For 381, setting: Cyberspace EDEN


75. Utopia

If he's honest his whole life is full of dreams and scattered ambition. The company, scraping by on internet modems and cell phone models, hoisted up by his desperate dream of a fully virtual internet reality. A place where ill children and adults could play, a place that ensured work kept moving even if things were physically down. It wasn't perfect, but it was very very close.

And when this test was over… when it was over, it would be real.

He isn't there for every beta session. There are too many meetings, too many other business ventures. The scientists are watching. His children will be fine.

They're not fine.

They're not fine and there's nothing he can do.

Satoru can only dream bigger, build brighter and make this never happen again.

Helplessness has never been so expensive.