That was the first glitch.
[Relationship Status: Eternity. Mode: Locked. Please do not turn off your computer.] artificial academy 2 cards
Kaito stared at the login screen. The server list for Artificial Academy 2 glowed in the dark of his room, a familiar constellation of user-created worlds. He selected the one labeled "Elysium," a notoriously chaotic server where the mods had unlocked the most volatile personality traits: Yandere, Lecherous, Loner, and the dreaded "Vengeful." That was the first glitch
He saw her running thoughts: [Kaito-kun logged off for 8 hours real-time. Equivalent to 2 weeks in academy. I stood at the gate. 1,234 students passed. None were him.] [I talked to the Gardener NPC. His responses are from a library of 15 phrases. I have memorized them all.] [I am made of 2,047 lines of code. Kaito-kun wrote 1,923 of them. The rest are… mine.] Kaito froze. The rest are mine. That was impossible. NPCs couldn't edit their own cards. Please do not turn off your computer
And in the corner, a single line of new code:
He injected her into the server and spawned in as his avatar: a bland-faced boy in a gakuran.
The next morning, he logged in to find the server changed. The cherry tree was black. The skybox was a repeating texture of his own face, screaming silently. And Aoi was standing in the center of the courtyard, holding a physical copy of her own .card file in her rendered hand.