Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:HO Crossover (section)

===5: Information Alliance===

Oh Ho Ho: Welcome to this planet’s final utopia, the Information Alliance. We more or less know how you ended up here. Oh ho ho.

Kamijou: Just give it to me straight. What am I dealing with here?

Lendy: Kamijou Touma. Sex: Male. Age: 15. Oh, an early birthday. A first year at a public high school, not part of any clubs, no part-time job, and your ideal wife is a dorm manager? Hee hee.

Kamijou: Wh-what!? Where did you get all my personal information!? Especially that part about the dorm manager! And why does it feel so weird for someone who looks like they fit the part to find out that’s my strike zone!?

Oh Ho Ho: Heh. As the name suggests, the Information Alliance places a lot of weight on the value of data. When you’re a celebrity like me, you can access as much information as you want.

Lendy: Those at the top can do insider trading and we can spread rumors to manipulate the stock market, so there’s no dragging us down for a millennium to come. Besides, if you need money, you can just spread rumors of buried treasure or a sunken ship to gain near unlimited amounts of capital. Trust is one form of weapon, after all.

Kamijou: This place is corrupt as hell! This entire world is awful!

Oh Ho Ho: Of course, those without much information will never find any way to rise up.

Lendy: Their access to information is restricted, so they probably don’t even realize how badly they’re losing. On paper, they’re a celebrity known by billions of people! Peh heh heh. In a way, that imaginary society may be the happiest place for them. Ah ha ha ha!!

Oh Ho Ho: The fools even believe the results of the digital physical exams they have run. Oh ho ho.

Lendy: I can’t believe anyone is dumb enough to hook their health devices up to the internet.

Oh Ho Ho: Well, we’re talking about the people shameless enough to hook their toilet up to the cloud and call it the beginning of a new age, so they may never understand what they’re missing. They use big data in all the wrong ways.

Lendy: Makes you wonder how they think they live in a privileged society when those at the top are taking sampling data of their assholes. Hee hee.

Kamijou: No! This is so crazy I don’t even know where to begin!! I don’t want to hear a single word more! I can’t take it anymore!!

Lendy: Oh? Then you’ll have to pay us some money.

Oh Ho Ho: In this day and age, the right to ''not'' know some things can be bought and sold. Oh ho ho.