Raz Stone
New Tomobiki ~ Nagatani Academy
Akarana Labs (Remnants)
Friday, Afternoon
---Today was truly one of the most Tamer days you had had in awhile.
Secret laboratories, visitors from another dimension, and now ominous people appearing out of nowhere, talking cryptically about things that will only ever make sense in retrospect, a couple of months from now when something cryptic and strange happens as a callback to this moment, yes...
---It's a typical Tamer day.
This was not a lifestyle for those who could not handle the bizarre; as Tamers served as a 'bridge' to Demonkind, and thus a bridge to the 'supernatural,' they were the humans that were the most entrenched in the supernatural themselves-!
Nevertheless...
"...Logarithmic cuteness?"
The strange girl tilts her head to the side at your words.
---Her existence is both like Burroughs, and unlike Burroughs.
Where the silver-haired girl would have been excitedly jumping around and trying to impress others, this girl seems far more reserved, her body language is more professional, arms kept at her sides, voice even, composed, knowledgeable...
Yes.
This one is different... But the same...?
A contradictory feeling that serves merely as "fuel," for the theory that she is some sort of subordinate unit for Burroughs, an off-shoot program, or at least something tentatively connected...
"Strange... Is this form cute? It was not designed with that in mind, but if you say so, I suppose I must agree with your assessment and accept it as a compliment, ceaseless, unrepentant flatterer you may be, Mr.Stone."
---Yes.
Quite bizarre indeed, especially because that feels like a bit of a knowing dig at you, still-!
"Your assumption was correct however, I am investigating these affairs, although it seems we are both rather late to the party. A culprit has vanished to where no one can reach him, it is a sad state of affairs, but that seems to be how things are at the moment."
She is quite verbose-!
"But if you wish to join forces with me, very well."
And surprisingly agreeable?!
"I came here for more or less that purpose anyway, yes... I wish to speak with Lord Gabriel, if that is at all possible?"
She smiles.
It's a different smile from that of Burroughs, not hostile, but also not innocent, no...
"And I think Ms. Nagatani should come along as well, if what she wants to do is get home, then staying cooped up inside of this mansion is not the way."
...this person doesn't have Burrough's naivety and innocence at all...
In that sense she is certainly older than the other A.I...
"So let us go see the King, and make our existences known, hmm? I will accept whatever supernatural binds I must to prove I am not a threat..."
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---A mysterious girl who appears near the end of a mysterious week.
Leaving her own existence as a cryptic one, she appears boldly before humans and A.I alike...
But while her existence is a strange one, the future is stranger still...
But for now... She is the strangest thing, an A.I that exists as a human, and will, in one way or another...
Make her way to her desired destination...
Alongside those she had been looking after, goals known only to herself...
Raz/DTG
Zero Seal/Empty City
END
Next Time...
"Death of the X-Cross/Future Lost"