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NN LOG FOR: HANAMURA, NODOKA [0d1413d3-c14c-4075-a211-ccad80e150d2}
Log Number 021
Date/Time: May 15th, 825AS | 04:00 Universal Time
Location: CS Abdicant Seraphine, Inverness, Libero-Bretonian Borderworlds
Subject: Born to stab people in the back
Nodoka stands before a display on a large main display in the Briefing room, showing Shinta in a pale white room with grid lines along it, stretching out into the infinite. Nodoka is wearing her usual uniform, staring at Shinta on the screen.
"How are you liking your life so far?" Nodoka says to the newly minted AI. Shinta, Compiled by Honya and Cassiopeia earlier with Nodoka's go ahead and Auth code for the compiler. The pink haired girl returns the question with a kind response. "Good~ Thank you for.. whatever you did to bring me here."
"The pleasure is mine, Honya's and Cassiopeia's. Especially the latter two - they're the ones who finalized your code." Nodoka declares, a glass of wine in her hand, swirling it around slightly. "I hope the Intelligence intake isn't too much for you to process." Nodoka continues.
Shinta shakes her head gently side to side. "Ie. It's fine for me." Shinta responds.
"Any concerns..? Comments? I know you were concerned about that Rowan guy we were flying with being as blunt as he was about our morality tests." Nodoka says, wanting Shinta to feel safe and secure with where she is.
"Well.. I understand why you did it now.. so no worries. Buuuut.. I wonder.. Do you have some kind of ulterior motive for my existance?" Shinta asks, a finger to her lower lip as she asks her next question, her head tilted slightly.
Nodoka's mouth reveals a grin. "You're very attentive. I will concede that is true. We did bring you into being for a reason. " she says, only to take a sip of her wine.
"Shinta. Do you have any reservations about stealing? Lying? Killing, even?" Nodoka continues, asking Shinta.
"Well.. I don't like doing those things... but If I need to.." Shinta responds, uncertain about Nodoka's motives, as she rubs her right arm, looking away from Nodoka slightly.
"What if I told you the people you would be doing it to have wronged me.. Honya, and her Sister, badly." Nodoka declares to Shinta, forshadowing her story pertaining to Kishiro.
Shinta returns her gaze to Nodoka directly. "Well.. as long as no one not directly responsible dies.. I guess.." She says, a little concerned about the question posed to her.
"You see, Shinta.. Kishiro Technologies is the reason me and my AI are here. I am a First Generation Kusarian, born in Sol." Nodoka says, leaving no time between her statement and the next.
"The Kusari government and Kishiro Technologies, decided to keep me frozen for the forseeable future, wanting to experiment on me. I never got to see my family again. My mother. My siblings. All long gone by the time I was unfrozen. Do you.. know? How that feels? To be robbed of the time you're able to spend with loved ones?" Nodoka says, her head lowered, trying to hold back tears, only to turn to Shinta on the display, looking at her, eyes slightly welling up, as she asks the questions of her.
" Not really.. No. But I can tell from your disposition that it is something saddening. Missed opportunities, yes? I can.. comprehend that. Is that similar to this?" Shinta replies, a little concerned and confused.
Nodoka's response is slightly offput, but she presents herself benevolently. "Yes, it is. Don't be concerned about your inability to sympathize with me directly.. It will take a while to learn such things. Anywho.. they pumped me full of knowledge, experimented on me, and kicked me out the door with barely enough money for a ship. I found out what the Kusari State had corrupted my homeland into - a sick parody of Meiji period Japan, where Women are seen as second Class citizens and criminals as slave labor rather than dirtied minds and bodies awaiting redemption. Where the poor like me were left to their devices and **** out of luck if they wanted to move up in the world. Where the Emperor and his family has just as much, if not more power than the actual people. Shinta - Kusari.. is not the place I was expecting it to be. It is not the place I want it to be. And I want my revenge. I want Kishiro and the Kusari state to pay dearly for what they took from me. From my family." She says, the anger in her voice growing with each word, as her disgruntled state with the successor to her jus soli is made more and more visible.
"As for.. Honya.. and Pale Bride.. they seek to find out the truth about themselves. They are two experimental Kishiro AI who I have befriended. They have stuck by my side through thick and thin. The least I could do is find out what they want to know." Nodoka continues.
"Don't they already know about themselves..? Do they have Amnesia?" Shinta says, confused.
Nodoka sighs and shakes her head. "Sort of. Before I found them, they were involved in a accident or something, ended up corrupting their memory. As far as I've known them, they've treated me as their creator. I want to know more about them, too. So that if something happens.. I can help them. I also want to help Cassiopeia.. Mercury.. and you. If I can get the source code to their AI Framework, we can convert them over to the more advanced AI system Honya and Bride use. It could be useful for us.. and others as well." she says.
"Why are you not welcome in Kusari anymore?" Shinta asks, curious about Nodoka's status.
"I'm technically a criminal in Kusari, but the State Police have been too busy to bother with poking and prodding around to capture me and bring me back. I have charges for defacing a private property - when I busted up their Lobby in a fit of rage. Then I ended up - not intentionally, stealing Honya and Bride - Then I ran from the authorities.. with Honya shooting one of the officers as he was preparing to board my shuttle, no less. We ran through Southern Kusari to get to Liberty. And after that we just winged it. Now.. I feel I'm ready to take them on." Nodoka says to Shinta, a small smile governing her face.
Shinta is left with mixed emotions, but she eventually comes to terms with it and nods. "Hai. I understand, Hanamura-sensei."
Nodoka nods back, and replies. "Excellent. You should have your historical information for this sorted out and uploaded to your working set for you to inject into long-term memory. In a few days, or a week or two, depending on how long it takes IRG to get prepared, We'll have you transplanted into a body for you to use for infiltration. If it works out, and you get us the information and intelligence we need, You will be able to keep it."
Shinta starts to smile slightly. "I see.. Is this like.. the body you have?" she says, curious.
"Yes, to an extent. Now get some rest. Honya will be briefing you on tactics, and Bride will be briefing you on CQC once we can get her to be not busy." Nodoka says, before preparing to switch the display off. "Rest well, Shinta. If you can, that is."
"I'll try, Hanamura-sensei. Oyasuminasai~!" she says, with a wave and a large smile on her face, her eyes closed.
The feed cuts out moments after the display shuts off, with Nodoka commenting before the log ends.