animus_network | [Video] Hello! I am a protagonist.

[Aleph is sitting at the terminal, with a winged girl in white hovering behind him.]

Nigredo and I have been discussing having a quick response team, and I apologize if anything like this already exists and I simply haven't run across it.

The main problem with responding quickly to any problem is that there are few methods of quick communication. For that reason, if anyone can make working cell phones, has telepathy, or any further method of communication across floors, please contact me. In the meantime, I'll make do.

This is Lilim. [The girl waves.] She'll be staying every day on floor fourteen, the media room, which is as close to the middle of the tower as I could convince her would be interesting to stay in. If you or anyone else need defense for any reason at any time during the day, please contact her. She'll get me from where I am. If you need the media room for normal reasons, feel free to kick her off the game console. [She pouts.]

Unfortunately I can't leave her alone at night with the monsters out and about. In that case, my room is 2-04. Please fetch me, and my roommates will have to deal.

This is as efficient a response as I can make under my current power. Again, if anyone has ways of improving this, please reply. My name is Aleph, and thank you, again.

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No problem. I knew you wouldn't mess with it.

You knew I wouldn't? But you haven't known me for that long.

You're not a bad person.

[She blinks and stares at him in surprise, but shaking her head.] Ah, I wouldn't make that assumption. I'm not above fighting dirty if it'll help me achieve my goal.

That doesn't make you a bad person. I can tell from the way you reacted to the stories of home I told you.

... But I'm not a good person, either.

I don't know. You seem like a good one to me.

... I'm a killer and a thief... I've learned that's not something good people tend to be. [Even though she killed to protect others and stole to help people out.]

Bad people aren't usually so concerned with why they're not good people.

[April frowns, not sure how to reply to that. Looks like Aleph has won the little semi-argument.]

Anyway, you didn't mess with my arm terminal, so it looks like I was right. [He puts it back on.]

I wouldn't have gotten anything out of messing with it anyway, besides pissing you off. And I just wanted to see how it worked.

Now you probably know more than I do.

Ehe, probably. And now if I use my power to link up to it, I won't trigger anything by accident.

That's good. I wouldn't want my demons to appear out of nowhere.

And that probably wouldn't be the best thing if you're talking to someone. But don't worry, I'll make sure not to do that.

I appreciate it.

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