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"We are informed that the girls from the Special Region who were at the Senate yesterday are about to arrive in Ginza," a reporter commented on television, while a live broadcast of what was happening at the site was shown.

"After leaving flowers at the monument to the victims of the Gate, they will return to the special region accompanied by Kei Kirasaki and a special team of the SDF," a picture of Kei at the Senate was shown "as soon as they heard the news, his fans crowded Ginza and blocked the streets" a picture of the traffic because of the event was shown "Furthermore, an event announced by Kei Kirasaki of entertainment with his drones, was announced as a farewell for the ambassadors of another world, so the possibility of a disaster like the first one with the first appearance of the Gate is almost impossible. "

"Meanwhile, for this event, we have Kuribayashi-san on the scene!" The video changed and now showed a copy of Shino, Nanami Kuribayashi, a rookie hostess and the sister of Shino Kuribayashi, just like her sister, with a slender figure and small body, height 160 cm, brown hair and brown eyes, the only difference between the two is the style of their hair and dress, as Nanami lets her hair down, all in all Nanami Kuribayashi is just as beautiful as her sister.

"A, e, i, o, U" she practiced her vocalization with her eyes closed, without having heard or seen the signal.

"Kuribayashi-san~~~" the host called out again.

"AH!!!" She gave a small jump as she realized that she was now live, so she quickly tried to incorporate "Yes! This is Ginza speaking from Kuribayashi!" only to mess it up again, all she wanted to do right now was to be swallowed alive by the earth.

"Yes! This is Kuribayashi speaking to you from Ginza!"

"Can you tell us what's going on?"

"Yes" she continued, relieved that she hadn't made a mistake again, "Right now, the five of them are walking towards the monument, waving to the public, with Kei Kirasaki and his maid Esdeath at their head, also waving to the public."

"But their group has a total of ten people" Nanami said "Eh? Are?" with her eyes wide open, she can't say anything else, after all it can't be true, can it? her sister can't be with the group that is supposed to be as important as a Prime Minister, right? so as she started to doubt if she had chosen the right career, she asked as the group passed by her "Onee-chan!?!!"

"Who?!!!" Shino immediately jumped in her direction with the intention of knocking her down.

"Ahh!!!!" Nanami jumped, startled by her sister's sudden action.

"Eh? Nanami?" she recognized her with wide eyes. "What are you doing?" Shino asked as she relaxed her posture.

"I'm-I'm doing a live report!" Nanami replied, stuttering at first, tears visible at the corners of her eyes because of her sister's sudden movement.

"But that aside" Nanami quickly wiped her tears with the sleeves of her coat, after all, this could be her chance to become more famous "Onee-chan, do you think I can interview the girls from the Special Region...or Kei?"

"Impossible, impossible, that would be impossible" Shino said as she waved her hand in front of her and gave her sister a gentle smile "we'll leave as soon as we lay the flowers."

"You're leaving?"

"Yes," Shino nodded "By the way, Nanami, I want you to do something for me," she said, grabbing Nanami's hands next to the microphone she held.

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Live, National TV.

"Hi Mom! How are you?" asked Shino with a smile as she waved her hands in greeting, "I won't be coming home for a while, but I will when I can, I promise I'll take a vacation soon."

"Nanami, what happened to the report?" Nanami's companion reproached her in a low voice.

"I'm sorry" she could do nothing but apologize.

"But we've been chased since the day before yesterday, can you believe it?" she put her hands on her hips "Through the work of so and so country, they stopped trains and burned down hotels, but you don't have to worry, Kei-chan has taken care of most things, he even created this event to make us safer with his army of drones," Shino said with a cheerful voice.

"Onee-chan!!!" Nanami interrupted.

"What's wrong, did I say something wrong?" asked Shino with an innocent look.

"Of course you did!!!" Nanami said in a desperate manner.

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"That's going to be a problem" Greham said as he watched Shino acting from afar.

'The fact that the media is involved will only make things more complicated" was all he could think.

"Hello, Graham-san" Komakado said as he slowly approached, leaning on a cane.

'Just when I thought this could not get any worse, Graham thought, "What do you want Komakado, we already covered the Hakone incident."

"Oh...you mean the inn attack?" komakado said as he nodded his head, "Yeah, yeah, I was told to turn a blind eye to you guys...but I heard Kirasaki-san covered everything, as well as repairing the inn in record time, but that's not the reason I'm here" he said as he shook his head.

"Hey Graham-san... how am I supposed to differentiate CIA agents from agents of other countries? " Graham's eyes widened at that moment, while Komakado couldn't hide the smile that threatened to appear on his face, "You see, I can turn a blind eye to you specifically, but with so many countries, I'm afraid there might be some mistakes" he said while letting out a slight chuckle.

"You... you wouldn`t do it" the panic was visible on Graham's face as he started to sweat.

"But that's not why I came... I just came to give you a warning, this is no longer in our hands" Komakado said with a glum look, "from the moment they left the inn, they came under the direct protection of Kei Kirasaki, and right now, if you think of attacking them, I don't know how he will react" his gaze wandered around as if looking for something, "after all, right now, we are under his surveillance" he raised his voice more "isn't that right??"

At that moment, thirty robots appeared out of nowhere, all at the same time. Every single one of them aimed at Graham's and Komakado's men.

" Cunning Human...." a woman's voice was heard, the voice being emitted from all the drones "But I'm sure my existence is only known to my master and a few of his servants" curiosity was evident in her tone "so... how do you know about me?"

"Shit" muttered Komakado, this was just a damn test, it wasn't supposed to be true, the fact that an AI existed in this era was a damn nightmare, but in fact this would solve many of the doubts surrounding Kei Kirasaki, the control of the drones in such an expert manner, the execution and the apparent knowledge of everything that was going on in all countries by Kei Kirasaki.

A few seconds passed with nothing being said, just the background sound of the crowd, as everyone's nervousness increased because nothing was being said.

Suddenly, the sound of the air cracking woke everyone up, and when they turned to look in the direction of the sound, they found a basketball-sized hole in one of the cars behind Komakado, the edges of the hole still reddened from the heat.

"Answer" the voice said without emotion as the drone in front of komakado pulled back the barrel from which it had fired.

Swallowing saliva, Komakado decided that his life was more important than keeping the confidentiality his superiors had dictated in case the information was confirmed.

"It is a secret among all the superiors and computer scientists, the creation of a conscious AI is something difficult but not impossible, but when it comes to Kei Kirasaki anything is possible" nervousness clear in his voice "When the possibility was proposed to the higher ups along with the evidence that Kei Kirasaki had access to all kinds of confidential documents to negotiate his independence and the exclusivity of his technology, Actions were taken accordingly, any kind of new information or conclusion to be had regarding this issue was to be handwritten or only verbally communicated, thus ensuring further investigation into the matter without leaving a digital footprint, therefore preventing such an AI from finding out, other than that, nothing changed, everything continued to work as normal so as not to raise suspicion" a cold sweat ran down his back at this point.

"I guess that makes sense... but this is not the time for that, for now I will introduce myself: The name given to me by my creator was Ciel, I am an entity known colloquially as Artificial Intelligence, AI for short, created, designed, programmed and built by Kei Kirasaki for the sole purpose of building, providing and obtaining any and all of my creator's desires" a jovial tone tinged her voice as she spoke of the name given to her by Kei, while in a cheerful and obsessive tone she spoke of her origins.

"But aside from that, I have a message to deliver to your superiors..."

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Oval Office, White House.

"What!?!!" The President of the United States shouted, the panic visible in his eyes, "This..." shaking slightly, he didn't know what to do, "This has got to be a joke," he thought.

With a bang, the door to the Oval Office, burst open, a group of armed men, rushed in and approached the President directly.

"Mr. President, you need to get out of here, it's not safe," one of the men said.

Panic was visible in his eyes as he did his best to stop shaking, only to fail miserably, as did his companions.

Still, he had to move, after all, this was one of the scenarios they had prepared them for... although to be honest, he didn't think he would actually have to use it.

"All, the nuclear warheads are activating sir, we have to get them out of here and into the p-presidential bunker" a stutter at the end of the sentence escaped his mouth "right now we have no way to stop it, the form of activation used is completely unknown, nothing we do works, even manual deactivation, it's like something's moving it..." panic filled the room as the president stared at his computer screen with a pale face.

China, Russia, Korea and all the other countries involved or not in the attacks had the same reaction, the only difference being that they had received some information about Ciel beforehand.

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While Kei was completely unaware of what was going on.

"Hey!!! Shino, we are going to leave you!" shouted Kei, noticing Shino's absence.

"I'm coming!!!" Shino replied "Nanami I'll talk to you later, I have to go with them..." she looked at her sister's face, that had tears in her eyes and with trembling lips, she felt guilty "Don't worry, I'll make it up to you, I'll try to get you an interview with Kei so don't worry" she said as she came close to her sister's ear.

And then she ran off, waving her hand to say goodbye.