"This program is brought to you by EMI Music Japan." "No Friend - ideal did you really gain three centimeters?" "I worked really hard." "how was your date with Sakurai?" "Horrible!" "are you listening?" "want to stay over my place again?" "I can't." "I have a date with my Metal boyfriend tonight." "did you hear?" "This school has been haunted by a ghost lately." "A ghost? and seeing shadows in the corridors." "Are you serious?" "Risa and Meg from our class saw it too." "twenty to thirty people have already seen it." "That's quite a lot of people." "That's right." "it must be real." "Yukino." "You can tell." "I used to hate scary stories." "But I have been really into them lately." "Yukino likes ghost stories." "That's a bit surprising." "did you hear about it?" "What?" "You're usually the energetic early-riser." "It's rare to see you this quiet." "Not enough sleep?" "I've no idea." "even though I went to bed early last night." "Yukino was just telling us about the ghost haunting this school." "Ghost?" "I think the most plausible explanation about the truth behind this ghost is this." "Actually there was a huge accident 50 years ago during the construction of this Artificial Island." "and remained comatose ever since." "That must be... so they say." "you've become an urban legend in this place." "I believe that he is the ghost haunting this school right now." "he was not able to leave this earth." "He haunts this girls school to put a curse on the innocent girls." "I'm sure of it!" "I am not sure about that." "stop it!" "Stop talking about ghosts and curses!" "Sayaka can't stand this kind of stories." "That is also surprising." "Nyamo." "You don't believe in ghosts?" "Not really." "I don't know whether ghosts exist or not." "But I think there is probably some kind of supernatural stuff out there." "When I was in Australia..." "Even Nyamo?" "stop it." "I can't get any sleep." "I have never heard of it around this area." "what was that?" "That SET project that took advantage of the fuss about the Halley's Comet?" "You mean the SETI project?" "that's it." "don't we hear it all the time?" "That's about renting out surplus CPU power on computer terminals." "the technique of using the combined processing power of networked computers in the form of grid for data analysis is nothing unusual." "It has also been applied to find cure to incurable diseases." "really?" "It's all good." "But the recent trend of renting out human cyberbrain surplus domain is unprecedented." "there are no studies conducted on its potential side effects." "But isn't that the problem of the one who rents out his brain?" "There are always sellers and buyers in any business." "That may be true." "let's move onto the next problem. yielding surprising answers out of these formulas." "Math really puts me off." "Huh?" "Yukino?" "Tomo from Class 2B said that she saw a ghost in the music room." "Pretty bold of it to appear in broad daylight!" "I want to see it." "Is everyone finished?" "This is sick getting this far." "But so many people have seen it." "Miss Aoi?" "Yes?" "What is the answer to the first problem?" "Um..." "Well..." "I wasn't listening." "you there!" "swim!" "Fujiwara!" "Get into the water!" "Extend your thighs and legs and move forwards in the water!" "I did it!" "25 meters!" "Well done." "are you still using that swimming board?" "Are you really born and bred in Australia?" "Australia is a large place." "I didn't live by the sea." "How could I ever learn to swim?" "Nishimura!" "Swim harder." "Sayaka is too good at sports." "But you're a lot better than you were at the beginning." "everyone out!" "where is Sayaka?" "Sayaka!" "are you OK?" "what happened?" "There was somebody at the bottom of the pool." "I couldn't see it clearly under water." "But it was really there." "don't worry." "It was just your imagination." "I did see something." "It was no imagination." "Sayaka." "It's my fault for telling you a scary story." "Sayaka." "What's going on at this school?" "The number of users exceeded the company's expectations." "its popularity has exploded among high school students." "We still can't say that it is illegal." "It's most likely a business exploiting legal loopholes." "Is it still at its seeding stage?" "Looks like that we now urgently need a plan." "Have all relevant departments conduct investigations under my name." "What about authorization from the Trustee Committee?" "it will only get worse." "Understood." "there is one more thing I am concerned about." "What is it?" "This map pinpoints the times and locations of each sighting. it becomes apparent that they tend to center around that spot." "Isn't this a public junior high school?" "Yes." "Head there immediately." "I shall contact the school and obtain their cooperation." "Sir." "Are you sure?" "I was the one who dragged you here." "It's fine." "I just started a pretty nice part-time job." "So I have cash to spare." "Today's on me!" "lucky!" "Parfaits are a must when it's this hot everyday." "you are obviously much cheerful now." "Why shouldn't I?" "Eating makes me forget my troubles." "What's wrong?" "I left something at school!" "What did you forget?" "My sports bag with my swimsuit in it." "It's still by my classroom desk." "I have to go get it." "Want us to come along?" "I can make it before the gate is close if I hurry." "Stay here!" "Right where I left it." "Play with me." "we came to get you!" "You just barely made it before the gate is closed." "That was close." "Yukino?" "Don't tell me." "I saw it." "It grabbed my hand." "too?" "Oh no!" "It was a pale hand." "I'm going to find out the truth behind this ghost!" "Nyamo." "we won't be able to return to normal school life!" "Someone has to do something about it." "No way." "Absolutely not!" "Minamo." "It's dangerous!" "There must be something inside." "We should tell the school and report it to the police." "You heard what the teacher said today." "She wouldn't believe us if we tell her." "Shouldn't we solve our problems by ourselves?" "I have made up my mind." "I'll go by myself." "then I'll..." "I'll go too." "But I can't let you go there alone." "you are always slow to act." "But this time you guys are jumping right into it." "Fine." "I'll go too." "Sayaka!" "I can't let you two cowards take care of it." "I guess I'm the coward today." "strike while the iron is hot." "It's time to take action!" "Right now?" "But the gate is closed." "Don't worry." "if we run into trouble." "Hello?" "Souta." "Where are you?" "Behind you." "Souta!" "Why are you here?" "I have work." "Nice to meet you." "I am Souta Aoi." "Thanks for looking out for my sister." "Nice to meet you." "I am Yukino." "I am Sayaka." "Nice to meet you." "Is he really your brother?" "He doesn't look a bit like you." "Luckily he is not." "See you later." "You have work at my school?" "I am here to do check out the access logs." "I have authorization from Denriken." "you can come with me." "Souta." "Do you know what we're doing here?" "I have work to do inside the server room." "You're now on your own." "Can't you at least stay with us for a little while?" "You should be grateful I let you in at all." "Anything in the pool?" "No one's here." "Let's check the classroom next." "Sayaka?" "Let's go." "It looks OK here." "It must be my imagination." "Nyamo?" "What's wrong?" "Over there." "What should we do?" "I guess I was imagining it." "Hey." "Let's play together." "Who's there?" "it is just as we suspected." "The students access logs are still in the server." "My sister's friends too are on the list of registered users." "The sensor must be broken." "Let's look inside." "let's quit." "No one is here at this hour." "What's wrong?" "It's in the classroom again." "Yukino!" "It looks like no one is here." "What's wrong?" "behind you!" "Minamo!" "Hurry!" "What's wrong with you two?" "You just took off." "Oh no!" "What did I grab on to?" "Play with me." "let's play together." "Are you awake?" "Good." "Are you two OK?" "What happened just now?" "A girl I've never seen before was standing there." "You mean her?" "She was the one." "The ghost!" "it's not a ghost." "This is the still image I got from the school's cyberbrain server." "So..." "What's going on?" "Do you guys have any experience lately of having unknown data added and deleted inside you own cyberbrains?" "You mean letting someone mess around our cyberbrains?" "No way." "Could it be that?" "What?" "it can't be." "That job?" "Can you tell me more?" "very popular with the students right now. you can earn part time cash by just plugging to the cyberbrain network while sleeping." "That is why it is so popular." "Cyberbrain Renting?" "The company utilizes the idle time of registered users cyberbrain to perform marketing research." "Research?" "They say they are conducting monitoring research to create avatars for education." "The users receive a fee for renting out their own cyberbrains." "They wanted to developed characters incorporated with attributes popular with the students." "The reason you thought it was a ghost was because you were looking at the after image of undeleted abstract cache data left inside your cyberbrains." "This means that the images used in their experiments were left somewhere inside the cyberbrain." "it appeared as hallucinations." "it's ironic that their attempt to create a popular avatar ended up scarring you guys." "That's the reason I couldn't see it no matter how hard I tried." "That's kind of disappointing." "this is the end of the ghost scare." "The Denriken will contact the company directly soon." "And your part-time job scheme is going to be scrapped." "I see." "I hate to loose my nice part-time job." "But it's better than seeing ghosts." "lets go home." "yeah." "But... is it possible that your personality can change without you knowing it." "No way that is going to happen." "I did like ghost stories and urban legends when I was a kid." "And I used to be scarred of ghost stories." "When did I start liking them?" "Isn't this way scarier than ghost?" "wait for me! That's really mean!" "you can download Minamo's ring tone voice like this one." "this very..." "Real Drive!" "Real Drive" ring tone is available for download." "But this is a bit embarassing." "Please go check out the Real Drive mobile site." "see you next week." "Real Drive!" "This program was brought to you by EMI Music Japan." "Real Drive" " The Office of Cyberdiving Investigation" "Cut across by invisible lines" "The world map has become a patchwork of colors" "As the nation borders are scarred by wounds of history" "I search for the medicine to cure the world" "A voice from the distance past" "Has delivered us the silent message" "Ah I shall continue to walk this planet" "Till I leave behind no footsteps" "In becoming the wind" "Till I leave behind no footsteps" "In becoming the wind" "In becoming the wind Shining upon the impregnable fortress" "Is the seductive light that stops my track" "My initial speed is dragged down by compromises" "And things are not progressing as planned" "That damned head wind" "Is blowing cowardice into my head" "The one who can truly cut through this without faltering" "Is the streamline warrior" "He gets up and takes the world" "He grinds his teeth and searches for the future" "He paints our times in blossoming colors" "He banishes slobber into darkness" "Sunrise shall carry away our bitterness" "I want to see it with you on the neverland hill" "Lets chase after tomorrow facing ahead"