Durarara!!, Vol. 2 (novel) (11 page)

—SAIKA HAS ENTERED THE CHAT—

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Here we goooo!
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[Ah.]

Huh?

|cut|

|cut, today|

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Well, I wish you would cut it out instead!
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What’s going on with this person? I saw the logs earlier…

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It’s a troll who keeps messing up all the Ikebukuro boards and chat rooms!
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[Evening, Saika.]

|cut, person, but, still, bad|

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There’s no point, Setton. It won’t respond to our messages.
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[I’m guessing it’s a bot of some kind.]

|must, love, more|

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Maybe you’re right.
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|love, strong person. so. want love, strong person|

Kinda creepy, isn’t it?

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But it seems like it’s very slowly typing better sentences…
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Can’t you just ban it from the chat?

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I keep doing it…but it doesn’t work.
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|must, cut, more|

[Wow, really?]

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I keep banning the individual remote host, but it just pops in with a different host.
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Is it using a proxy?

|must, get, closer|

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Hmm, doesn’t seem to be the case.
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The one common thread is that all the hosts are located around Ikebukuro.
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So I think there’s a high probability it’s someone living around here.
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Could be just jumping from manga café to manga café, for example.
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|to, strong person|

[It seems like the other message boards don’t know how to deal with it, either.]

You know, the way it keeps talking about cutting people…

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Are you thinking what I’m thinking, Tarou?
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What if it’s the slasher?