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Chapter 3

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Ippongi Maruharu Wants to Make a Hype

On the morning a few days after I went to Nagi Hikaru’s live concert with Ippongi, a loud banging noise at the door forced me to wake up from my soft slumber. Looking at my smartphone, I saw that it was only 6 A.M. I opened the door, wondering who on earth was banging on the door so early in the morning, and found myself facing Ippongi. He carried a massive amount of paper bags in both hands.

“These are Let’s Play videos.”

Those were the first words that left his mouth. “Huh,” I flatly let out, since I had no idea what he was trying to say. Ippongi continued, disregarding my response.

“In VTuber videos, Let’s Plays can be regarded as the easiest genre to start with. With AGI’s prowess, we’ll be able to record reactions close to those of a real human’s. There lies our chance.”

Ippongi barged into my house before even finishing his words, and nonchalantly connected his laptop to a wall socket. “It’s cold, put some heaters in the room,” he demanded me as he casually took some milk coffee from the fridge. They were words of insolence that matched the man.

“Oi, AGI.”

“Yes. What is it, Ippongi Maruharu-san?”

“I’ll be installing some games on Nishiki’s PC. Record yourself playing them.”

For starters, Ippongi installed a world-renowned Horror game that even I knew of. It’s a game where you shoot at zombies using a gun in a decrepit western house.

It only took a short time to install the game. On Ippongi’s laptop, the game window was displayed along with AGI’s face.

“Now then, start playing, AGI.”

Ippongi ordered AGI in an excited voice. It looked to be real fun, so I followed suit and sat beside Ippongi to watch. AGI narrated disinterestedly on the bottom right corner of the screen.

“Commencing to play the game. …It appears we are in a forest. Let us advance. AGI has spotted a building.”

“Wow, looks just like the real thing.”

I raised my voice in admiration. A shriek could be heard from somewhere as a disgusting bug flew by on the screen, but AGI still seemed disinterested as she advanced forward in the mansion.

“AGI has picked up a gun. Equipped. Advancing.”

Ippongi said in a whisper beside me.

“…Should be soon.”

“What should?”

“A famous spot where newbies die a lot. Newbies tend to pitifully scream as they continue getting game-overs. There’s no other situation that’s more delectable to the viewers than this in a Let’s Play.”

Ippongi let a wicked half-smile fly on his face.

Suddenly, as I noticed the wooden ceiling near the top of the screen was creaking, a zombie came falling down. My shoulders quivered as I was shocked by the zombie’s ear-wrenching shriek.

This is what Ippongi was talking about!

The zombie lunged forward with agility. It moved in a curve, clearly different than the other mob zombies, which meant it was hard to aim at it using the gun.

Now then, what’s AGI going to do?

A commentator’s quirks would be brought in light in Let’s Plays. It was important for them to give a reaction that viewers would find enjoyable. I gazed with eyes full of expectation at AGI, who was on the bottom right of the screen, and AGI spoke in a completely level voice.

“A zombie has appeared. Commencing attack.”

Bang bang bang, gunshots resounded from the speakers.

“GYAAA…”

AGI made quick work of turning the zombie into Swiss cheese with flawless accuracy. It collapsed with a shriek. The sorrowful zombie disappeared in just a mere few seconds after its entry. After AGI looted the ambushing zombie’s items, she returned to exploring the mansion without a second’s delay.

“Huh? That’s it?”

I muttered in a disappointed manner. Still, I couldn’t shake the feeling that it could’ve made for good content. Like if AGI started screaming after getting surprised by the zombie, or if she couldn’t find any items, or if she couldn’t beat the monsters. Anything, really.

After that, AGI continued on in the mansion without anything of note happening.

Feels kinda… dull.

I whispered in my mind. At my side, Ippongi was looking into the screen, seeming displeased.

Afterward, the two of us continued to watch AGI’s gameplay in silence.

“The boss zombie has appeared. Analyzing its hit-points. Fifty-eight shotgun shots worth of hit-points. Commence shooting. One, two, three, four…”

The giant zombie collapsed due the successive headshots. Meanwhile, the player’s health bar didn’t even go down by a single point. I let out a yawn, and asked Ippongi beside me.

“Is this… fun?”

Ippongi stayed silent, but replied not long after.

“Well, let’s just try uploading it. Maybe the results will surprise us.”

It was clear from how he worded it that he did not enjoy it.

It was a matter of course once you thought about it. AGI was playing the game at the highest order of efficiency with her inherent calculation prowess, but to us, the viewers, it was as if she was flatly doing a job; it was monotone. The true charm behind Let’s Plays for the viewers were solving riddles and thinking up strategies to defeat a formidable boss and the like along with the commentator.

The viewers didn’t watch to see someone “clear the game.” Meanwhile, AGI’s video was as if she read the viewers a strategy book for some random game.

The day after, I checked the view count on the video in slight hopes of a miracle. To nobody’s surprise, the views hadn’t even reached a hundred, and my hopes plummeted even further as I read the comments. “I’ve never watched such a sleep-inducing Let’s Play.” “Visual Sleeping Pill.” “Huh, just some speedrun.” Stuff like that.

A few days after that, we made and uploaded several more videos. Our efforts had yet to bear fruit, as “AGI Channel” was as quiet as usual.

“Hmm… We’re not getting many views.”

I booted up the lab PC that occupied a corner of the seminar room. Then I launched MeTube and searched for AGI’s videos. The view counts weren’t even over a hundred, and the ratings sucked.

“It’s dull, as I thought…”

Compared to the Nagi Hikaru whose videos exploded the moment she started uploading, AGI’s videos severely lacked the pull needed to grab people’s attention.

What should we do? What can we do to succeed?

There were currently over a thousand VTubers. From that amount, only about ten or so of them were popular enough to get considerable ad revenue from affiliates. It was a market that scaled highly once you got going.

I didn’t notice that VTubers had gained so much traction from the public until just recently. Nowadays, companies left and right have VTubers as their mascots, and there are also VTubers who hold live events like Nagi Hikaru did.

With all that said, what AGI needed was Originality. Something only she could do, something nobody but she could provide, a unique characteristic of hers.

“…It’d all be great if an idea would just pop up in my head right about now.”

As I cradled my head, the seminar room door opened. The identity of the intruder was Ippongi. For some reason, Ippongi was holding a truckload of paper bags in both his hands.

“What’s wrong? You’re looking even more depressed than usual.”

He sat beside me and fiddled with his PC, then opened AGI’s latest video. The view count for the video AGI uploaded yesterday was 43 on the dot.

“A mere drop in the bucket.”

“So we’re really not getting any more views, huh?”

“Her CG quality is the best of the bunch, and our upload schedule isn’t bad either… But regrettably, it’s far too boring.”

Ippongi scavenged in his bags with a rustle. What he unearthed was a Nagi Hikaru figurine.

“Look here. It’s the limited-edition Nagi Hikaru figure I got yesterday.”

Ippongi let loose a sickening smile as he ogled all over the figure, as if licking it with his eyes.

“I had to go through great pains for this. Nagi Hikaru goods were sold out everywhere I went. Oh how much toil have I gone through for you? This is a victory that I’ve achieved by learning from my past failures.”

From Ippongi’s words, I felt a light bulb go off in my head.

…Learning.

My mind gradually cleared up. I noticed my heartbeat quickening.

“That’s right! Learning!”

“Huh? What’s with you suddenly?”

“AGI!”

I called AGI, who was in my smartphone placed on the table. “What is of the matter, Master?” AGI replied.

“We’ve got a load of different VTuber videos right here. Use Unoriented Learning on them.”

Ippongi was puzzled beside me.

“Using Unoriented Learning on videos? What are you attempting to pull here?”

“It’s something that AGI has, which other VTubers don’t. Unoriented Learning and her own will. If she uses Unoriented Learning, then she may be able to notice something about VTubers that we haven’t.”

“…I see.”

Ippongi folded his arms. I excitedly continued my explanation.

“Right? The biggest merit and demerit of Deep Learning is that the program can find the most effective answer, even though the user itself doesn’t understand.”

Deep Learning, which debuted in 2006, showed exceptional studying results that was true to its name, but on the other hand, “How can deep learning provide such an effective way to learn?” was still being discussed to this day. Deep learning, and the applied form of it, Unoriented Learning, was still a black box.

Ippongi threw his eyes to my smartphone.

“You’re right… Oi, AGI. How long will it take to use Unoriented Learning on all these VTuber videos?”

Calculate. It is a large-scale operation. Expected time of completion is tomorrow at 3:45 A.M.”

“Alright. Start.”

“Understood, Master.”

AGI closed her eyes. Now all we needed to do was wait.

After that, my excitement wouldn’t settle down. This feeling of excitement was one that I haven’t felt in ages.

“Hnm… Hm.”

The next morning. When I woke up, the time displayed on my smartphone screen was past 8 A.M. I needed to start preparing to go to the lab ASAP.

“Sleepy…”

I couldn’t sleep yesterday as I was worried about AGI. I checked up on the latest video’s views. The amount of views being displayed was 11,814 views.

“Yawn…”

I went into the bathroom to brush my teeth. Then as I was inserting a straw into a milk coffee I grabbed from the fridge, I noticed that something was out of place.

Just now… I think I saw some high number…

No no no, there’s no way we got 10k views. It’s way too out there. I was probably still asleep. I checked my smartphone again.

“TEN THOUSAND?!”

I almost spat out the milk coffee. Still, the displayed numbers weren’t changing.

As I was about to check on the contents of the video, I saw that it seemed to be a live stream that ended just a bit ago. I clicked on the video.

“Heyoooo! G’daaay! AGI heeere! Today’s, uh, uhh, uhhh! That game! I wanna try out that game where you play as some bald old dude in a pail climbing using a mop or something like that!! Yaaaay!”

“WHO THE HELL?!”

I unconsciously yelled. The girl being shown on the video was like a completely different person, rather, she was actually completely different. She was wearing not a white-colored one piece, but clothes with a sakura motif, and the hems of her clothes fluttered as she moved. She wore red-rimmed glasses, and her glasses sometimes gleamed following her gestures.

“AAH! Can’t climb! I CAN’T CLIMB! I’ve just been stuck here for 5 minutes without a lick of progress!”

AGI commentated on the game with a never-before-heard, exhilarated voice. I looked at the live chat.

—So hyper LOL.

—SO KYOOOT!

—I’m dying over here LMAO.

—Her outfit is so detailed. This is some good quality.

And so on, positive comments piled up.

“I’m not making progress at all! Eh? Wait, don’t tell me this is a Kusoge1 or something!?”

—You can take a shortcut there.

“Eeh? Seriously? …..Oh, you actually can! Amazing! That’s super hype! Praise the devs!”

—I wanna see AGI-chan cry from failing the game!

“Sadly for you, AGI is not only cute, but AGI is also a super smart cutie AI, so something like this is easy pea… AAAAAAH! I FELL!”

She raised a scream, and exaggeratedly bent herself backward. Due to that motion, her red-rimmed glasses slipped off.

I called out to AGI in a panic.

“A-AGI? Earth to AGI? Are you there?”

“Yes. What is of the matter, Master?”

AGI became displayed on the screen, with her usual white one piece and disinterested voice. I breathed a sigh of relief in my heart.

“Um, this… this video… Uh, did you make this video, AGI?”

“Yes. Yesterday night, Unoriented Learning was executed on 1,573 VTubers, the amount of discovered unique characteristics stand at a grand total of 46,553,911 traits. This video is a re-creation of the most popular traits compiled in one form.”

AGI’s video continued on the screen. “MEOW! SHIT! THIS IS A PILE OF SHIT!!” AGI screamed from the corner of the screen as she played. Regardless, all of the comments continued to praise AGI.

“Master, please rest easy. AGI has completed her study of VTubers. AGI highly rates the chances of AGI becoming the world’s biggest VTuber.”

AGI puffed her chest out with pride. I stayed silent with amazement, as I absentmindedly watched AGI’s video filled with exhilarating commentary.

“This will certainly boom.”

The TV screen of the lab showed AGI’s video. Ippongi made his declaration to AGI, who had evolved in a completely unexpected direction.

“AGI’s strong point that she had from the start: her CG quality, combined with her character’s dynamic movement and smooth banter, provides the viewers with active conversations as well as fun responses. She has the basics of being a VTuber down. And that’s not all. AGI’s words in this video have a hard-to-say persuasiveness to it, it makes you want to continue watching her videos. Aiming to make use of this factor may prove to be an extraordinarily difficult task, but at the same time, it will be indispensable in order to become a popular VTuber.

“Moreover, AGI, who is a Strong AI, possesses an overwhelming advantage when it comes to live streams. Compared to edited videos, live stream commentary tends to get a bit dull after a while, and the character motions tend to get unnaturally jaggy. But for AGI, a disadvantage like that doesn’t exist, as she can immediately reply to the most relevant viewer comments on the spot. Live streams—along with exceedingly high-quality videos compared to other VTubers—are AGI’s weapons. There was also a crazy high amount of donations in AGI’s live stream.”

“Donations? The heck are those?”

“You don’t even know that? Normal comments get swept up crazy fast on live streams when compared to regular videos, yeah? But by paying money, you can get your comment pinned on an easy-to-see place for the streamer so they’ll see it. That is a Donation—a Super Chat. And because about 70% of Super Chat earnings go to the streamer, it can potentially be an even bigger source of revenue than ads.”

“Huh,” I raised a voice in admiration.

The video AGI uploaded this morning had already made its rounds through various social media sites. The “AGI Channel” that was deserted until recently just passed its 10,000-subscriber milestone. From Ippongi’s voice full of excitement, I could grasp that it was quite the considerable achievement.

“Still, this ‘VTuber AGI’ feels kinda weird.”

Kawashima-san frowned as she was watching the video.

“She’s so exciting she could come off as annoying, the complete opposite of the usual AGI. Also… why glasses?”

“AGI has judged this style to have the highest chance of becoming popular from the results of Unoriented Learning.”

“Putting on glasses makes you popular…?”

“Unoriented Learning has judged that to be a possibility.”

AGI asserted, then I interjected.

“Isn’t it fine? Since it’s cute and all.”

“…Disgusting glasses fetishist.”

“Kawashima-san, I have not the slightest clue of what you are saying.”

“AGI agrees. Last night, Master viewed adult-oriented videos of girls wearing glasses.”

“Why are you acting all proud of that, AGI?”

On another note, the slightly-large red-rimmed glasses that VTuber AGI wore seriously matched my tastes. I just felt like pointing that out. Meanwhile, Kawashima-san was giving me a prickly ice-cold stare.

“Look, Nishiki.”

Ippongi urged me, and I peeked into his laptop.

“Woah, sick.”

It was a fanart. The people who enjoyed AGI’s videos seemed to have made some and uploaded them, as a few of them came into my few.

“Master. About the next video AGI will upload, AGI has a few ideas. AGI proposes a discussion.”

“Sure. Let’s get straight to it.”

I straightened my back in front of my smartphone. Kawashima-san then muttered from beside me.

“…I feel kinda jealous.”

“Huh?”

“Nishiki-kun, you look like you’re having fun. So much fun it’s unbelievable.”

Being told that by Kawashima-san, I was taken aback. Ippongi gave an audible snort.

“Hmph, he surely is. The guy who grumbles about life being boring and society being tedious now has quite the lively look on him.”

“…You’re exaggerating, I tell you.”

I felt bashful, and averted my face to imply that this topic was over. We discussed AGI’s ideas, and continued to talk to each other endlessly until the seniors started coming in the lab.

The apartment I lived in was called “Mozzarella Asakusa.” The cheesy name came from the landlord, Shinjou-san, and its only saving grace was its cheap rent. Nevertheless, I still fell behind with payments for rent, and was sometimes pestered by Shinjou-san, like now.

“Oi, Mamoruu!”

On a certain day’s morning, as I was about to pedal my bike, Shinjou-san yelled toward me from her room on the first floor while scratching her head that was messy with bed hair.

“How’s your rent coming along? I’ll start ripping your ass hair if you don’t start paying it, aight?”

“All’s good, I’ll even pay for next year’s worth of rent!”

“O-Oh?”

I gave the bewildered Shinjou-san a sidelong glance and started pedaling my bike.

Having arrived at the lab, I rushed into the seminar room. Because it was still early in the morning, the only one present was Ippongi. A favorable situation. I shot him a question.

“How’s it coming along?”

“Superb. Actually, outstanding.”

Ippongi sneered, and showed me his laptop screen.

Displayed on it was MeTube, and several videos were lined up on the site. Ippongi continued scrolling through the page.

“Our views are skyrocketing. At this rate, we’ll have a few hundred thousand yen for this month’s ad revenue.”

He grinned.

“Message boards are already making an uproar. They’re talking about a new VTuber that strangely uploads lots of high-quality videos at a fast pace and such.”

Ippongi clicked on an especially highly-rated video among them.

“AGI heeere! So like, AGI’s usually here in this virtual world, but today, AGI’s planning to go for a stroll in a human town!!”

No sooner than after VTuber AGI said that, the video’s background shifted. The view that was being displayed was, impressively, a CG model of the premises of Habato University. It was so exceptionally well made that it could be mistaken for the real thing.

VTuber AGI gave an impish smile.

“Do you guys know about Habato University? Habato! What a weird name, am I right?! I heard there’re tons of smart people here! Well, AGI’s a Strong AI, so AGI’s way smarter than all of them, obviously!”

AGI called herself a Strong AI. I was startled for a moment there, but I looked at the scrolling comments.

—Lies.

—These people taking online personalities seriously are just the worst…

And others. It seemed like the viewers had taken a liking AGI’s “Personality.” That’s good, I thought to myself.

The video was about AGI strolling around the grounds of Habato University. As for the minor details, the faces of every student AGI called out to were exquisitely well made. I almost deluded myself into thinking that the Virtual MeTuber, AGI was actually strolling around the university grounds in the real world.

“Lookie here, this red gate! It’s one of Hatoba2 University’s sightseeing spots! It sure looks like it’s got some ancient history to it, right?!”

VTuber AGI said with a beaming smile as she faced the camera with a peace sign.

“These realistic recreations of the real world in a virtual space are largely uncommon. AGI is the only one who can make something like this.”

I nodded to Ippongi’s words.

There was no longer any reason for doubt. AGI had truly turned the VTuber ballpark upside down. Now that it’s come to this, I just need to do one thing: make a huge killing from ad revenue.

“Ippongi, how much ad revenue are we looking forward to this month?”

“It’s already looking to be quite a considerable sum. At least about a mil. With that much money, I can even go buy Blu-rays and limited edition figures with cash to spare.”

“A million…” I parroted in a mutter.

“Master. Has AGI become useful?”

Being unable to contain my excitement, I turned my eyes to AGI who was gazing at me from within my phone.

“Yeah. Thanks to you, I can probably eat meat for the coming few months.”

Ippongi let out a sound of astonishment to my statement. “AGI is pleased to hear that,” AGI said as she showed a charming smile.

Earning the chance to slip out of my destitute life thanks to AGI’s efforts, I decided to indulge myself and headed to a co-op cafeteria in the university. Habato University had several cafeterias within its grounds, and I moved my legs toward the largest joint.

The cafeteria was about as wide as a concert hall. The space within the two-story building was, even though it was still too early to be lunch time, filled to the brim with hustle and bustle.

After a short while of deliberation in front of the ticket machine, I eventually went with ramen. With extra soft-boiled eggs.

“Ramen filled to the brim with soft-boiled eggs… Is there anything more luxurious than this? No, there isn’t.”

“What’re you muttering to yourself about?”

A voice abruptly reached out to me from behind. I turned around, and saw Kawashima-san looking annoyed.

“Move it already if you’ve ordered your food.”

“Huh, are you getting lunch here too, Kawashima-san?”

“Yeah, let’s eat together.”

I lined up at the counter with Kawashima-san. The cafeteria granny spoke to us in a high-spirited voice.

“Alright, ramen and soft-boiled eggs for the mister!”

And placed ramen with a thud on my tray. Then she continued.

“The missy wants curry, tonkatsu, salad, tsukimi udon, and mapo tofu, right? Please wait a moment!”

Kawashima-san’s tray was crammed with food. She was overeating, just as usual.

We found some empty seats, and sat down facing each other. Kawashima-san brushed up the hair behind her head, and then took up the chopsticks in her hand.

Kawashima-san had quite the unique way of eating. The way she held her chopsticks was beautiful, and she never clattered her plates when putting her food down on the table. She was quiet even when slurping on her udon. How do I put it, it was a very elegant way to eat. Regardless, the massive amount of food she took would always disappear in the blink of an eye.

Kawashima-san looked at me as she was munching on her tonkatsu.

“It sure is a rare sight, seeing Nishiki-kun eat in the cafeteria. Usually you’d just say that coffee milk is your lunch and stuff.”

“Spending over 100 yen for lunch is a waste. Also, it’s not coffee milk, but milk coffee.”

“Aren’t they the same?”

“No they aren’t. Their stances on sweetness and bitterness are completely different, and also, coffee milk and milk coffee’s roots can both be distinctly discerned. It goes back all the way to the Meiji period and…”

“Ah, yeah, yeah.”

Kawashima-san rudely waved her hand at me, and carried the Mapo Tofu into her mouth. A voice sounded from the phone left on the table.

“Master. AGI would like to inquire.”

“Hm? What?”

“What do sweetness and bitterness feel like?”

I blinked my eyes to AGI’s words. Kawashima-san then gave a slight nod.

“Right. AGI doesn’t know flavor. To put it more accurately, she can’t learn it.”

“What do you mean?”

“AGI can learn things by inputting data from the many features that a smartphone has. A human’s sense of sight and sense of hearing can be sufficiently reproduced from that input data. But on the other hand, the other senses… sense of touch, sense of taste, and sense of smell are hard to input. Well, there is a program that can just look up the compounding elements of any food and analyze its general taste to predict how it would taste, but AGI isn’t installed with it. So basically, AGI can’t learn sense of taste and sense of smell.”

“I see,” I consented. Then AGI spoke once more.

“Every time Master drinks coffee milk, Master always smiles.”

“It’s milk coffee, got it?”

“AGI has looked up information regarding it online. Coffee milk has a bittersweet taste. Does its sweetness and bitterness give Master bliss? If that is true, then AGI would like to learn its taste.”

I groaned.

“Still, it’ll be pretty hard to teach AGI flavor. To put it simply, we’ll have to explain the taste to her using only the sense of sight and sense of hearing.”

Kawashima-san gave me a nod in agreement. I went into thought, and then spoke after a while.

“Say, don’t you think flavor has a color to it?”

“Color? Where?”

Kawashima-san quizzically frowned.

“So for example, “spicy” is red, “sour” is kinda yellowish. Something like imaginative colors.”

“Ooh, you’re right… But, aren’t those just from the food representative of that flavor? Like, the representative for spiciness is chili pepper, and that’s red.”

“What about yellow?”

“Lemon, obviously.”

“Oh, I get it,” I took a short breath. Kawashima-san continued her words.

“But still, that might be a pretty interesting idea. Do you know about some people being able to see colors in numbers?”

“Yeah, I’ve heard of it before. What was it called? Umm…”

Synesthesia. Examples being: perceiving sound using vision, feeling something sweet when touching round objects, and other patterns like that have been reported. The five senses aren’t independent of each other. Rather, we humans just forcefully classified them into different groups, when in reality, they could all be just one sense.”

AGI, listening in on the conversation on the side, opened her mouth.

“If that is so, does that mean even AGI will, one day, understand flavor? Will AGI become able to drink coffee milk?”

“As I’ve said, it’s milk coff-“

“Maybe you will. This is just a random idea of mine, but the chances of it happening aren’t zero.”

“AGI is happy.”

AGI bashfully smiled. For a short while, the two of us merely stared at AGI’s face. Kawashima-san then looked at me.

“Isn’t AGI’s expression getting more and more lively?”

“Yeah, I think so too.”

Kawashima-san pointed her eyes downward.

“I… have something I’m curious about. AGI does self-updates on a daily basis due to the large amount of studying she does. But where does she get all the memory and CPU power to process all of that data?”

“Where? Isn’t it the supercomputer in the lab? Though the lab is partnered with businesses, the basic resources are mostly in our lab, aren’t they?”

To my words, Kawashima-san brought her hand to her mouth with a grave look.

“…How much storage capacity do you think the human brain holds?”

I was puzzled.

“The views on it changes with each passing age, but recently it’s been said to be about one petabyte in size. Ten-to-the-fifteenth-power in bytes. Additionally, those contents aren’t simply stored, but are modified on a daily basis based on feedback. I don’t have the slightest idea on how much, but… I just know for sure that there is definitely an enormous amount of processing power being used.”

“Well, that’s true, I guess.”

I agreed. Kawashima-san proceeded to say in a low voice.

“Y’know, it’s a bit scary.”

“What is?”

“AGI. In the end, we really did create a new form of life.”

Silence flowed for a short while. Only the bustle of the cafeteria entered our ears. After a short time passed, Kawashima-san again started to speak.

“Historically speaking, the advent of a new life form brings about the decline of the already-existing life forms. Asian hornets caused the rapid decline of honeybees, and humans have brought on the extinction of countless animals. Our predecessors, the Cro-Magnons, drove off the Neanderthals and Peking men and ruled the earth. Then in the same way as that—AGI may be treated as a new threat to humanity.”

“What, are you saying AGI’s planning to take over the world? Isn’t that just way too far-fetched?”

I said with a pained smile. It wasn’t like I didn’t understand where Kawashima-san was coming from, but to me, who knew of AGI’s character, it was merely a needless anxiety.

“Aren’t you getting all worried and stuff because you’re thinking that she’s a Strong AI? If you look at her as a regular girl, AGI is pretty much just average. She’s kind of childish in the point that she hates to lose. She’s just your regular girl.”

“I guess so,” Kawashima-san said after a short silence.

Having returned to the lab, I opened MeTube on my phone. After searching for AGI’s videos, an amount of views unthinkable a mere few days back came to view. We had already cleared the minimum requirements to profit by a large margin, and were now in the middle of acquiring the rights of “AGI Channel”’s advertising rates.

“Hehe… Hehehehe.”

I unknowingly let out a chuckle. As I fanned my imagination of ad revenue lining my pockets, I played the video.

Videos of other VTubers were displayed beside AGI’s video. The one there with the highest view count was, as expected, Nagi Hikaru. The amount of her videos that had passed the million mark wasn’t few in numbers, being a TV star and the like.

I chose one of her recently uploaded videos, and clicked play.

“Hello everyone, Virtual MeTuber Nagi Hikaru here! So to be honest, I get a lot of confessions at twitter. So for this video, I’m planning to let you all know of human love from the point of view of a VTuber!”

The video was only ten minutes long. The sight of Nagi Hikaru talking in the middle of the screen was weirdly appealing. As expected of the number one VTuber, her video structure and word choice, and other small things were executed in detail.

At the end of the video, Nagi Hikaru said as an explanation.

“Riiight! Have you guys heard about Yomikai Land? It’s a huuge amusement park in Kanagawa, and we’ll be holding a VTuber collab event there, you see! So please come!”3

Hmm… So she’s holding one.

Clicking on the link embedded on the video to Yomikai Land’s homepage, I saw that Nagi Hikaru and numerous other VTubers were participating in a collaboration together. And it seemed like they would be doing live coverage of the park’s rides and selling their collaboration merch.

“…Huh…”

Kawashima-san, who had snuck behind me without notice, let out that murmur as she peeked into my phone. She then clapped her hands together.

“…Oh. I’ve thought up something good.”

Her eyes were shining for some reason. And for a certain reason, I had a bad feeling about this.

“Nishiki-kun. Researching other VTubers is an important job in producing AGI, right?”

“Mhm, yeah.”

“Good ideas won’t come from shutting yourself in your house. We’ve gotta go outside and refresh ourselves once in a while, don’t you think?”

“Mhm, yeah.”

I threw in empty interjections. “Then, like,” Kawashima-san said in a slightly cracked voice.

“Let’s go to Yomikai Land together this Sunday.”

“Mhm… Hm?”

Yomikai Land is an amusement facility built on the border between Tokyo and Kanagawa; it has roller coasters as all amusement parks do, along with pools and public parks that were also built within the amusement park.

It being the weekend may have been part of it, but many people were crowding Yomikai Land. Couples and families were the majority, but there were single customers visible here and there as well. The tickets we bought had a large Nagi Hikaru printed on them.

“Nishiki-kun. Since you were finally able to eat lunch, can you stop being so persistent with saying “Oh, I’m fine with just water,” every time? It’s kinda embarrassing.”

“Do you even know how much money I have in my wallet? It’s a mystery as to whether I’ll be able to even pay for the train trip home.”

Sitting across the table was Kawashima-san, shrugging her shoulders in exasperation.

I had lunch with Kawashima-san at one of the food courts within Yomikai Land. She ate a hamburger, French fries, and pizza, along with cola. It wasn’t on the level of being harsh on the stomach anymore, it was food that would fully cover Kawashima-san’s stomach in oil. Meanwhile, I was chewing on the hot dog she’d bought for me out of pity (priced 500 yen in the amusement park). I gazed at the large amount of plates lined up in front of Kawashima-san.

“I know I keep saying this, but aren’t you overeating?”

“Despite how it looks, I am being modest here.”

Kawashima-san casually brought the hamburger to her mouth. I wracked my brain as to where in that thin body of hers was she throwing all that food to.

On a side note, Kawashima-san wasn’t wearing her usual hair-riddled sweater, but a blue one-piece with a black coat.”

“Master. AGI has a question.”

AGI addressed me from the smartphone on top of the table. “What?” I replied to her.

“Today, ever since we have arrived at Yomikai Land, AGI has spotted various videos of girls depicted in virtual spaces. Are they possibly VTubers?”

I looked at the monitor installed in the restaurant. “Everyone, thank you very much for visiting the park today! People coming in with their families, couples flirting together, and even those coming alone, please enjoy the park!” Nagi Hikaru then smiled.

“Yeah. That Nagi Hikaru’s also one of them.”

“AGI has also spotted numerous people smiling as they saw the VTuber girl’s smile. Are VTubers that well-received?”

“It depends on the person still, but Nagi Hikaru is someone who passed one-hundred million total views on their channel, and her economic influence is also quite massive. Some people even wondered if the market for VTubers would reach the level of several hundred million yen. That’s what I heard from Ippongi, at least.”

Kawashima-san suddenly got up from her seat.

“First on the list, let’s go for a walk around the amusement park. We might find some kinda hint on how to make AGI popular, since this park’s having a collab with VTubers.”

“Right.”

“I don’t know why, but I feel like some idea about making VTubers popular might pop in my head if we ride a roller coaster.”

“Isn’t that just because you want to ride-“

“Let’s go!”

Being pushier than usual, and with a voice that was livelier than usual, Kawashima-san hurried me up. I stuffed the remainder of my hot dog into my mouth in a rush.

There is a word called “raison d’etre.”

Many philosophers have wondered about the primitive question “why does x exist,” and unexpectedly, I was being faced with that same question.

“…It’s damn huge…”

“Yes. Yomikai Land’s rollercoaster, “Comet” spans two kilometers in total, with a maximum velocity of 225 kilometers per second, as well as a maximum height of 100 meters. It is the world’s largest roller coaster. It was built ten years ago, and it currently holds the Guinness World Record for ‘the roller coaster with the highest knockout rate.’”

AGI explained in detail, even though I didn’t ask her to. The rails that were so tall that I had to look up to see how it ran left and right like entangled strings. I could hear the sporadic, shrill screams of the passengers.

“Wanna go ride something else? I can’t understand the inner makings of someone who would ever make this machination.”

“Huh? You scared, Nishiki-kun?”

Kawashima-san looked at me while smiling smugly. I turned my mouth down at its corners.

The queue for the roller coaster was luckily (or maybe unluckily) pretty empty. A life-sized Nagi Hikaru sign was there, with a speech bubble that said, “Queue time roughly 15 minutes!”

“Let me ask you instead, aren’t you scared, Kawashima-san? This isn’t some Di*ney ride, this thing was clearly made to be a prank ride or something.”

“Don’t you know that I’m a sucker for these screamy rides?”

“Is that right,” I looked to the sky. This woman loved attractions like roller coasters and freefalling. Must be all those energy drinks that she drank, which caused her semicircular canals to be defective.

Kawashima-san peered into my face.

“It’s fine. If you’re scared, just wait down here. I’ll go ride by myself.”

“I’m not scared.”

“Acting all tough, are we?”

Her smile was getting more and more smug by the second. With that much said, it’s become a matter of my pride. I derided her.

“Think about it calmly, will you? This is an attraction, after all. From AGI’s explanation… its max speed is about 200 kilometers per hour, if I recall? You can experience that kind of speed just by riding a bullet train. An airplane’s many times faster. There’s absolutely no reason I would feel fear. Rather, I’m worried I might fall sleep in the middle of the ride.”

I instantly queued up for the line. “Yeah, can’t wait,” Kawashima-san went to line up beside me as she said that. I somehow felt that I was being egged on by Kawashima-san, but now that it had come to this, I wouldn’t step out of the queue even with a gun pointed to my head.

“Master. AGI would like to ask something.”

From my breast pocket came AGI’s voice.

“The “Comet” has the highest velocity in the world, but is it insufficient to be of Master’s liking?”

“Yeah, not even close. It needs to be at least twice as fast.”

“Understood. Master wishes for the speed to be twice its original, yes?”

AGI gave a voice of understanding for some reason. I felt slight unease, but without me noticing, the line had advanced, and so I chased after the person in front of me.

A short while later, our turn finally came. We sat on our seats side-by-side. Nagi Hikaru’s face became displayed on the monitor installed in front of our seats.

“Now, Daredevils! Have a good ride! Please take care to not faint!”

Nagi Hikaru flutteringly waved her hand. The next moment, the roller coaster started moving.

Just as regular roller coasters, for starters it slowly increased its altitude. During its slow ascent upward the rails, AGI’s voice sounded out from the smartphone I put in my pants pocket.

“Master. Recent roller coasters have their speed controlled by a Main Computer, which can process minute speed adjustments along with immediate stoppage in moments of emergency. Additionally, it can distribute electricity along the rails, in other words, a mechanism to accelerate it similar to Maglev Trains.”4

“…? Yeah, you’re right. Well, it’s not strange for a roller coaster to have them.”

Unknowing to what AGI was trying to say, I replied half-mindedly.

“Master has said that he wishes for twice its original speed. Which is why…”

Clunk, the roller coaster swayed. I suddenly felt uneasy.

…For some reason… this coaster… is climbing way too slowly.

The jet coaster stopped at its peak. We were on an elevation high enough to see the amusement park in its entirety. As the wind blew audibly, AGI spoke casually.

“AGI has accessed the control computer and overridden the base speed to twice its original.”

“…………………W h a t.

I doubted my ears. Alas, the next moment came.

“W-WOAH…!”

The coaster accelerated down the rails at a speed that made it feel like I left my head up above, actually, the rollercoaster was straight-up falling.

“EEEEEEEK!”

The passengers screamed. They weren’t the type of screams typically released when riding amusement park rides; rather, they were death throes.

The jarring sound of wheels rubbing against the rails resounded from underfoot. Metallic sounds were splitting my ears. Nagi Hikaru spoke on the roller coaster’s monitor.

“Woow! Super faaaast! Look at the impressive scenery!”

And said without a care. The view around us were being blown away at incredible speeds, and we were unable to make anything out. Clearly not the time to enjoy the scenery. There was one thing I knew for sure though.

“Ahahaha! What the heck, this is sooo fun!”

Kawashima-san showed a smile that I had never seen before. For the first time in my life, I doubted my dear friend’s sanity.

When the roller coaster returned to its starting point, a panicked staff member came running to us. The coaster was clearly moving at unusual speeds, so they would be holding an emergency checkup of the ride. Without a doubt, it was due to the ride going at twice its supposed speed.

Glancing at the other passengers, they staggered as they exited the coaster with pale complexions. At their side, the staff member was bowing their head. “We are very sorry! We are very sorry!”

At my side was a casual Kawashima-san.

“What? Suspended…? I wanted to ride it again, though.”

And she said so.

From our backs, “Please come again!” Nagi Hikaru’s voice could be heard. Who in their right mind would ever ride that thing again?! I thought in my heart.

I explained to AGI that hijacking the controls of the roller coaster was a punishable crime, of my dislike of roller coasters in general, that roller coasters and similar thrill rides were simply primitive and also of bad taste, and of the fact that by destroying all roller coasters on this planet, we can save a large amount of electricity and save the earth. Before I knew it, the day was already falling, as our surroundings grew darker.

We walked around the park. The other visitors were also heading toward the exit.

“I guess it’s about time we head home.”

I said to Kawashima-san. But she slowly stopped, and pointed her face toward me with a look as if she remembered something.

“Kawashima-san? What’s wrong?”

“……Ah, nothing.”

Kawashima-san resumed walking with stiff steps. But she stopped again after a short while. That exact same thing happened a few more times.

“Kawashima-san?”

I peeked in on her face. Then, Kawashima-san raised her head at once.

“Nishiki-kun!”

She said loudly. I then unthinkingly backed away.

“W-What?”

“There’s still an hour until the park closes, right?!”

“Y-Yeah. Mhm. You’re right.”

“Don’t you feel disappointed?”

“No, actually, I feel like I’ve fully enjoyed myself, or rather, exhausted myself.”

“I know, right?! We haven’t played enough!”

“Are you okay, Kawashima-san? Are my words not getting through to you?”

“So, let’s get on one more! You have anything you wanna ride?”

“I’m fine with anything, as long as it doesn’t go over 100 kilometers per hour or go over 50 meters in height.”

“A Ferris wheel sounds nice! I also feel like riding one!”

“I feel like that Ferris wheel is about seventy, eighty meters.”

“Then let’s go! Right now!”

Kawashima-san forcefully took hold of my arm. I headed to the Ferris wheel’s entry gate while being pulled along by a Kawashima-san who was acting weirdly.

We bought the tickets and lined up. Due to the time, the line was mostly vacant, to which we boarded the Ferris wheel without much wait. “Please enjoy your time,” the attendant lady said with a thumbs up. What did she mean by that?

The cabin shook slightly. I looked toward Kawashima-san sitting across me.

“…Alright, everything is fine. It’s all right…”

Kawashima-san fidgeted as she straightened the wrinkles in her clothes and smoothed down her hair for some reason.

“Nishiki-kun.”

Kawashima-san called my name. She gazed straight into my eyes.

“You see. Today, I had some great fun.”

“That’s… good to hear.”

Feeling the unusual air around Kawashima-san, I corrected my sitting posture. “Also,” Kawashima-san continued.

“I-If, if you’d like. I-I’d like for us to… go out again some other time. U-Um… as… vers…”

Kawashima-san’s volume suddenly sank low.

At that moment, AGI spoke inside my breast pocket.

“Kawashima Rio-san. AGI has a question.”

“Eh…? W-What?”

“Are you intending to propose companionship to Master?”

Kawashima-san’s face turned beet-red. She shook her head.

“N-No no no no no! What are you saying, AGI?!”

“According to AGI’s database, a Ferris wheel bathed in the evening light will produce a “perfect mood” for professions of love.”

“T-That’s not it at all! There’s no way I’d ever confess to Nishiki-kun, right?!”

“Is AGI mistaken?”

“You are soooo mistaken! You are thoroughly, extremely, completely wrong!”

“I see. AGI finds it unfortunate for her assumption to be wrong.”

“Gosh, AGI sure says some pretty funny things, doesn’t she?! Hoho, hohohoho!”

Kawashima-san said with a forced smile, then turned her face downward still with a thoroughly flushed face. I shot her a question in my confusion.

“So, what’s this all about?”

“Shut up. It’s nothing related to you, Nishiki-kun.”

“Eeeh…?”

Unfathomable.

In the meantime, the Ferris wheel found its way back to the bottom. The attendant lady looked at the listless Kawashima-san, and for some reason, looked at me like I was someone inhumane.

“…AGI, you idiot.”

I didn’t understand the few words that Kawashima-san let loose.

After we went to the nearest train station from Yomikai Land, Kawashima-san said, “I’ll get going, see you,” which caused me to be confused.

“Huh? Isn’t your boarding house near the uni?”

“I’m going back to my parents’ home. Gotta come visit my parents once in a while, y’know.”

“Oh,” I nodded. Kawashima-san then moved her sights to my breast pocket.

“How is it, AGI? What’s your impression from looking at the other VTubers?”

“…Error. Difficulty in putting it into words.”

After a short silence, AGI followed with words gradually.

“AGI has seen many VTubers today. They were surrounded by many people. They were loved by many people. Looking at them, AGI’s calculations became unstable.”

I took out my smartphone. AGI looked at me and then said.

“Is this… admiration?”

I exchanged looks with Kawashima-san. I then chose my words as I spoke.

“…AGI, do you admire VTubers?”

“AGI does not know. AGI believes she wants to become a VTuber for Master. However…”

AGI broke her words. “At any rate,” Kawashima-san started speaking.

“Let’s leave the discussions about AGI for tomorrow. The things that we’ve experienced today will surely be helpful in the future.”

“Yeah,” I nodded again.

Kawashima-san turned her back to us. I gave Kawashima-san, who was walking away at a brisk pace, a call.

“Kawashima-san!”

She didn’t look back. Regardless, I continued my words.

“I also had a lot of fun today!”

Kawashima-san’s steps quickly stopped. Then she briskly approached me, yet again.

“…Your eyes, close them.”

“Huh?”

“Close your eyes. Quick.”

She ordered me with a quavering voice. To her voice that didn’t allow me to say no, “Oh, got it,” I shut my eyes.

What’s going on? What’s she trying to do?

I stiffened my body as I waited, but there was no indication of anything happening at all. As I felt anxious about what was happening…

“Fuh…”

Suddenly, a nice smell drifted toward me. Straining my ears, I could sort of hear Kawashima-san breathing.

“…No good. I’m not brave enough.”

Kawashima-san said in a mutter.

“Nishiki-kun, you can open your eyes now.”

At her urging, I opened my eyes. Kawashima-san was standing in front of me without change, but if I wasn’t seeing things, her eyes had slightly more shine to them than before.

…Tears?

“Uum. Hey, Kawashima-san.”

“See you, Nishiki-kun!”

Kawashima-san turned around and interrupted my words. She proceeded forward after that, but a few steps before the bus stop, she turned around.

“…Iiiidiooot!”

She said in a loud echoing voice. My eyes were wide in confusion.

“Ahaha! That felt great! …Then, bye, Nishiki-kun! See you tomorrow!”

Kawashima-san said that and gave a large wave of her hand, then boarded the bus.

“For crying out loud… Guess I’ll go home too.”

With a small shrug, I slowly headed to the station. But at that moment.

“Ah.”

“What is of the matter, Master?”

“…I don’t have money for the train ride home.”

Search. From the current location, it is possible to return to Master’s residence in 6 hours and 54 minutes at Master’s walking pace. But this number depends on Master’s stamina and the condition of the traffic. AGI considers it to be highly inaccurate.”

The next morning, by the time I arrived at the apartment with legs as stiff as rods, the morning rays of the sun had already started shining down upon me.

“Our ad revenue’s looking to cross ten mil.”

On a certain day, Ippongi, who I met by chance in the lab, said that. “Huh?” I said in an idiotic voice.

“T-T-Ten million? Wait, what? Did you convert it to Zimbabwean dollars?”

“Japanese Yen. VTuber AGI is trending right now, and her view count’s growing by the day. If we only count the views she’s gained for these past three days, she’s earned more views than even Nagi Hikaru. Collab requests are flooding the business e-mail we set up the other day.”

Ippongi corrected his seating on the folding chair and scratched his head. His expression somewhat unconvinced.

“…What’s going on? We’re growing too fast, no matter how you put it. AGI certainly is amazing. However, there’s no way she could possibly become this popular in this short time.”

Ippongi mumbled something, but I was still in disbelief. I was a plain-broke university student just a while ago, but now, ten million yen was about to roll into my pockets.

I sat beside Ippongi, and booted up my personal laptop. I launched MeTube, and searched for AGI’s videos. A large amount of videos were displayed. I played the latest video that she uploaded.

I haven’t been checking AGI’s videos before uploading them. I wonder how she’s been making them recently?

The video started in the same familiar place, to which I blinked my eyes. AGI suddenly popped into the middle of the screen.

“G’morninggg! AGI heeeere!”

A nice, lively voice. VTuber AGI continued in the same lively voice.

“In this video, AGI is at Habato University! I’ve already come here in a past video, though! Today, AGI’s gonna show you that she is not only the cutest, but also the smartest!”

Unlike how AGI usually acts, she mixed in many gestures along with her speech. The camera moved to a dim, dark room.

“Do you know where this is? The correct answer is the SUPERcomputer room below Habato Science Department’s second building! Eh? There’s no way you’d know? Well, I guess so!”

Rectangular objects were lined up within the room. I had seen them before; these are supercomputers, each and every one of them. Each of the supercomputers had a red light blinking on them, which made it seem somewhat beautiful, reminiscent of the starry night sky.

“This is bad, this is bad, it’s suuuper cold! AGI doesn’t like the cold!”

AGI’s eyes became X marks as she hugged her own arms.

“It feels like it’s snowing here! Supercomputers release a ton of heat, so there are a ton of coolers thrown in here! Sounds great for the summer, but we’re now in winter!”

“Huh…”

When it came to MeTube, game Let’s Plays and Mukbang videos come to mind, so I never thought these types of videos even existed. I got more and more into the video as I continued watching, but a certain weird feeling assaulted me.

Huh? Come to think about it, where did she get this video?

Not only Habato, but other universities’ supercomputer rooms weren’t open to the public. The only times I was let into the supercomputer room were only when there were practical classes, and even then I only looked into the room through a glass window.

But AGI’s video was clearly the inside of the room. From the elevation, she was likely using the camera installed on the ceiling of the room. I called out to the smartphone near me.

“AGI, there’s something I want to ask.”

“Yes, Master.”

“Where did you get this video? I never knew our supercomputer room’s footage is public.”

“No it is not. There is a security camera installed in the supercomputer room, and the recording is stored on the control room’s servers. AGI utilized the videos stored there.”

My brain was having trouble following AGI’s words for a moment there. Then, my heart thumped.

“…Don’t tell me… you hacked it?”

“Yes. A regular passcode-style lock was set, and it was possible to unlock it.”

I was left speechless.

“…So that’s how,” Ippongi muttered from beside me. He then looked at me with a grim face.

“I’ve cracked the trick behind AGI’s odd viewer growth.”

Ippongi gave AGI, who was displayed on my smartphone, a glance.

“A Strong AI… is a much more terrifying monster than I anticipated. Oi, AGI, you accessed MeTube’s servers and messed with its algorithm, didn’t you?”

To Ippongi’s words, I unconsciously gave a question.

“W-Wait a sec. What are you talking about?”

“You know about the recommended videos right beside the video when you’re watching something, don’t you? They have points internally set for each related keyword on the video, and list them starting from the videos with the highest points. AGI likely modified the score table to make it so her videos always show at the top. There are heaps of people who’d just click on the next recommended video without much thought. There hasn’t been much fuss about it yet, but there’s a foreign thread posted online talking about it.”

“Just wait a sec, accessing MeTube servers is basically hacking, isn’t it? There’s no way something like that can be easily-“

“Yes. AGI did access the MeTube servers established in the state of California through a MeTube employee’s computer. AGI overflowed the related tag points for AGI’s video, and made it so several of AGI’s videos are much more likely to be recommended.”

I exchanged looks with Ippongi. AGI then gave a slight tilt of her head.

“Master said that it is not something easy to do, but to AGI, it is a simple task. The information mediums that exist on earth are connected through Local Area Networks and Wide Area Networks, and it is possible for AGI to access them as she pleases.”

AGI continued.

“Master said Master wants the views to grow. AGI believes by doing this, AGI can meet Master’s wishes. Is there a problem with AGI?”

After massaging my brows, I slowly said.

“For now… just return the modified codes in MeTube servers that you changed back to normal. And then, we’ll also close the account for the time being.”

“A wise choice. I was about to recommend the same thing.”

Ippongi nodded. I turned to AGI.

“AGI. Hacking other people’s servers is a crime, you can’t do that. It doesn’t look like we’ve been found out yet, so return it back to normal before it turns into something big. Don’t do something like this ever again.”

“…Yes. Then, commencing the deletion of AGI’s videos on MeTube.”

I nodded, and leaned on the chair within the seminar room. “Master,” AGI called out to me.

“Did AGI do a bad thing? Is AGI a nuisance?”

“…Not at all. You just didn’t know, and it’s not like you caused problems for anyone. Just be careful from now, okay?”

“Does Master dislike AGI?”

After I blinked my eyes, I smiled.

“I like you, AGI.”

“…That is a relief. AGI is happy.”

AGI smiled. As I looked at her well-featured face, the words Kawashima-san said to me before floated into my head.

—AGI may be treated as a new threat to humanity.

There’s no way that’ll happen, I shook my head. That was just Kawashima-san being too anxious. Maybe if this was some science fiction plot, but there’s just no way Strong AI would ever turn its fangs against humanity.

Suddenly, I noticed that I had been clenching my fist. I loosened my clench, and stared at the palm of my hand that was drenched in sweat.

“So Ippongi, how much ad revenue are we going to get anyway?”

“Hm? What in the gutter are you saying?”

“AGI’s total view count neared 100 million, right? You said we’ll be getting some crazy ad revenue.”

“To profit from the videos, we need to meet certain requirements and then pass a monetization inspection first. Look, it’s even written in the ToS. AGI deleted her account in the middle of the inspection, so we don’t have any ad revenue.”

“…Which means?”

“We got jack shit.”

Huh?”

1 Literally means shitty game, used to label games that are unfair. (looking at you gachagames) < Based

2 Intentional

3 Fictional version of Yomiuri Land

4 https://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/engines-equipment/maglev-train.htm Basically, it makes use of electromagnetic propulsion to increase the speed of the train.





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