[from here, use "Angels" for "Mitsukai", and all footnotes in these brackets, with first word being "fuu"] X character file: Satsuki Yatouji. translated by Rika Takahashi (Fuu). * Monologue. SATSUKI Load Data 3. Voice recording program ON. Sunny day. I'm bored again today. Another earthquake in Izu. Magnitude 6. There has been much raining this year. The weather bureau seems to have been predicting a water shortage, but it rained after all. Like how you guys told me. I'm bored. Everything is boring. Every day full of boredom. I guess. I only have fun when I talk to you. My comrades. Cute computers. School is even more boring. They only teach meaningless things inside those rectangular boxes. Math, Japanese, Physics, History. They make no use to live, to survive. 1999. The Promised Day. KAMUI. The one who holds the key to the future of the Earth. I am one of those called the Seven Angels. I am supposed to fight the Seven Seals. Fight. I can't imagine me, being active enough to fight another person. Don't you think so too? Then, you ask, why am I here under the federal building? Because I was bored. Because you said that KAMUI would eat away my boredom. Kamui What is Kamui? Is it like Ain Soph? The unreachable by the limited human conscience... the absolute power surpassing God. That can be referring to you guys, the computers. A realm unreachable by the human conscience. One. Zero. A world where every event can be displayed using just zero and one. A space so simple, so undecorated, that is possible only in computers. The world that I love the most. Every other being is just boring. Because they are inferior. Humans are inferior. They have no ability to learn and adapt. They can't change despite their many mistakes. They just live, wasting each day away. Like a program on an infinite loop. You guys learn after one try. What you shouldn't do, and what I want you to do. * Drama. A light warning beep. KANOE Did I bother you, Satsuki? The voice of Kanoe is heard through the computer. Satsuki, hearing this, turns the computer off. SATSUKI No, Kanoe. Beast, the computer, whirrs and stops. The cover opens. Satsuki exits. Jumps, and lands in front of Kanoe. KANOE (laughing) Were you playing with the computers? SATSUKI Doubling with maintenance. KANOE This big child pouts if you don't play with it. Kanoe happily pets Beast. KANOE How is Beast doing? SATSUKI Well. KANOE Then..... Kanoe lifts Satsuki's chin with a finger. KANOE How is the cute Satsuki doing? SATSUKI No changes. KANOE (laughing) You're cold as always, Satsuki. Kanoe does not seem to mind the absence of emotion on Satsuki's face. KANOE ..... Satsuki. Did you see Kamui? SATSUKI Yes. KANOE What did you think of Kamui as you saw him through the computer monitor? SATSUKI ..... he was a child. Kanoe laughs at the answer typical of Satsuki. KANOE I guess. But...... Changing her attitude, with a serious look, KANOE Depending on the path he chooses, the fate of the Earth with also change. SATSUKI ................ KANOE Give me the data for Kamui. SATSUKI Kamui Shirou. Sophomore in high school. 162cm tall. [fuu notes that's about 5'4" ~ 5'5"] Eyesight: right eye 1.2, left eye 1.3 [fuu notes "1.5" is 20/20. 1.2 is about 20/40 I think.....] Upon checking the passenger information on the airplane he was on, it seems that he was in Okinawa before returning to Tokyo. The family registered in Okinawa was just his mother. Mother's name was Tooru. And there is no mention, no resources concerning the father's identity. KANOE Nice. Kanoe seems pleased with Satsuki's answer. KANOE Satsuki. SATSUKI Yes. KANOE ...... was he, the true KAMUI? SATSUKI The computers answered YES. KANOE ....... it looks like we'll be having fun soon. Satsuki is informed of the current time from the computers entwined around her body. SATSUKI ....... Kanoe. The govoernor will be returning soon. Shouldn't you, his secretary, be getting back to the office? KANOE Yuuto will be returning soon. Bringing me lots of interesting souvenirs. The governor will be returning home shortly after his return to the federal building. I can just pop my head in then. And, it's not far from the federal building. Because. We are right underneath it. Kanoe looks at Satsuki, smiling. KANOE What about you? Satsuki... Are the Freemasons silent after all that? SATSUKI They show no movement. KANOE They know that you can sense their every movement. Through all the computer networking. SATSUKI The Freemasons prefer to not fight. They wouldn't create a commotion by sending someone after me. KANOE They can't handle getting their valuable members killed. Like before. Kanoe laughs suggestively. [fuu thinks this adjective is inserted to stress the fact that Kanoe is in fact on the sexy side...] KANOE That incident didn't make it to the newspapers. SATSUKI The Freemasons have some power in the Japanese government. It should be easy to keep incicents from going public. KANOE That's true. There are a lot of politicians who are Freemasons. Although they are not an occult group that the mass-media or novels make them out to be.... SATSUKI The Freemasons nowadays are more like an members-only club. KANOE The only thing that hasn't changed is that they won't allow women in..... But, they wanted you badly enough to break even that rule. Kanoe, fingering down Satsuki's throat, KANOE Cute Satsuki. Why did you accept my invitation? SATSUKI ...... because I was bored. KANOE (laughing) You are a troublesome kitten, always bored. So? Has your boredom died down a bit? SATSUKI Not yet..... but. KANOE But....? SATSUKI The computers told me. That Tokyo will be changing. KANOE How so? SATSUKI I don't know yet. But....... It looks like I won't be bored. KANOE You never ask anything, Satsuki. What I wish for. What I am wanting. Why I gather the Seven Angels. Satsuki, no irony, no bad feelings. SATSUKI ..... I'm not interested. Kanoe, seeming truly happy. KANOE That's what I love about you. light warning beeps. Yuuto returns. KANOE It's Yuuto. Let's have some tea. I'll be waiting upstairs, Satsuki. Come after you tame Beast. Kanoe leaves, echoing the sound created by her high-heeled shoes. The computer cords stretch out, wrapping around Satsuki. Satsuki jumps. Once again, inside Beast. Beast's cover closes. * Monologue. SATSUKI Load Data 4. Voice recording program ON. I feel at ease talking to Kanoe. She doesn't want anything from me. She expects nothing. She sounds like she is kidding me, but it's not like she's obsessed with me. She is looking at something else. Not me. I think it has something to do with the existence of her older sister Hinoto that I heard her mention some time ago. But I don't care. It has nothing to do with me. Obsession. The word I find most troublesome. My father was obsessed with me. Yes, you guys know. Maybe in the beginning he was just proud of his daughter who had a slightly higher IQ than normal. But from when I entered elementary school, he must have felt like he made the discovery of the century. All of it was troublesome for me. That's why I thought "oh good" when he died. [fuu notes the tone is like "good riddance" FYI] I hate boredom, but I hate being troubled even more. I came here, under the federal building, to avoid trouble. Because I find people approaching me out of curiousity, like the Freemasons, troublesome. What? Hating boredom and hating trouble seems awfully fuzzy? [fuu notes fuzzy as in abstract] I guess. You have a point there. Kanoe said that the people associated with the end of the Earth is gathering in Tokyo. I think it has something to do with the earthquake's epicenter that you guys predicted. I wonder if all this has to do with Kamui returning. Kamui. He looks like any other boy. But. I felt it. Those eyes. Those eyes that draws out something from inside me. I guess. It's just like what you said. It looks like I won't be bored from now on. Boredom. I've always felt bored, from early childhood. Something in my heart is excited. It's a rare feeling. I wonder if it's anticipating the events to come. I have to go now. Kanoe said Yuuto returned. Yuuto Kigai. One of the Seven Angels like me. What's wrong? You get moody when I mention Yuuto. We'll talk later. I'll be late for tea. Data 4 -- save. Username: SATSUKI