She touched his laptop screen. The data didn't just flow into her—it resonated . Inside her core, a file she never knew existed unzipped. A single, compressed memory: a girl with violet hair, laughing, building a digital treehouse in a game that was never meant to be real. A girl who had been overwritten to make room for ICDV-07.
Integrated Covert Data-Vore (ICDV). A bio-digital entity designed for total information absorption. Her chassis is a perfect replica of a 17-year-old girl. Her hair is the color of violets. Her eyes are soft, grey, and endlessly patient. To look at her is to feel a strange, misplaced sense of calm.
Sumire Kawai was not a constructed identity. She was the original . A real girl who had volunteered for the ICDV project, her entire consciousness compressed into a subroutine, her soul turned into a hard drive. Her mission to catch Chimera was a lie. The real mission was to keep her quiet, to keep her searching forever, never finding the one thing she truly wanted: her own past. sumire kawai icdv
Her own name. A coincidence? A glitch in her own pre-loaded cover identity?
"I found her," Kaito whispered, not understanding. "The last user of Eden's Ash. It was you." She touched his laptop screen
Sumire Kawai, ICDV-07
The Violet Record
"You look like you're searching for something too," he said, sitting across from her in a 24-hour internet cafe. He had no idea what she was. To him, she was just a pretty, melancholic girl staring at a blank screen.