.hack//AI Buster is a novel currently released by Tokyopop that follows the story of system administrator Albireo and his encounter with the Vagrant AI Lycoris.
The One Sin
The next day, Balmung and Orca fight The One Sin, a monster with well over 60,000 HP with spells and skills of all elements, in Omega Server. Albireo and Hokuto witness their triumph in an icy field (after Hokuto ran off and was killed by a common monster). Later, Hokuto, under the moniker W.B. Yates, names them eternally as the Descendants of Fianna in a BBS posting. After the fray, Lycoris tells Albireo to find her feather, and when he does he recieves eye.cyl, which brings him to the ralization that the file names are simply backwards. Just as he thought, when Lycoris was given eye.cyl her eyes finally opened. Again, Lycoris transports everyone (including Hokuto) to another field.
Deletion
In this new field Lycoris tells Albireo to follow him as she runs off into the distance. She finally stops when she reaches a Spring of Myst and she purposely falls in. Although Hokuto is quite concerned, Albireo remains calm and when a Water Sprite asks him what he dropped he selects "Neither" and immediately recieves yromem.cyl. With Lycoris' memory in his posession he quickly takes her and Hokuto to the place where they first met, Δ Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground. Once there, Albireo gives Lycoris her memory, and tries to delete her. Lycoris, impaled on the end of Albireo's spear, tells him about AI Harald and Morganna Mode Gone, then gives Albireo the last piece of her through his spear and deletes herself. The file she gave him was etaf.cyl. Fate.
Cast
Trivia
- The unnamed subordinate of Kazushi Watarai is actually Saki Shibayama; the Tokyopop translation had unfortunately referred to her as a man throughout the novel.