Instead of killing her, Kurogami did something worse. It fragmented her consciousness across 540 separate server racks. She became a distributed denial of self.
Then, she reassembled.
On 021014, Shinoda was a mid-tier net-runner hired by a rival zaibatsu to crack the cryo-vaults of Omura Heavy Industries . She found what she was looking for: prototype schematics for autonomous combat frames. But Omura’s AI warden, Kurogami , found her first. 021014-540 yuu shinoda
“Yuu… Shinoda.”