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Hacker's Memory 245 HM
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ShigenobuArgh...
RyujiDo you feel better this time?
RyujiI wasn't making fun of you. I'm impressed by your determination.
RyujiBut you went about it all wrong. Surely you know that better than anyone?
Shigenobu...I do.
ShigenobuI should feel better...but I just feel regret. What have I done?
ShigenobuI...I've killed people... Lots of people...
Shigenobu*sniff*...*sniff*... Whaaaaaaaa!
TakashiYou think crying will make it better?! You murderer!
Lowlife SchoolgirlYeah! What are you gonna do about it?!
PlayerWhat he did was wrong. You have no right to blame him. You deserved it.
Lowlife SchoolgirlRight?! Then arrest him or something!
RyujiBut what made him do it? Don't pretend you don't know why he did it.
RyujiExactly.
RyujiWho pushed him to do it? You morons, that's who.
Students...
Cheery SchoolgirlHmph... We know. We don't need you to say it.
AbeWe've been bullying him and pushing him around for so long. It's only natural that he hates us. I'm sorry, Shigenobu...
ShigenobuI...
ShigenobuI'm sorry too. I never wanted this to happen.
RyujiIt looks like you've all learned your lesson.
RyujiOkay, Player. Now.
Area network restored.
RyujiYou can log out now.
RyujiGo back to school and take the test properly.
Serious SchoolboyBut how? Aren't we dead?
RyujiWhat you saw was one of Shigenobu's memories.
RyujiMemories aren't just a log of things that have actually happened.
RyujiI extracted the fantasy of what he was planning to do to you, converted it to data, and recreated it in cyberspace.
RyujiYou're not really dead. You're sitting at your desks in the classroom while Mr. Matsuyama keeps an eye on you.
ShigenobuConverted it to data?! But how?! Only a top hacker could do something like that!
RyujiOf course it's impossible to access people's memories in EDEN.
RyujiBut there's a brief window when the new memories you've just created can be copied before they're saved on the server.
RyujiLuckily you've been thinking about your plan over and over again for the last few days. I just waited for that window and took the data.
RyujiThen I just recreated it in cyberspace to match your inputs.
RyujiIt took a lot of time to adjust the data. Because they were fantasies and not memories of things that actually happened, the images were fuzzy.
RyujiWe stayed up all night doing it, and legally it's a gray area. Basically, it was a lot of work.
ShigenobuSo none of it was real?! How do you know how to do that?!
ShigenobuAnd how do you even know how memory data works?! Who are you?!
RyujiOne of our hackers has a special talent when it comes to memory data.
Serious SchoolgirlBut we couldn't log out...
RyujiI temporarily cut this whole area off from the network. You couldn't log out because the signal was too weak.
Serious SchoolgirlSo I'm alive?! What a relief!
RyujiI hope this makes you think about how you behaved.
RyujiIf this was real, you wouldn't have a second chance like this.
TakashiI get it. I won't do anything like that again...
RyujiAnd you're going to tell us everything about how you and your father got the moles.
RyujiNames, places...everything.
Takashi*gulp*
Shigenobu...
ShigenobuSo...so I haven't killed anyone?
RyujiExactly. It was all virtual.
ShigenobuIf I feel this bad even though it was just virtual, how would I feel if I really had killed them?
RyujiYou've been through one hell of a simulation.
ShigenobuThank you for stopping me.
RyujiNo problem.
RyujiBy the way, I told your teacher about all this.
RyujiHe's got a message for you: "After apologizing to Shigenobu, you will all take make-up tests for all subjects."
Ryuji"If anyone is caught cheating, everyone will repeat the third grade."
StudentsWhat?!
RyujiWhat do you mean, "what"? I'd say he's being lenient.
AbeI guess taking make-up tests and repeating the third grade are nothing compared to being dead.
Cheery SchoolgirlYou're right. I'll try my best to do it on my own this time.
Serious SchoolgirlAnd...good luck to you too, Shigenobu.
ShigenobuThanks!
RyujiThat case was a lot of trouble. And I made Erika do something that might not be entirely legal...
RyujiHuh? How did I know Erika could manipulate memory data?
RyujiDidn't she tell you? Her memory data has been moved to an EDEN server. Her brain is an actual server itself.
RyujiShe adjusts her own memory data. That's why she knows how it works.
RyujiShe'd always been a great hacker because of me, but after her accident and being treated by Kamishiro, she actually surpassed me.
Ryuji...
Player???
RyujiOh, it's nothing. I don't want to talk about it.
Player...
RyujiHave you heard of the "brain in a vat" hypothesis?
RyujiIt posits that the world you see is a virtual world that your brain shows you, just like EDEN.
Player???
RyujiI can't really explain it properly, but...
RyujiFor Erika, the memories here in EDEN *are* her.
RyujiFor me too, the digitized Erika is the real her.
RyujiWhen you think of it like that, maybe the virtual murders Shigenobu just committed are actually no different from killing people in real life...
Player...