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(Setting)NaVi's apartments
| (Is this meant for me? I'm gonna guess this is meant for me)
| >There's a knock on the door, outside is a dark haired figure, a lilim with a slight smile on their face.
| (Didn't want to embarrass myself lolol)
| >Steps can be heard on the inside and the door gets opened few moments after, revealing a girl of a short stature with waist-long ginger hair wearing a black shorts with similiarly black stockings and a white sleeveless shirt that was leaving her shoulders exposed, also revealing that there's a black sports bra underneath it.
"It didn't really took you long, is it? Come in."
>The room's curtains were now open, allowing the neon light from the streets in.
| >After opening the door it is clear that the figure is a medium height lilim girl, with shiny shoulder length black hair and a crescent moon choker around her neck. She walks into the apartment, a casual alertness in her eyes as she assesses an unusual place
"This joke went sorta far, didn't it?"
>She giggles softly.
| "I live sort of close, actually. Nice place you have here."
| "I see... Thank you. It might be sort of chaotic and messy in your view, but feel yourself at home."
>She walked towards the another door, actually leading to NaVi's room, allowing her guest to come in first, and going to follow her.
"So... What all of a sudden brought you to choose a hikkikomori hacker to hang out with?"
| >She smiles, looking around the room.
"I wanted some more friends--"
>She shakes her head.
"How rude of me! My name is Evie. Yours isn't really 'NaVi', I'm guessing?"
| "I have togive it to you here - you're quite perceptive. Indeed. NaVi is more of an alias from my past, eventually i got used to it, so i stick with it even now."
>She takes a sit at the kotatsu, gesturing to Evie to sit on the opposite.
"One day, maybe, you will get to know the meaning of it. And... here's a promise: i will reveal my name at the end of the day if things will go well."
| ( *to give
| >Evie sits on the opposite side of the kotatsu, visibly surprised by the warmth.
"I see.. So you said you were a hacker?"
| "I still am."
>The girl nods in agreement, then exhaling.
"However, i no longer stick with my past hacker activities and mostly work with private orders; until the right moment comes. Those are paid well for, so there's no financial complications for me in any means."
| >She nods.
"I imagine... Being a hacker seems like it would be harder these days.. Advanced security and all- I'll stop prying, though, is there anything you want to know about me?"
| "Don't worry, i will suddenly turn all that secretive if i see you prying on something i don't want to disclose yet."
>NaVi smiled gently at her statement; while being perceptive, she didn't seem to hear of The Phantom Thieves. Good, but strange, given that their existence wasn't a mystery by all means not so long ago and government painted them as criminals. Maybe it's for the best, then...
"I am a hacker. What is your... Wait. Wasn't you a bartender in Burning Gunsmith?"
| >She looks puzzled for a second.
"Not that I recall... I'm sorta new to town-- I only awoke a few weeks ago, you see."
| "Excuse me, i am mistaken, i take it. Just ready to be a couple thousands of zenny the bartender there had the same name... So, 'a new blood', so to say? Welcome to our humble glistering city, i suppose. Even through i am a bit late with it."
>Now - NaVi was excited; she rarely spoke to a lilim, and the newly awakened ones were even more rare ocassion to encounter.
"So, um... What you've been doing since you woke up?"
| >She twiddles her thumbs.
"It's sort of a long story. I technically belong to this company.. I forget the name, for some reason I escaped shortly after I was created and ended up in some guy's closet. I'll skip the details but after that whole ordeal I was taken in by a friend of mine, Kath--- Shyk."
| "Well, Evie. I don't force you to disclose your past, if you want to keep it secret - it is fine. After all, i am as well not completely honest with you. About my past affiliation and activities... let's say - i've had a change of pace few weeks ago, when the status of my group have drastically changed."
>NaVi lowered her eyes. Apparently, there memories were not only a mystery, but also a painful ones to bring up. The girl squeezed her hands into fists, resting them on her knees.
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| >Evie's eyes fixated on NaVi's fists.
"What sort of group..? Runners?"
| "Sort of... We've had the name of Phantom Thieves. Opposing locals corps influence, hindering their operations, deprieving them from their ill-gotten progits, unveiling their vile plans is what we've been doing... Our latest field operation was an accomplished disaster. We've lost everything. All four have been captured, two - executed, others - sent to prison for the restvof their lives. Our cause is, most likeky, lost now - with just me alone... Nothing can be done."
| >Her eyes widen.
"I'm so sorry I-- I never would have guessed you went through something like that.."
>She diverts her attention to the PC nearby.
"Is someone still looking for you? Are you safe?"
| "Saying 'i am looking after myself' will be considered as a sufficient answer?"
>She smiled sadly, eventually, a tear rolling down her cheek and dropping on her fist could be seen.
"Because... There's just me along with my sin commited now."
| >Evie frowns, crawling to NaVi's side of the kotatsu and making to console her.
"I'm sorry.. I was prying again."
>She looks like she's deep in thought for a moment.
"Maybe we should change the subject? I don't want you to get too sad."
| "It was something i was getting along with for quite some time. Should not be too much of an issue, but i see you insist. So... Why not, i guess."
>Rising her eyes only to meet Evie's gaze, NaVi smiles softly.
"Don't worry. I'm fine."
| "I'm your friend now, right? I'm here for you."
>She smiles softly.
"What do you do for fun around here?"
| "Well... I have books. And i have games. And i have comics from japan when i am tired of all this. I might also hack something or challenge myself with making up complex programming. I guess that's pretty much it..."
>NaVi shrugged. When you are a hikkikomori and barely leave your room often enough - there's no much ways you can entertain yourself with.
"Say... Can you hug me? I believe your hugs are really nice."
| >Evie laughed, wrapping her arms around NaVi.
"Maybe you could show me how a hacker does their job, then?"
| "Deal. But keep in mind, it is actually quite a long and boring process of tiny precise steps."
>NaVi leaned back to Evie's chest, resting her head on it, enjoying the embrace.
"But i want to stay like this for a while, if you don't mind..."
| "I'm a lilim, remember? Boring processes have a certain.. appeal, to me anyway."
>She pulls her a little closer
"It's a deal."
| "But Lilim were born to accompany us, humans, in the first place, and, since we are friends... I want to be honest with you."
>NaVi haven't felt such warmth for quite a long time, having such opportunity again... It is hard to describe how good it felt.
"So, if you have any more personal questions - go on and ask."
| >Evie leaned forward slowly, bringing her lips to NaVi's ear and whispering.
"...Your name?"
| >NaVi smiled gently; indeed it was rude and not justified for a friend mot to know your name after introduction. So, she followed her promised line, and unveiled it, feeling a pleasant shiver running down her back from that whisper.
"...Makoto."
| "Such a cute name."
>Evie lays back, pulling Makoto with her.
| (and with that i gtg for a while :^> )
| "T-thank you... But not as cute as yours."
>Slightly surprised by being pulled back to lay by the side of Evie, she looks into her eyes, embarassed.
"N-now you even know my name... Only my parents and Phantom Thieves knew my real name."
| >Evie is silent for a moment, and then sits up.
"Feeling rested yet?"
| "Not sure about 'rested', but yet much better."
>NaVi smiled softly, yet exhaling, disappointed by sudden ending of such a cute moment between those two.
"Would be actually be wrong to get Lilim hugs addiction? And under Lilim i mean not some random bypassing Lilim, but you."
| "So its more of an Evie hug addiction?"
>She stands, pushing her hair out of her eyes.
"How flattering."
| "Remember how i assumed your hugs being nice? Take it as a positive "i've told you!" kind of notice..."
>NaVi stands up as well and stretches, moving over to her workspace, turning on the PC.
| >Evie stands near the PC, listening to its many whirring sounds as the cooling system boots up.
| "So, shall we get to the part where i behave like a good girl and uphold my promise?"
>The operating system finally booted up, it looked like something vastly adjusted to the hackers' needs, barely rensembling the original it is based off on.
"First step is 'pick your target'. Usually takes way more time due to necessary preparations, but we can afford ourselves just point a finger to the sky and hit on some kindergarten level of security. I will tell you something-
| -like 90% of people barely bother themselves with network security unless it bites them. But we will still uphold the purpose of The Phantom Thieves and deprieve some corporate wretch of his ill-gotten zenny."
| "Sounds fun..."
>Evie takes a seat and observes.
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| "Now - to the less fun part. I call it 'ascending intrusion'. Step by step, i will obtain login data for a personel with sufficient clearance. Starting with the lowest of corporate inchworms, steadily proceeding to the tops. Such people with low lives and salary usually couldn't care less about the well-being of their boss' establulishment, so usually they don't bother themselves with extensive security measures. They might have access to a higher ranked-
| -user login data, and so on. Everything might come in handy: database leftovers, e-mails they never bothered with deleting and eventually forgot about they even exist - that's our best bets. Repeat until sufficient clearance is granted or targets' bsnk account data is retrieved."
| "Bank account data? Sweet."
| "That is our end goal. In fact, we're going to sneak in as one of the high ranked corporate workers and make it looking like he took the funds from the corporate account and moved it somewhere else. You know, for personal usage. They will have someone to blame, as an extention - they are overconfident about their security."
>She grinned.
"Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer. And we will end up unharmed, rich - and safe."
| "So which poor sod deserves it?"
| "Someone from the tops of their corporate career ladder. Someone who reached such heights through unjust means. The coup target is never defined by my personal likes or dislikes, but by his deeds, and them alone. So the punishment hee took would be an incantation of justice i, the last Phantom Thief, still may instill on them. Like... This one. Fits perfect to be our today's victim, he's been scamming his employees for years, and only few people knew about it. Now we know, too..."
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| >An averagely sized room, a bit messy and dark due to the closed curtains. It is regullary cleaned up, has no trace of dust or dirt, but still looks chaotic given that it's owner has quite a specific understanding of order - if she knows what lies where - then it is an order, and she's quite jealous about someone trying to fix her chaotic order or to blame her for what she highly prefers. The interior includes a locker, a kotatsu, a massive workspace with six monitors and a PC.