Editing City Series:Volume8a Chapter3 (section)

===Aoe’s Board Mode: In DT’s Central Detroit District===

'''<Aoe’s Over Reload>

You are in 2629-E Street, a Top Page of the Central Residential District.

You are moving at high speed.

You just arrived on this street from 2630-E Street.

The street is lined with homes on both sides.

A single PC Body is using a weight reduction process to sit on your right shoulder. She is Yuo Natas Wav.

Aoe: “The enemy is nearby.”

Yuo: “Should I switch to Sight to monitor the enemy?”

Aoe: “No, I can Over Reload until the actual battle begins.”

Yuo: “That won’t work. Over Reloading does not receive data on adjacent Pages. Sounds and other data that arrive in this Page are a different matter, but you can’t see data that only exists over there.”

Aoe: “Really?”

'''<Aoe’s Over Reload>

The street is entirely deserted.

You are moving at high speed. Out of the corner of your eye, you see sand spraying into the air as far back as 5 steps behind you.

The loud footsteps and impacts coming from beyond the house roofs to the left are getting louder.

Aoe: “I see. Or rather, I can’t see. I can hear it, though, so does that mean we are close?”

Yuo: “Yes, it’s probably in the adjacent district. I’ll switch to Sight.”

Yuo: “Done. I opened a window to describe the situation for you, so Over Reload to view that.”

'''<Aoe’s Over Reload>

Yuo has typed text into a window and she points it your way.

Aoe: “Mh.”

'''<To Senpai. A spear-wielding knight standing 8 yards tall is 100 yards NW of here. The knight’s skin is badly discolored and he is gushing blood. It’s quite gruesome. The knight seems to go nuts whenever the blood gushes out. He may be rampaging out of pain.>

Aoe: “Mh? A giant knight?”

Aoe: “What is going on? Why would that appear out of nowhere?”

Yuo: “That’s what I want to know. From what I can see…”

'''<Aoe’s Over Reload>

The ferret on Yuo’s shoulder raises its front paw and several windows open. They are Word Mail windows.

Several Word Mails have arrived for Yuo. They provide disaster information and describe the Yard’s actions.

Yuo: “I think this is an NPC Body enlarging its display and effect ratios, but that should consume an awful lot of heat energy. He could even die from this.”

Aoe: “Do NPC Body’s commit suicide like automatons do?”

Yuo: “No, of course not. They can’t even Download. They might appear to have a will of their own based on their AI, but they don’t have a true will.”

Yuo: “I can only assume someone intentionally implanted this suicidal rampage inside him.”

'''<Three new gusts have entered this Page>

'''<Aoe’s Over Reload>

One PC Body has arrived. He is Algo Everquest Asb.

Two old-style NPC Bodies have arrived. One is Alternative Kobayashi Asb. She is using a shrunk-down old-style NPC Body as a terminal for her Mind Lives.

The other is set to anonymous.

Aoe: <Wha-?>

'''<Aoe’s Board Mode has ended>