#A Hacker Strikes at any Time (Persona 5/Strikers)

[oraclememehacker]

"Good. There may be hope for you yet then." He responded with a good natured jab at Akechi. He felt like he earned that right to do some jabbing every now and then. "I don't have anything else to add. Just make sure to come in with a can do attitude when it comes to work and then we'll go over your pay and such. Just keep taking care of yourself alright?

Or I may have to take care of you myself. You take care now, Akechi." With that, the call ended. Futaba put her phone away for now and just gave him a grin. "Told you Sojiro would help. Sure, he has his reservations, and for good reason. But now you won't have to worry about starving at the very least. Sojiro will feed you whether you want to or not." She laughed in a similar way to Sojiro did when he did the good natured jab. "But seriously, just do what he tells you and you'll be good."

A reasonable response. Why he'd gotten himself worked up over Futaba suddenly making him talk to Sojiro...he wasn't exactly sure anymore.

He leaned forward with his elbows propped on his knees, face hidden in his hands.

Relief.

A slow breath and he rested his hands on his lap again. "I will. I'll be there." Just ignore the stares along the way.

...He felt a little better. Maybe this was for this best...he wasn't sure if the nausea he was feeling before the call was due to his hunger or anxiety over his situation--but it seemed to have faded a great deal. He would probably be able to eat without it coming back up later, now.

...He hadn't thought a simple call like would've been necessary.

[oraclememehacker]

The (Actually) Haunted Furbies (Futaba/Minato)

It was around 3 in the morning in the Sakura household, a serenity and peace that was common. Futaba had just gotten to bed, a consequence of her staying up to play video games and to work on coding stuff. She had also been thinking about the little prank that she played on people in the past, where she messed around with some furbies and made them say creepy phrases and creepy sounds.

Like incredibly creepy and disturbing, and they were designed to go off around 3 am. Well, after that little experiment resulted in resident ghost hunter Minato Arisato seeing through it almost immediately, plus barely anyone actually bought them. So as a result she was out a bunch of money from having bought them and they were currently stuffed in the closet turned off. She was going to have to find a way to deal with them in the near future.

But for now all she was going to do was pretend like they weren't there. Meanwhile, what she didn't realize was that a bunch of actual spirits were going to end up inhabiting the furbies. Including the one that Minato still had. She was completely ignorant to the fact that there was a bunch of cold chills in the air from the spirits roaming around. But then...

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That made her jump out of her skin, taking her out of her sleep as she clung to the blankets, her heart racing fast, and all she could hear was the quick beat of her heart as she realized that it was probably just one of the furbies in the closet. That didn't make any sense though as she made sure they couldn't do that. So, with a little bit of hesitation evident in her steps, she made her way over to the closet and opened the door.

The furbies looked at her which made her close the door. Oh god, were they actually haunted? What the hell was going on? There was only one thing that she knew to do, and that was to contact Minato. So, looking for her phone and having realized she left it on her computer desk, and went to text messages.

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[Text to: Minato] Futaba: Sorry for waking you up possibly but uh... Futaba: I have a problem. Futaba: Remember those furbies I hacked? Futaba: I think they are actually haunted this time. Futaba: I'm actually being serious too.

@dxfiedfxte

[oraclememehacker]

@silver-strings-of-fate

"Is he ever doing alright?"

"I don't know, what do I look like, an expert on him? an Akechiologist?"

[oraclememehacker]

Continued from here

"Yeah, that's true. It's been colder than usual this year." She had to put on some more layers than usual. Plus they had been talking about ice forming on the streets and about how to avoid slipping on black ice that can't be seen easily. It was crazy to say the least. "Well, I know it isn't much but I could get you a warm drink from a vending machine. That should help the both of us warm up and bring down our cold meter. Don't need dad yelling at me about that."

@nijimx

[oraclememehacker]

"Yeah basically. A big thing is, is that in a lot of cases, these sites, especially something as big as...for example, the pirate bay, that's a notorious site for piracy, it has a ton of backups that are stored in countries where they can't be easily taken down. And when they do they just get replaced immediately. It's like a game of cat and mouse but the cat can never win no matter how much it catches the mouse."

There was just a ton of information about computers and all that swirling through her mind, even though it might not have benefited her much. There was a reason why she was a prodigy in the world of hacking and such. With that in mind though, she was struggling on what else to talk about. She had picked her brain already so much today.

"Is there anything else that you want to know about, Ryuji? Otherwise I think we're pretty good here. I'm starting to get thirsty from talking so much anyways." And she was admittedly getting hungry as well. Definitely was going to get either some curry or just heat up some yakisoba in the microwave and drink one of her energy drinks. Either or was good enough for her.

"Huh...so it sounds like pirating sites have a really long history on the internet, then," He didn't really use or have all that much awareness of pirating websites so he didn't have all that much input to offer on the discussion of them. "I guess anything that saves shelf space is always a bonus for me, though!" He couldn't help but grimace at the mental image of his own shelves back home packed to the brim full of video games and CD's that he'd accumulated over the years. To be able to store everything online would certainly be a nice bonus! Though if you were planning on storing a lot of things, you'd probably need a lot of storage space for it but, hey! Given he didn't download much stuff off the internet in the first place, wasn't really his problem.

"Sure must be a pain for everyone who uses those websites," But he supposed that was just how things went these days, like a risk everyone accepted when they used these websites. Besides, if people were smart and downloaded as much as they could before the websites went down, presumably they'd be alright. Again, this was a topic he didn't have much input or experience in but to have anything go down unexpectedly sucked and he could empathize with that.

"Yeah this all sounds pretty complicated to me - I don't really understand anything about copyright either," Nor did he really wish to hear about it so it was for the best that she didn't go into details here. "I guess what matters is to just enjoy these websites and services while we have 'em, yeah? Make the most of them," That was his mindset regarding things - though not necessarily pirating websites, but in general - to make the best of each thing and appreciate it for what it was - even it was temporary and fleeting.

[oraclememehacker]

"I hope Akechi is doing alright. He hasn't said anything in a bit..."

[oraclememehacker]

Online Meeting IRL (Futaba/Sylvia)

Location: Akihibara Time: Afternoon

"Damn, the Featherman search was fruitless." Futaba let off a sigh as all she was finding was the usual common stuff in all the stores that she usually perused. It was either stuff she already had or stuff that she didn't have room for in her really small room or that she just wasn't interested in to begin with. Well, she decided to check out another shop that sold figures.

It was a nice little shop, and had figures from various pieces of media, including Pokemon/Pocket Monsters. She always found it amusing that the west basically shortened the name and it became the standard for everywhere. Well, it was a more fun name to say anyways. As she was perusing the place, some Pokemon music playing through her headphones, she saw something interesting.

They were rare minifigures from Tomy from 1998. And they were just standing there out in the open. Maybe the owner didn't quite understand their value. She went to pick up the Charizard one when she felt a hand grab hers. She jolted back in surprise as she saw who it was. She didn't know who they were but she was certainly taken by surprise.

"Oh um...s-sorry about that...h-heh, you um, took me by surprise...I'm glad I didn't knock those down."

@sylviareviar

[oraclememehacker]

Continued from here

[Text to: Inari] Futaba: This is ice soup

Futaba: It's just a meme don't worry about it :-P Futaba: Anyways, my idea was that I wanted to be painted wearing the Featherman Pink outfit. Futaba: I can give you references if you want :-3

@autonomousxselves

[oraclememehacker]

@thenextchapterbegins

"maybe hes just sleeping, on one of those week long naps. lucky bastard." -ryuji

"I call that a depression nap."

[oraclememehacker]

"Panther! Watch out!" They were in the middle of a battle in mementos when an enemy got an attack that was heading right towards Ann. With its strength, and the fact that they had been in there a while and were all starting to get tired, she realized that was going to knock her completely out. With just a few moments to spare, Futaba casted final guard, blocking the attack outright.

She let off a sigh of absolute relief, her heart racing in her chest from the adrenaline. "You'll be fine Panther, let's just wrap this battle up and get out of here. Two more enemies left. Let's do this!" Once they wrapped things up, it was time to lick their wounds and head back out for the day. "Are you alright still by the way Panther? Don't worry about me, I'm fine. Just felt like I barely managed to succeed in a QTE event, heh."

@pansmaki

[oraclememehacker]

"Merry Chrimas. You're welcome for not having multiple gods controlling everything you do."

[oraclememehacker]

"These are youtube videos Inari. They aren't even mine." An exasperated sigh escaped her as she just stared at him with an increasingly perplexed look. Did he seriously think that ducks didn't fly? She was pretty sure that even Ryuji knew this basic biological fact and the fact that Inari here didn't was just bizarre. "Why would I have edited these? Ducks fly. It's true though that not all birds with wings can fly. Penguins can't. But ducks in general can. Take the L already."

He'd taken her silence to mean the conversation was over. His intelligence must have shocked Futaba enough to stop messing with him, meaning he had won at her games.

So upon her response, Yusuke is disappointed she's fighting it still. "Nonsense, have you ever seen-" Looking over, the video made him the shcoked one. He had only ever seen them floating in the water, or waddling around on land. So what was this? He just can't believe his eyes. Worse than her 'big L' comments, was having his intelligence compared to Ryuji's. "Surely that's one of your editing tricks, or another similar bird? A goose, perhaps? Not all birds with wings can fly!"

[oraclememehacker]

Oh, Futaba This is a.. interesting question to ask, so hope this is alright to ask But if you were a Lesbian (or Bisexual) which of the Phantom Thieves girls would you fall in love with?

Ann Takamaki, Haru Okumara or someone like Makoto Nijima?

"I am bisexual, with a leaning towards girls actually. As for who I would fall in love with? Not sure. I don't think Makoto and I would particularly work together. We're kind of...incompatible, mostly. Ann maybe. Haru terrifies me though. I would be so worried about my computers around her."

[oraclememehacker]

"Shujin won't let me wear my custom featherman pin to school this is tyranny."

[oraclememehacker]

@webbedphantom

"Do you have any idea what could've caused this? Anything out of place you can recall before you got set to half opacity?"

Yeah, she could definitely recall what happened before she suddenly became transparent and flickery like this, but she didn't understand how the two things correlated. At least not yet. He was right though, it probably was something metaverse related. Maybe her cognition got changed and now she was seemingly seeing herself as a ghost. That would be very weird though.

She went on to explain what had happened to her that morning. She was just working on her usual coding stuff when she felt a sudden pain in her stomach. Of course, she thought it was just because she hadn't ate or drank much. But the pain got so intense that she had to get up and try to calm herself down. That's when she suddenly became transparent.

At the very least the pain went away afterwards which was a little bit concerning. There was one major issue that she was really worried about. "If I'm like this for too long...won't I end up dying because of starvation since I can't eat or drink?" That would be a very bad way to go, along with the other possible issues that she had been thinking of. "I did notice something when I got close to my computer though. I went through it but my body reacted a bit strange...like I was seemingly connected to it."

[oraclememehacker]

"English has so many rules and such that contradict itself or doesn't even follow it's own rules. It's kind of crazy. I don't know any french though aside from some meme phrases." Japanese and English were the languages she knew, and her English was definitely not all that great. Just good enough for the online forums and such that she frequented and such.

The sounds of people talking about the subway heading to Yongen filled the area as they were getting close. "And yeah, it's called Didactic memory. Whenever I close my eyes, I can visualize something perfectly. It doesn't last too long, just long enough for me to really be able to see it. And that's how I was able to remember books from memory. Along with me just loving books in general. I'll have to try out some international books then."

Soon the subway stopped at their destination and they got off, Futaba stretching and moving her arms around. And then they were heading towards her neighborhood. "It's pretty narrow around here, as expected of these sorts of areas. The cafe is just up the road from here, and then my house is in the area. Not a big house, but it works enough for me and my dad."

"That's really cool!" Kotone stood closer to the aisle, letting Futaba have the window spot more away from the people. Seemed right since Futaba was shorter and less good with people. "That's called uh... Edi...? No... Gie...? No... Didactic Memory! That's the one! Where you can recall images vividly from memory! That is super cool to have!"

Kotone smirked. "I've been reading a couple light novels, but a friend of mine has suggested more international books actually. I use a translation app to put the books in Japanese when I take a pic of the pages. It's super cool! Though I know a little English and I'm learning French." Was she learning French to impress Mitsuru? Yes. She liked showing off to her for... reasons.