Report 4 Ai

Report*4:AI is the fourth Placebo report of The Silver Case. The chapter follows Tokio Morishima's perspective during the events of case#4:kamuidrome.

Summary

Thursday, September 2, 1999, 10:25AM
Tokio wakes up from a nightmare, where he remembers hearing the phrase "live weight". After a smoke, he reads an email from S. Inohana, telling him that the International Environment Agency was hacked and high-level data was published online. The data was uploaded through Kamui Net, under the handle "Sayuki", believed to be a play on Kamui's name. He tells Tokio to look into any online activity related to Kamui. He reads another email from a previous client named Yuu. She asks if he remembers her, and says she learned that he used to work for a gossip magazine by searching his name. She asks if he wants to do a photoshoot with her, and says that she met a genius web designer at the Ronny Rockets nightclub, who said he'd make a website for her. She expresses that she wants to become an internet idol, and will let him know when it's ready. Tokio writes to himself that he doesn't care for Kamui Net, and finds Inohana's request strangely vague. He remarks that the Heinous Crimes Unit has also been investigating online crime lately. He goes over the suicide of the idol Sayaka Baian, which occurred after she was secretly filmed for a week with access to the footage being sold online. Tokio says that online information doesn't decay, but is forgotten, with people already forgetting Baian's suicide not long after.

12:43PM
Tokio goes to Precinct 24 to meet with Tetsugoro Kusabi. He finds Kusabi looking bored now that he has nobody to talk to after what happened with Sumio. Tokio asks about the investigation of online crimes. Kusabi tells him he's not interested in it, but Tokio says that others disagree, like Akira. He decides to go to the sauna before going home.

2:18PM
Tokio calls Yuu to ask where Kamui Net is located. She asks in her online chat, and gives him the URL and passcode.

8:25PM
Tokio writes about visiting Kamui Net, and finding it filled with propaganda surrounding the worship of Kamui. He gets on a live chat, and starts receiving messages from another user, telling him that he knows he's watching and that they're searching for him. Tokio taunts him by sharing his own address. Tokio types in the chat, where the others all threaten him. He apologizes and leaves.

10:07PM
Tokio goes to Jackhammer and asks the Bartender if he knows what a "generation gap" is, and if it's possible to understand the internet generation. The Bartender tells him that there are actually more people in their 30s on the internet than any other group. He says that he reads journals online, but can't understand ones written by younger people, since they're targeted at a younger audience. He finds it lonely since it only exists for the author and their select few perfect readers.

11:39PM
Tokio writes about the relationship between a writer and the reader. He wonders why he writes his reports like a diary, which he thinks is to include his personal viewpoints. He describes his dream from that morning, that he was in a long line of children at a bus stop. Each child is checked by a woman to be let on, and when it was his turn, he was turned away because he didn't have enough "live weight". Tokio wonders what the meaning of the dream could be.

Friday, September 3, 1999, 10:25AM

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