westedge | PC: Kyoko

[ I'm thinking of a teenager at home. ]

It's nice to watch.

How's that going for them? And you, I guess. Since you're observing.

It's good. There's something satisfying in watching her become a leader.

Is she one of the ones helping you save those two worlds?

She is.

I've been lucky when it comes to my assistant's associates.

[ ... there isn't a lot of time left. and he doesn't want to think of his last conversation with her as being nothing but sad. so. ]

Tell me more about them? Your assistant and their associates.

My assistant, first. My dear Watson. It's a funny story with her. She happened to pop out in Shibuya Crossing looking like an error code. Somehow her mental data split off from her physical body and could act independently.

We were working to figure out how to fix that glitch.

...why does that kind of sound like...I don't know. A cyber ghost? [ wait. ] Wait what's not the ghost you actually employed, is it?

Something like a half-cyber body.

This is not the ghost.

[ concerning. ]

Did you ever figure out that particular glitch? Or is she still kinda split up? [ why is the ghost a different thing. ]

[I'm very busy.]

I know how to solve it... but we need to take care of the time travel first.

Are the two things actually connected? Or both of them showed up independently?

A bit connected. The Eaters, the thing that possessed my assistant's friend, devour mental data. Her is in a bizarre state because of her half-cyber body.

Solving one allows me to solve the other.

The...Eaters. [ sounds wild, frankly. ] Sounds like you have your work cut out for you in any case. Even with a half-cyber body making it a little more disjointed.

[She does so much work every single day.]

It'll be over soon, just as long as I can get home.

[I'll do whatever I can for my assistant.]

...we'll get you home. I don't know what's going to happen next or how it'll happen, but this isn't going to be the end of things. Just remember that.