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Superintendent: Welcome to your "African trust" automated teller machine. Banking with pride!
Yuu: Virgil i need money for a ticket!
Superintendent: Hello traveler, "membasa" welcomes you!
Anxious? Stressed? Please remain calm, control circuits now open with-
pride! Detour
proceed with caution! Sound:[Virgil chime]
Yuu: Kai i really want to -
thank you for letting my little bro and i stay here. Kai: Meh its no big deal-
really.
Just don't mention it.
Hmm i have a question for you.
How did you and him make it all this way without anyone else, without anyone else traveling around with you?
Yuu: You know that AI that runs japan's urban infrastructure? Kai: The "Superintendent", what about it?
Well our mother was the head programmer that worked on it.
Before she died, she created a subroutine called "Virgil" to look after me and Ken. Virgil -
can control anything the Superintendent can, -
and use those things to help us.
Kai: Huh like changing traffic signs to lead people off cliffs?
Yuu: He can only override things if is in our best interests.
Sometimes its anoying...
Kai: Anoying, how so?
Like once i was trying to go to this party without my moms permission -
and that trip ended with Virgil stoping the train i was on and sending it back to the station!
Kai: Hm how bothersome of such a machine to impotently decide -
to stop a whole train over a mere child. The Superintendent -
is suppost to help the the general people, -
not mother a couple of disobedient children.
Yuu: He's also -
how we got in the warehouse you found us living in.
Kai [joking]: So your a raider as well huh?
Kai [whispering]: What a hell of a kid you become.
Kai [normal voice]: Tell me why though -
why are you running away? Yuu: Well...
Our dad is a drunk, -
he used to beat us a lot.
It got pretty bad...
We had to get away from him, so thats why we're on the run.
Virgil [from security system speakers]: Crime doesn't pay!
Good citizens do their part! Sound: [Virgil chime]
: Virgil is helping us get away we wouldn't be anywhere without him! Virgil [from cellphone speakers]: [Virgil chime] Your tax dollars at work! Yuu: thank you Virgil.
Superintendent/Virgil: Attention traveler -
lost items can be claimed on, -
lower level!