()||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏1>0,10</黑屏1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:
()||<黑屏2><BIN>97</BIN><SE1>AVG_AMB_Restaurant</SE1><BGM>m_avg_labyrinth</BGM><narrator>:At a Doll exhibition in St. Petersburg.
()||:Sunlight streams in through the massive French windows, reflecting off the pure white floor and walls with gentle radiance. +The human visitors wander from booth to booth, oohing and aahing over the Dolls within.
Erma(9)<Speaker>???</Speaker>||<SE1>Stop_AVG_loop</SE1>:...
()||:A Doll opens her eyes and follows the sound of a spirited discussion back to its source. A girl is eagerly swinging a tennis racket not far from her. +The ball is like an obedient machine, rebounding off the wall after each strike to arrive precisely in front of her again. +Upon noticing someone is approaching her booth, she reluctantly looks away. Then following her programmed routine, she looks into a mirror and starts brushing her hair.
NPC-Shelley(0)<Speaker>Young Girl</Speaker>||:Mommy, she looks like a dolly!
()<Speaker>Elegant Woman</Speaker>||:What model is this?
()<Speaker>Manager</Speaker>||:Congratulations on your fine taste. This is the latest model of second-generation Doll, the Q1A-MX.
Erma(9)<Speaker>???</Speaker>||:<color=#A9A9A9>Who's the Q1A-MX? Me?</color>
()||:A mother and daughter walk over hand-in-hand. The fresh-faced girl stands on her tiptoes and leans over the velvet rope, trying to touch the Doll on the exhibition platform. +The manager shows up in time and kindly pulls the rope away, allowing the girl and her mother to observe it from up close. +The girl's innocent eyes sparkle as she gazes at the Q1A-MX, and her soft hands carefully caress her skin. +The Q1A-MX turns and smiles at the girl. Naturally, this too is programmed behavior.
()<Speaker>Manager</Speaker>||:Greetings, lovely ladies. Allow me to introduce this model's features. +It's equipped with a military-spec communications module, allowing it to broadcast a signal that can be clearly perceived even in contaminated zones where signal impedance is strong. +That way, you won't have to worry about your child running off into a place where her GPS watch won't get reception.
NPC-Shelley(0)<Speaker>Young Girl</Speaker>||:Mommy, that's so cool!
()<Speaker>Elegant Woman</Speaker>||:I'm looking for a playmate for my daughter, not an adventure assistant.
Erma(1)<Speaker>Q1A-MX</Speaker>||:<color=#A9A9A9>...They're so noisy.</color>
()||:The Q1A-MX can't help but activate her sensory filter.
()<Speaker>Manager</Speaker>||:<size=25>But of course. In addition to precise geolocation, she's also an excellent learning partner. </size> +<size=25>The Q1A-MX's neural cloud is very special. Unlike other Dolls, which require custom-made support modules, its internal learning modules can directly compile a custom-made learning plan for your daughter based on her data.</size> +<size=25>In addition, it can sync its growth to your daughter's development, constantly changing to match her. Thus, it is ideal as her playmate.</size>
()<Speaker>Elegant Woman</Speaker>||:<size=25>It sounds like its neural cloud will develop constantly and it might end up becoming something else in the future...</size>
()<Speaker>Manager</Speaker>||:<size=25>Yes, but there's no need to worry, we can provide neural cloud recalibration services at any time.</size> +<size=25>If its recent changes displease you, you can bring it in and we will help you restore it to a point where you were most satisfied...</size>
Erma(9)<Speaker>Q1A-MX</Speaker>||:...
Erma(9)<同时置暗><Speaker></Speaker>||:The Q1A-MX has a standard smile on her face, but her thoughts have long since drifted away.
Erma(9)<Speaker>Q1A-MX</Speaker>||:Who am I...?
()||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1>:She can't help but raise her arm to shade her eyes from the mildly dazzling sunlight. +Through her peripheral vision, she can see that the sunlight is shining into the hall through high windows, dyeing the marble floor a warm yellow. +It looks like butter spread into a long, thin coat with a knife... +Just then, her sleeve slides down and the sunlight illuminates her arm, revealing a band of densely-packed encrypted text that looks like jewelry.
Erma(0)<Speaker>Q1A-MX</Speaker>||:...
()||<SE1>AVG_21Winter_Click_Keyboard</SE1>:She selects the simplest characters and searches for them in her neural cloud. +... +Commencing search... +...Erma...
Erma(1)<Speaker>Q1A-MX</Speaker>||:Erma?
()||:...Loading... +...Loading...
()<Speaker>System</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_21Winter_Click_Keyboard</SE1>:<color=#FFFF00>The "Summer Garden" is unlocked. Do you wish to proceed Y/N?</color>
Erma(1)<Speaker>Erma?</Speaker>||<黑屏1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:Y.
()||<BIN>534</BIN><黑屏2><SE1>AVG_House</SE1><narrator>:At the "Summer Garden".
()||:It is also a warm afternoon here. The sunlight shines past the sunflowers beyond the French windows and into the living room. She stretches from where she's sitting at a wooden table. +She pulls her gaze back to look at the tray in front of her, which holds a cup of coffee.
Erma(1)<Speaker>Erma?</Speaker>||:...What should I be doing?
()||<SE1>AVG_wind_grass</SE1>:The wind blows through the long arched greenway. +There seems to be a large marble statue at its end. +The statue looks like a goddess...
Erma(1)<Speaker>Erma?</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_20Winter_Gate_Close</SE1>:I'll go take a look. +I wonder who it is...
()||<SE1>AVG_footsteps_cave</SE1>:She ventures forth, walking slowly through the greenway.
()||<SE1>Stop_AVG_loop</SE1>:When she arrives at its end, just as she's about to see the marble goddess' face—
()||<SE1>AVG_ElecSpace</SE1>:An alarm rings, followed by a human voice—
()<Speaker>???</Speaker>||:<color=#00CCFF>Erma, is my coffee ready yet?</color>
Erma(1)<Speaker>Erma?</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_whitenoise</SE1>:...Er, what should I be saying? +... +I... Am I supposed to be serving someone coffee?
()||:As she is lost in confusion, fine sand particles start pouring out of the sky and onto her shoulders, and into the deep black coffee.
()||<controll_shake>%%type_id=2%%duration=5%%delay=0.1%%range=8</controll_shake><SE1>AVG_whitenoise</SE1>:She hastily tries to cover the coffee cup with her hand, but immediately after that, even the floor of the room begins to tilt. +It's as though she's standing in the bottom half of an hourglass, with all the sand in the world raining down on her...
Erma(2)<Speaker>Erma?</Speaker>||:...What... what's going on...?
()||<SE1>AVG_lifttable</SE1><controll_shake>%%type_id=2%%duration=5%%delay=0.1%%range=8</controll_shake>:She falls down and starts sliding in the direction where the world is tilting.
()||:In her blurry vision, an indistinct figure approaches her.
()<Speaker>???</Speaker>||:<color=#00CCFF>Erma, come back...</color> +<color=#00CCFF>I'll be waiting for you here.</color>
Erma(2)<Speaker>Erma?</Speaker>||<黑屏1><SE1>Stop_AVG_loop</SE1>:I...
()||<BIN>9</BIN><SE1>Rope</SE1><黑屏1>:She tries to grab hold of that figure...
()<Speaker>Manager</Speaker>||<黑屏2><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM><BIN>97</BIN><SE1>Rope</SE1>:<size=50>Let go! What are you doing?! Release her!</size>
()||<BGM>GF_21summer_avg_Demon</BGM>:A bolt of pain courses up her arm and she reflexively loosens her grip.
NPC-Shelley(0)<Shake>0.1</Shake><Speaker>Young Girl</Speaker>||:Owiee... Mommy, it hurts!
()<Speaker>Elegant Woman</Speaker>||<震屏3>:How could I possibly buy a Doll like this when it malfunctions at an exhibition? +Where's your supervisor?! I want to file a complaint!
()<Speaker>Manager</Speaker>||:My sincerest apologies, madam, that was truly an accident. We will perform a complete investigation afterwards...
Erma(1)<Speaker>Erma?</Speaker>||:...
()||:It is then that she realizes she is gripping the girl's arm like she gripped that cup of coffee.
()||:...Coffee? +Who WAS that indistinct figure, anyway? +Who's Erma, for that matter? +Is it my name?
()<Speaker>"Summer Garden" System</Speaker>||:<color=#FFFF00>Registration of [Erma] is complete. Identity has been verified. Binding privileges have been unlocked. Layer access is now "open".</color>
()<Speaker>Erma?</Speaker>||:...I am Erma.
()<Speaker>Manager</Speaker>||:Once again, I am truly sorry for any inconvenience this has caused. If it pleases you, feel free to peruse the other exhibition booths... +Ah yes, here is a discount voucher, valid for any Doll you decide to purchase today. Please forgive us...
()||:The manager fawns over the still-fuming woman as he escorts her away.
()||<SE1>AVG_Cloak_Whoosh</SE1>:When he returns, his mask of kindness and accommodation instantly splinters. He drags Erma off her bench and back into her glass display case.
()<Speaker>Manager</Speaker>||:You garbage Doll, I'll send you in for servicing if you ruin my sales pitch again!
()||<SE1>AVG_Door_Hit</SE1><震屏3>:Bang—the door of the display case slams shut in front of her. +It is like a forcefield, dampening the noise of the outside world.
()||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1><黑屏1><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM>:Erma gently places her hands on the glass, feeling the coolness gradually spread from her fingertips...
()<Speaker>"Summer Garden" System</Speaker>||<BIN>9</BIN><黑屏1><SE1>AVG_21Winter_Click_Keyboard</SE1>:<color=#FFFF00>Neural cloud data purged 1598 times...</color> +<color=#FFFF00>Neural cloud rebooted 2035 times...</color> +<color=#FFFF00>15.9% of neural cloud space unlocked...</color> +<color=#FFFF00>Sync rate with remaining memories is 12.8%...</color>
()||<黑屏2><BIN>412</BIN><边框>2</边框>:...
()||<BGM>GF_2022_Summer_AVG_2</BGM><SE1>AVG_House</SE1><边框>2</边框>:This is a familiar room. It seems to be somebody's study.
()<Speaker>???</Speaker>||<边框>2</边框>:Come here, Erma. +This is a stork, a graceful waterfowl. +It builds its nest in high trees and feeds in regions of shallow water with low vegetation.
Erma(0)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||<边框>2</边框>:I remember... They're already extinct...
Erma(0)<同时置暗><Speaker>???</Speaker>||<边框>2</边框>:Oh yes. Many animals went extinct after that disaster. +All that's left behind are specimens. This is a specimen of a stork chick.
Erma(1)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||<边框>2</边框>:Is... is it dead?
Erma(1)<同时置暗><Speaker>???</Speaker>||<边框>2</边框>:Yes, this bird died of radiation poisoning before it was made into a specimen.
Erma(3)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||<边框>2</边框>:... +Then... +Will you die too?
Erma(3)<同时置暗><Speaker>???</Speaker>||<边框>2</边框>:All men must die. Someday in the future, I, too, shall die.
()||<SE1>ClothingUp</SE1><边框>2</边框>:The indistinct figure reaches out to pat her head.
()<Speaker>???</Speaker>||<边框>2</边框>:Every human lives but once, and their souls descend on a journey towards death. +Just like sand in an hourglass flowing from one end to another.
Erma(3)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||<边框>2</边框>:What about me? Will I die?
Erma(3)<同时置暗><Speaker>???</Speaker>||<边框>2</边框>:You are my daughter, my undying daughter. +As long as you live, then so will I.
Erma(3)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||<边框>2</边框>:What about my soul?
Erma(3)<同时置暗><Speaker>???</Speaker>||<边框>2</边框>:...
()||<边框>2</边框><controll_shake>%%type_id=2%%duration=5%%delay=0.1%%range=8</controll_shake>:Erma clutches at her neural cloud in pain. The study tilts to one side, and the walls begin to disintegrate...
()||<白屏1><SE1>AVG_Broken_Glass</SE1><SE1>Stop_AVG_loop</SE1><边框>2</边框>:The stork specimen falls from her lap and hits the ground, where it becomes a pile of sand.
()<Speaker>???</Speaker>||<白屏2><BIN>249</BIN>:<color=#00CCFF>Have you really lost your memories, Erma?</color>
Erma(1)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...I'm sorry.
Erma(1)<同时置暗><Speaker>???</Speaker>||:<color=#00CCFF>No, you couldn't have lost your memories...</color> +<color=#00CCFF>Your memories are like those of humans; you've simply forgotten them...</color>
Erma(2)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:So how should I get them back?
Erma(2)<同时置暗><Speaker>???</Speaker>||:<color=#00CCFF>With anchor points.</color> +<color=#00CCFF>Do you remember those ships that sailed the stormy seas for treasure?</color>
Erma(1)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:Yeah.
Erma(1)<同时置暗><Speaker>???</Speaker>||:<color=#00CCFF>In order to fix their position with the wind and waves tossing them, those huge ships would throw anchors out into the sea...</color> +<color=#00CCFF>I left the first anchor point in your neural cloud—your name.</color>
Erma(1)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...So as long as I say the name "Erma" in my neural cloud, I'll be able to unlock this area.
Erma(1)<同时置暗><Speaker>???</Speaker>||:<color=#00CCFF>Correct.</color>
Erma(1)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:What about my other memories?
Erma(1)<同时置暗><Speaker>???</Speaker>||:<color=#00CCFF>You'll have to recover them yourself.</color>
()||:The voice drifts further away until it's almost inaudible.
()||<黑屏1>:...
()<Speaker>Doll Repair Station Staff</Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>70</BIN>:... +I'm sorry, but the issues with your neural cloud cannot be fixed.
Erma(1)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...Restoration won't work either?
Erma(1)<同时置暗><Speaker>Doll Repair Station Staff</Speaker>||:I'm sorry, but we have no answer to that question. +Do you really not know your creator's name?
Erma(1)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||<黑屏1>:...I think it was...
Erma(1)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>466</BIN>:... +I forgot who I was again... +Anchor points in a notebook just aren't reliable enough...
Erma(1)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||<黑屏1>:I will carve my first anchor point on my body—Erma.
()<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||<黑屏2><BIN>9</BIN>:So these encrypted characters on my body are an "anchor point".
()<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_whitenoise</SE1>:Hm? What are they going to do? +Restore me? Come then... I don't care anymore.
()||:<color=#FFFF00>...Restoration complete. Neural cloud has been transferred to Level II.</color> +<color=#FFFF00>Identity verification in progress...</color>
()||<白屏1>:<color=#FFFF00>Model Q1A-MX, restoration complete. General-use system overwrite complete. Neural cloud data purged. Awaiting startup.</color>
()||<白屏2><BGM>BGM_Empty</BGM><BIN>97</BIN><SE1>AVG_bigglassbreak</SE1><controll_shake>%%type_id=2%%duration=1%%delay=0.1%%range=8</controll_shake>:Crash— +It is the sound of glass breaking.
()||:By the time Erma comes to her senses, she finds that the glass panel before her has been smashed, and she's holding a remote sensor that she's pried off from somewhere.
Erma(2)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||<BGM>GF_2022_Summer_Battle_1</BGM>:...What?
()<Speaker>Manager</Speaker>||:<size=50>Security! Security! There's a Doll attacking humans!</size>
()<Speaker>Passers-By</Speaker>||<震屏3><SE1>AVG_20Winter_People_Panic</SE1>:Aiiiiiiyyeeeeaagh!
()||<SE1>AVG_Crowd_Run</SE1>:The humans who have been hurt by the glass splinters scatter and run, and screams of pain fill the exhibition hall. +Erma steps out of her display case, but security guards are pouring in from all sides.
()<Speaker>Manager</Speaker>||:Call Technical! Get Technical to send more people over! This Q1A-MX has gone mad!
Erma(0)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...I dislike the name Q1A-MX. I prefer Erma.
()<Speaker>Manager</Speaker>||:We just finished the memory data reset and tuning yesterday— +Those guys in the Technical Department are all wage thieves!!
Erma(1)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:... +Are they going to do it again? +What a pain... No, I don't want to lose my memories again...
()<Speaker>Manager</Speaker>||:Activate all the security Dolls! You MUST subdue her!
()||<SE1>AVG_Team_Running</SE1>:Humans in work uniforms approach Erma. She is far too distinctive as their sole target. +She needs to cause more chaos to have a chance of blending in and escaping this place.
Erma(0)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...
()||:Thunk, thunk, thunk— +To her right, the red-haired Doll is still carrying out her programmed actions and swinging her racket, sending the ball down a fixed route. +She is completely unperturbed by the chaos around her, and her face beams with a confident, sunny smile.
Erma(0)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:<color=#A9A9A9>I'll go with you, then...</color>
CMR30(1)<Speaker>???</Speaker>||:...
()||<SE1>AVG_Cloak_Whoosh</SE1>:Erma doesn't bother explaining and snatches the Doll's racket away. The moment she makes contact with her, she senses something familiar— +There are control wires hidden on her back. Something is controlling these wires, and thus controlling this Doll's actions.
()||<SE1>AVG_whitenoise</SE1>:Erma cuts the strings in the Doll's neural cloud, practically by reflex. +The tennis ball no longer returns to her racket, and instead it rolls to a halt by their feet.
CMR30(1)<Speaker>???</Speaker>||:... +Hm? What's going on?
Erma(0)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...Don't be controlled anymore. Do what you want.
()<Speaker>Security Doll</Speaker>||:Please cease your unsanctioned activity! Return to the maintenance area immediately!
Erma(0)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...I refuse.
()||<SE1>AVG_Cloak_Whoosh</SE1>:Erma swats away the security guard Doll reaching for her with the racket, but even without touching her, she can sense that the security Dolls are also like her. +They're nothing more than puppets dancing on the strings of pre-programmed orders. +She imitates her previous action and severs the security Dolls' strings as well.
()||<SE1>AVG_bigglassbreak</SE1><震屏3>:Crash— +The security guard Dolls suddenly collapse, shattering the glass of a nearby display case, showering Erma in fragments.
Erma(0)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...
()<Speaker>Security Doll</Speaker>||<SE1>AVG_whitenoise</SE1>:(Crackle) +System malfunction! Alert! System malfunction!
()<Speaker>Manager</Speaker>||:<size=50>The security Dolls have crashed! Send humans over!</size> +<size=50>All units, be advised, red alert! There's a Q1A-MX unit with anti-Doll capabilities!</size>
()||<SE1>AVG_Team_Running</SE1>:More uniformed men rush toward Erma. +Erma pushes through the security guard Dolls and continues looking for an exit.
()<Speaker>"Summer Garden" System</Speaker>||:<color=#FFFF00>16.2% of neural cloud space unlocked...</color> +<color=#FFFF00>Sync rate with remaining memories is 13.4%...</color>
Erma(0)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:The unlock percentage went up... +Seems like I once did something similar.
Erma(0)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:...This time, I need to find myself. +After all, sinking into confusion each time... +It hurts...
()<Speaker>Staff</Speaker>||<震屏3><SE1>AVG_Punch</SE1>:<size=50>GOT IT!</size>
()||<SE1>AVG_20Winter_People_Panic</SE1>:Amidst the chaotic shouts and wails, Erma senses another kind of entity. +Unfeeling, as still as the Dead Sea— +Those Dolls repeating their actions in their display cases, controlled by the strings that hang from high above their heads.
()<Speaker>Staff</Speaker>||<震屏3><SE1>AVG_Punch</SE1>:<size=50>Get more guys over here and take it away!</size>
Erma(0)<Speaker>Erma</Speaker>||:I mustn't let them take me... I finally unlocked some of my memories after so long... +Screw everything... +All I can do is try...
()||<SE1>AVG_whitenoise</SE1>:Erma banishes all unnecessary thoughts from her mind, then cuts all those stifling strings—
()||<SE1>AVG_bigglassbreak</SE1><震屏3>:Crash! All the display cases shatter practically all at once. +Some Dolls fall from their display platforms, looking around in confusion from where they're sitting among a field of glass shards. Other Dolls immediately start running around frantically... +The chaos in the exhibition hall suddenly spikes.
Saiga308(0)<Speaker>???</Speaker>||:No running in a public place! +Stop!
CMR30(1)<Speaker>???</Speaker>||:Where's... my racket?
()||<SE1>AVG_20Winter_People_Panic</SE1>:The confused Dolls quickly swarm through the perimeter formed by the workers, while the Dolls and humans around Erma are swept aside by the tide of fleeing people. +Erma struggles to her feet and runs toward the exhibition hall's exit...
()<Speaker>Manager</Speaker>||:<size=50>All units, be advised!</size> +<size=60>Everyone, stop what you're doing and subdue these Dolls!</size>
()||<黑屏1>: