After the family had their dinner, the children were already at their rooms, the house became peaceful once more.

Mayu was at her room putting locks on all of her cabinets after the twins had snatched her undergarments.

Rin and Len were already at their beds, being the lights turned off on Len's lamp. After he got a taste of his older sister's fury, he immediately went to his bed to sleep, leaving Rin to finish her own coloured art in paper under the light of the desk lamp at their work table.

Finally, Yohio was still awake at that moment. He was sitting at his desk while unwrapping the parcel that came at their house earlier.

Soon enough, he saw the content of the package and nodded his head lightly in contentment.

"My guess was right, this is the prize Yuu was talking about.."

He removed the thin film of paper that covers the items and placed them one by one in line out of the box to the table.

"Oh, it is more than just the Vocaloid." He said while lifting the items up, "A Miku keychain eating a leek, a neko flash drive, some posters of Meiko and the disc: the Vocaloid itself."

He lifted the case and read the label.

"So this is the Vocaloid Yuu was after, a white haired boy with a cowlick in a white dress. U-ta-ta-ne Pi-ko. Hmm..." He said, flipping the case to the back. "I have seen strange enough. I better call Yuu by now to help me install this. It's only eight in the evening, he's still awake by now doing crazy things."

With the Vocaloid case at his right hand, he went downstairs and called Yuu at his house using the telephone.
After a short moment of beeps, Yuu picked up the phone.

"Yuu, are you —" He said, then he stopped when his friend was strangely saying something repeatedly over the line.

"Watashi, watashi, watashi, watashi, watashi, watashi, watashi, watashi, watashi, watashi, watashi, watashi...." Yuu dreadfully said.

"Are you alright there?"

"Watashi, watashi, watashi...."

Yohio made a squinted look at the wall he was facing at.

"When you are okay, call me Yuu. I need help on installing the Vocaloid and see me and Vanessa at the school tomorrow morning."

"...watashi, watashi, watashi, watashi.."

"Fair enough, I hope you'll get a good night sleep my friend. Bye." Yohio said, ending the call.

He lowered his head and sighed.

"What happened to that guy?" He said, confused, while walking up the stairs. "I better see him right away tomorrow."

‡‡ Networld, ALYS Central Archives ‡‡

After Alys had successfully taken the male program off on Teto's domain, she immediately placed him in a room where she inspected the program without being detected by humans. She ripped open his torso and checked his composition while the program was still on deep sleep.

To prevent the spread of any hidden contamination inside the program, she attached a bluish metal tube six inches in diameter to his head and isolated it from the body by chopping the program's head and placing it in a chrome box at the far right of the room.

Like a structure similar to a car's engine block, she painstakingly repaired the damages she had seen inside. The cables, cores and all of its functioning systems had been replaced or reconnected to its proper ports.

She also polished the stained white clothing using an antivirus agent and then submerging it a basin of illuminating binary liquid.

Bare naked, Alys then inspected the male program's skin to look for any deformations or contamination that was hiding in his clothes.

From the neck down, she scanned the entire body of him until one small detail caught her attention. A white pixel as small as a bottle cap labeled 'M' was stuck at the lower spine of him.

Alys carefully removed the pixel off and held it close to her sight. Then, she let go of the pixel suspended in mid air and made a command prompt.

"File check initiate.." Alys said.

Afterwards, the pixel was surrounded by a blue cylindrical band of binary numbers. Then, a screen materialized beside it, flashing the content and details of the said pixel.

"File check complete..." the system said, followed by a short beeping sound.

When the file check was completed, Alys looked the report and when she saw the origin of the pixel, she was astounded on her findings.

ㄖㄖㄖ

When the male program slowly opened his eyes, he found himself sitting in front of Alys' desk. More to it, he saw Alys when in that moment was sitting at a metal chair over the table, staring at him with deep mysterious eyes.

"Before we could talk some important things, tell me program, what is your name?" Alys gravely said, her hands were both at the armrests.

"I-I'm Estupidó.exe."

"Estupidó? What a jerk would name such a program with that!"

"I know, but still, it is my name. That is the name my creator had gave me."

"Any clue why your creator gave you that name?" Alys said, crossing her legs and swaying her chair slightly to the left.

"As far as I know, I was created absentmindedly by my creator to cheat a human. I became alive to live without a reason. I existed without a purpose but an accessory to my creator, a face of deception."

"What a pitiful existence you have."

"I know, but I must deal with my fate. I'm on my own now."

"Anyways, how did you end up in the Wasteland? I heard that it was recently undergone extreme incineration and almost all of the files were destroyed."

"I end up in the Wasteland several years ago when the antivirus software of my  creator's computer had recognized me as a threat and dumped me straight to the Wasteland."

"Do you know what antivirus did this to you? It seems to me that you are a well sounding program."

"Geneva Aesthetics Solutions. That is the name of the antivirus."

When Alys heard his answer, a thought ran at her mind. 'So, it is Gumi's fault.'

Alys reached her left hand to her table and clicked something on it.

"Actually, if only I didn't need something, I should have killed you off from the very first second I detected you on Teto's domain." Alys said, sharply staring at him, "But when I inspected your body composition awhile ago, my mind had changed. Maybe, you can help me on something. Something that requires skill and motivation. Can you help me?"

The program nodded.

Alys smiled. "Great. You indeed choose to be my servant."

"I-I am thankful enough for saving me. Serving you is all I can do to pay your mercy upon me." He replied.

"Since you have a new master, you need also a new name. Forget your old name. You are not stupid. In fact, you are wise enough to dodge being killed by me by agreeing at my terms."

"Then, what should be my name then master?" he said in a low voice.

"From now on, you shall know yourself as Piko and your old name will be destroyed together with your past, understand?"

Piko nodded. "Yes Master. I understand."

Alys stood up from her seat and braced her hands at the edge of her table.

"Now, let's talk about what you actually gonna do for me."