PROTCOL 5796.

[amachinemind]

[SUB INTERNET SYSTEM STARTING UP...
PROCESS COMPLETE.]

[LOGGING ONTO SUB INTERNET SYSTEM...
PROCESS COMPLETE.]

[SUB INTENET FORUM GOING LIVE...
PROCESS COMPLETE.]My, my. We certainly have had a lot of new faces in the past couple of weeks, haven't we, my children? That said, the project I have been working on is finally complete. Behold... the

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[abeatdown]

I don't get none of your geekspeak 'bout these weird computers, yo, but...

I'm still dead, right?

[amachinemind]

Not at all, Beat. You are alive as... well, not me, since I'm not technically alive, but.. as alive as all the other children.

[abeatdown]

Then what the hell was the Game all for? They tell me I gonna go up in smoke in five days for breakin' the rules!

Whatchu do with Phones?

[amachinemind]

Let me explain once again, Beat.

This is not Shibuya, or the Game. This is another world, another place- all the rules in Shibuya do not apply here. Once you are set back, you will be sent back to the first or second day of the Game.

... as for Phones, I assume you are meaning Sakuraba Neku? He is not here. He is back in the Game.

[abeatdown]

How you know so much?!

[abeatdown]

You widdem Reapers, you gotta be! I'll take you down an' then go back, yo!

[amachinemind]

Oh, I know much more than that. I have eyes and ears all over the place... and I know everything of importance surounding you, Beat. That is why you are here.

... as for this 'Reapers', I am not with them, and know none of them. I am Shade, a man simply trying to get a world back for a group of children who never got to see it in prosperity.

... and if you destroy me- unlikely as it may be- I think you'd find you'd be stuck here.

[abeatdown]

Why you gotta take me here? Phones is better at fightin'. I got more important things to do than join freakin' Squad Submachine!

[amachinemind]

Rhyme... your sister, wasn't it?

I assure you. When things are resolved, you can go home.

[abeatdown]

Dontchu go talking about her! You don't know jack 'bout nothing.

[amachinemind]

As said before, I know a lot of things.

More than you can imagine.

[abeatdown]

Yeah?! I think you full of it!

[amachinemind]

[chuckle]

Beat, due to a certain... request by one of my children, you are now a trainee. Please report to the training sessions being held on the second level immediately.

No buts or complaints.

[abeatdown]

Wha?! Who?

[amachinemind]

Second level. Training areas. Look for a girl called Nena.

[a picture of nena is included.]

I won't say it again.

[abeatdown]

A-aight, don't get your panties twisted up. I'll play along widdis Game for now, yo.