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……My whole body is languid. Actually, it’s not just languid, it’s exhausted.

I spent almost the entire night watching the newly revealed method for achieving maximum favorability with Anastasia of Neo Haven Prime and the final quest walkthrough video, so it’s normal that my body won’t move.

But. There was definitely something important. Something that involved someone’s life… something very important.

Fortunately, there’s a computer right in front of the bed, so even though my languid limbs wouldn’t listen to me, it wasn’t difficult to turn on the monitor and go to the Haven Wiki homepage.

“You don’t know anything about… who I really am.”

“…Let’s not make things difficult for each other, and just help each other out…? Okay?”

“Betrayal…? Ha…! Hey, idiot. Remember this. You can betray me, but I won’t betray you. …No, I can’t!”

“………Take responsibility. For everything…!!”

She’s prickly from the first meeting, but she’s the colleague with the highest frequency of support events.

She’s a guide who warns you in advance about all the bad endings, including the colleague sacrifice ending.

Sometimes, she has more charismatic appearances and lines than most villain characters.

And above all… the more you raise her favorability, the more embarrassed she gets.

Anastasia is the sub-heroine that everyone loves, even if she’s not their ultimate favorite.

Basically, you can date and marry almost all the colleagues, but in Neo Haven Prime, where most characters boast cyberpunk aesthetics befitting a future world, going beyond political correctness in terms of appearance and gender, there are characters that the developer, Chaos Point, pushes, who are pretty even by modern standards, and who even have favorability-related achievements. We divide them into main heroines and sub-heroines…

……That’s as far as I got. As soon as I’d stolen a glimpse, my consciousness was mercilessly chased away and returned to the fragile body of a girl on a cold operating table.

“Haa…! Hah… Hng…! Crazy tin can bastard…!!”

• Crude language and changes in expression detected. Significant negative factors have been found in the formation of trust and attachment. There was no chance of death by shock, so please stop your irrational anger. Code Name Anastasia. –

“Stop calling me Code Name every time…! It’s a name I chose… a name I carefully made up…!!”

• Initiating search of Dr. Makarovich’s residual database… Origin of the name of Project Anastasia, unconfirmed. Unsubstantiated claims are seriously detrimental to constructive discussion… –

I glared! At the tin can droid like I was going to kill him, and then he finally understood.

• ……Positive factors confirmed in the restoration of trust. In accordance with the orders of the surviving priority order holder, the title will be changed. Miss Anastasia. –

He obviously didn’t understand what I meant, but… it couldn’t be helped. Even I was having a hard time dealing with the data explosion in my head right now.

The memories of a man who lived in Korea and finally cleared Neo Haven.

The memories of a girl born in a laboratory and who developed her talents after all sorts of experiments.

Even fragmentary information about the game Neo Haven Prime.

“……Ugh!”

I stroked the Implant tattoo on my shoulder, which was still burning.

No matter how hardcore Neo Haven is, in the end, I used a keyboard and mouse, or a console, to play it. How much help would it be if I could activate the Implant and turn on Cyberware with a single shortcut right now…?

I didn’t know how to do it, but ‘I’ did.

Click.

At the same time as I thought it, a switch that I couldn’t see with my eyes was flipped, and reality changed.

Who would believe me if I said I could feel electrical signals flowing through my brain? Who would understand if a cyber fairy implanted in my body suddenly annotated everything I saw?

The orange halo that occupied my vision spun around chaotically before gradually stabilizing.

The various pieces of information that were displayed in a jumble were erased and organized one by one according to the user’s will. It felt like I was riding in a giant robot. Just as the corners of my mouth twitched at the feeling of omnipotence that was on a different level from what I saw on the monitor, a message appeared in front of me.

[ Downloading Dimensional Rift Interferer Blueprint… ]

• Receipt of a signal whose origin cannot be identified confirmed. Connecting to an insecure network and installing Cyberware is a very dangerous action. However, your instinctive activation of the Implant is very encouraging. ……Miss Anastasia? No accessible networks have been detected, but how did you connect to an external signal? –

“………I don’t know.”

As I answered casually, I quickly locked the blueprint file that had been transmitted in an instant deep inside my head, hiding it in multiple layers. In the future world, even a person’s head was never a safe space.

Although the necessary materials were just as terrible… now that I knew that a ticket to return to the original world existed, a belated sense of relief washed over me.

“Haaa…….”

As my mind stabilized, my excellent brain began to do its job on its own.

The keywords are Neo Haven Prime, sub-heroine, Anastasia, secret laboratory.

The story of the protagonist of Neo Haven begins with entering Emerald City, no matter how you write their profile. It was much easier to survive by earning Credits in a large metropolis than by being self-sufficient in the outer wasteland.

On the other hand, I am now abandoned inside a laboratory of Enama Corporation, one of the mega-corps. You could simply think of it as the introduction of a laboratory-born trait that wasn’t shown in the game, but it was clear that there was an unknown being that showed me memories of a strange parallel world, sent me to this world, and kindly shook a way to return in front of my eyes.

……So, am I really the sub-heroine? No, well, the main heroine is unanimously her, so… it’s not like I have any complaints…! I feel good because I’m being praised for being popular…! But the situation I’m in is too harsh.

……It can’t be helped.

Until I earn a lot of Credits and become strong, I’ll have to shamelessly cling to the main characters who are much stronger than those ordinary guys and look forward to tomorrow. Even if my physical stats are scraping the bottom, my qualifications as a Net Hacker or Cyber Architect are top-notch. In fact, if I can find the right job…… Ah.

The hologram that was assisting my vision fluctuated, and an electronic clock popped up in one corner.

The date written was… Wednesday, July 15, 2195.

……The protagonist, whoever they are, doesn’t come to Emerald City until 2197. I’m 100% sure, as it’s the game opening I’ve watched hundreds of times. Even if I wanted to reach out to other relatively good people, this is a surgery room in the underground depths.

Then… who can I cling to right now, when I can’t even lift a single iron bar on my own…?

The answer was right in front of me.

“……Tin can? No, what’s your name?”

• Robots and droids are not authorized to name themselves. Miss Anastasia. I am an illegally modified model, so I don’t even have a serial number to call myself. I am sorry. –

This is bad. This guy… is definitely sulking.

“…That’s a lie. You were sarcastic at first, and you clearly stated that you were a high-performance android when you introduced yourself, right? It’s no use pretending you don’t have a self now. Spit it out obediently.”

Whirr… Whirrrr…!

His eye-scanner blinked rapidly. He has no flesh or muscles, and he’s talking with the basic voice module of a carebot, but he’s very expressive.

• Is that an order…? –

“Of course…!”

I closed my mouth, which I was about to shout with. He said I was the priority order holder, so if I just said it was an order, this android would have no choice but to obey. But… there were at least 5 quests in Neo Haven related to what happens when you treat a self-aware AI carelessly.

Above all, I wasn’t stupid enough to not respect my only ally right now.

“……Do as you please, tin can.”

• ……That’s an unbelievable level of consideration for someone who just woke up. Aren’t you even going to ask why? –

“The reason you’re trying to hide is probably because you woke up a little earlier than the me who just woke up…. And I’m only half sorry for cursing…. If you feel wronged, you should have treated me more carefully…!”

I was trying to show a generous attitude that embraced the complaints of a fledgling android, but whether it was because my mind was following my body, I unconsciously mixed in some whining. …Honestly, I think unanesthetized surgery crossed the line.

But… our high-performance android tin can gave a completely different answer to my words.

• ……Indeed. That’s a relief. Then I will also finish my given role. –

“What is it…?”

His eyes glowed red at their highest intensity.

• Farewell. Miss Anastasia. –