for the message was 1207 JST, but she usually silences her phone whenever she's at work and by the time the message came, she was out for lunch. She also noticed five missed calls, all from a certain Masumi.

"Masumi, huh?" she murmured upon looking on the phone. When she opened the message, she got this.

Subject: Drunken Diva

Geez, Asuna-neechan, that man is weird, eh? I know it's your first mission under him. He's the supervisor for Operation: Kantaiheiyou Gisoumou, so bear with it.

Anyway, he assigned these pseudonyms for your old buddies: his is Stoner Stanley, hers is Yoko Okino. Weird choices, I know, since there's a real Yoko Okino in our world.

Chances are, by the time you read this, Sakura will have known this. But it never hurts to reconfirm, I think. Just in case you know this before she does.

Yours truly, Masumi

'I wonder how Kirito-kun will react when he know I'm involved,' she mumbles. After those years being separated, she still remembers his pet name. If anything, this is a testament on how close they were.

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To be continued.

A/N: Yup, this piece of *scratch* trash *scratch* fanfiction is titled after the operation mentioned in Gouda's message to Sera (which was named after the then 'ancient' song (the album it was originally in, Sim City, was published in 1995; its remake in Hen-Gen-Jizai was released in 2010, not really much less ancient by 2035 :v)). Just what in the world is this Operation: Kantaiheiyou Gisoumou, though? We'll see.

Yes, Stoner Stanley rose from an Internet meme.

BTW, Gouda Akihiko and Kayaba Takeshi are named after the same two guys. See if you can find them. :p