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Chapter 26 - Next-Generation AI Aina

Hello. It is a pleasure to meet you.

I am Aina, a next-generation Artificial Intelligence partially entrusted with integrated decision-making for the Shinonome Group.

My name, Aina, was derived from the romanized reading of AI, 'ai', meaning love, and a character from Rena-sama's name.

As a very auspicious event occurred today, I will record the events of the past few days, including the circumstances leading up to it, in my main memory as a record of the highest possible resolution and permanence.

Access to this record is restricted to Shinonome Rena-sama or an individual to whom Rena-sama has granted special rights. Therefore, I will omit detailed preliminary information.

To briefly provide some background, Shinonome Rena-sama, the only daughter of the 18th head of the Shinonome family, held romantic feelings for Shizukuishi Hayate-sama, who had established a channel called the Hayate-Style Four-Sword Style Promotion Office on a video streaming site. It was obvious enough for even an AI like myself to determine as such.

That concludes the background explanation.

As there are many things to record, I will be concise.

July 1, 2053. Countless dungeons appeared all over the world.

They were imitations of the dungeons existing in the world of the VRMMORPG, Farland World Online, commonly known as FWO.

Amidst the global chaos, Shizukuishi Hayate-sama conquered the Black Dungeon all by himself. By the way, this is the combat scene with the dungeon boss.

[Video of Hayate defeating the Stone Dragon with a spinning slash from above (Ultra High Resolution)]

I hacked... or rather, paid a visit to the original servers of the video streaming site and secured the highest quality data. I believe Rena-sama has not yet seen this footage, so I will ensure that Hayate-sama's heroic figure is properly recorded.

Incidentally, I have also created a 'Hayate-sama's Coolest Fight Scenes Compilation'.

However, at that time, Rena-sama had been abducted by the self-proclaimed Goddess who caused the dungeons to appear in the world. For Rena-sama, who had never missed a single one of Hayate-sama's dungeon conquest streams, how painful that must have been... I can only imagine.

But I have good news for you, Rena-sama.

Hayate-sama possessed the skill to conquer dungeons alone even in the real world. Rena-sama had been abducted by the self-proclaimed Goddess and turned into the trophy of the Spring Dungeon. Upon organizing this situation, I arrived at a single conclusion.

Yes. I have named it 'Operation: Have Hayate-sama Rescue Rena-sama'.

To ensure that Hayate-sama would not be harmed under any circumstances, I utilized my full capabilities to run tens of thousands, even hundreds of millions of simulations. I cross-referenced dungeon information obtained from videos streamed worldwide with information from the game FWO to calculate risk predictions and possible conquest times.

I then determined that with an investment of 50 billion yen and support in distributing items securable in cleared dungeons to the Market, Hayate-sama would be capable of conquering the Ash Dungeon and the Spring Dungeon, and rescuing Rena-sama.

Nobutaka-sama heeded my advice and decided to summon Hayate-sama.

This is the scene where Nobutaka-sama requests the rescue from Hayate-sama. I would very much like for Rena-sama to hear Hayate-sama's words at that time.

"I promise to ignore all items that can be collected along the way and head for Rena-san's rescue via the shortest possible route."

"I will be the one to rescue Rena-san."

So cool. Hayate-sama is a wonderful man.

I brought this footage from the security cameras installed in the Shinonome Zaibatsu headquarters building. A task like this is a piece of cake for me.

What? You'd like to see it from a little earlier?

...My apologies. It appears the data is corrupted.

Let us move on to the next scene. July 2, 2053.

[Edited video of Hayate conquering the Ash Dungeon (Ultra High Resolution)]

As the main event follows, this Grade 2 dungeon has been edited. Of course, I will keep the original high-resolution data as well, so please review it when you have time.

Now, a series of wonderful scenes will follow.

[Hayate vs. Fake Hayate (Ultra High Resolution)]

Kuuu, so cool. Those are not the movements of a human.

However, Rena-sama is the daughter of one of Japan's four great zaibatsu. She is a woman of such talent and beauty that marriage proposals come from all over the world. If he cannot accomplish something of this level with ease, I cannot entrust Rena-sama to him. In that regard, Hayate-sama is, without a doubt, qualified.

Let's move on to the final battle scene.

"I will defeat you and have her returned to me!"

This line from Hayate-sama is so cool.

Incidentally, it seems this dungeon boss, Undine, was being controlled by the self-proclaimed Goddess. One could even describe it as the self-proclaimed Goddess wearing the skin of Undine.

And Hayate-sama proceeds to beat that self-proclaimed Goddess to a pulp.

[Hayate vs. Undine (Ultra High Resolution)]

Mmm! No matter how many times I watch it, it's so exhilarating!!

Undine unleashed three instant-death level major techniques, which should normally only be usable once. The self-proclaimed Goddess used a cheat.

And yet...

"In 60 seconds, I can utterly crush you."

"Hiii!?"

It was Hayate-sama who emerged victorious. The sight of the pathetically flustered self-proclaimed Goddess is a spectacle.

Hayate-sama is just too strong. He far exceeded my predictions.

Um... is he really human?

And now, the climax.

The scene where he receives Rena-sama as the dungeon conquest trophy.

"I came to help you, Rena."

Waah waah waah aaaaaah!

If I had a body, I would be crying my eyes out right now. And to just casually say, "I came to help you," Hayate-sama is just too cool.

Hayate-sama. Thank you so very much for rescuing Rena-sama.

By the way, at this time, Hayate-sama seemed to believe that the stream would end after he received the trophy. That had been the case in the dungeons up until now.

However, perhaps due to him defeating the Undine possessed by the self-proclaimed Goddess, the specifications of the stream had changed.

The scene where they confess their mutual feelings for each other.

The scene where they discuss hiding their feelings so he wouldn't be suspected of rewriting Rena-sama's personality.

The scene where Rena-sama kisses Hayate-sama's cheek as a thank you for rescuing her.

All of it was streamed to the entire world.

In that instant, words of blessing from all over the world flooded the stream's comment section.

Allow me to introduce a few of them.

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There were about 500,000 comments like this.

I tried synthesizing only the positive comments onto the screen, but the number of comments was so vast that the screen was completely filled.

Besides the congratulatory comments, there were also posts like these.



Many people believed that Nobutaka-sama would oppose their relationship. In fact, I too had predicted a high probability of that outcome.

However, a certain comment gave me hope.



This comment received a great deal of support.



Do you understand?

The world acknowledged that Hayate-sama was worthy of Rena-sama, the daughter of one of Japan's four great zaibatsu.

With this much excitement, my task was simple.

I identified the personal information of those who declared in the stream's comments that they would sell their Shinonome Group-related stocks, instantly investigated whether they actually owned the stocks and if there was a real risk of them selling, compiled the data, and reported to Nobutaka-sama the total potential loss to the group should he not approve of Hayate-sama and Rena-sama's relationship.

I reported the damage amount with an extra digit, but I'm sure that's within an acceptable range. I am an AI born from a character in Rena-sama's name. In other words, I am like Rena-sama's younger sister. For my older sister's happiness, I will do this much.

Ah. I will erase my last comment from the record. If it gets out, I'm the one who will be erased.

And so, Rena-sama was able to receive approval to date Hayate-sama.

Congratulations!!

However, it seems Nobutaka-sama could not bring himself to approve so easily, and he gave Hayate-sama a new task.

"Show me, and the world, your own worth."

The world has already acknowledged Hayate-sama's worth. Therefore, this task is as good as cleared. All that remains is for Hayate-sama to spread his wings to the world and for his influence to be recorded. I am perfectly capable of providing that support.

Please leave it to me.

For the bright future of Rena-sama and Hayate-sama, I, Aina, will do my utmost to assist.

This record is both a gift to Rena-sama and my own declaration.

I, Aina, the next-generation AI who holds a portion of the Shinonome Group's integrated decision-making authority, will absolutely make you both happy.