The Girl Who Was Plugged In: 09/01/2027, 10:00 Salyu stood still in that room, thinking to herself. ''My entire world lies within this facility.''  (Facility...!?)That word triggered red flags in Natsuhiko's mind. When the door opened, it was not a tutor that entered the room--  (!?)--but a woman Natsuhiko knew well.  ♪ BGM: Individualist / Theme of Louise ♫ As Dr. Tenkawa entered the room, Salyu asked her a question.  Whose memory are we transferring today? Professor Emeritus Kagano, an authority on fluid mechanics. Fluid mechanics. Not interested. You might actually find it interesting once you understand it, you know? After all, it only takes a moment.Dr. Tenkawa was indeed right. Salyu nodded and followed her outside the room.  They brought Salyu through the underground garden and stopped in front of Subject N's room.   Anyone who wanted to meet her had to be either completely bound or injected with AD. Dr. Tenkawa and the other researchers opened the door and brought Salyu into Subject N's room. ♪ BGM: Extra-Sensory Perception ♫  ...Welcome back.They heard Subject N's voice. The researchers soon responded. Eriguchi: We're starting now, Subject N. Kashiwagi: Starting Memory Transfer Experiment Phase 2, Trial 316. From No. 3, Subject N, to No. 2, Subject Y. Begin Senses Sympathy. Okay.And with that signal, a flood of ''information'' flowed into Salyu's head. It was the memory of the ''fluid mechanics authority'' or whomever it was that Dr. Tenkawa spoke about earlier. Ugh...Salyu groaned. Though it only took a moment each time, Salyu could never get used to that feeling. Even though it was only memories that were being written onto her brain, it felt like even her own mind was being rewritten. --Done.But as soon as Subject N gave the word, the bizarre sensation faded. Eriguchi: Roger that. Now withdraw Subject Y. Salyu was then taken out of the room again.  ♪ BGM: Individualist / Theme of Louise ♫ Yui, try solving this problem for me.On her PDA screen was a problem relating to fluid mechanics. ''In August 2015, a solid body flow pattern was confirmed near Jupiter's south pole. The following data table represents a two-dimensional model of that flow pattern. Based on the data, explain the mechanism behind the formation of the flow pattern.'' Roger.Salyu took the PDA and smoothly solved the problem. Dr. Tenkawa looked at Salyu's solution and then spoke. Yes, that is correct. Naturally.It was no surprise. For that problem itself was made by the very same fluid mechanics authority whose memory Salyu now had. Thus, there was no conceivable way Salyu would be unable to solve it. Successful memory transfer confirmed. Memory Transfer Experiment Phase 2, Trial 316 complete.Dr. Tenkawa spoke those words into a voice recorder and then addressed Salyu. That finishes up your work for today. Let's head back to your room. Understood.And with that answer, Dr. Tenkawa brought Salyu back to the room she started out in. This was Salyu's one and only unconditional ''role''.  First, LABO would invite ''guests'' with technical expertise to come to the facility. After putting a guest to sleep with drugs, they would quickly bring them to Subject N's room. There, Subject N would apply Senses Sympathy to steal all of the guest's knowledge. A skilled Level 6 Communicator is able to handle memories inside the human mind almost as if they were digital data. The Communicator could copy and paste the memories into their own mind, as well as bestow their own memories to a third party. Such tasks were easy, assuming one could manipulate intracerebral BC particles at will. Furthermore, the entire process took only a negligible amount of time. The guest would be left with a memory gap, but all Subject N had to do was fill it in with a fabricated memory. Once the drugs wore off and the guest woke up, they would not remember a thing. They would not even be aware that anything had happened to them. It was an extremely efficient, perfectly imperceptible theft of trade secrets. The backbone of an industrial espionage effort created by LABO, Rokumei City, and a certain corporation. (It's a well-planned system...)That was what Salyu thought. There were several ways of inviting the guests as well. Sometimes they'd be invited directly with made-up business. Sometimes they'd visit LABO of their own accord. Rokumei City Hospital was yet another entity in on the deal, and thus there were cases where they had drugged patients who had useful knowledge and transported them to LABO. Thus, LABO obtained knowledge from visiting guests and applied that knowledge for use in its own facility. In its greed, LABO also stole trade secrets that had no direct relation to BC in order to sell them off to other research facilities they had connections with. --Salyu's role was to be one of the final cogs in the process. All of the memories and knowledge Subject N stole from the guests were transcribed onto Salyu's brain. As a backup, so to speak. Salyu was thus a ''spare brain'' for Subject N. That said, Salyu didn't think much about it. She had already been burdened with that role for as long as she could remember. Just once or twice a week, the professor would come bring her to Subject N's room and back, just like today. And as long as she did that, she received all of her living necessities. All necessities except for freedom, that is.  Dr. Tenkawa thanked her as always. But Salyu noticed her voice was just a little bit quieter than usual. Professor, what's wrong? It's nothing. I'm just a little tired. We've been busy recently, you see.Salyu was relieved. As long as the professor said so, it was probably just that. I'm sorry, but I've got matters to attend to, so I'll be going now. I'll show up again later. When's the next appointment? Hmm... it might not be for a while, actually. Subject N hasn't been well lately. I see.Salyu felt glad that she wouldn't have to deal with that troublesome sensation, but at the same time, she felt a little lonely that the appointments were diminishing. I'll be sure to tell you when an appointment's scheduled. See you later.And with that, the professor left the room. Salyu gazed at the shut door. As long as nobody opened that door from the outside, it would never open. Salyu thought she would have a bit of free time until the next time the professor came. --Salyu herself wasn't quite sure of how long this had continued. Such a trifling past had sunk to the bottom of her vast, oft-rewritten pool of knowledge. But what she did remember was that when she was younger, she had a different sort of role. (If I'm not mistaken, that was the experiment to inundate the body with WX particles...) Exposure to such an environment could artificially raise BC aptitude-- or at least that was the goal of the experiment. But Salyu showed no results. The experiments failed, leaving her with the Rank F Aptitude she was born with. (Compared to back then, any experiment would be better...)Salyu was thankful that those experiments had ended five years ago. The current ''memory transfer experiment'' hadn't had a single failure. (... Unlike the experiments in the past, these ones have a definite purpose.) She proved that even knowledge of how to perform physical techniques could be inherited. --By the age of 6, she had a complete understanding of Kant's ''Critique of Pure Reason'' and was able to identify its points of issue from an existentialist perspective. By the age of 7, she solved the mystery of the zeta function that had been plaguing mathematicians across the globe. She also proved the Riemann Hypothesis. By the age of 8, she inherited the knowledge of an elderly pianist and successfully played the extremely difficult piano piece, ''Gaspard de la nuit''. Tips posted:TIP: Gaspard de la nuit By the age of 9, she had learned all sorts of athletic techniques ranging from artistic gymnastics to ball games and martial arts. By today, at the age of 10-- Salyu had the knowledge of 316 specialists of all sorts of fields packed within her brain. (... And thus, I became a monster.)The amount of knowledge in Salyu's brain had undeniably exceeded the apparent limit for human beings. Her swelling pool of knowledge was her entire life's history-- --and before she knew it, it was the very proof of her existence.
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