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What if one morning you woke up with no memories? What if all you had was a video message you left for yourself, warning you that you were in grave danger? What if the only way to survive was in discovering what you forgot? And what if your biggest enemy was yourself? ** "There is a bug. It allows unmitigated access to the users' consciousness. You're the only one who knows. You must stop the release. You must stop them." That was the primal directive. Min needed time to understand, to accept. But time was the one thing he didn't have. He woke up with no memories. He only had the one video message he left himself to work with. The video told him he was a beta tester of Gaia, and he had discovered a bug that could very well be intentional. What he was asking of himself was to be a hero. But was that what he wanted? Was that really him in the video? If it was him, why go through all that trouble? Why did he delete all of his memories himself? Who were the people helping him from the shadows? Were they friends? Or, were they something else entirely? Who were those that were after him? Were they all related to Gaia? Or were there other secrets too? School was the perfect refuge. Friendless and unremarkable, he couldn't be hidden better. But with less than three months to graduation, he was running out of time...

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18 Chs

B-2

He made a mental note of the facts he had on hand.

Min. Pshi Academy. Modern Evolution. Beta Tester. Gaia.

He started with what was most important. He tapped the tabletop and a faint screen appeared over the table. He was connected to the academy server, and through it to the wide net. He opened Sigma, a browser with a simple interface, and searched for Pshi Academy. There was enough information on the wide net about the academy. He opened the academy page that was uploaded on the wide net. The class of Modern Evolution was listed, but he didn't find the information he sought. Realising his mistake, he pulled up the Modern Evolution page on the Academy server. He found the list of students. And among them, he found his name.

Min Naiv.

He clicked on the name and his student profile filled the screen.

**

Student Name: Min Naiv

Age: 18 years

Guardian: Topher Grace

Overall academic grade: A

Special mentions:

a. 100 percentile in mathematics

b. Editorial recognition for the piece, 'Linear math of non-linear human interactions'

c. Scouted for the program - Modern Evolution

Academic projects:

a. Beta Tester - Gaia

b. Regression analytics on declining traditional societal norms

c. Diagrametics

Intelligence: Visual mathematician, 99 percentile in IQ

High school grades:

Mathematics A+

Languages A

Science B

Social Studies B

Art B

PE C

Positions of authority held: None

Member of clubs: None

Research project: Enhanced consciousness

**

The student profile didn't feel like all of him. He felt the profile drew an incomplete sketch. Probably because he didn't understand all of it.

Firstly, who was Topher Grace?

A quick search on the academy server revealed that Topher Grace was the academy sponsorship program, started by an alumni of the academy named Topher. After graduating from the academy, she started a human welfare organisation that operated across borders. In association with the academy, her organisation started the sponsorship program.

Sponsorship differed from Scholarship in the fundamental principle. Scholarship was the academy offering help with the tuition for students with high academic grades who could use the aid. Sponsorship was the academy covering all expenses for orphans eligible to study at the academy.

Purugs, the scholarship program, imposed requirements on the recipients. Topher Grace recommended recipients have expectations of themselves.

Min understood he had no family. That gave some more clarity.

He next searched Diagrametics. What he found confused him all the more because it made sense. Diagrametics was representing people and ideas and even vague concepts as two dimensional figures on a chart. He couldn't understand how someone could make sense of such an idea enough to prepare an entire project on it.

And then of course, there was Modern Evolution.

There was a video on the academy server. Of a student introducing the subject to a group of middle schoolers as the teacher-in-charge, Mr Brogz, looked on with pride. Modern Evolution dealt with the impact and the importance of sociology on wide area augmented reality for an accurate representation of the real world so that separation of virtual and real became increasingly impossible. He read the name of the student addressing the middle schoolers underneath the video. Kexin. The granddaughter of the Vice-Principal of the academy, and the star of the department of sociology.

He could see how being a student of the subject would enable him join the Beta Testers of Gaia. He didn't have complete clarity yet, but he at least had the outline.

He began reading all there was about Min on the academy server.