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|Date of Scene=2023/09/03
|Location=Dark Laboratory
|Synopsis=Takashi goes over what was gained and what was missed during the Digital Divide scene.
|Thanks=Hotaru Tomoe
|Cast of Characters=40, 39
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Takashi Agera trudged back down into his small laboratory space, having taken a Door from the lower levels of Obsidian's department store. Slumping back into his chair, exhausted, bruised, with a killer headache and some other aches to go with it. He slumped there for a little bit before groaning as he leaned forward and unlocked a drawer with a temporary key made of solidified Dark Energy. Pulling out a recorder. 

"Since all the computers I currently have access to are either connected to Obsidian or my combat device and thus prone to breakage and possible data loss, I've decided to dictate notes into something more... old-school, for movement to a proper personal noncombat storage later." he begins. "So... post-operational log for the first Arthafall..."

"... Teritary objective: destroying any unsecured resources... success. The bombs I planed last week worked out wonderfully. Probably could have used two less, but it's better to go over than under."

"... Secondary objective: to secure functional technological resources from damaged Artha..." Takashi sighs and looks at the single piece of equipment he was able to personally secure - what looks to be a sort of circuit-board like object made of half crystalline structure. "... near total-failure."

It's at that point, Firefly walks in, her glaive dragging behind her in an obvious hint to her exhaustion. "Tired." she says, rubbing her eyes. "But here." Her device sits on the desk and then disgorges a large quantity of random gear from her travels with Koji. Takashi's eyes widen. "You can have it, Takashi-sempai." she says, smiling slightly. "Was I useful? Did I do good?" she asked him.

Takashi kept his groaning inside as he made the effort to stand from his chair, reach over the desk, and pat Hotaru on the head. "You did wonderfully, Tomoe-chan. This is a huge help. You saw that I was occupied and acted on your own to secure these. I'm very happy and thankful." He told her.

"Yay!" Hotaru said, her eyes genuinely showing the happiness. "I'm... gonna go to bed, now." She said, turning and staggered out. But while she still looked tired, she did look happier.

Before she left, and where he wanted her to hear it, he spoke into his recorder again. "Update. Thanks to Firefly, I can upgrade that objective to a success. Firefly in particular did marvelously."

Once she was gone, and he had returned to his chair... he raised the recorder to his mouth again.

"... Primary objective..." he began, as several Device-created quasi-digital screens came up, showing an absolute stream of data along with some images of those who had participated in the scramble the Artha's appearance generated. "... obtain combat and energy usage data from other Device users. Excellent success."

Takashi leaned down and opened a different drawer, in which a cooler resided. Opening the cooler, pulling a cherry DarkCola from the ice within. "That's a lot of data. The question is... what can I do with it." he asked himself as he cracked it open. Caffeine and the mixture of post-fight adrenaline and exhuastion. The source of everyone's best ideas.