The Diary of Kimiko Kurutsuki (//Me Only)

[Thkaal]

Two more weeks of work and H.I.K.A.R.U. is coming along fine. He has so much more information and is able to draw on the missing data. In some cases, he has even said what must have happened in the areas where he is lacking information and gotten it right. Where he's been wrong though, there was always controversy about what really happened. His appetite for information is astounding. I've brought in a monitor for him so he can read the information from news reports, but I'm not sure that this will be enough. He keeps bugging me for neuronet access. I am beginning to be concerned.

On the other hand, Fukutaro has invited me to lunch with him at school. Every day. It's been great. I feel so alive with him. He's so funny and makes me feel grown up. I wish he was someone my father would approve of, but he's a teacher and doesn't make much money. Father seems to think money is the deciding factor of a good husband. If only he could see the person and not the money. It's as though money buys happiness. It doesn't. It just provides more opportunities to discover what makes you happy.

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Something else. I've noticed people at Kishiro have been treating me differently. I'll ask where something is, and they go get it. There's a woman following me around, too. She's not really spying, but she seems to have things ready for me before I need them. It's odd. And people keep bowing to me a little too low. At first I thought it was a joke, but then I made a remark about how one of the keys on my keyboard was always sticking and it was causing typos when I was coding. The next day, I had a new keyboard.

When I told Dad that they were playing these kinds of jokes on me, he laughed and said, "Perhaps they know how special you are and want you to give them some of your specialness."

Dad has never called me special before. H.I.K.A.R.U. says he needs more information about what is going on to tell me what is going on. I'm thinking of giving him limited band access to the lab.