Shintaro Kisaragi/History

History

 * When he was younger, Shintaro visited the school cultural festival of Takane's school and met her at a booth that she and her classmate Haruka made for the guests. He challenged her to a shooting game fight that she offered to the visitors. Knowing that Takane is known as the second best player in the country, he started to tell her that he's not impressed by her, even called her weak. Irritated by the cheeky little boy she accepted his offer to play and decided to challenge him on the highest level. Before playing the two made a promise that the loser will listen to the winners words while Takane even promised to become his servant and call him her "Master". Eventually Shintaro won the match, but decided to forget about the deal since he saw it as a bother.


 * In middle school and high school, he performed as the top of his class in National Mock Examinations, but due to the suicide of a close friend two years ago, he dropped out in his first year of high school. Since then, he started living as a shut-in, in contact with only the physical world and not the real world. Subsequently, a mysterious software entered into his computer which was sent to him by an unknown person, called "Ene", and being unable to control her actions, his lifestyle was at a loss.

Plot

 * Shintaro is sitting in his dark room and works on a song as his computer freezes, causing him to freak out. As a siren goes off from his computer, Ene appears to ask him if he was alright. As he wonders if he could delete her she starts renaming his folders and threatens him to delete the song he just had written as a joke. Taking it for serious, Shintaro starts to panic and spills his soda over his keyboard, causing it to break. As he tells Ene to search for a site to buy a new computer, he explains that it's the 15th August, the Obon festival, today and that no sites deliver until the day after tomorrow. Not able to wait that long the two decide to go out to buy a new computer.


 * Outside Shintaro remembers that the city used to look different, but now has changed a lot while he had been at home for two years. They eventually find the building they're looking for while Ene sees an amusement park that she wants to go to. Shintaro declines her wish and reminds her that she doesn't have a body to visit those. The cyber girl gets mad and decides to not talk to Shintaro anymore. She then leaves his phone.


 * After entering the building Shintaro bumps into a clerk, causing him to get nervous about meeting new people again. As he continues his way he then also bumps into Kido, who he apologizes to several times. After she is gone, Shintaro gets asked by Ene if he was alright. Just as he responses that he was, he notices an explosion going off and suddenly finds himself in the middle of a group of terrorists.


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