Ai Star: Yeah, Forte's a bit protective of Netto, though Netto isn't as much because Forte made himself seem indestructible. And Netto just loves to comment on the good points of the navis she meets.

Guest: You're the third person to guess that! There just aren't enough cool old people in this show. The event that happened when Netto was five was briefly explained in chapter three, but it will be expanded on in a later chapter. As for the amnesia… you'll find out eventually.

Editor: kaffinee

I don't own Rockman EXE.

Game

"Last night, the Hakubu Museum was broken into, and the Saruhige Mask was stolen." A section of Rockman's PET was displaying the news, and the navi was watching it as Netto carried a bag of bolts and wires around in one hand, the PET in another. "Like last week's jewelry shop robbery and the museum robbery from two days before, the new security system was completely fried. The police are suspecting that the same culprit is at fault."

"Is there a reason why you're suddenly interested in the news?" Rockman asked, fiddling around with the volume.

"There are way too many incidents that happen around here," Netto explained, "I thought that I might be able to predict some of them if I watch the news."

Rockman nodded in understanding, then switched to another news station. The screen now showed a seemingly ordinary museum, with no broken glass cases. However, one of the objects that was supposed to be displayed was missing.

"Last night, the Tsukan Museum was broken into, and a valuable metal was stolen," the news reporter said in a monotone voice, "the guards were knocked unconscious with sleeping gas and the main system was tampered with. Due to the style of the robbery and the lack of evidence of the culprit, the police are suspecting that it was the work of the international criminal, Black Shadow."

"There sure are a lot of robberies lately," Rockman commented.

Netto laughed. "There's something happening at least once a week. I wouldn't be surprised if someone managed to hijack the traffic lights."

"Netto-kun, Coloredman did that last month," the navi pointed out dryly.

"Oh, right."

'Guess what I found out about the robberies,' Forte spoke up.

'Which one?'

'The chain robberies.'

'What about them?'

'The first one involving the jewelry shop had a Level Six security system. Rensan Museum's was Level Seven.'

'I'm guessing that Hakubu Museum was Level Eight?'

'Yes.'

'I don't really know what I would do with that information since it's unlikely that it will involve me, but I'll keep that in mind.' Netto passed Higureya and paused, frowning in confusion at the extremely long line in front of the shop. "Hey, Rockman. Is there something going on today?"

"Eh?" Rockman quickly glanced through the news bulletin. "I'm not sure. There's too much coverage on the robberies."

"Huh." Well, Netto didn't have the money or patience to shop for battle chips anyway, so she continued on.

"Ah, Netto-kun!" Meiru waved at her, standing with Dekao at the end of the line. "Are you here for the game too?"

Netto waved back, skating over to them. "What's with the line?" she asked, "and what game are you talking about?"

There was a screech of bicycle wheels from behind her. "Hey, what's this line?" Masa questioned, "Is the Prime Minister here or something?"

"No, Masa-san," Roll answered from her PET, "it's a preorder for a game."

"A game?"

"Maxima's Warrior is releasing tomorrow," Meiru spoke up with a smile on her face.

"Stick fireworks?"

"Maxima's what?" Netto asked.

'Warrior.' Forte said the word in Ameropian, and then in Creamlandish.

"Oh. Warrior. Got it."

"R-E-L-E-A-S-E!" Meiru exclaimed, speaking slower so Masa wouldn't get confused. "There's going to be a limited amount, so it's first come first serve!"

"But we need to preorder the game or else there's no way we'll get our hands on it!" Dekao interjected. "That's why everyone's lining up! This game is the part of the hottest RPG series that uses the VR System!"

The fisherman sputtered indignantly. "How foolish! I don't care if it's TKO or DNA!" The bicycle crashed to the ground as he jumped off. "What a pity, children lining up for a stupid game!" Then he started running to the front of the line, where Higure was. "I won't allow it!"

"So… what's RPG?" Netto asked sheepishly.

Meiru and Dekao gaped at her. "You don't know what an RPG is?" Dekao asked.

Netto shook her head.

"RPG stands for Roleplaying Game," Meiru explained, "It's a common genre in video games." She paused, giving Netto a considering look. "Have you… ever played a video game before?"

Netto shook her head again.

"Where did you live?!" Dekao exclaimed. "To think that there was someone who had never played a video game before…"

Netto's cheeks flushed pink. "There was just a lot of work to do," she mumbled, "Since it was just me and Grandpa most of the time. Not counting the home lessons."

"Well then," Meiru declared, "we'll just have to play Maxima's Warrior together!"

"Talk about it all you want, but you still have to get the game first," Rockman said, "and you lost your place in line a while back."

"Eh!?" Meiru and Dekao spun around, groaning when they saw how long the line had gotten.

"Let's see…" Dekao stepped toward the line, looking for their previous spot. "I think we were around here…"

"Hey, no cutting in line!" Masa yelled, having returned from his argument with Higure. Mariko was there too, having arrived while they weren't paying attention.

Meiru and Dekao dashed off to the end of the line, with Netto slowly following after them.

Higure was at the end, and held out a hand to stop them. "I'm sorry, but all preorders are filled." He set down a sign that said exactly that.

"It can't be…" The two sank onto the ground, sighing dejectedly.

'… Are video games really that important?'

'I wouldn't know.'

Netto turned her head at the screech of car tires and spotted a pink limo. The limo's window rolled down, and Yaito popped her head out.

"Hey, what are you guys doing there?"

"Yaito-chan!" The three classmates ran over to her.

"Did you guys fail to buy the preorder ticket for Maxima's Warrior?" she guessed, and received nods as answers. "Then why don't you come over to my house? My papa's the president of Gabcom, after all. If I ask him, I could get it really fast!"

"That's right!" Dekao gasped, "We could have asked you!"

"You… only just realized that now?"

Netto looked down at the bag she was still holding. 'I guess I'm going to be carrying this around longer than I thought I would.'

'Don't lose it.'

It turned out that she didn't have to lug the bag of bolts and wires around after all. The four were to meet at Yaito's house for dinner.

Netto chewed on a piece of meat, occasionally glancing over at the man—Yaito's father—at the head of the table. Since Yaito was sitting next to him, she could see some similarities between them.

"This is the first time Yaito has ever brought guests to dinner." He smiled. In his hand was a wine glass filled with orange liquid. "Despite how she looks, my daughter is very shy."

Forte was distracted by the quartet of string players that were creating background noise, probably because he had not seen that sight before. Especially during mealtime.

Meiru giggled quietly. "That's quite a surprise."

"But she's not very gentle," the man added.

Yaito pouted. "Geez, Papa."

He laughed. "I'm sorry. By the way," he addressed the others, "you guys weren't able to preorder Maxima's Warrior?"

"That's right!" Dekao confirmed, stopping momentarily from stuffing his face. "I saved my allowance and was looking forward to it!"

"But they sold out at the very end." Meiru sighed.

"It's going to release tomorrow, but we can play it today!" Yaito turned to face her father. "Right? Please, Papa!"

"My my, I can never refuse when Yaito asks for a favor."

Yaito cheered. "Thank you, Papa!" She gave her classmates a thumbs-up.

After dinner, they were guided to a room full of computers.

Dekao made a noise of amazement as he looked around. "This is like an electronic fortress!"

"The original data of new games are all saved onto this computer," Yaito's father explained. "Tomorrow morning, Maxima's Warrior will be sent to stores all over the nation."

"In other words," Netto started, "if this data was stolen…"

"There's no need to worry about that," he assured her, "This place is protected with a Level Nine security system. The original data is protected by an even stronger Security System; Level Ten."

Something about that sounded seemed familiar…

"Any intruders would be caught on sight!" Yaito piped up.

"We know." Netto turned to glare at Dekao, who gulped nervously and looked away. They both remembered that incident. Meiru looked at them both in confusion, having not been there.

"By the way, Papa." Yaito turned around, facing her father. "Let us play Maxima's Warrior now!"

"Not today, because the release date is tomorrow," he said sternly.

"Eehhh?" Yaito whined. "But earlier you said it was okay!"

"As soon as the clock strikes midnight, you can play."

'Forte, does something about the security systems sound familiar?'

'Hm?' He paused, in the process of writing out an email to Netto's next client, and reviewed the conversation. 'Oh, that. Six, Seven, Eight.'

'What?' What did those numbers have to do with… oh. 'You mean the robberies?'

'Yes. The ones not committed by the Black Shadow.' He snickered at the name. 'If the culprit was destroying security systems in order of difficulty, then they would target a Level Nine system next.'

'But they stole valuable items too. Would they really take game data?'

'We can't read the minds of people like them. We can only do that with—'

"Netto, come on!" Meiru took the girl by the hand, unknowingly interrupting her conversation with Forte. "We're heading over to the secret base now to wait for the release of Maxima's Warrior!"

"Oh, okay." Netto nodded. "Let's go, then."

'Don't forget to do that thing.'

'There's still plenty of time before midnight. I can do it then.'

"It's 11:45," Meiru announced. "Fifteen minutes left!"

Dekao snored loudly from his spot on the couch, mumbling something about food.

Netto hummed in agreement, her attention on the contents of a book. She flipped a page, slowly moving through the words and sentences. Whenever she got stuck on a difficult phrase, Forte translated it out for her in a different language until she got the gist of it and moved on.

"What book is that?" Yaito asked curiously.

Netto glanced at the cover. "The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie," she answered, flipping back to her spot in the book.

"… What?"

Netto nodded distractedly, making guesses and bets with Forte on who the killer was. "I bought it in Creamland, but I didn't have time to read it much until recently," she explained, unaware of her classmates' growing confusion. "I'm at the part where the detective is interviewing the suspects. Have you read this before, Yaito?" She looked up, noticing the look that both Yaito and Meiru sported. She blinked. "Is something wrong?"

"Uh… Netto-kun…" Meiru hesitated.

"We can't understand anything you're saying." Yaito said bluntly. "You're talking in a different language."

"I am?" Netto paused, listening to herself. "Oh. I am." She must have gotten too caught up in her book. "Sho-ry." Stumbling over the word, she cleared her throat and tried again. "Sorry."

"It's fine." Meiru waved it off. "What language was that?"

"Creamlandish." Netto placed a bookmark between the open pages and closed the book, placing it back inside her backpack. "I got the book in Creamland."

"Really?" Yaito raised an eyebrow. "How many do you know?"

"Languages?" she asked for clarification.

The blonde nodded.

"Well, I've never really counted. I know all the major ones, and there's some that I'm still trying to get the hang of. I do know that I can speak more than five."

"Oh, so that's why you have an accent!"

"I… have an accent?" Netto looked to Meiru for confirmation.

"Well, yeah," Meiru answered. "But it's understandable, so there weren't any problems." She turned to the big screen, checking the time. "One minute until midnight!" she cheered.

Netto watched as they excitedly counted down the seconds to midnight. Once the count reached zero, static noise filled the area as the screen showed nothing but black-and-white pixels. "Is this what the game is supposed to be?"

"No, it's not," Meiru said, "It's past midnight now, but the new game isn't here… what's going on?"

"That's weird," Yaito murmured, "Papa wouldn't break a promise."

The lights abruptly turned off and the three looked up, startled. The screen before them flickered, then showed a blond man in a yellowish suit.

"I am Count Elec of WWW!" the man announced, then laughed hysterically. "I have cleared this security system! Now, I'm going to steal the smiles of children from all over the country!" He laughed again.

"The smiles of children?" the voice of Yaito's father sounded through the speakers. He must be in the room where the original data is stored. "You mean, Maxima's Warrior will—"

"That's right!" Count Elec replied in Ameropian. "That's delightful." He laughed yet again.

'That hyena laugh is really annoying.'

'Yeah, I know.' Netto organized the words she wanted to say in her head, and then yelled at the man in the same language. "Don't be so damn rude! Meiru and Dekao really wanted to play this game! Whatever it is." She shook her head, continuing on. "And really, attacking security systems in increasing consecutive order? That's as obvious a pattern as you can get!"

'You didn't pick up on it until I gave you a hint.'

'I didn't care about it back then.' "You have absolutely no class. Abolishing all those security systems; do you not know how fun it can be to manipulate them!? It's like destroying is the only thing you know how to do!" She took a deep breath. "I had a point! I'm going to defeat you, and make you pay for all that money that was wasted on the security systems!"

Count Elec smirked, taking her declaration in stride. "Then let's see you try to stop me!" He strummed his electric guitar, making the light bulbs on his hot air balloon light up. "It's showtime!"

A transparent wall came down, blocking off the door and windows that would have otherwise served as exits.

"What's with this!?" Netto slammed herself into the wall, trying in vain to break it down. She wouldn't be able to get to where Count Elec's navi was otherwise.

"The auto security wall has been activated!" Yaito informed helpfully. She took out her PET, checking with Glyde about the current status of WWW's attack, and gasped. "Oh, no! The final security system's been destroyed!"

"We have to somehow protect the data of Maxima's Warrior!" Meiru fretted.

'The system was set to send the game to this place at midnight, right? Since it's past that time…'

"… If I plug into the monitor, then Rockman would be able to arrive at the center of the system!" Netto realized. She pulled Rockman's PET out from the holster, heading to the ports at the side of the monitor. She looked up when Meiru joined her, Roll's PET in her hands.

"I can't just let you fight him alone." Meiru glanced at Yaito, who was trying to shake Dekao awake. "Glyde isn't a fighting-class navi, and Dekao's a really heavy sleeper, so Gutsman won't be able to help anytime soon."

Netto nodded. "Okay, we'll face him together."

The two pulled out their PET cords.

"Plug in, Rockman, transmission!"

"Plug in, Roll, transmission!"

Rockman blinked his eyes open, which widened as he spotted the data that was flowing upward. "That's…"

"The new game's original data." Rockman and Roll spun around to face the speaker—Elecman. "I am now sending it to my master."

"What an excellent night." Count Elec grinned. "Five minutes until download is complete."

"Guys, you have to stop that data upload!" Netto pulled out her meager collection of battle chips from her pocket, looking through them. 'Why didn't I buy any wood-element chips!?'

'You already used up your allowance for materials,' Forte reminded her, 'You thought that you didn't need new battle chips that soon.'

'I am an idiot.'

"Heart Slash!" Roll sent out a stream of razor-sharp pink hearts that shot towards Elecman, who jumped out of the way.

"Battle chip, Sword, slot in!" Rockman's arm transformed into a blade. He dashed forward, slashing horizontally, and cut into Elecman's abdomen. "Yes!"

"That's enough! Lightning slot in!" A giant bolt of electricity flashed down, striking Elecman.

Netto squinted at the screen, seeing the scattered data around the navi clustering near his wound, and gasped. "He's regenerating?!"

The lightning disappeared once the cut had healed, and Elecman smirked. "Revived." He attacked Rockman, striking with lightning that sent Rockman flying back.

Ignoring the mild tingling that was felt in her entire body, Netto turned to Meiru. "What battle chips do you have!?"

Meiru stuck her hand into her pocket, pulling out a few. "I have Sword, Area Steal, Cannon, and…" She looked at the last battle chip. "… Mini-Bomb."

Netto nodded, trying to formulate a strategy. "We need to get Maxima's Warrior back, so…" Her eyes landed on the Area Steal chip that the other girl held. "That's it!" She leaned forward, whispering her plan to Meiru.

A smile formed on Meiru's face, and her eyes shone in determination. "I can do that!" She selected the chip they needed and inserted it into the PET. "Battle chip, Mini-Bomb, slot in!"

Roll's hand closed around a blue ball with a green stripe around the middle and she glanced at it in surprise. Looking back up, she observed her surroundings.

Elecman guarding the data of Maxima's Warrior.

Rockman using his Rockbuster to distract their enemy.

The list of battle chips that Meiru had.

"Got it! Here I go!" With a yell, Roll threw the Mini-Bomb at Elecman as hard as she could. It smacked onto the side of his face and exploded, covering his immediate area in clouds of gray smoke. "Now!"

"Battle chip, Area Steal, slot in!" Roll sped past Rockman and Elecman, leaving behind an afterimage as she raced to stop the data upload.

"Oh no you don't!" As the smoke cleared, a streak of lightning flashed towards Roll. She froze in terror.

"Battle chip, Area Steal, slot in!" Netto inserted her own copy of the chip. "Battle chip, Barrier, slot in!"

Rockman disappeared, reappearing between Roll and the electric attack, which harmlessly bounced off the barrier and dissipated. "I'm your opponent!" he declared, aiming his buster at Elecman.

Elecman gritted his teeth, looking back and forth between Roll, who was now using her antennae to counter the upload, and Rockman, who stood between them and was ready to fight. "Very well. If you want to be deleted so badly, then so be it!"

"Hey, you!" Yaito stormed up to the screen, glaring angrily at Count Elec. "Why would an adult like you want to steal a new game!?"

"To bring confusion and fear into a society," he answered. "That's the WWW motto."

The teenagers stared blankly at him.

"The crying faces of children whose wish didn't come true," he snickered. "Just thinking about it makes me very happy!" He howled in laughter at that thought.

"That's the worst reason I had ever heard of," Forte stated bluntly.

'I thought you were going to warn me before you do that?'

'I couldn't resist the commentary.'

Netto pouted in response, but picked out a chip. "No matter what the reason, we won't lose to someone like you! Battle chip, Shotgun, slot in!"

"That's no use!" Count Elec screamed, "Elecman, destroy him!"

The navi raised his hands up, concentrating electricity into a ball of light. He blasted the ball toward Rockman, who countered with a barrage of energy pellets.

The two attacks caused a blinding explosion. Netto took this opening to slot in another Sword, which Rockman used to stab Elecman through the stomach.

"Did you forget?" Elecman asked, unbothered by the fact that he was injured. "I'm invincible." He grabbed onto the sword to hold Rockman in place as lightning came down, healing the navi again.

Rockman jerked the blade away, stumbling back just as large wooden spears erupted from the ground and blocked off the current. A navi with the appearance of a tree trunk jumped down from them, landing next to Rockman.

"I blocked off his power source," he said, "Elec is no longer invincible."

"Who are you?" Rockman asked warily.

"D-damn you!" Elecman growled, unleashing electrical energy at the newcomer.

It hit, but was ineffective against the wood-type navi. "No time to answer." he turned to Rockman, brushing off the question. "Fight him, Rockman!"

Surprised, Rockman nodded. "Netto-kun, I need another battle chip!"

"I don't have any chips that are wood-element," Netto thought aloud, "So either fire or elec-element chips would be enough. Ah, that's right!" She took out the only elemental chip she had in her pocket. "Battle chip. Elec-Sword, slot in!"

Rockman's sword arm now crackled with electric energy, and he pointed it at Elecman.

"Elec-Sword, huh?" The generators on his back started glowing. "Are you joking?!"

Rockman ran forward, holding the sword out in front of him to block the incoming attack. He jumped up, using the momentum to slash down and hit Elecman's chest, barely missing his emblem.

"Electricity…" the injured navi choked out in pain, "… the power of electricity…" His data separated, and he was forced to log out.

"Cancellation of data upload: Complete!" Roll chirped out, the remaining files of Maxima's Warrior returning to the place where it was stored.

"Netto-kun, we did it!" Meiru cheered, high-fiving her teammate.

Netto grinned, caught up in the mood. "Yeah, we did!"

"Who are you?" Rockman asked again, facing the unknown navi now that there were no more threats for the time being.

"My name is Woodman," he answered. "The smiles of children are safe now that the new game has been retrieved." Smiling, he continued: "We'll meet again, Rockman."

Woodman disappeared, having been logged out, and Rockman sighed in relief as he spotted the stolen files of Maxima's Warrior returning to join with the rest. "The original data is returning!"

Netto and her classmates—Dekao had woken up after Elecman retreated—ran out of the treehouse in time to see someone who had a dark-colored cape and a mask covering their face—likely Woodman's operator—walk to the entrance gate.

"Um…" Netto began. The vigilante stopped, turning their head to look at her, allowing her to see their green hair. "Thanks for your help!"

"You're welcome," they responded, raising a hand to wave, then continued walking away.

"So cool!" Dekao practically had stars in his eyes.

"I wonder who that was?" Yaito murmured.

Meiru shrugged. "I don't know… but I have a feeling we had met before."

Netto nodded in agreement. 'Forte, what do you think?'

'There aren't that many people with green hair that we know.'

'No, I mean about Count Elec.'

'Hm?'

'He looked familiar to me too. So does Elecman. Have I seen them somewhere before?'

'Perhaps. But at the moment, you should focus more on what you're going to tell your family about the visit to the old man.'

'Oh, I guess I should.'

"Have you found out anything about her origins yet?"

"I could only see scattered data and a pair of red eyes."

"Scattered data… deleted navis? And the red eyes… could they belong to Uranet's God of Destruction? They're the only one I could think of with that eye color."

"I don't know. I'm only telling you what I saw."

"But for us to only have that little piece of information… it's already been over a month since she came."

"We should talk with the commander, then decide what to do after that."

"Mmhmm… say, are you free tomorrow?"

"If I said yes?"

"I have two tickets to the amusement park."

"Heh, you know me well."

"So is that a yes?"

"We'll meet at the entrance at three. See you then."

Netto held still as Meiru helped her strap the feedback devices onto her arms and legs. "Is this really necessary?"

"Yes!" Meiru, Dekao, and Yaito answered simultaneously. They each wore their own devices and VR headsets. "You need it to get the full experience." Meiru handed Netto a headset, which she put on.

"Guys, you ready?" Yaito asked, receiving nods in answer. "Alright, Maxima's Warrior, start!" She snapped her fingers.

Netto gasped as her surroundings changed from the secret base they were in to a grassy field with a bright blue sky. "Whoa…"

"This is the start screen." Netto turned her head to Yaito's voice. She was tapping on a holographic screen in front of her. "You press this button, and the game will take you to the character customization area."

Netto looked back at her own screen and cautiously touched the word 'start'. The screen widened, now a body mirror with arrows at the sides. A plain-looking person was reflected in the mirror. Brown eyes, brown hair, white shirt and pants; the default character. She reached up and tapped the arrows next to the character's head, watching as the hair lengthened, then shortened into spikes. There was a 'random' button at the top of the mirror. She selected that, then shook her head at the waist-long dark hair, pale skin, and dark clothes with white moon-like symbols that the randomized character now had.

'Forte, want to help?'

'Sure.'

She watched as her right hand moved on its own, shortening the character's hair into a mussed-up pixie cut. The hair color switched from black to brown to red, then settled on lavender. The eye color became a blood-red, while the rest of the facial structures matched Netto's. The leather armor was a standard brown, which was covered up by a brown cloak.

Netto blinked in surprise as wings popped into existence underneath the cloak and the character's skin showed a faint outline of scales. She could see claw-like fingernails and a long, thin tail as well.

'What did you do?'

'I found a section where we can change species and class, so I decided on a half-dragon fighter.'

'What does that do?'

'We can fly with the wings, and our stats increased. However, we need to gain more experience than usual in order to level up, but I think it's worth it. It also pairs well with the fighter class, with the hand-to-hand melee combat.'

'Oh, I get it.' Her finger hovered over the 'confirm' button. 'Are we done?'

'Yes.'

She pressed the button. The mirror passed through her, changing her appearance into the character's.

"Netto-kun!" The girl almost jumped, startled. Her classmates were waiting for her in a clearing surrounded by large trees. She could see their own characters and statuses.

Meiru retained her hair color, but her hair was in a ponytail and extended down to the back of her knees. She wore a long-sleeved peach-colored dress and had white feathered wings. On her back were a bow and a quiver full of arrows. Her status screen described her as an angel ranger.

Dekao was a red-skinned orc barbarian who held axes in both hands. The tallest of the four, he had more muscles than fat. Plate armor covered his body, but his arms were bare.

Yaito was taller than she was in reality, but not by much. As an elf wizard, she was equipped with a staff and donned loose robes. Her ears were pointed, her hair loose and wavy.

"Took you long enough," Yaito sighed, tapping her foot on the ground impatiently. "C'mon, let's get going already."

Screens popped up in front of them, with one sentence written on them.

Are you ready? Yes/No

The four looked at each other, nodding. They all pressed the same button. The screens disappeared, and a blinding light shone.

"Game start!"

Saruhige is a mix of saru (monkey) and hige (beard). Basically, it's called the Bearded Monkey Mask. Because I'm bad at making up names and that's what it looked like to me.

Additionally, museum in Japanese is hakubutsukan, so I separated them to create the Hakubu Museum and the Tsukan Museum.

Netto is multilingual, so sometimes she will be confused by uncommon words.

Count Elec is bilingual, I think. He was born in Amerope and traveled to Japan, so he knows Ameropian and Japanese. At least, I think the Electel mansion was in Amerope…

It didn't make much sense for the security walls to fall down where they did in the episode, other than to make Netto the only one trying to do something. So I changed it.

Honestly? I think Roll would have potential as a hacker navi, if only because of the number of times she did something like that in the anime compared to the others. So here she is, doing her thing.

I don't really know why I included the part with Netto and the others playing Maxima's Warrior, but I did want to find out what it was about. It kind of ended up as a mix of Sword Art Online and Dungeons and Dragons. Oh well, it was fun thinking up what characters they would all want to be.

Some highlights during the editing process:

(About Black Shadow)

kaffinee: Lame name.

Me: Blame the police they're the ones who named them.

kaffinee: Disgusting.

…

(When Yaito arrived)

kaffinee: EW PINK WTF.

Me: Imagine being so rich you can afford to buy a custom limo.

…

(When Forte snickered after mentioning the Black Shadow)

kaffinee: ME TOO.

Me: BLAME THE NET POLICE GDI.

kaffinee: PFFFFFFT.

…

(When it's midnight and the game didn't show up)

kaffinee: HAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAAH get rekt.

Me: GAME FUCKING CANCELLED.

kaffinee: HAHA suckers.

…

(When Forte's talking about Count Elec's laugh)

kaffinee: I can't even hear it but I agree.

Me: And he does it whenever he laughs in this episode. I hate it.

kaffinee: Yikes.

…

(About Dekao being a heavy sleeper)

kaffinee: Hi I'm Dekao.

Me: Yo same.

kaffinee: Twinsies!

…

(About Count Elec)

kaffinee: Really crazy person.

Me: He gets better later on. … Maybe.

kaffinee: Uh huh.

…

(Rockman being wary of Woodman)

kaffinee: Stranger danger.

Me: Stranger danger stranger danger.

kaffinee: Stranger danger stranger danger stranger danger.

…

(About the two mysterious voices)

kaffinee: Oo a date.

Me: I fucking love this pair.

kaffinee: Who.

Me: You'll find out later maybe.

kaffinee: 'Maybe' k.

…

(End dialogue)

kaffinee: Ohhhhhh shit.

Me: Fuck off they ain't gonna get trapped in the game like fucking SAO.

kaffinee: Or are they.

Me: Goddammit.

…

kaffinee: I think I like Meiru as a character hmm.