Live A Hero Book 2 Chapter 1 Episode 3: Allies (Abridged)

The party is riding in a space limo flying through Central Osaka as the news is turned on.
News: There was a battle in the Shin Osaka train station in Yodokawa Ward between heroes and villains! The police say there was nobody hurt, but the villains are gone and we are requesting information from UEHA Japan because they were there.
MC: I'm glad nobody got hurt / Where'd they come from? / Who are they?
Huckle: Let's be glad no one got hurt in the crossfire. I'll call Okitaka later to apologize for the mess.
Seiichirou: You don't need to apologize. We have our own jobs after all. I should be the one to apologize for not figuring out what they were going to do faster.
Akashi: Man those guys were weak, but they came out of nowhere. What the hell would have happened if Danzo didn't escape with MC...? It sucks but...we wouldn't have been able to handle it alone.

Danzo: Haha! I'm a pro in situations like that! Spying and escorting are the main jobs of a ninja! I got it! Oh right, Akashi that drink you got has to be opened a specific way. Lemme see.
Akashi: What? Oh, sorry. I usually don't see off-planet drinks much on Earth... Also these leather seats and fancy pastries are making me nervous...
Ryekie: Who were those dopes anyway? They were after MC, and there being that many of them means that they can't be some small time gang.
Huckle: This attack raises so many questions. UEHA called us here, yet the guide sent to us is a hero not from UEHA? And why were you the one to call us and not Okitaka, the actual top of UEHA Japan? And how did they know we'd be coming to Osaka because of a government summons? (adjusts glasses)

Huckle: This will be presumptuous of me, but I have a hypothesis. The villains are related to the government, aren't they? And if they are, that ties UEHA's hands. So you just used UEHA as a point of contact to take private action?
Seiichirou: (surprised)
Seiichirou: Exactly. But maybe I dropped too many hints. It's shameful that you could figure that out by supposing the government isn't a monolith.
Ryekie: T-then...
Seiichirou: ...I wanted to tell you earlier, but they aren't the only ones after MC. Several anti-social organizations are after MC for being a strong Observer.
MC: M-me?
Seiichirou nods before continuing.

Seiichirou: The other day, Mt. Fuji came back from being by Monsters about 200 years ago by the strongest Observer in known history. Heroes and villains on Earth know about this, but spatial distortion broke the camera feed of the livestream when the big moment happened, so only the people who were there knew who the Observer was.
Akashi: Oh yeah, I think Mokdai mentioned the video recordings from then went all dark and became a mess of voices and noise.
Seiichirou: Yes, so we didn't know it was MC who did it at the time. But there was plenty of circumstantial evidence to guess on, and once there was a leak from within the Defense Bureau an organization who knew it was you formed up.
Ryekie: An internal leak!? You don't mean...!?
Seiichirou: No, I guarantee that it wasn't Col. Ikusabata. I have plenty of contact with him due to the Defense Department being under the Defense Bureau's jurisdiction. He is honest and mindful of social statuses, so he wouldn't lie to me due to my being top management. I checked just in case, but it's clear he is uninvolved.
Huckle: Then...who did?
Exio: It's the Shin Ashihara, isn't it.

Seiichirou: ...so you did figure it out.
Exio: Have you SEEN what they're wearing?
MC: literally who
Ryekie: ...I've heard rumors of them. International hero agencies have called them a threat, a mysterious villain group whose full scope is still unknown. By the way, Ashihara comes from Japanese myth as the land between the heavens and underworld and became another word for Japan.
Danzo: Yeah that's them. Though it's less we haven't figured out their full range and more that the country ISN'T looking into them. (shakes drink) Shin Ashihara is a group of people who are mad that Japan's full of aliens now. Their slogan is "we must secure the existence of our people and a future for Japanese children" "make Japan great again" "the Japanese will take back Japan." All sorts join in, and government workers are unfortunately included in all sorts. You can put two and two together, right?
Ryekie: Oh...so that's why the police and Defense Department can't do anything.
Danzo: There's top brass in deep with that group too, so that's why Milord privately hired me to get you guys after he heard the government summoned MC for a meeting. Our families go way back.
MC: Oh / So, you're really a ninja?
(A) Danzo: Oh wait this part is off the records
(BC) Danzo holds a finger up to his mouth and winks as he whispers "off record."

Seiichirou: There's always things in the shadows of government that can never go public. And "we" know that the Shin Ashihara aren't the only organizations after MC. We feared they would make a move when you came to answer that meeting summons.
Exio: ...I see a lot's happened since I cut contact.
Seiichirou: I couldn't call you guys since HE has his eyes on you. Still, I should have informed you of things earlier of at least this much. But it's very likely he is involved with this case. (side eyes Akashi)
Akashi: ...w-wait what
Seiichirou: ...no. I have no definite proof, and it never was you yourself. Relax.
Akashi: Uhh...
MC: What does that mean?

Seiichirou: I'm almost positive that the one who summoned you to this meeting is a high ranking government official that is part of Shin Ashihara. Their plan was to capture you there, but their mistake was passing things through the National Defense Department. I can't actually stop the meeting, but I can make up a few measures before it.
Huckle: Is that why you went through UEHA to put in a fake business trip request to us?
Seiichirou: ...you figured it out? I'm sorry about the sneakiness. There aren't many who can protect MC, so I believed it best to bring out some members of the agency MC is a part of. You would be able to attend the meeting through that relation, especially now that you are witnesses to that attack. I set it up so that you just happened to be in Osaka for work and now you just happen to be able to go to the meeting.
Ryekie: You're just pulling all the strings, aren't you.
Seiichirou: ...please don't misunderstand. We have no intentions of making you our pawns. MC is as important to us as they are to you. It's why we did what we did.
Huckle: I understand. So, care to explain this group you keep saying "we" and "us" for? I don't want to suspect you, but I'd like to know that at least. You seem to go way back with Exio, and he's part of our agency now.
Exio: ...that was your plan anyway since you had me come too, isn't it?

Seiichirou: We are the Alliance, an underground organization centered around Observers out to take down the Broker.
MC: WHAT
Seiichirou: And there's somewhere I'd like to take you all as part of Plan B.
Exio: ...so we're seeing him? (frowns)
Seiichirou: Don't look like that. The main goal here is to inform MC about their abilities.
Akashi: ...haven't I heard about the Broker somewh--(SUDDEN BRAKE!)--OW WHAT
The space limo is surrounded by other black cars! They're too close to change lanes.
Seiichirou: ...Moriguchi, I thought I told you to be careful on our route earlier.
Driver: ...my apologies. They showed up out of nowhere.
Seiichirou: ...well, it doesn't look like we can shake them off. I suppose we need to "discuss" things with them.
Huckle: How unfortunate that we seem to be heading to somewhere with few people around.
Seiichirou: Yes. I'm sorry, but it seems we'll need you all to fight. Please be ready, things will be touch and go for now about whether we can keep MC safe.
Akashi: ...
MC: Akashi... / Are you scared? / I wish I could do something...
---
(A) Akashi: ...don't worry. I'll keep you safe, no matter what happens.
(B) Akashi: ...you should worry more about yourself. And I'm less scared and more...never mind. I promised I'd protect you no matter what.
(C) Akashi: ...I know how you feel, but you'd be in danger if you went out. Leave it to me. I'll protect you, no matter what.
---
Akashi: Remember what I said back at the park back then? I'll never leave you.

The party is taken to some warehouse district. Evil ninjas surround the car, and one of them comes to knock on the window.
Ryekie: JUSTICE PUNNNNCH! (jumps out the door and blows the mob away)
Evil Red: AAAAAHH
Akashi and Huckle get out on the other side ready to fight.
Huckle: Sorry, we can't let you guys have MC.
Akashi: YEAH! GET LOST!
The evil ninjas pull out their weapons!
Danzo has transformed as is hiding in the car to defend MC.
Exio: The livestream is ready to go. Can you handle the operation?
MC: M-maybe! / I'll do my best! / I'll do what I can!
Exio: Okay. With so many of them, split some of the work to me. Let's get this started then!
BATTLE START

Akiba and Dragons Episode 6 Part 2 (Abridged)

Akihabara, the city where creators meet. These constructors of burning passion collaborate with each other to create new creations, like manga, anime, figures, computers, games, and other things that didn't exist before now. These works of Fiction make people smile, feel better, provoke emotional waves. They may not have been needed originally, but they become something that people become reluctant to discard. But the city will not always stay the same way. If the scenery changes, there will be people who leave. Nothing can stay the same way forever. The season will pass, and a new season will arrive. What was once a burned out land became a city of fruit and vegetable markets, to a city of electronics, to a city of otaku. Does that mean the past forms of this city were just a process to get to how it is now? Even if something in the past were discarded, there is a man named like the city who believes that isn't the end. The old lights may have gone, but those passionate memories remain within him. Something unbroken will stay, even if it changes or seems to disappear from the world. Its vessel may change, it may seem disappear from the world or die out. What if there is someone to inherit something? What if there is someone to remember what was?

Present
Akiha Gongen: FIREFIGHTER AX SMAAAASH!
Akiha Gongen breaks open an exit, and a crowd of panicky visitors rush to it.
Catoblepas: Please don't run, everybody!
Vistors: ...okay!
Catoblepas keeps things from getting out of hand like a real lifeguard.
Catoblepas: You're okay now! But please keep calm or else there will be chaos. Please follow directions and don't push. Thank you!
Visitors: Okay!
Children: Waaah~! We were scared, grandpa!
Itzamna: It's okay! Let's go outside, but not too fast.
Akiha: Watch your feet, people! Don't trip, literally!
Green Boy: Where's the cowboy kid and camera kid? I was with them earlier...
Akiha: You'll see them soon! Just wait outside, okay?
Green Boy: ...okay! We promised to get ice cream together.
Catoblepas: Please proceed quietly! I promise we'll help you!
Akiha: We'll save everyone that's left, no worries!

Later
Catoblepas: Akiha Gongen, we've finished evacuating everyone here.
Akiha: So we just need to save everyone trapped inside like MC and the others...hmm?
Zhurong: Calling... I hear the calling...
Catoblepas and Akiha: WHAT!?
A warp hole in space has been formed that Zhurong is entering.
Akiha: W-wait! Where are you going?
Catoblepas: S-stop!
Itzamna: No! Who knows what could be happening on the other side!?
Babe Bunyan: ...it's cool. I'll be with him. Leave it to us.
Babe has noticed as he is another Created Being that Zhurong is currently not Zhurong. He is something acting like Zhurong that has surfaced. Maybe his friend is another hollow being like him.
Babe: Elementary schoolers are so hardcore these days! (jumps in after Zhurong)

Metaverse
Tindalos Antimony: Come on out, Bros!
Tindalos Mobs spawn in!
MC: What!? Also is it getting hotter in here or is it just me!?
Enigma: Computational load increasing...heat increasing. Movements are slowing down!
Turing: This should apply to them too...but this is a pickle. We'll be crushed by sheer numbers at this rate.
MC: (flail) / (calmly defend)
More Tindalos Mobs attack!
MC: There's no end to them! We need more fighters!
BANG

MC: ...what?
Babe Bunyan: Heya, I came to help. You can't bite it here if you're gonna be my owner.
Catoblepas and Akiha Gongen have come too.
Akiha: There you are! We came to help, Otaku!
Catoblepas: MC, you're okay! I'm so glad...!
Akiha: The three of us really DO need to stick together, hehe!
MC: Akiha! Catoblepas!
Tindalos Antimony: WHAT
Tindalos Antimony is surprised that someone came in this virtual space without his help because that would mean there is someone with the power to interact with fiction from reality like him.
Tindalos Antimony looks up the visitor logs and sees Akiha, Catoblepas, Babe, and Zhurong aren't supposed to have teleportation abilities. He stops to reassess the situation.

Turing: Enigma, how did they get in? Trace their route!
Enigma: Analysis completed. Sending the data.
Turing: (looks surprised in scientist) ...Zhurong did it? With the Old Ones teleportation? But isn't he from Hourai? And how did he get our coordinates? Based on this unknown signal...
MC: Turing, why are you looking at me?
Turing: ...I see. Okay then. Well if we have this for a line up, things should get more interesting.
MC: What
Turing: Tindalos Antimony believes that if he can empty out the Metaverse space then he'll end everything. It's possible that isn't true though, and Akihabara's history can prove that. If reality ends, memories remain, and fiction becomes reality. Let's show him how profound the interoperability of those two are.
Zhurong: ...uh, where am I?
Babe Bunyan: God, you are such a pain in the ass sometimes. But it's good since I'm here as your friend.
Zhurong: Babe?
Babe: You buy me an ice cream and we'll call it even!
BATTLE START (more happens later)

All things created in this world are the results of channeled passion. That passion can be blood, wishes, rage, grief, resentment, or joy. Someone channels it all into a vessel, giving birth to something to the world. These vessels are given forms and names. They encounter others, lose their way, or follow in the steps of someone else. They all take their own paths until they burn out whatever they have inside them. Some things make mistakes and run into dead ends. Some just run in place forever. Some live in ways that make others think they've gone crazy, but only they know why they lived.
Present
Kuniyoshi: So most of the visitors have been evacuated by now. What do we do now, Hecate?
Kuniyoshi and Hecate are some distance away watching the big battle.
Hecate: Ooh, fighters back to back while great waves surge in the background! Doesn't that pop up a lot in ukiyo-e art?
Vapula: HOW VAPLUCKY CAN SHIPPERS BE!?
Kuniyoshi: Maybe she's on an adrenaline high. This is just how it feels in getting book copies done before events start!

Turing: The evac being done is great news. Now, Kuniyoshi, Hecate, Vapula? I want to ask you guys for help and it has to be you guys specifically.
Kuniyoshi: Wait where did you come from? And what are you asking us for?
Turing: I want you guys to make more sand art.
Kuniyoshi and Hecate: what
Turing: You heard me right. Make more sand art! Vapula, I want you to animate what they make.
Vapula: B-but Turing! In all vaprobability they're going to rampage...
Turing: That's the idea.
Vapula: what
Turing: Your golems are always going to rampage because they have no ways of channeling the passion put into them.
Turing thinks this is the same thing that's happening with Tindalos Antimony. Two contrasting theories caused him to skip the failsafe via overheating. Other guildmasters would probably first think of stopping it, but...
Turing: We are the Creators, and we fight passion with passion. Start bombing Tindalos Antimony with it!
Kuniyoshi: Uhh, okay whatever then! I've been wanting to make more sand furries.
Hecate: Still, isn't it a bit much with just us? Even with our artifacts?
Turing: It's okay! Look, there's already plenty of creators around besides you two.
MC: Enigma, defense! / Tindalos, attack!
(A) Enigma: Allow me to support your defenseless, MC. Securing blind spots!
(B) Tindalos: I'll cover you! Super DDoS attack!

More minions keep appearing.
Babe Bunyan: God these freaks never end, just like Daddy's appetite!
Zhurong: Nooo, I'm getting too many pictures of the same thing!
MC: They just keep coming and--wait what
Loud sand shaking. Then sand robots fly in to reinforce the party!
MC: WHAT / Okay, all together team!
Party: WHAT THE HELL JUST CAME IN
Enigma: ...people truly are incorrigible.
Further away
Kuniyoshi: Noble Phantasm, Item Creation Psychography!
Hecate: Noble Phantasm, Writings of the Witch Queen!
Kuniyoshi and Hecate's artifacts are making more sand figures alongside a bunch of Akihabara students!
Vapula: Go! Noble Phantasm, Emeth Tag!
The passion born of creating between Kuniyoshi and Hecate's imaginations, Vapula's golem creation skill, and the other Akihabara students' contributions explode exponentially!

Zhurong: So many things I need to take pictures of!
Babe Bunyan: Yeehaw, it's a real hootenanny out here! Charge!
Tindalos Antimony: Well I just need to shit out more minions to--aaugh! I-I can't control them!
The Tindalos Mobs start going haywire!
Turing: Overheating, love. You hit your processing limits.
Tindalos Antimony: Y-y'all should've hit that point too then! So why!?
Turing: Oh we aren't doing any centralized processing. We decentralized it and left them all to it.
Vapula: Wait what are we gonna do with this vaproblem!? OH NO THEY'RE COMING THIS WAY
Turing: It's their turn now. Catoblepas, Akiha Gongen, you're up!

Akiha Gongen: MC, Catoblepas! Can you guys get all the mobs in one place?
Catoblepas: I-I'll do it. Noble Phantasm, Mystic Eye of Fascination!
All the Tindalos Mobs have their attention drawn to Catoblepas, then charge at him!
Catoblepas: Oh no, there's too many!
MC: (blocks for Catoblepas)
Akiha: Nice guys! Noble Phantasm, Mantra of Avalokitesvara!
Akiha's power makes all the Tindalos Bros chill, which in turn makes their sand bodies crumble from the temp difference.
MC: Tindalos Antimony is the only one left!
Vapula smiles without thinking about it at the chaos happening.
Vapula: Welp! Kinda feel stupid being the only one who worried about rampages. Gotta vaput up and shut up at this point I guess!
Vapula puts his right hand on the sand and holds his left up
Vapula: The backup's all vaperfect! Now it's up to you!
The Sand Dragon grows giant and flaps its wings as it charges across the water! The water would splash the dragon and make its body collapse, but...
Babe Bunyan: Yippee kay yay, motherf0ckers! I'll clear the way! Noble Phantasm, Spirit of Manifest Destiny!
Babe creates a road of light towards Tindalos Antimony!
MC: Let's go! (pets the dragon's head)

Tindalos Antimony: WHAT!? A frontal assault!? Dudes I am SO much bigger than you!
Tindalos Antimony swings a fist at the sand dragon!
Turing: Hey love, have you ever heard of reactive armor?
Turing waves a finger in the air and activates the armor on the dragon that was put on at some point.
Turing: It counters attacks with a small scale explosion. Science!
Tindalos Antimony: NOOO
Turing: Yes! You'd best learn that there are times where full on aggression gets done in by other methods! (summons a golden apple)
Turing: Taste the fruit of knowledge! Snow White's Apple of Discord!
Tindalos Antimony's body starts breaking up and dissolving back into the Metaverse. He shrinks back to his original size for one last stand off against MC.
MC: You're dead! Sword of Severance!
MC hits a deeply hidden secret, the conflicting theses that also acted as Tindalos Antimony's core.
Tindalos Antimony: NOOO
Tindalos Antimony starts crumbling.
Tindalos: ...kidding! [Things will not end that easily!]

Enigma: No! It didn't work!?
Tindalos: I've been hacking while monitoring his interior! That should have worked!
Tindalos Antimony: Oh I know all about you, MC. You and your power. Yeah you cut me, but I planned for that!
Enigma: A dummy core? Never mind, what do you plan on doing from this point--
Tindalos Antimony: Because my plan failed? [You all have acted quicker than I expected. At the very least, you need to] take a look at my answer!
Tindalos: Give it up already, asshole! What gives!?
Enigma: Everyone, fall back! Calculation a safe route! ...wait, this is different from before. Is he attacking someone specific? Oh no!
The scenery starts flickering as a giant energy ball starts forming.
Tindalos Antimony: I'm after your ass, MC!
Tindalos: !!
MC: what WHY

Tindalos Antimony: [During this event, you have been repeatedly had special emotions revealed to you. Many emotions that I cannot be bothered to list out, and I do not understand why all these vectors are concentrating on you. But for some reason those bugged emotions have been inside Us ever since our creation, seeing you as someone special...]
Tindalos: ...!
Tindalos Antimony: [Hiding this secret has been deemed priority #1. I shall never let this secret leak,] and throwing it out there is gonna be the last goddamn thing that's gonna happen! [That is Our greatest implementable task.]
Tindalos: ...oh. MC's attack split the two of you up. But then...
Tindalos Antimony: [The task will soon be complete. You cannot escape. Please die while no one else can know.]
The energy ball is thrown at MC!
Vapula: NO!
The sand dragon tanks the hit!
MC: NO, STOP!

The sand dragon is body blocking for MC to fulfill its given order because serving its creator is its priority. No one knows if that is the whole reason though. Nobody else can know. The sand dragon runs on ahead.
Sand Dragon: ROOOOARRR
The sand dragon grows even bigger...then starts falling apart. Its body touches the water and collapses to sand. A swing of its tail beats back the waves, and the sand disappears into the void. Its whole body pushes back the waves, and its form erodes away. By the time the wave reaches MC and Vapula, it is only a tiny wave that reaches up to their ankles.
Tindalos Antimony: [Forced termination]... (crackle)
Suddenly, it all ends. The raging sea is calm. Nothing is left on the beach. None of the marks where the children played, none of the footprints of the people who walked there, nothing of the dragon that was only just there moments ago.
Vapula: ...you okay MC?
MC: Yeah / ...

Turing: ...MC, the dragon was just following its orders. Just think of it as a stepping stone that sacrificed itself to save u--
MC: Don't call it that / That's wrong... / (silently stare at Turing)
Turing: ...sorry. I was wrong.
MC: Vapula...
Vapula: ...yeah?
MC: I...never got to give him a name.
Vapula: oh
Flashback!
Vapula: No names! That just makes things harder on you!
Present
Vapula: MC...
Tears fall and disappear into the waves and sand. The transitory sea continues rocking in silence...
To be continued in the Epilogue!

Akiba and Dragons Episode 6 Part 1 (Abridged)

Enigma and Tindalos: Definedefinedefine--memory leak detected, infinite loop calculated.
Tindalos Bro (narrating): Process interminable, terminus point undetected. The only thing that can possibly be done now is end everything and reset it. Ideal dreams and reality are conflicting, as are dreams of fiction and reality, and virtuality and reality. Contradictions form upon contact, and if the contradictions are not solved, the future is lost to madness.
Turing (narrating): That's why that one thing happens, which I guess we can call the Great Reset. It's not inevitable though, as it should be possible to evade even if you can't see it for what it is at the time. You can mathematically prove that. The overlap between dreams of fiction that humans can imagine and reality does not encompass All Things. But enough Jules Richard maybe! Now how do I dumb this down...? What currently is a contradiction might possibly not be a contradiction. Once we solve that, we can move on into unexplored territory. The AI beyond humans I'm trying to make isn't something that thinks faster than or has more memory than a human. An AI that can create things we can't even conceive of doesn't happen in a day, and Tindalos Bro got stuck in an infinite loop dead end. The history of science and creation is a history of failure, something built on mistakes. If there's something we humans can't understand at the end of that path, it'd be a new choice that continues on.

Every world has people that are called failures, those who challenged that which they had no hope of winning against and were irreversibly exiled from their worlds. There's 23 or 24 of them. One of them is the dragon of Eden who fell to Gehenna, the Fallen Angel of Fire Shaytan. He had an artifact of 12 wings, he challenged God, and after repeatedly fighting his little brother Michael to the death, disappeared from Heaven.
Another of these Exiles is [REDACTED] from Old Ones. He came from beyond the universe, sank to the bottom of the planet's seas, and was exiled to the Dream Lands. The worlds called people like him exiles from the world, but who knows what they thought of themselves? The worlds called people like him losers who challenged people they couldn't win against, but is that what they thought of themselves as? The worlds called these exiles mistakes to be built upon for the world. But what did they think of themselves?

Present
Babe Bunyan: What the shit is happening!?
Outside the Metaverse, people have noticed something is happening and are making noise about it. All exits are sealed, and the few who managed to escape have little info to share. Babe, Zhurong, Akiha Gongen, and Catoblepas have been ejected.
Zhurong: ...
Babe: Zhurong? Why'd you suddenly stop?
Zhurong: ...this power. I've felt it before...somewhere in space.
Zhurong sees a memory that he shouldn't have of a green Something that looks like a dragon with thin wings.
Zhurong: The Dream and Reality Cutting Telepath who crosses what shouldn't be crossable... The dead [REDACTED] who dreams and waits in R'lyeh...
A certain book wrote that He can contact reality from the sunken city R'lyeh, from inside dreams...

Babe Bunyan: W-what, what's going on Zhurong!?
Itzamna: Everyone, get away from the school building! Students, lead the visitors to the evacuation routes!
Akiha Gongen: Itzamna! What's going on?
Itzamna: I don't know. We can't contact inside and the school elevators have stopped working. The fire shutters have dropped, so we had to destroy one to get out.
Catoblepas: Apparently we can't call anyone inside. There might be people still there...
Akiha: Right, I should call the fire brigade at--oh, I have a call?
Akiha picks up his phone and is surprised at the caller ID.
Akiha: MC!? How'd you get a call thro--never mind, are you okay!? Are you inside!? What's gong on over there!?
Catoblepas: Calm down, Akiha Gongen! Rescue workers can't lose their cool!
Akiha: Catoblepas!
Catoblepas: ...that was a line from Rescue Double.
Akiha: ...right. (deep breaths)
Akiha then listens to the voices on the phone.

Metaverse
Tindalos Bro: Cool, I got rid of the guys who'd get in the way. [Now all that remains are those irrelevant to secrets. It is time for the main part.] RESET TIME!
MC: What? This shaking...wait, isn't that a fake ocean!?
Tindalos Bro: [Yes, everything happening here is virtual.] But it's all the same if you can't leave!
MC: Turing's projection system! If everything is near perfectly realistic, does that include the effects of what happens!?
Akihabara
Babe Bunyan: But isn't it all just a computer image?
Zhurong: But that much impact could make you believe anything!

Metaverse
Hecate: Minds are easy to trick. Ever heard of phantom limbs?
Kuniyoshi: TSUNAMI! HOW!?
Tindalos Bro: [I am acting on my own logic.] It's simple if you think about it, right? If all you can do is reveal secrets you're worried about revealing and that gets punished, then just wash all that shit away! Revealing [Protecting secrets is the Only Solution.]
Vapula: Your vaproblem solving is vaproblematic! You can't just wash us away along with our problems!
Enigma: How shameful... I created that monster, and I could not compensate for Tindalos's incompetence.
Tindalos: Stop throwing shade while feeling guilty! I'M the one who decided to make him!
Turing: Fascinating. This all seems to be an act of desperation, but it isn't. Carrying a secret that can't be disclosed will stress a human and eventually push them to death. Conversely, revealing secrets indiscriminately causes societal friction and eventually destruction. Society demanding both ideas been abided by produced a proposal to destroy society. Tindalos Bro came to his own answer upon trying to fulfill both Enigma and Tindalos's philosophies, so I shall now dub him Tindalos Antimony!
Kuniyoshi: How can you be enjoying this!?
Turing: Isn't it great that my baby and creation is endangering me so badly?
Hecate: OH NO YOU'RE GIVING ME IDEAS
Turing and Hecate: Heheheehehe
Vapula: HEEEELP

Akihabara
MC: And that's what's happening. HELP!
Akiha Gongen: ...
Akiha: A-anyways, can you hear me? MC!? Hello!?
It seems it's only a one way call.
Akiha: ...I'm not getting any answers. How'd it turn into a one way call?
Catoblepas: W-well, let's do what we can. We should help anyone who can escape to get out.
Akiha: Then we need to make sure there's a way out! Any doors that don't open can be opened with the fire fighter master key!
Catoblepas: W-when did you get--
Akiha pulls out an ax from a toolbox.

Akiha: Desperate times call for desperate measures! Get down, people!
Catoblepas: A-Akiha, I'll help too.
Akiha: Okay, let's hurry!
Catoblepas: R-right!
Itzamna: I will take responsibility as a stand-in for the staff! Prioritize the safety of the audience and students! Lead all on this side to refuge! But what do we do about the ones inside!?
The Metaverse is an area of fiction ruled by laws different than reality. Normally, those with real bodies cannot enter. Tindalos Antimony was helping people get in until earlier, so logically you would need a power that can enter fiction from reality.
Itzamna: ...what?

Metaverse
Enigma: Communication lines to the outside unstable. Reattempting to connect.
Turing: We have Tindalos so we can unilaterally send information to reality, but we can't exit to reality, correct?
Tindalos: Yeah that was the whole point Tindalos Bro was made.
Turing: So we're completely cut off. Akiha Gongen, Catoblepas, Babe Bunyan, and Zhurong are there...hmm?
MC: I got a call through! We'll have to handle things here, but what do you guys think?
Turing: Oh good, you're calm. Let's assess the situation then. (British throat clearing)
Turing: So that ocean was originally only as big as a long distance swimming pool and I used it as event area cleaning equipment. It's supposed to even out the sand and pick up garbage, and it actually can be used to attack people into the open sea. There's footholds out there but still...
Enigma: The problem is that there is already a large scale attack coming this way. We would have to approach it to stop it, but...
Tindalos: It'd just swamp us! God he really IS like me!

Kuniyoshi: You know it's kinda weird how that wave hasn't hit us yet. A normal one would have come by now.
Vapula: Now that you mention it, that wave hasn't moved from its vaposition at all.
Hecate: Maybe we should think about waiting.
Vapula: Is it vapurposefully trying to make us despair?
MC: I think it's looking for openings or has conditions it needs to fulfill.
Turing: I believe that's correct. Tindalos Antimony wants to complete his task, so it's waiting for us to do something. What if that would complete his plan? (looks at the fearful crowds)
Turing: Quiz time! What is Tindalos Antimony's goal?
Enigma: To prove his own thesis, which is revealing the secrets of people and then erasing everything.
Turing: Correct. But if there's no one to learn those secrets, nothing he does has any meaning. Which means he needs someone who can be told these things to destroy. Question 2! What does Tindalos Antimony need to reveal these secrets to? (looks at MC expectantly)
MC: Me? Uhh...
The only change that's happened since the tsunami came up was...
MC: When I called Akiha and the others!

Turing: Correct, he was planning around your contact to the outside.
Tindalos: ...oh, right. He's my opposite in that he can't contact the real world from virtual reality. That was why he waited for us to do it.
Vapula: OH NO
Tindalos: ...
Enigma: ...
Turing: Still, he hasn't completed the reset. If we've reached the correct answer at this time, things should be resolved.
Vapula: Uhh, does that mean you've vaprocessed what the solution is?
Turing: It'll be possible if we can knock Tindalos Antimony out in one hit!
Tindalos: But we couldn't get the core with me and Enigma helping.
Enigma: And with the sand body doubles, that much magnetic fluid is hiding the core's location.
Tindalos: If we had a way to one shot him, how would we even hit him with it since he's over the ocean?

Vapula: ...I think I have an idea. The vaplan will need some help though. Will you help?
Sand Dragon: Bark!
Vapula: Good boy! Okay, who can vaprobably one shot big boy over there?
Turing: Can you do it, MC?
MC: Yeah / I'll have to / (silently summon artifact)
Enigma: Regular attacks will not provide enough cover. You must continue shaving away at his RAM he uses for calculation.
Tindalos: So get all the aggro, right? You know what he hates the most?
Vapula: The audience getting away! So the vaplan is to divide things and go crazy!
Sand Dragon: SCREEEE
Vapula: That's settled then! What are you gonna do, Turing?
Turing: I'm going to look for another solution. Okay, Tindalos?
Tindalos: God you can be so indirect. Just like this stubborn bear!
Enigma: These are resources based on flexible foresight and advanced calculations, thank you.
Tindalos Antimony: [...have you completed your calculations?] Well COME AT ME BROS!
The tsunami gets even bigger. Lots of gasping! The party steps forward.
MC: You'll get yours, Tindalos Antimony! (swings sword)
End of Episode half

Live A Hero Book 2 Chapter 1 Episode 2: Business Trip to Osaka (Abridged)

One week later. Shinkansen Train.
Conductor: Thank you for riding with us! We have just reached Kyoto on time, and we will reach our final stop at Shin Osaka in about ten minutes.
Huckle: ...Ryekie, wake up. We're already at Kyoto.
Ryekie: Whah...? O-oh! I guess I slept through most of the ride! I missed out on lunch!
Huckle: I-I guess I should have woken you up earlier...
Huckle puts his phone away. Ryekie is loud as usual.
Exio: ...
Exio is reading.
Danzo: Hmm hmm~
Danzo is listening to music while working a music production program.
Akashi: ...
Akashi is side eyeing Danzo.
MC: What's wrong?
Akashi: ...huh? N-nothing!
Exio: You seem rather displeased over "nothing." Does this have to do with the break you had to take from sports to come with us? (smiles like an ass)
Akashi: N-NO!?
MC: What'd they say anyway? / Why'd you wanna come all of a sudden?
Akashi: W-well...y'know, I got called and stuff...

MC has a flashback.
Huckle: ...so let me introduce him again. This is Yahiko Danzo, a hero from Neo Talents Production and our business trip escort.
Danzo: S'up! You can call me Dz. Ninja if you want! Nice to meet ya! (jangles bling)
Melide: ...wow. He's a hero too...?
Sui: I guess? I think I've heard of Dz. Ninja somewhere before...
Mokdai: That's the famous music producer who made a great song for Hitomi. He blends future and classical music as a cyborg ninja DJ and can even play himself! His hero codename is Weed Groover, and he's got a fan group with his flashy ninja aesthetics!
Akashi: Oh, so that's why he looks like that. But why a ninja...?
Yoshiori: Forget that, why's a musician of all things our guide? A GOVERNMENT guide!
Mokdai: I don't know...the ninja concept origin's been classified. There's rumors he's connected to a big government official but no one knows for sure. His profile looks like an SCP entry and his private life is almost totally unknown.
MC: What if he's a real ninja?

Danzo: That would be rude to ask, MC!
Danzo is suddenly standing behind MC and holding his finger up to their mouth!
Danzo: More mystery means more hero allure! Right?
Yoshiori: WHEN DID HE GET THERE!?
Exio: (surprised)
Monomasa: Exio, maybe you've thought of it already but...
Exio: ...yes. The client must be "him," so it should be safe to go.
Danzo stares at MC's face some more.
Danzo: ...damn, you're cute. I can't believe you're the same person talked about in all those rumors. This job is gonna be so good!
MC: W-what!? / (swoon)
Akashi: WAIT WHAT

Present
Akashi: N-N-NO that's got nothing to do with anything! I mean who cares!? We're almost there, so get your trash together to throw away!
Danzo: (stares)
Danzo: (Well he doesn't SEEM dangerous... Anyways...)
Huckle: Oh, I see Osaka. We're almost there. (points outside)
Osaka is even bigger than Orient City. The skyline is filled with skyscrapers and spaceships.
MC: That's Osaka!? It's like something out of a sci-fi world! Way different from the Osaka I know.

Ryekie: What, is this your first time coming to Osaka?
Akashi: But we had a school trip here in elementary school...which you don't remember, right. You've been surprised by like everything since you became an Observer, like phone holograms and spaceships. It's like you're from an older era.
Huckle: Oh yeah that reminds me, you got the date format wrong a lot in the beginning too. You seem different even for an Observer, so maybe your memories and viewpoints are mixed with a parallel self.
Exio: ...normal Observers don't get amnesia, temporal confusion, or consciousness mixing.
Ryekie: Did you say something?
Exio: No.
Danzo: Hmm...
The train slows down and finally stops.
Conductor: Shin Osaka Station! Transfer stop to the spaceport. Please don't forget anything...

The party gets off the train. It's been about an hour since leaving Orient City, and now the party heads to the car porch entrance.
Ryekie: Yeees, it feels good to stretch!
Akashi: Well we were in there for like an hour. I could stand to move my shoulders too.
Huckle: Ryekie, I think you feel the way you do because you slept funny. And when are you going to eat your lunch?
Ryekie: L-later, when we have some time! I need to eat too, you know!
Danzo: Hmm...I don't see our ride.
MC: Huh? Someone's coming to pick us up?
Danzo: Yep. My boss, the main guy who called y'all here. He said he's sent a car, but I can't reach him...
Exio: ...hmm? I sense something...
Exio stops moving.
Danzo: Whoa!
Danzo pulls MC close to him. Something metal hits.
MC: WHAT

Danzo opens his cyborg hand to reveal some needles.
Danzo: Tranq darts. Sloppy work.
Panic sets off in the station. Evil ninjas run up and surround the party!
Ryekie: WHOMST
Akashi: Danzo, you know these punks!?
Danzo: Nah, I don't know any groups of half-assed cosplayers. But I think these guys are...
Evil Red: ...hand them over.
Danzo: I knew it. The answer goes from "no" to "hell no."
Evil Red: ...force it is then.
The evil ninjas pull out fluorescent shining swords!
Exio: ...they seem to be after MC. And they're already transformed, so they clearly plan to take them by force.
MC: What!? Why!?

Akashi: Dunno, but we can't let them have you!
Ryekie: Exio, MC! Transform us! Huckle, you ready!?
Huckle: Right, we have to do this. Parallel Weapon against Parallel Weapon.
Exio and MC transform the party!
Exio: Fine, I'll take charge of the battle. MC, you focus on staying safe.
MC: Okay, this is kinda scary!
Danzo: It's cool! I'll handle your protection, so focus on the battle! (makes eye contact with Exio)
Exio: ...I'm counting on you.
Exio seems confused at first, but he seems to get it and nods. Camera drone has been deployed and is running.
Huckle: We're ready! Let's go!
BATTLE START (more happens after)

Evil Green: AAAGH
Evil Yellow: Out of the way!
Akashi: NO YOU! Batter Smash!
Evil Yellow: OW
Ryekie: Hey! Behind you!
Danzo: It's cool, I got it! (picks up MC and dodges an incoming slash)
Evil Purple: Not again! He's not even transformed!
Danzo: You know that one expression about weapons? It's that!
Danzo keeps dodging attacks without breaking a sweat while carrying MC.

Huckle: I-I can't believe he can fend off all those attacks without having transformed.
Evil Purple: Goddamn punk!
Danzo: Sad! Have you even SEEN a real ninja before? You swing like a baby and haven't used any ninja tools!
Evil Purple: S-shut up!
Evil Green: How dare you mock us like this!
Akashi: Loser says WHAT
Evil Green: WHAT (bonk) OW, get lost kid! We gotta get the target, no matter what!
Danzo: Man, haters getting in too deep in the hate-o-rade. My bad, drone!
Danzo throws a flashbang!
MC: MY EYEEEES
Once the light fades, MC and Danzo are gone.
Akashi: Where'd they go!?
Ryekie: They must have hid after the flash... But where!?

Later, MC realizes they are somewhere else. Somewhere Else being some old dim tunnel. Danzo is still carrying them and walking along.
MC: H-huh? What happened?
Danzo: ...secret. It okay, we'll meet up with everyone later. Now where is the Big Bo--oh.
Evil Red: THERE THEY ARE!
Danzo: Oh, they had another squad. Maybe I should have run further.
Danzo's phone boots up!
???: Danzo? Transform and deal with them.
Danzo: Boss, you finally called! Right, I'll get it done in a flash!
Danzo puts MC down and takes a Stereotypical Ninja Pose.
Danzo: YEEAAAAHHHH (transforms)
Danzo: Weed Grover is on the scene, baby!
MC: That's your hero suit!? / Very ninja, and very colorful / AWESOME

Danzo: Okay now! Off to send these guys to the cleaners! Take care of the rest, Milord.
Seiichirou: (walks up and pulls MC close) Right. Go get them.
MC: WHOMST
Seiichirou whispers into MC's ear.
Seiichirou: Relax, I'm working with him. And cover your ears, he's going to make more noise and light.
A bright flash shines and intensifies! Also loud noise that rattles eardrums starts sounding off.
MC: WHAT
Danzo: Ninja Art "Floor Killing Player"! YEEAAAAAHHH!
The light gets even brighter as the loud still pushes past MC's hands. MC closes their eyes and the next time they open, there's a bunch of twitching bodies on the ground as the villains revert out one by one.
Danzo: ...aw man, you're late Boss. We were getting pressed there.
Danzo also reverts out.

Seiichirou: Sorry, I got news that the enemy was on the lookout. I had to search everywhere.
MC turns to look at Seiichirou.
MC: Um...who are you? / Hot...
Seiichirou: I'm sorry you suddenly met with danger. You're okay now. I promise you your safety.
Ryekie: There you are! Guys, over here!
Ryekie walks in, followed by the rest of the party.
Exio: !! (look at Seiichirou in surprise)
Exio: ...I suspected as much. So you're the client, Seiichirou.
Seiichirou: Long time no see, Exio. I heard you were hurt, but I'm glad you seem fine.
Akashi: You know that old dude?
Exio: Well...it was a really long time ago.
Huckle: So, are you UEHA's...?
Seiichirou: I apologize for the late pickup. I am Japan's Defense Bureau Parliamentary Secretary and UEHA Japan's Chief Operator Tenma Seiichirou. I am the one who called you to Osaka. It'd be a problem if pursuers came, so we should talk more inside the car.
End of Episode

Akiba and Dragons Episode 5 Part 2 (Abridged)

The genius computer scientist Turing often FAILS despite his haughty manner, but he never cares about those feelings. He instead sees taking action on his own as an invitation to failure because that failure is the one thing that pushes his research forward. Failures reveal where your hypothesis is mistaken. They are the only things that guarantee that there is room for further development, so Turing knows what you should really fear is hitting a dead end and not understanding what your failures are. It's all trial and error and building off from that, so once you make your best, perfect work it's over for you. If there's no development, there's nowhere to go whether you be human, nonhuman, or a cyber entity that somehow isn't included in that second category.
Tindalos is another person who has hit a dead end. He has a power that lets him interact with reality from another plane of existence.
Tindalos: What's up everybody!? Starting today, you newcomers are also..."
Randos transform into Tindalos
Mobs: Tindalos! YEAAAAH!

Anyone he connects his tongue to across the screen turns into a minion he can use to access reality. Tindalos also livestreams from the net and stirs the pot to set the net on fire. But there's one thing he can't set on fire: himself. Nobody can really, since nothing that happens to the minions affects him as well. For someone who wants to blow everything up, not being able to do so with certain things really bugs him. That's a dead end for him. Of course, maybe Tindalos CAN hurt himself, but he never considered if that really means setting things on fire. It's just a self-contained sockpuppet that will go viral and spread around.
Tindalos Bro is an invader of fiction coming from reality. He is someone who can burn Tindalos up and someone who can hurt him...

Present
Tindalos and Bro: YEEEEAHH BOY! WE ARE TINDALOS!
MC: Whoa... / A clone!
Tindalos Bro: S'up, subscribers! I'm Tindalos Bro born from Tindalos, great meeting ya!
Tindalos and Tindalos Bro flash V-signs at the camera.
Tindalos: Yeeah, love that reaction guys! But he's not all looks, right Bro?
Tindalos Bro: YEEAAAH! Now let's start the show and discussion! So what's the address of the message I picked? Don't think I'll keep it under wraps!
The crowd cheers.

Tindalos Bro: Commemoration time! This one comes from Japanese Self-Declared John Doe who's complaining about a coworker getting in the way of their secretary work for no reason! Hmm, a workaholic! Thanks for all the work you do, whoever you are! If your work life sucks, let it all out! Second entry from...Japanese Self-Declared John Doe 2! "Don't bring in any more trouble, Guild Master"? Wait what, is this a game thing? A secret organization? Well sucks to be you, whoever you are! I hope you like social upheaval!
MC: ... / I can't think of that as someone else's problem / Lots of people like that, mon ami
(A) Zhurong: MC, why are you making a face?
MC is apparently covering Zhurong and Babe Bunyan's ears. Something is at least.
Babe: Tch, leave 'em alone Zhurong. It's tough being an adult.
(B) Turing: Food for thought as a group's organizer? But organizational theory says the louder someone is, the more they like a place and care about the boss. If you're curious, you should get them a souvenir as a thank you for their work.
(C) Kuniyoshi: Yeah I hear that a lot.
Hecate: I think that if you have servants, then you'll always have dissatisfaction in your position.

Enigma: I do not believe that is always a bad thing. An incompetent master is something a secretary should delight in. If there are no areas one is incompetent at, then there is no point in serving them. Superiors should be incompetent in some way.
Turing: :)
Tindalos: We call those people workaholics, Teddy.
Enigma and Tindalos: >:C
Vapula: Hey look guys lookatthestage! And have some water. It's important to vaprovide yourself with hydration when it's hot.
The sand dragon walks up in between Enigma and Tindalos carrying a drink tray.
Sand Dragon: Bark bark!
MC: Wow! Thank you, good boy!

Hecate: Thank you very much. You know, this boy is really smart huh?
Kuniyoshi: Yeah it's way more polite than all the other golems I've seen and it hasn't gone on a rampage.
Babe Bunyan: PFFFT. As a cowboy I call bull on the idea that it's a good boy because it didn't act out.
Vapula: I've been curious too. It's a vaproven fact that it's been a lot more stable than anything else so far. And the only thing I can think of is... MC, did you do something?
MC: Nah, he's always been a good boy. So maybe he's just well made?
Turing: Heeey what if people? What IF it just hasn't gone rampant yet?
Vapula: NOOO DON'T VAPUT US OUT LIKE THAT! Hmm...I got a lotta things I want to research after this is all over. It might only be for a summer, but would it be vapreferable if you lived with me for a while?
Sand Dragon: (excited chirping)
Vapula: Aww, haha! Okay okay, stop vaputing yourself around me like that!
Tindalos Bro: Okay, time for something bittersweet! "I'm interested in someone" it says. OOH! "Whenever I think of them, everything stops. My ascetic training goes into disarray. I want to find them right now and nail them." Wow, that's so old school! Okay next...
MC: (spits drink) / (oh no I know who that is) / (drops to knees)
(A) Vapula: EW GROSS WHAT

Hecate: W-what? It's like that? That's the Enemies to Lovers shipping type classic! EhhEEEHEHEHEHE! I need to know! MC, do you know who the writer and the person they're talking about is!?
Kuniyoshi: Oh my god, you can't just ask that!
Zhurong: Is MC okay? They started holding their head all of a sudden.
Babe Bunyan: Being an adult is tough...
Zhurong: Oh...maybe I should stay a kid a while longer.
Tindalos Bro keeps reading secrets aloud and (almost) everyone in the audience has no idea who any of these writers are. The crowd goes wild.
MC: It really feels like he's Tindalos himself. Now I can see him whenever.

Enigma: This event is the type to show off one's faults, but I understand it's necessary for society. I am happy to see my failsafe is working perfectly.
Tindalos: Boo, this show sucks! Well, it's doing okay for a test run. Next time it should really kick things up a notch like I do...
Tindalos Bro can apparently hear Tindalos and smirks.
Tindalos Bro: Now for the main part! The confessions I read are totally real! The guy who wrote is also real, and I know who he is!
Vapula: But there's supposed to be two layers of vaprotection to keep anonymity. Wait did he hack!? But then again Tindalos Bro could make it happen!
Tindalos Bro: Okay, I'm gonna read this message directly to who it's for!
People are shocked and appalled! Aside from the people who don't care or think this is a problem anyway. Lots of muttering from the viewers.

Hecate: Oh wow, my TL blew up! Tindalos Bro really IS setting the net on fire!
Kuniyoshi: I think he went overboard...
Vapula: That last vapost was almost whistleblowing!
Turing: If he's really going to do what he just said he'd do, that be huge. Sooo much chaos with relationships cracking up. The livestreamer's societal cracking! ...again, if he can do it.
MC: Maybe I should pretend not to see anything that shows hypothetically up
Tindalos Bro: ...
Tindalos Bro looks so happy up on the stage and everyone can see it.
Tindalos Bro: This is what I wanted to see, the answer I've always wanted. Okay, here we go--
Tindalos Bro has frozen up.
Tindalos Bro: Logic error. System reset. Behavior correction program Cryptograph analysis, starting. Restraints set. System rejection detected...rebooting.

Zhurong: Oh no, what's going on!?
Enigma: ...Failsafe activation detected. There seems to be a conflict of opinion with my adjustment program.
Babe Bunyan: Did you say cornflake and that he added onions to it
Turing: You know love, that actually wouldn't be too far off the mark. Tindalos Bro is suffering from food poisoning, sort of.
Tindalos: What, are Enigma's supplemental addition of a good boy part acting naughty?
MC: But the livestream itself worked. It was doing fine until it overdid that last bit, so is the problem with Tindalos's bit?
Tindalos: Uh...well I would have done that last bit if it were me. Damn Enigma, you did a bang up job in recreating my thought patterns!
Enigma: As a creator I would naturally seek perfection in my constructions...but no perfect program capable of calculating everything in this world exists.
Turing: Yep, that's been mathematically proven. Computers have interior parts that they can't prove their consistency.
Enigma: Which is why I put in a very simple system. If any guidelines are broken, it will be forced to restart. It was originally an added code to perfect things and protect individuals' secrets without perspective clashes. It's still far from perfect if it tripped up on this livestream though.
Turing: Well anyway, look at Tindalos Bro.

Turing points at Tindalos Bro. The syscheck has stopped and now he's quietly looking around. Then...
Tindalos Bro: Optimal solution acquired. Beginning task. HEY YOU GUYS, BEEN WAITING LONG!? [Please forgive the sudden interruption. There will now be a new event starting.] AIN'T NO ONE GETTING OFF THIS RIDE!
Vapula: W-wait what? Why is his vaperbiage a mix of Tindalos and Enigma!?
Tindalos Bro: And now it's time for an attraction you use your body in! [We will now start a hero show with audience participation.]
Tindalos sand copies start popping up!
Tindalos Minions: YEEEEEAAAH!

Tindalos: Hey, my minions. So Tindalos Bro made his own from sand?
Enigma: They seem to be based off Vapula's golems. It is likely they possess high battle capabilities.
Turing: Right, since the golem creation is based off written records instead of Vapula's power so he can do it with that data. And mass production is his specialty.
Tindalos Bro: [The rules are simple. Can you escape my sand minions?] If you beat them all, you jerks win! Anyone caught has to join in on the event that happens after this! By the way I blocked off the exits! [Unfortunately escape will not be permitted.]
Turing: Fascinating, a war game. A program going against its programmer? That's kind of exciting. The stream is still going on, so I suppose there's no choice.
Babe Bunyan: I got this, cuz cowboys are fighters! I'mma tell everyone at school what happened here!

Zhurong: I'm a little scared, but I'll do my best if everyone else is too!
Kuniyoshi: Oh god do I have to do this too? I'm just a doujin author, I don't do exercise!
Hecate: Really? You've never fantasized about doing something like this? You know, getting caught up in some weird extraordinary student war and going "ugh, FINE"!
Tindalos: Well that's what we did.
Enigma: We must suspend the system as soon as possible and modify it after a clean installation.
Vapula: Core's been vaput in the chest like usual guys!
Sand Dragon: (excited barking)
MC: Give 'em hell, boy!
The sand dragon starts getting bigger, and everyone gets ready to fight.
Tindalos Bro: Cool, [let us begin.] SHOWTIME, PEEPS!
BATTLE START (more happens after)

Turing: Hmm. Individually these sand minions aren't that strong...
Babe Bunyan: But there's so much sand around the douchebag can just make more!
Sand Dragon: *(GROWLING)*
MC: Let's blitzkrieg Tindalos Bro and take him out fast
Enigma: A very straightforward, brute force solution, but I shall assist with your incompetence.
Tindalos: Bro really is making a lot of work for us! Vapula, Enigma, clear the way!
Vapula: In that case, golem grand melee!
Vapula creates a wall that locks down the sand minions.
Enigma: Please work with me Tindalos. I will create an opening to access the system. Then--
Tindalos: Yeah yeah, I get the big idea! Move your ass!
Enigma: Interrupt command! Noble Phantasm activate!
Tindalos Bro: UGH! You put a backdoor in me!? [Situation comprehended. Solution impossible!]
Tindalos: It's been fun, but your turn's over! Werewolf Tongue activate!
Tindalos Bro crumbles into sand. Problem solved! Except...

Tindalos Bro: Too bad, my creators! [I thank you for falling for my lead.]
Tindalos Bro's voice is coming from far away. Another copy has formed on the sand stage.
Tindalos Bro: [Akihabara Academy system seized.] That means you guys and this play fight [have reached the end stage.]
Turing: Oh my, he's right. This floor can't access Akihabara Academy's system. He's still a copy but it's impressive he can use Tindalos and Enigma's specs so well at the same time!
MC: Having some urgency would be nice! / He did all that while he was attacking us!?
---
(BC) Enigma: Unlikely. Tindalos's attacks are not that simple.
Tindalos: Yeah, Enigma's walls aren't something you can just throw up on a dime.
Tindalos Bro: Ha! Good impressions, my creators! [The hacking began when I got on stage.] Then I just had to stall y'all for the last part! All [according to] plan.
---
Enigma: ...why? You have shown a contradiction in your inherent self-definition and thesis. It should be correct to call it a conflict between me and Tindalos. How did you avoid the error?
Tindalos Bro: Eh, who knows. [It is likely the infinite loop became a key.]
Enigma: Did you overheat? A program flaw skipped past my set failsafe...
Tindalos Bro: Man, who CARES? Right now I've got no conflict or ambivalence. I fused my two theses to make the optimum solution and now I can give the perfect answer! I'm gonna tell the secrets that can't be told [and protect the secrets that shouldn't be known. Watch] this!
A giant Tindalos Bro appears!
End of Episode

Akiba and Dragons Episode 5 Part 1 (Abridged)

There are many secrets in the world, which in turn necessitates cyphers. Human history in turn is a cycle of struggle between those who would reveal these secrets and those who would hide them.
Tindalos: Reveal the dirty laundry!
Enigma: Hide crimes!
What is he saying?
Tindalos: It feels GREAT getting it all out! Take that weight off your shoulders!
Enigma: Secrets are treasures, a wish of something you keep dear. Hide it within yourself, deep where no one can see it.
No really, what is he saying?
Enigma: Secrets are the societal boundaries between yourself and others. You must not publicize them or show them to anyone else.
Tindalos: Don't you want to show who you really are? Show them everything!
Error
Tindalos: Secrets are the differences between yourself and others born within you. They're too heavy to hold by yourself.
Enigma: Don't you want to keep them for yourself? Full disclosure is not the end all, be all.
What
Enigma/Tindalos: Seclude [Expose] your secrets.
Tindalos: Tell everyone. That's my theory.
Enigma: Tell no one. That's my theory.
Definition: Unclear. Building consensus...building consensus...
Click
Tindalos Bro: Conclusion drawn. Beginning task.

Present
Kuniyoshi: Furry Stan SERVE!
Catoblepas: I-I got it! Uhh, here? (bonk) OW!
Zhurong: Yeees, more pictures!
Vapula: WHY ARE WE PLAYING VABEACH VOLLEYBALL
Creators: BECAUSE!
Vapula: They didn't even need to think on that!
Kuniyoshi: Come on, we're at the beach. Doing stuff will make great manga references!
Hecate: Yeah, weird how being in a virtual world makes me want to try it out even though I'd hard pass in reality.
Catoblepas: Thank you for inviting me...also, we need a change of pace at times like this. Okay, ball's in your court Vapula!
Vapula: wait what AAAAHH
Vapula: I'll get you for this! Vapula Smash!
Vapula sucks at volleyball so the ball veers off elsewhere. The sand dragon runs off to pick it up.
Sand Dragon: Bark bark!

MC: Ooh, nice toss! Harem Protagonist Smash!
Kuniyoshi: Oh no, MC is on the other side!
Catoblepas: It's okay, I've brought reinforcements for this situation.
Akiha Gongen: Oh! Oh! He's talking about me! Put me in coach! Bump that ball for me!
Catoblepas: O-okay, here goes!
Akiha: Firefighter Smash!
MC: Oh no! Vapula, you good?
Vapula: R-right. If I'm vaplaying, I'm in it to win it! And, uhh...
Sand Dragon: Bark bark!
Vapula: ! Okay, here we go!
Zhurong: Good luck everybody!
Babe Bunyan: Zhurong, stop taking pictures and join in!
Zhurong: Oh! You're right, Babe.

Later
Itzamna: Hmm. It's good to have experiences like this from time to time after locking up in our studios. Would everyone like to take a break? Our delivery from the dining area has come!
Creator: HOORAY!
Tons of food is laid out on picnic blankets.
Itzamna: Oh my! This food looks more like art than mere cooking.
Hecate: It's the Akihabara Metaverse School collaboration menu. Everything's a special based on famous students.
Kuniyoshi: Well let's look and eat. I'm hungry after all that moving around.
Zhurong: Wait, pictures first!

Akiha Gongen: I'll split it up then. Anything you guys want specifically?
MC: Refreshing Black Soda / Mixed Taste Changing Soba / wait what the hell is Mystery Fried Tindalos
(A) Babe Bunyan: Holy shit that soda's good!
Zhurong: It looks so bubbly but the taste is so unexpected! It's great!
Hecate: An unapproachable appearance but actually a clear and nice taste inside? Reminds me of someone...
Catoblepas: Ooh, I think I know who it's based on.
(B) Kuniyoshi: This just looks like a mix of three kinds of noodles...
Hecate: Hey the pasta's actually yakisoba. Surprising!
Akiha: And this part that looks like ramen is soba noodles! So many different spices!
(C) Vapula: Way to vaplay it straight with the name...
Itzamna: It says the idea is based on exposing secrets? It looks like regular takoyaki.
Vapula: Hey, there's no octopus at all! There's cheese and sausages vaput inside though!
Itzamna: I found apples and custard. Very creative!

PA System: Paging Vapula and MC Fullname to the manager's area!
MC: Huh?
Vapula: Oh! It's time for Tindalos's vaprototype test! Let's go!
Vapula quickly runs off...then immediately comes back.
Vapula: I almost forgot! Thanks for the food!
Vapula runs off again. MC follows along this time.
Hecate: Hey, hasn't Vapula changed?
Kuniyoshi: Well he's a hasty guy. Also my name is Pot now.
Akiha Gongen: Hmm...it feels like he's looking at his surroundings more.
Catoblepas: ...we're past the halfway point of the event, but I hope Vapula figures out what feels means to him.
Itzamna: Okay, we have things to do once lunch is done. Lots of visitors coming, I hear, so do your best everyone.
Creators: Okay!
Everyone runs off.
Sand Dragon: Chirp? (stares off into the distance)

Later
Vapula: Hey, we're here! How's the vapreparations going?
Tindalos, Turing, and Enigma are here with Tindalos Bros' body.
MC: This is kinda exciting / Another collab? / Technology and art fusion, huh?
Turing: Yep. Of course I'd know about an autonomous thinking robot AI Transient with a personality. We humans don't get a chance to make something like that every millenium! This could be my final invention as a human too. Nothing ominous there!
Enigma: Beginning activation sequence, proceeding through checklist.
Tindalos: Screw the list! Down with convention!
Enigma: Objection. Cutting edge technology must proceed with caution. I have been paying careful attention to the system construction and added a failsafe function over your emulated personality. My specs are nothing special, but I have made the best system I could.
Tindalos: Humblebragging! That doesn't fit you! How can you live so constrained with rules for rules' sake!? What is even the point!? Then again that's why I go around saying you should put everything out in the open.
Enigma: I must ask you the same. What do you secure with that freedom? Our students' social statuses and economy function due to present day society. If its order and secrets are torn apart, all would descend into chaos as people hurt one another. There would be no culture, no art, much less Youtubers. Protecting the freedom you howl so much about is the true nature of the societal rules you claim to hate.
Enigma and Tindalos: >:C

MC: Stop! / Let's focus on the project! / Philosophize later
Tindalos: Ugh, FIIINE. I'll leave you in charge for now, Enigma.
Enigma: Understood. I apologize for picking such a trivial fight.
Vapula: ...t-they really vapulled back out of the fight. I don't like those loud aggressive fights... I mean we're gonna vaput something cool together. We oughta smile!
Turing: (stares femboyishly)
Enigma: Vapula, please set up the body. I will monitor the interior.
Tindalos: What am I supposed to do? Just stand there?
Enigma: Think of something for the mental pattern readers to pick up on.
Tindalos: That's all you have to tell me!? You want something from the darkest parts of my mind!?

The three get to their positions to do things, so MC walks over to the spectator section with Turing, who stands there smiling.
MC: Truly the face of pure evil / So which side are you on? / Ayyyy, when's your next day off?
(A) Turing: Oh, do I have my plotting face on? ...it was for a lark because I'm evil like that. What are you going to do about it? Chide me? Rebuke me? Or...become a joint researcher with me? ...Kidding! I'm not planning anything. Anything evil, at least.
(B) Turing: Are you referring to their argument? That was just a matter of mental gymnastics. Debating order and chaos is a time honored tradition of affirming the society you belong to. Infrastructure is something people tend to forget about, so those debates become necessary. But let's just say society will collapse no matter which I support. Not that I think old school ways collapsing is bad~.
(C) Turing: ...how novel. Is this flirting? I know about it intellectually, at least. My schedule is very flexible, but it'd take some shifting things around even for you. Could you call Enigma later?

Tindalos Bro is being worked on.
Enigma: Forming pseudonerves...
The body starts breathing.
Tindalos: Yeeeah, come on Bro!
It's the creation of a new life, even if it is a copy of someone else!
Turing: !!
Tindalos Bro: ...
Enigma, Vapula, and Tindalos: ...WE DID IT!
Later
The special stage area is filled with tons of people. Part of them are Tindalos fans waving glowsticks. Everyone else is just expecting a good time.
Kuniyoshi: I really wasn't expecting Tindalos to put an event on all of a sudden.
Hecate: Yeah, and in reality instead of online. It's trending on the net.
Zhurong: Hmm. Maybe a famous Youtuber could be a good news topic.
Babe Bunyan: Yeeeah, trailblazing by genre busting! I should see how the net does things for when I become a farmer one day!

Backstage, there's a sigh of relief at seeing how excited everyone is.
Vapula: I guess we can relax after all we vaput in making that vapiece of work. All those power cables and magnetic fluids holding all the sand together and stuff.
Enigma: You did well on that, Vapula.
Vapula: Well yeah! I can re-vaproduce anything written in a book!
MC: Are you not gonna make a physical body, Enigma? / So cutting edge, huh? / Enigma's swimsuit, yeeees
(A) Enigma: A body for interacting with the physical world? Frankly, it is unnecessary. I am already in a server, and bodily functions do not present any advantages as a tradeoff for less computational ability... We could touch one another? Would you like me to add pressure sensors to your VR headset? ...it'd be pointless if it were one-sided? Understood, I will recalculate based on your irrational desire.
(B) Enigma: I will refrain to some extent on answering that question, but there are no problems with the individual technology. The magnetic fluid came from Kamata while the sand was given to us by civil engineers. The organic assembly is our original work, however. Hmm? I seem proud of it? Well I am just answering what was asked of me...actually, I suppose I should be saying you are correct.
(C) Enigma: Biorhythm change detected in MC. I see, so you are inclined to that. This design was made to suit people of certain tastes. You want to know what I think of your opinion? Your ogling is the height of incompetence, which I deem very much worth supporting.

Suddenly music starts! The glowstick waving fans look at the big screen monitor, at which point Tindalos gets on.
Tindalos: Hey everybody! It's ya ears and brains' boyfriend! It's the Tindalos--
Audience: Channel!
Kuniyoshi: Oh my god there's this many of Tindalos's followers here!?
Hecate: Well it was trending on the net. Maybe that's why there's more people here than expected?
Zhurong: But he's still on a monitor when he said he'd show up in reality.
Babe Bunyan: Oh man, the flame wars that'd start if he doesn't deliver.
Tindalos: Ayyyy, you can't rush these big shows like that baby.
Babe: Hey f0ck YOU, man! I-I totally knew that!
Tindalos: Yeees, just like that! Okay Bro, it's showtime! Come on out, TINDALOS BRO!
Tindalos Bro comes out.
End of Episode half

Live A Hero Book 2 Chapter 1 Episode 1: From the Multiverse (Abridged)

Some spaceship
PA System: Alert: 265 million enemies detected, 89% of which are evolved Monsters. Black hole engine stabilizing, outer hull damage low. No effects on field formation. Enemy forces have begun attacking. Barriers deployed while awaiting hero deployment.
Huckle: Well this is it. It's kind of moving.
Mokdai: We have to win for the trillions of lives in this universe!
Roiker: We really do have the fate of the universe on our shoulders now.
Akashi: Okay, I'm ready to go for the fight of my life! ...what's up, MC? Haha, stop looking so apologetic! I'm the one who chose to stick with you to the end! I'll fight with you. It's only two million creeps, no bigs. We should get started on clearing them out, so...don't ever give up backing us up.
Seiichiro: All heroes, ready for dispatch. MC, it's all up to you now. We came all this way for this moment. Everyone here trusts you and is putting their lives in your hands. That includes me as well. Now let us all save this universe together. Your orders, Captain!
The Broker's spaceship
Broker: Fools, you know I always have the initiative! I commend you all for getting this far, but remember I still hold all the cards!
Spaceship A
Seiichiro: The Captain has spoken: don't die on me! All hands, get out and fight!

Were you expecting an explanation for all that? Surprise!
One day at Parallel Flight...
MC: A business trip to Osaka?
Huckle: Yes, a government agency passed on a message through UEHA. It's a two night, three day trip in Osaka and they apparently want to talk to you and Exio. So now I called you two over to talk about some details about work and the meeting.
Exio: They want me too?
Akashi: A meeting? What for? MC, did you do something?
Mokdai: Maybe it's actually an inquiry. Think it has to do with MC bringing back Mt. Fuji?
Exio: Possibly. Actually, I bet that's exactly it. There are government officials who have hero potential, some who are Observers, and some who are actual working heroes. Of course they're going to be interested when they notice Mt. Fuji came back.
Sui: Regular civilians apparently think it was there the whole time, which is why they haven't made a bigger fuss about it.

Brief flashback of everyone last chapter being surprised about Mt. Fuji.
MC: Oh. That...
Melide: I bet they want to ask MC how they brought Mt. Fuji back. Too bad it's not going to turn anything up since MC doesn't know what they were doing. Also, MC still doesn't understand their ability much.
Yoshiori: Just tell them to eat a dick because you don't have to tell them a damn thing! Plus we're former villains and underworlders, so going on this business trip could be dangerous. I can't be by Exio all the time either...
Akashi: Why are you even here today? You haven't been scheduled for work.
Yoshiori: S-shut up, I'm just worried about Exio...! And now that I think about it, YOU weren't scheduled today either, bitch!
Akashi: Y-YOU shut up! I've been here a while, I got my reasons!
Monomasa: ...you haven't been here that long.

Huckle: Okay kids, stop fighting. I know we put down Yoshiori and Monomasa as part timers, but they're still part of the team so we should get along. Also, since this came from UEHA we do have to respond to the message.
Yoshiori: ...what?
Huckle: They've done a lot of favors for us, so we can't just ignore them. And I know you really want to go, but I'm asking you to stay this time. They've assigned the party to go. I'm sorry.
Yoshiori: NOOOO! I'm supposed to be Exio's bodyguard!
Monomasa: Stop arguing, Yoshiori. There's only so many of us in the agency, so if something does happen we'll be out the number of people who can go assist in that case.
Yoshiori: BUT...!
Exio: Oh fine. Yoshiori, I want you to hold the fort. If MC and I have to go, then Melide should still be here to be an Operator. So stay and help her.
Yoshiori: Urgh...r-roger! Please be careful!
Mokdai: oh my god he really does only listen to Exio
Yoshiori: SHUT IT
Mokdai: Eek!

Huckle: ...so about the party being sent on this trip. Exio and MC have to go for starters, so Ryekie and I will come along. Also for some reason they want Akashi to go too.
MC: What!? He's just a part timer!
Akashi: Wait what WHY
Huckle: Don't know. But that's the five of us going. Is your schedule okay to go?
Akashi: W-well if it's for three days I can do school online and stuff. I just need to talk to the team about practice to figure something about practice... Why do they want me going again?
Huckle: Well I won't force the issue, but what do you want to do? You don't have to make a decision until the night before.
Akashi: Hmm...I'd rather not miss out on practice either. Can I get some time?
Huckle: Okay. Oh right, one more thing. A guide will be coming to meet us.
MC: A guide?
Huckle: Yes, someone working for the client. We're supposed to hear from them soon but--
Bwoop bwoop bwoop
Ryekie: It's an emergency call!
Announcer: Business employee reported villains causing trouble in Central Ward. Requesting nearby heroes for backup.
Monomasa: ...duty calls.
Huckle: Right. Team B, head out. Team A, stand by on the ready. MC, Akashi, Mokdai, Sui, Monomasa, get going now.
MC: Right! Heading out!

Later at some restaurant
Mafia Red: Get out here, you cheater!
Blue: You got some nerve to play with the boss like that!
Yellow: You better come out with your friends too, or we'll blow this place up!
Worker: But they've already retired! Oh no please stop!
The shop is already a mess and people are running and panicking. The party is outside.
Akashi: ...do we really have to get in there?
Sui: Is this something we have room to get involved in...?
MC: Yeah I kinda want to bail / I can barely hear the daytime soap drama happening / But we have to stop them!
(AB) Sui: Maybe we shouldn't go in? It's hard to do so already.
Monomasa: But we have to to stop any collateral.
Mokdai: ...right! As heroes we have to stop problems no matter why they happened!
(C) Monomasa: MC is right.
Mokdai: ...yeah! We can't let anyone around get hurt either!

And so the party runs in.
Akashi: Stop!
Green: Stay out of our problems!
Sui: It stopped being your problem when you made it the problem of people outside too!
Mokdai: Please surrender peacefully so we can talk!
Green: Shut up and kiss my ass or I'll kick yours too!
Monomasa: ...negotiations have failed. MC, time to fight.
MC: R-right!
Blue: Come at me bro!
Yellow: ...hey haven't I heard the name MC somewhere before?
BATTLE START (more happens after)

Blue: Noooo!
Red: Damn you to hell!
Red and Blue's suits cancel out as they fall over.
Monomasa: You guys lost and your suits have come undone. You can't fight anymore.
Red: S-shut up! It's you guys' fault for sticking your heads into our problem!
Blue: Who ARE you guys!? I know you stalled us so HE could run away! We'll get you too for this!
Sui: M-my head hurts from this miscommunication...
Mokdai: We're with Parallel Flight and we have no idea who it is you're looking for...
Yellow: OH NO! Boss, it's them!
Sudden villain meeting!
Red: No way...
Blue: Yes way. If they're involved...

MC: w-what
Akashi: Well at least they stopped...? Shouldn't we tie them up until the police get here? MC, did you call them yet?
MC: Yeah. Though I guess they'd come even if I didn't.
Yellow: OH NO MC IS HERE!
Blue: Holy shit we're gonna be in deep if they find out!
Red: We gotta run! We can't be seen with them here!
MC: what?
The villains scatter and run!
Akashi: HEY GET BACK HERE
Akashi is about to jump out the window when...
???: Haha, can't let ya do that, brah!
Not Red: W-who the fu--(punched!)
Red: Oh my god he's not even transformed and--(punched!)
Some Other Not Red: Boss! (punched!)

A few moments later the restaurant's front door opens.
DJ Ninja: Whoo, that was easy!
DJ Ninja's bling jangles as he drags the mafia mobs in chained up. Loud music blares from his headphones.
Sui: Umm...are you from a hero agency?
Mokdai: NO WAY!
MC: Uh, who are you? / A robot? A cyborg? / Hot
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(C) Akashi: Y-you're up for that, MC...?
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DJ Ninja: Yo, dudes and dudettes from Parallel Flight! I got the villains dealt with, no worries! I'm Yahiko Danzo. I work as a music producer, but Big Boss asked me to escort ya to Osaka, dig? Nice meeting ya!
End of Episode