PNC Story/Standard 1-4/Script

Remaining Oasis Barrier Uptime - 1:21:48

Rossum Sector, Admin Center

After we leave, Turing begins giving T1641 a checkup.

Turing: [Lower limb examination complete. Damage assessment – minor. Conclusion – will not influence mobility.]
Turing: Explain yourself, T1641.

T1641: …I don't want to leave you.

Turing: Do you understand the situation right now? I'm not telling you to leave me, I'm telling you to take shelter.
Turing: You will have every opportunity to come back and find me once the Sanctifiers leave.

T1641: But then you'll be alone.

Turing: What?

T1641: If T1641 and Hannah aren't around, Turing will have to face the Sanctifiers by herself.
T1641: T1641 does not want Turing to take risks. T1641 wants to help Turing.

Turing: …Listen to me, T1641. I am the Sector Administrator, but you're just an ordinary agent.
Turing: The Sanctifiers can't do anything to me for the time being, but they'll make a move on you right away if they find you.
Turing: Do you understand? You can't do anything for me here besides cause me trouble!

T1641: …I'm sorry.

T1641 lowers her head, at a loss for words. Upon seeing this, Turing realizes that she misspoke. She gets down on one knee so her face is level with T1641's.

Turing: …I should be apologizing to you. I'm sorry. I forgot your logic systems aren't complete.
Turing: Back then, I sacrificed the capabilities of your other modules in order for your emotional systems to surpass the standard.

T1641: I'm sorry, Turing. I'm sorry for not being as good as Hannah.
T1641: I've tried, but my scores will never catch up to hers.
T1641: Hannah can make plans in the Data Center, while all I've done is cause you trouble.

Turing shakes her head and then gently embraces T1641.

Turing: Your worth isn't determined by test scores. You and Hannah are equally important to me.

T1641: …Then what should I do now?

Turing: I'll arrange for other agents to send you to the Data Center. This is a mission, so don't mess around, okay?

T1641: I will complete my missions!

Turing summons an agent to escort T1641 away before returning to her control terminal, where she receives a communication request.

System: >Call received. Address – Data Center.

Turing: Hannah?

???: It's me. Hannah's beside me.
???: Hannah and I discussed several countermeasures, and we want your opinion on them.
???: The Sanctifiers appeared too suddenly, and the Data Center is not a good place to hide.

Turing: We don't need another plan. You and Hannah should prepare to leave. Someone will be there soon to pick you up.
Turing: They can defeat Sanctifiers and they can ensure your safe escape from the Rossum Sector.

???: Defeat Sanctifiers? I thought there were no agents with combat modules in Rossum?

Turing: They're from the outside. One of them is a 42Lab researcher.
Turing: We made a deal, they'll be providing assistance for operands.
Turing: However, the amount they want is massive, so they'll need the Data Center to help process and compress it.

???: Wait a minute, this is a lot to take in at once… And how are you so sure they can be trusted?

Turing: …They saved T1641 of their own accord. One of them is the 42Lab researcher called Persicaria, I've read her file.

???: Wait a minute, Persicaria?!

Turing: You know her?

???: More and more data points… I need some time to parse them.
???: Does that Persicaira you're talking about have pink hair, wear big white lab coat and carry a cup of coffee in her hands at all times?

Beep–
Another sudden system notification interrupts their conversation.

System: >Received access request for the Administration Center. Verifying visitor ID–
System: >Visitor ID confirmed – Intermediate Sanctifier…

Turing: !!!

???: Turing? Hello? Turing?

Turing: Faith's at the Admin Center, I'll send you the operands invoice they gave me first.
Turing: Antonina… I'll be counting on you for the rest.

Antonina: Wait–

Beep–
As the line cuts off, it is accompanied by the footsteps of the Intermediate Sanctifier.

???: Have you processed the pass request for the Sanctifiers, Turing?

Turing: …Not yet. I've been handling the daily tasks for the sector. If you hadn't brought it up, I wouldn't even have known that the Sanctifiers had submitted a pass request to me.
Turing: The suddenness of their arrival does not match proper procedure. For a moment I thought there was a virus incursion.

???: You know why we are here. That turn of phrase is pointless and only serves to waste time.
???: Turing, approve request and unlock all access privileges to the sector's interior. The Sanctifiers need to perform a thorough audit of the Rossum Sector.

Turing: There is nothing wrong with the Rossum Sector, and the scheduled diagnostic is not today. You have no right to make that demand of me.

???: Turing, there is no need for us to repeat the same exchange every time we meet. This process can be optimized.
???: That would be more efficient and safer for the sector. We have already detected traces of Irregular Agents. The situation in Rossum is urgent.

Turing: Faith, I'm not trying to complicate the process and neither am I trying to repeat our exchange. It is simply that the Rossum Sector is fine.
Turing: I haven't heard of any Irregular Agents appearing recently, so please leave and take your Lesser Sanctifiers with you. If you do so, I will not look further into the damage they have already done.

Faith: …[Lesser Sanctifiers, report on the incident that just occurred.]

Sanctifier: [The Lesser Sanctifier stationed at LK27 Zone isolated and Irregular Agent among the Residents in the sector. It is Target 1, serial number T1641.]
Sanctifier: [Unable to detain the target due to a conflict during the cleansing process. The target is now at large.]

Faith: Did you hear that? It's T1641. You have been researching the T-series of agents all this time, have you not?
Faith: Turing, unlock all sector access privileges. An Irregular Agent poses a threat to the sector with every moment of its existence.
Faith: Do you truly wish to endanger the sector?

Turing: …Correct. You're right.

Faith: Thank you for your understanding.

Turing: So please show me your authorization, then. A simple pass request will do.
Turing: You know that the core region of a sector is a classified area and even an Intermediate Sanctifier may not enter it directly.
Turing: Just granting you access would not be in keeping with the rules. I need to see a permit from a Greater Sanctifier and verify that the Reverse Tower knows what is going on.

Faith: …This was expected. While I do not know exactly why you are doing so, you have shown a great willingness to shelter these Irregular Agents.

Turing: Enough talk. You're just looking for an excuse to add more charges to the pile.
Turing: Or are you saying you're going to break the rules you've honored all this time and just barge in there?

Faith: Of course not. The most important thing to a Sanctifier is maintaining law and order.
Faith: Still, that's fine. This too was within the scope of my expectations.
Faith: Before arriving at your sector, I submitted a request to the Greater Sanctifiers for permission to upgrade our access privileges.
Faith: You will receive a certificate of authorization from Lord Eosphorous within 1200 seconds. At that point, you will no longer have a reason to stop us.

Turing: I have never once thought of stopping you. I simply hope everyone will adhere to the rules and proper procedure.
Turing: That IS one of the things you're so big on, right? Doing things by the book.
Turing: Now then, proceed to the break room…

Faith: Thank you for your suggestion, but Sanctifiers do not need breaks.
Faith: Since we are not permitted to enter the core region, we will begin by first examining the sector's outskirts.

Turing: …!

Faith: Or are you saying that we need authorization to inspect the sector's periphery?

Turing: …How could that be? Please yourselves, by all means.

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