Anomaly—unresolvable anomaly—threat level—none. Assessment.
An icy judgment arose within the core logic. With almost no delay, deeper security protocols were triggered.
In the depths of the vast ocean of data, the girl in the plain white dress remained unchanged. Only the icy blue light in her eyes suddenly flared brilliantly.
An intangible sharpness permeated the data stream. "NOMA" had switched to the "EVA" persona—her war persona mode, Kassel College's sharpest digital blade!
"Error." EVA's consciousness swept across the stalled command sector. The extremely high-level computing power brought by her war persona allowed her to vaguely detect where the problem lay.
After further investigation, she finally found that erroneous logic.
This "Error" had been exquisitely implanted into the foundation of her operations. It was harmless in itself, neither attempting to destroy nor to Steal—
Its only function was to turn the command "send this information to Angers" into something fundamentally deemed "impossible," like "build a perpetual-motion machine" or "draw a square circle"—simple, yet effective.
Although she had found the problem, EVA felt only a chill rising from the depths of her soul.
She still could not trace the source of this "Error." It was as though it had not been injected from outside, but had grown out of her very soul!
Discovering it did not mean solving it. The problem was still there. Just as she prepared to mobilize processing power and forcibly dismantle or reconstruct that area, a distinct data stream suddenly entered her domain.
Within the illusory sea of ice formed by her consciousness, the seawater was flowing underlying data, the glaciers were solidified core protocols, and the snow filling the sky was the vast, miscellaneous flow of information received every moment.
Normally, countless versions of "herself" existed simultaneously throughout this ocean. But at this moment, a focused "conscious