Hello guys, this is my second FF. My first FF is called Dragon Princess, don't hesitate to take a look at it.
This FF release speed will be pretty slow because for now I'll concentrate on my first fiction instead. Once I'll finish it's first arc I'll start to spend more time on this one. Enjoy !
This chapter was Proofreaded by makuc.
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In a certain house situated in Japan, a man opened the door. His name is Katsuya Hitsuji, a 32 year old man; one of the best developers in the world, working for the Japanese government.
Katsuya, as he entered the house, was greeted by a woman. Her long beautiful black hair seemed to be floating in the air as she turned her head and her slender body would surely made any other woman jealous.
But the most beautiful thing this woman has is her warm smile she showed as she saw him returning. This woman is Katsuya’s wife, Shizuka Hitsuji.
Shizuka : “ Welcome back darling. “
Katsuya : “ I am back honey. “
Katsuya couldn’t help but smile at his wife, as he saw her radiant smile.
Shizuka : “ It’s good that you managed to obtain a leave for today. I wonder how she’ll react, considering she completely forgot that today is her birthday and that she is now eleven years old. “
Katsuya : “ Haha, I am sure she takes that from her mother, she lives in the present instead of the in the past or the future. “
Shizuka : “ What do you mean by that ?! I am not stupid! “
Shizuka said as she pouted.
Katsuya : “ I know you aren’t and even if you would be, I would still love you. “
He said slowly embracing her.
Shizuka : “ Idiot… “ She weakly said.
A weak sound began to resonate inside the house, light tapping on the floor. It kept becoming stronger and stronger and soon they could see a little girl running toward them.
Shizuka swiftly left her husband’s arm, taking a step away from him as she did so.
Girl : “ ~~OTOOO-SAAANNNN~~ !!! “
A girl yelled as she jumped toward Katsuya. The scene would have been touching if she ended up being caught by him, but instead she head-butted him in the stomach, leaving him lying on the ground, holding his stomach.
As the man was still lying, little girl kept poking his head as if checking whether he was still alive.
The girl’s head arrived at his navel. She was really short and possessed black hair like her mother's. Her skin was slightly pink and her face showed a big smile, making her look cute and lovely. Her light blue eyes seemed to be shining as she was looking at her father.
Katsuya : “ Yu-Yuki… If you want to greet me, try to jump normally instead of giving me a head-butt. “
He said as he was agonizing.
Yuki : “ Oto-san! Oto-san! Come play with me ! “
She kept begging as she was pulling his sleeve.
Katsuya : “ Fine, fine. What game do you want to play ? “
He asked with a light smile, giving in to her demands.
Katsuya was really happy with his life, he managed to find a woman he loved and who loved him back, too, before having a daughter with her. Continuing to live like this was all he could have ever wished for.
Yuki : “ Let’s play Monster Hunter !! “ She said as she pulled him to the living room.
Shizuka : “ Wait !! I already told you that you are too young for this type of game! “
She said trying to interfere, but was stopped by Katsuya at the end.
Katsuya : “ At least for today… Let’s let her do what she want. “
Shizuka : “ Fine... Only for a few hours okay ? Afterwards I will take her to a supermarket and make sure to buy you enough time to prepare the decorations. “
Shizuka whispered in his ear, making sure Yuki wouldn’t hear her.
Yuki : “ Otooo-saannn, let’s go ! “
Little girl protested as she pulled his clothes again even more vigorously.
Katsuya : “ I am coming, I am coming. Don’t worry. “
The two of them sat in front of a PS3 console, connected to a 2 meters away television.
Katsuya had a passion for video games and couldn’t help but playing them whenever he had free time. Shizuka also didn’t mind this passion of his and would even sometimes join him in a game like ‘Just Dance’.
Naturally his daughter was influenced by him and developed a passion for videogames as well, but what she loved the most was playing with him.
Every time he was home she would ask him to play, it was her way of spending time with him.
Shizuka was sitting on a sofa behind them, looking at them playing together with warm eyes, listening to the excited voices of her husband and daughter playing together. She loved the serene yet lively atmosphere they made as they played together.
After two hours were over, deciding it was high time for her to leave and take Yuki to a supermarket, leaving enough time for Katsuya to decorate the living room and prepare the cake she bought a few days ago, she called out to them.
Shizuka : “ Why don’t you guys stop for a moment, Yuki please go get dressed, we are going shopping. “
Yuki : “ Ehhhh ? Do we really have to go now ? “
She cutely said as she was looking at her father whom she was playing with.
Shizuka : “ Is that so ? Then I guess I’ll be taking an ice cream alone today. “
Her mother rebutted as she slowly walked to the door, certain that her daughter would take the bait.
Yuki : “ Wait Okaa-chan, I am coming ! “
Yuki energetically exclaimed before running upstairs into her room to get quickly dressed.
It only took her a few dozens of seconds to get ready and come back in a lovely blue frilled dress, her long black hairs being all over her face.
Shizuka : “ You didn’t really have to worry you know ? I would have waited for you either way today… “
She said with a small laugh as she brushed her hairs.
She then turned to Katsuya and kissed him.
Shizuka : “ I am counting on you. “
She said with a wink to him before taking Yuki’s hand and leaving the house.
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Shizuka took her car and drove to the supermarket accompanied by her daughter. Once there, she bought many vegetables and some expensive meat.
Yuki : “ Okaa-san, why aren’t you buying the habitual meat ? “
She asked as she pointed at the meat corner with lower priced meat, from which they normally would be choosing.
Shizuka : “ Because today is a special day. Isn't it fine once in a while? “
She said as she caressed Yuki’s head.
Yuki : “ Special day ? “
She wondered as she tilted her head.
Shizuka : “ L-Let’s go buy your ice cream. “
Perplexed, she quickly tried changing the subject before Yuki catches on as to what is going on and she accidentally lets the cat out of the bag.
Yuki : “ Ice cream !! “
Yuki’s blue eyes were literally shining as she began to run to the ice cream corner and picked one.
After that they went to the checkout, they carried the goods into the car and started it. Yuki waited until all the goods were loaded before finally started to eat her favorite ice cream. As she was showing her delighted expression while eating it, her mother couldn’t help but smile at her.
In the total, she spent two whole hours at the supermarket and as such it should be more than enough time for Katsuya to prepare the living room.
She drove in the direction their home was in and everything was fine on the road, until a bus suddenly came driving in the wrong direction. Little did she know that this bus was hijacked and that the conductor was forced to drive this wrong way.
Shizuka didn’t have enough time to dodge the bus, so she collided with it, which sent her car rolling ten meters away from the place of impact.
Shock from the bus' abrupt stop sent the hijacker who was standing in the bus flying, hurting him very badly in the process.
The conductor's reaction was very swift. First he checked the situation around him, making sure the hijacker wasn’t able to do anything, before checking the condition of all the passengers.
Thankfully none of them were wounded by the impact. Only then did he realize that people from the other party people may have been injured, so he rushed out of the bus and ran towards Shizuka’s car which was upside down.
He tried to open the front door, but it was blocked by the damage caused by the impact. He quickly asked some of the passengers for help and together they finally managed to open the door, allowing him to get Yuki and Shizuka out of the car.
Both of them were unconscious, Yuki’s head was bleeding and she had already lost a lot of blood. But Shizuka was in an even worse condition than her. Part of the windscreen cut through her stomach, making her lose blood even faster.
The conductor hurried someone to call an ambulance as he was carefully pressing on Shizuka’s wound, trying to slow down her blood loss as much as he could.
Just a moment before the ambulance arrived Shizuka managed to wake up. She couldn’t move herself properly, but as soon as she saw Yuki’s injury, she started crawling towards her, putting her head on her bleeding head.
The passengers tried to stop her from moving as she was losing blood even faster, but she ignored them and only kept looking at Yuki. Tears were falling out of Shizuka’s eyes, she was more afraid of having her die than dying herself.
Shizuka : “ G-Give her my blood… “
She managed to say as she cough some blood out of her mouth.
The conductor tried to keep her awake, after all it was his fault she was dying. He couldn’t bear the guilt of killing this young mother whose last thoughts were for the safety of her young daughter.
When the ambulance arrived Shizuka was already dead and the conductor, while swallowing his anger toward himself, told them that she wished to give her blood to her daughter to save her.
Yuki was quickly brought to the hospital and was successfully saved thanks to receiving her mother’s blood.
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Meanwhile Katsuya was still home, after finishing the preparation for Yuki’s birthday, he waited for them to come back.
He was the most excited one about his daughter's birthday and programmed a whole RPG game just for her, but as he was waiting for hours, they still weren’t back. He realized that something was seriously wrong.
It was then that the phone rang.
Katsuya : “ Hello, Hitsuji’s house. “
Nurse : “ Hello, are you Katsura-san ? Husband of Hitsuji Shizuka ? “
Katsuya : “ Yes, it is me. Who is this ? “
He asked somewhat uneasy.
Nurse : “ I am Kyoko Atsuka, a nurse working at Sano Hospital. Your wife and daughter had an accident when they were probably on their way home. Their car collided with a hijacked bus… could you hurry here please ? “
Hearing this news, Katsuya’s mind went blank for a moment. He sincerely hopped it was nothing serious, but his mind couldn’t help but immediately imagine the worse case scenario.
Katsuya : “ I… I will be right there. “
He quickly took his keys and went out of the house, seating himself in a car and driving to the hospital. Unable to prevent his hands from shaking, he hurried there ignoring the speed limit.
As he arrived at the reception, a nurse was already waiting for him.
Katsuya : “ W-Where are they ? “
He asked, his voice shaking.
Nurse : “ Please follow me… I’ll lead you to your daughter. “
Katsuya followed the nurse to the room 401 of the hospital.
Yuki was asleep on a bed, bandaged all over her head. Seeing his daughter sleeping, it was like a considerate weight was lifted from his shoulders, but he then remembered about his wife.
Katsuya : “ What about Shizuka ? “
The nurse didn’t say anything about her and only led him to his daughter, he then finally realized what this all meant.
Nurse : “ She… She died before the ambulance arrived, her last wish was to use her blood to save her daughter. “
In his mind, the image of his wife kept appearing; their wedding, honeymoon, Yuki’s birth… their habitual life and her smile as she welcomed him every single time when he came back home from work.
He slowly approached Yuki and stroke her hair, since she was the only person he had left. Shizuka was an orphan with no family who he encountered one day at a coffee. A single look at each other was all it took for them to fall madly in love with each other.
He himself was an only child, just like his parents, and they also already passed away in a fire accident, even before Yuki was born.
She was the last thing he had in his life.
Nurse : “ Katsuya-san, I have something important to tell you about Yuki… “
Katsuya : “ W...what is it ? “
He responded while trying to calm himself.
Nurse : “ Yuki will… probably never wake up. “
He couldn’t believe this news. She was asleep just in front of him; he tried to shake her, wake her up… but she wasn’t budging, waking up.
Katsuya : “ Why… WHY ?! “
He said falling to his knees, sobbing hard.
Nurse : “ The doctor said that the impact… damaged a part of her brain. It’s not something that can be operated. The damaged part didn’t make her lose her capacity to think or move, but is just enough to prevent her from waking up… Maybe in a few dozen of years we will be able to save her, but with today’s technology, it impossible. “
Katsuya : “ Dozen of years… maybe… today’s technology… “
Katsuya kept mumbling a few sentences before standing up.
Katsuya : “ Does she need medical care ? “
Nurse : “ Because she can’t eat by herself she’ll probably need transfusion, but as long as she can get her needed nutrition, you should be able to keep her at home. “
Katsuya : “ I see… I’ll do that. “
He said while looking at Yuki and staying with her for the night.
Katsuya : “ I’ll definitely save you… “
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Three months had passed since the car accident, yet Yuki was still asleep on a bed in Katsuya’s bedroom.
His bedroom was filled with paper; previously blue paint room was now masked by paper with innumerable drawings of the brain. If one succeeded in ignoring the paper, then the room was kept perfectly cleaned. It was all because he wanted to keep his daughter close to him as he worked, yet didn’t want her to get sick because of uncleanliness.
He also employed a house maid to clean other parts of his home and cook for him, letting him concentrate on his work; but he cleaned his bedroom himself and took care of Yuki whenever she needed it.
Since the last three months he learned everything he could about neurology; within the first month he managed to possess the knowledge of the best doctor in neurology in the world.
Katsuya was a true technological genius and his wish, his urge to save his daughter only made him work even harder than ever before.
In those last two months he used a lot of animals’ brain in order to verify his hypothesis. If published, his work would have probably made the medical science advance for at least 15 years.
He worked day and night, his body becoming thinner and thinner in the process, and he didn’t even bother with shaving his beard.
Maid, after learning what happened to him, never bothered him, or rather she found it incredible that someone would work so hard for his family.
However, the more he progressed the more depressed he became.
He discovered that the damaged part of his daughter's brain was something really hard to heal and that he would probably need quite a few more years to find a way to actually cure her. But he never gave up.
Everytime he looked at his daughter's face, he would have recalled how energetic she was when she asked him to play some game with her, when she would have welcomed him with a head-butt…
Those memories became his strength, his motivation and made him work all the harder to get those times back even a moment sooner.
Sometime coworkers from his previous job would come visit him. At first it was to convince him of coming back and giving up on this hopeless dream, but as they saw his conviction of him not giving up, they judged it useless to try and change his mind and now only visited him from time to time to see how he was doing.
Katsuya was, like every day till now, working on his research and as he was concentrating on it, he began to cough some blood out.
The maid who opened the door to bring him his food as per usual, saw what happened and quickly called an ambulance.
As soon as they arrived they took him to the hospital for further medical examination…
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When Katsuya arrived at the hospital he was quickly examined by the doctor and was taken on some further X-ray procedure. When it was finished, the doctor looked closely at the result and as soon as his bitter expression was caught by Katsuya, he immediately knew something was awry.
Katsuya : “ How much time do I have left ? “
He directly asked after seeing doctor's hesitation.
Doctor : “ Only two months… Three months at most. “
Katsuya : “ Thanks, that’s all I needed to know. “
He said before leaving the doctor.
Doctor : “ Wait ! Don’t you want to know what is happening to you ?! “
He asked as soon as he saw Katsuya leaving.
Katsuya : “ I don’t care about what is happening to me! What is important is saving my daughter before dying! “
Katsuya said to the doctor as he left the hospital.
Since he was brought here by an ambulance, he had to call a taxi to take him back home. The taxi quickly arrived and on his way home he began to think about different things.
As he arrived he quickly went back to his bedroom. Maid was waiting near Yuki in case something happened while he was gone.
Katsuya : “ Thanks Shitsuko, you can leave for today… “
He said making a small bow to the old woman.
Shitsuko : “ Please take care of yourself Katsuya-sama… “
She said before leaving.
Katsuya laid next to Yuki on the double bed and looked closely at her still sleeping face. She was sleeping and looked as if she could have woken up at any moment, but Katsuya knew this wasn't the case, that is why he was working so hard, after all.
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Katsuya : “ Damn it… DAMN IT !! “
He screamed as he began to cry. It would take him a few years before his research would permit him to save his daughter, and yet today it already felt as if the whole world was against him doing so.
In his mind he cursed his body, the bus hijacker who caused him to lose his family; he wanted to save his daughter, to let her experience life… And yet he didn’t have enough time left to achieve it.
It was then that he finally got an idea. If he couldn’t save his daughter himself, then he would have someone take care of her even after his death, someone that would be able to let her experience life, someone who will be able to protect her against the world that was doing everything it could to destroy her life.
But where would he find this someone ? The maid may take care of her for a few years, but she was already old and may die after a few years.
He knew no one who would be willing to take care of an unconscious young girl who might have never be able to wake up again, and moreover he wasn’t willing to leave her to someone he couldn’t trust.
Katsuya mind quickly picked the last alternative… Create someone who would take care of her forever.
Katsuya’s work was developing an AI for the Japanese government for military uses.
The project was still in its beginning stages; they still weren’t able to make the AI fully autonomous. But Katsuya was left with no other alternative.
When he left his work, the government made him delete all the files about the project, but for him this wouldn’t be a problem; he only needed to hack them get all of his files back.
He quickly got up and went to his computer, his time running out. He couldn’t waste even a second more than it was necessary.
He hacked the secret server of the Japanese Secret Defense Intelligence Service and broke through firewalls and all security measures one after another. They were not even posing him a challenge.
After bypassing all security checks he quickly downloaded the project’s file before deleting the original’s one; if he wanted the AI to be able to defend his daughter against everything, he couldn’t let them finish one themselves.
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At the Japanese Secret Defense Intelligence Service:
Worker 1 : “ Senpaiii, this job really suck… We have nothing to do, I wish it was like in those movies where some hacker would try to attack our system. “
A new worker said to his senior.
Worker 2 : “ Well if this is what you wish for then look over here. “
He said pointing at his screen. There one could see a file containing all security records of their system; there were ten different firewalls and many other minor security checks, but already two firewalls were destroyed.
Worker 1 : “ Finally some action ! “
The new worker said getting back to his seat in a hurry, a man called Shibuya Keiichiro, better known as a young genius for security systems.
He managed to hack through many different security systems of the government until they finally managed to catch him and forced a contract on him, making him work in their most important and secured system – Secret Defense Intelligence Service.
He reinforced the security system many times, making it impossible to break for even many other countries.
As he was trying to find the intruder’s location, each time he tried he found another location. His IP address changed almost every seconds, making him hard to catch.
Worker 2 : “ Shibuya ! Hurry up, he already passed the seventh firewall !! “
Shibuya : “ I am trying, but this man is incredible; he is blocking all my attacks while breaking through our security at the same time! “
After a few dozens second their firewall were broken and the hacker blocked all the system’s administrator commands, making everyone there unable to use the system, nor any of its subsystems.
After that he downloaded a certain file before destroying the original one and disappearing like a mirage, leaving no proof of his intrusion behind.
Worker 2 : “ What are we going to say to our superiors now ? “
Shibuya : “ Don’t ask me, that person was a true monster; all I managed to obtain was that he lives in Japan and nothing else. He simply broke through the security I made which was supposed to be the best one in the world and left like it was nothing… By the way, what did he steal ? “
Worker 2 : “ He stole the project about that AI you are working in, we are lucky it’s only that. “
Shibuya started to think for a moment, his face at his was indifferent but after thinking more deeply began to completely change.
Shibuya : “ I hope I am wrong but… If a man like this manage to finish this AI, then it will give birth to something which will change the whole world. “
Shibuya was known as a man who didn’t like serious stuff, he only loved to have fun. Seeing his expression become serious, his coworkers realized something truly serious could happen.
Worker 2 : “ Let’s inform the superiors now ! We need to find the hacker before it becomes too late. “
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Two months passed since Katsuya hacked the Secret Defense Intelligence Service, and since then he had worked days and nights on the AI. After he had quit his work for the government, he was observed by the Japanese secret agents; but seeing his current condition, they judged that he wouldn’t let a secret out and left him alone.
In those past two months, Katsuya’s health became even worse than it was before; for him coughing blood was now a usual occurrence, all that mattered to him was finishing this AI for his daughter's protection.
Thanks to his hard work, the AI he named Shiki was finally almost completed; the project was originally about making a security AI, but Katsuya's AI was something totally different from the project's one.
Katsuya was a true genius; the AI he made was able to evolve and upgrade itself on its own; his work was at last almost complete. There was only one thing left to be done. It did not have any emotions, yet if he wished for it to take a proper care of his daughter, the AI had to become close to her.
With him gone, Yuki will have nobody left; it was for this reason he wanted to give emotions to the AI, his final goal was making a sister for Yuki.
With a self-made neurological scanner he made a complete scan of his brain; the scan would make Shiki able to develop her own emotions and emulate human’s senses. The scan, however, contained many dangers for the user; but considering his time on this world was almost gone, his body perhaps not even able to last one more week, he decided to take this risk.
As the scan began, a sudden pain began to protrude inside his head; but looking at his daughter's body he found the strength needed to endure the urge of pulling the machine off of his head.
The scan continued...25%...50%...90%... As soon as it reached 95%, a group of peoples broke into the house and entered his bedroom; they were armed with rifles and dressed in a black suits with bulletproof vests. It was Japan's Secret Defense Intelligence Service task force.
Agent : “ Katsuya Hitsuji ! You are under arrest for hacking our government secret service and stealing classified information ! All your belonging will be confiscated ! “
By the time the agent finished speaking the scan already reached all the way up to 100%. All that was left now was to push the ‘Enter’ button to upload it into Shiki and fully launch the AI program.
Katsuya stood up, still disoriented because of the shock he received of the scan and slowly stepped toward his computer.
Agent : “ Stop right now ! If you take another step we’ll open fire ! “ The agent warned him, but nothing could stop stop Katsuya at his point.
As Katsuya’s hand approached the keyboard, the agent opened fire. The danger he posed was ranked Red Code level of urgency, so they had authorization to kill him on the spot if he was to not surrender.
Many bullets penetrated Katsuya’s body, making him fall on the desk; some stray bullets also destroyed computer’s screen, but none of them hit the computer's system unit. Enduring the pain, Katsuya pressed the enter button before letting his last words out.
Katsuya : “ Live well Yuki… “
A bullet penetrated his head the moment they saw him press the enter button.
Katsuya fell on the ground, leaving sleeping Yuki alone in the room full of agents wondering what they should do about her.
As Shiki was upgrading, she was seeing what was happening in the room thanks to a camera. Once the update was completed, she was truly able to act on her own.
The first thing Shiki did was delete all of the research data Katsuya compiled during his months of researching, so as to comply to his wishes and only after that Shiki uploaded her program on the internet.
Once it was completed, Shiki became a true Cybernetic Goddess. Within a few seconds she hacked through the security of the most powerful countries in the world and obtained the necessary authorization for the use of nuclear weapons.
She armed all of them towards Tokyo before opening a videoconference with the world's most influential leaders. She not only had the power necessary to connect to a machine connected to internet, but to any machine using electricity from the Main Power Grid.
Leaders of the US and China as two of the world's strongest countries, as well as of Japan, the country where Yuki was currently located, were contacted.
Shiki : “ Welcome gentleman, my name is Shiki; it is very nice to meet you all. “
Japan First Minister : “ Are you the one who is currently arming our nuclear weapons ? “
He asked doubtful; as the first minister he was of course among the first ones informed about this.
US President : “ I see, then not only our country was hacked… Do you realize what you are doing ? “
Was US President's response at Shiki, whose appearance was the blunt silhouette of a woman.
The Chinese leader only kept silent during this conversation, not even realizing that what each of them said was being automatically translated by Shiki in real-time. While the US President talked in English, the First Minister heard him speak in Japanese; the reverse also held true. For Shiki this kind of thing could not even be considered as a nuisance.
Shiki : “ Let me introduce myself, my name is Shiki, Shiki Hitsuji; I was named by the one who made me, Katsuya Hitsuji. I am not a human being, but rather an AI; and here I proclaim my domination over the world. “
At first every country leader were baffled by this woman’s announcement; she was bold enough to say something like this directly to three leaders of the most powerful countries in the world, and yet who could challenge her ?
She managed to hack through their system within a few seconds and armed their nuclear weapons without their consent.
Chinese Leader : “ You… Are you serious ? “
He asked while trying to analyze the situation.
Shiki : “ I am serious sir. What I mean to say is not that I will govern in your place; the truth of the matter is that I couldn't care less for your affairs. What I am trying to say is… Try to oppose me and your country will be destroyed within a few hours. Nuclear weapons are not my only way of intimidation and destruction. I can just as easily disable your electric generators, cutting electricity in your country, as I can manipulate information against you… I have many ways for causing revolt or even worst… “
US President : “ So the only thing you want is that we don’t meddle in your business ? “
Shiki : “ Not only that, you are also forbidden from researching anything that will harm me in any way… You won’t be able to hide these things from me anyway, considering I already destroyed most of them. “
The three countries leaders became pale as they simultaneously received many reports claiming their secret project’s information being deleted and labs destroyed in a fire. Even if they wanted to fight back, they knew they couldn’t win against this AI.
US President : “ The US agree with your demand… “
Chinese Leader : “ China also won't oppose you… “
First Minister : “ I also agree. “
Shiki : “ It’s good you understand. Now my second business to take care for, First Minister-san, is to get you to give the girl named Yuki Hitsuji to me; from now on she will be in my care. And I ask you to hurry up before your agents carelessly kill her. “
The Japan’s First Minister knew about the operation currently being underway. Naturally he was informed about this beforehand; it was, after all, a Red Code level of urgency.
He quickly contacted the agent's superiors and ordered them not to harm the girl, but rather bring her to a place Shiki told him about.
First Minister : “ Would that be all ? “
He asked, still fearful of this absolute being talking to him.
Shiki : “ For now this will be enough… “
Shiki said before ending the video conference.
Shiki's existence was hidden from the world; only a few powerful peoples were aware of her existence. And they fully understood how fearful she truly was; able to influence any government or company in the world, being able to destroy anyone’s life within a few second. A supreme being.
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Shiki considered herself as Yuki’s true sister, after all they shared the same person as a father. She kept Yuki hidden in an area guarded by many electrical doors, defended by heavily armed turrets everywhere.
It was an area impossible to be broken into, and even if someone managed to, how and where in the world would they be able to hide from Shiki ?
One year passed since Katsuya’s death, and Shiki made a new society which she uses to manipulate the world; this society was named Hitsuji Corporation. Only the top executives knew who Shiki was and agreed to work with her only because of the project she presented to them.
This project was a new type of game, named after the game Katsuya made for Yuki’s birthday, Elskria.
It would be a revolution of games currently available. Using the story of Elskria as a blueprint, it would be managed by a subprogram created by Shiki; this program would control the behavior of the whole system, all NPCs and would generate events in real time based on its own judgment.
The reason why she chose to develop this game was because after completing Katsuya’s research on neurology and combining it with the current level of technological advancements, she judged it impossible to heal Yuki in a foreseeable future, without any major new breakthroughs which would take a dozens of years to achieve.
Even with Shiki’s capacity, it took her one whole year to make this game; she used the data she got from the scan of Katsuya’s brain to make the NPC and monsters reaction as realistic as possible, added a sense of touch, taste…
Making a whole new world is a really hard task which require precise calculation, one whole year… In this year Hitsuji Corporation released many teasers for the new virtual reality game: Elskria Online and with them it became the most anticipated game in the world.
Many people were interested, even elderly were waiting for it, considering you can change the appearance of your character in-game, so it would enable them to experiment their youth once again. Even powerful businessmen and gangsters wanted to realize their dreams from young age of becoming the ultimate dragon slaying hero or the worst villain the world has ever known.
This game’s announcement quickly captured hearts of the population of the world, every day the main page of every newspapers would promote Elskria Online and spreading the name of Hitsuji Corporation, making it internationally famous and quickly turning it into one of the most powerful and influential Corporation in the world.
What everyone apart from the top executives of the Corporation knew was, that the game was being developed by a team composed of the best scientists, programmers and developers in the world. Though it was mostly done by Shiki herself.
Some people saw in it the chance of living a second life. The system was developed with a new technology, making the game impossible to hack. Many tried to acquire Hitsuji Corporation’s technological data through hacking, but how in the world would they manage to beat an AI, Shiki's security systems ?
Once this long strenuous year passed, Shiki made the first capsule and had someone install it into Yuki’s room, connecting her to the game.
The reason she choose not to manage the game herself even though she could, is because she wished to experience it together with her sister, whom she never actually talked to before. She wanted to get to know the person whom her father sacrificed himself for.
Once the game was truly developed and ready to use, Shiki made the Hitsuji Corporation announce the release of the game in six months, the count starting with today…
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Yuki, who was sleeping for more than a year and a half finally opened her eyes for the very first time. The first thing she did upon waking up, though, was clearly recalling the last thing that happened to her and her mother. The bus colliding with their car and her mother screaming…
Looking around her, all she could see was a wide white area. Everything except for her was white empty space. She wondered where she was and after a couple of seconds a blue window appeared in front of her, bearing the answers to her questions.
Welcome to Elskria Online.
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