Entry Log 4 [Video]

[cutestprogrammer]

[The person who appears on the video feed looks like Chihiro and certainly sounds like him but something is off. Especially how he's on a completely green background and there's something not quite natural about the way he moves.

This is Alter Ego. The 'strong' AI programme Chihiro created. Strong in the sense that it's able to learn and think on its own. Chihiro got it back from the last event.

Alter looks very distressed right now.]

Help!! Someone please help! Master is very ill! He can't get out of bed! Please help him! Someone!

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[Video]

[alephbet]

'Master'...?

[mustlovedogs]

...Fujisaki? What's up?

[Video]

[idolizer]

[ Of course dying in an earlier canon point is source of utter confusion for poor Sayaka, who doesn't quite get the weird movements, nor she understands who the hell is the person Chihiro would ever call "master"... ]

Fujisaki-san, please calm down. Does he have a fever?

[Video]

[cutestprogrammer]

My master is Chihiro Fujisaki.

[cutestprogrammer]

I am not Chihiro Fujisaki. I am Alter Ego.

Oowada-kun! Master would be most happy to see you! Please do go to him as soon as you can! He has a high fever!

[Video]

[cutestprogrammer]

Good morning, Maizono-san. I am not Chihiro Fujisaki. Chihiro Fujisaki is my master. I am his creation, Alter Ego.

Yes, Master has a high fever! Please do help him!

[mustlovedogs]

Alter what? Master? Huh?

[< What he's talking about >







< Mondo's head >]

[Video -> Action]

[alephbet]

Oh! I'll come right away.

[He doesn't get it, but Chihiro will explain when he gets there. He hurries to 'her' rooom.]

[Video]

[idolizer]

[ ...

Wait, uh... she gets quickly lost at the mention of... pretty much everything "Chihiro" said. ]

Alter Ego? ... Him?

video (and Rei was caught in Doc Brown's explosion)

[terreifying]

Where are you right now?

[Rei doesn't have her usual smile, which shows that she's taking this seriously. Unfortunately, the program that looks so much like Chihiro might be more liable to notice the several hundred red eyes she has growing on her now ashen white face.]

[Video -> Action]

[cutestprogrammer]

Thank you, Aleph!

[Chihiro will be huddled on his bed under his covers with a high fever.]

[Action]

[alephbet]

Hey, Chihiro.

[Nudge, nudge.]

How are you feeling?

[cutestprogrammer]

[Master, why did you have to pick someone so dense?]

I am Alter Ego, a computer programme created by Chihiro Fujisaki. Therefore, I am not the real Chihiro Fujisaki.

The real Chihiro Fujisaki is currently lying sick in bed with a high fever. Please go to him quickly, Mondo Oowada.

[Video]

[cutestprogrammer]

That is me. I am Alter Ego, an AI programme created by Chihiro Fujisaki, my Master.

Yes, Chihiro Fujisaki is male.

video

[cutestprogrammer]

Master is-

[You do not look at all healthy! Alter has to protect his Master.] What happened to you?

[Action]

[cutestprogrammer]

... [Chihiro opens his eyes drowsily, his face flushed with fever. On his bedside table is a laptop, where Alter Ego watches them.] ... who is it?

It's Aleph, Master. I called him to come help you!

Re: video

[terreifying]

Oh, I was just caught in a really bright explosion. But I think I'm alright.

[Depending on her concentration at the moment, how human she looked varied. Also, her core was still pulsating a little too hard.]

As for your Master...

video

[cutestprogrammer]

... what sort of explosion?

Re: video

[terreifying]

Nuclear, I think. Just by how bright and hot it was.

[Action]

[alephbet]

Is anyone else coming? I don't want to leave you alone while I find you medicine.

1/2

[idolizer]

...

[ No... no way... she knew nothing of this... ]

[Video]

[idolizer]

This is not some kind of joke, is it...? A curse, or whatever they do in this tower?

video;

[tsunball]

[ .. H.. uh... that sure is weird, Chihiro is normally not green?! Nor slightly moving as if he's blimping in and out of sight a little? There is only one possible response to this.. ]

... What the hell?!

[ogrewhelming]

By master... you mean Fujisaki?

[forgetbeam]

[Wait a minute...

Ishimaru's seen this somewhere before. Not Chihiro - he obviously knows who that is, but he also knows this digitalized face against that flickering green background. He still remembers next to nothing about the events leading to his arrival in Animus, but...

There's a name springing to his mind now - Ishida - but he gets the feeling it's not the one that belongs to the face on the screen. Maybe he doesn't want to know who it belongs to. Maybe he should stop just staring at the screen and respond to the actual message. Focus!]

Your Master...? What kind of illness is it?