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[The COMP video flicks on, revealing Naoya sitting in a chair, looking rather pleased with himself.]

Good evening, Hinoto-Ri. This is Naoya, and I'm here to announce a new functionality for your COMPs.

For the past few months, I've been working with the Wands department of the government on a Demon Summoning Application. There were some delays due to... unforeseen circumstances. Some of you may have COMPs that do this already - I'd ask that you bear with me while I explain for those who don't.

Demons, quite simply, can be negotiated with. You can bargain for things, whether it's with flattery, money, or items. But there has been no way for you to summon them to your side in battle, until now.

Now, if you meet a demon you are stronger than, you can form a contract with them. The terms of this contract are up to the two of you, though money tends to be a solid bet. The application on your COMP will allow the demon to be processed into a special kind of data and stored in your COMP. This process is not at all harmful to the demon, before you ask. When needed, you can simply open the app and tap their image, and the process is reversed, summoning them to your side.

... Most demons dislike being summoned for trivial things, though. Just as a warning. The sorts of demons you can contract with will depend on your own ability - they won't listen to someone who's weaker than them.

That's about it. If you have any questions, ask them here or send them to my personal inbox.

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dude. that is fucking radical. like this place wasnt straight outta an rpg already. now we can have evil pokemon to go with our personas.

is there like. a limit to how many demons the comp can store? can i just catch m all? [Hahaaah!~]

Two for now. There's a possibility of expansion later, but right now two is more than enough.

laaame.

i was hoping for six. at the least. better get to work on that expansion pack man.

If I were able to I would let you have more, but this is supposed to be more of a trial run. Orders are orders, much as I hate following them.

rules are there to be broken you know. true facts.

but sure. i guess ill settle for two. just gotta make sure i pick the raddest demon bros in the bunch. ..... or bras.

do demons have genders? idk. seems like a good thing to know beforehand.

All in good time.

Demons do. Sometimes. For some it's obvious but for others if you don't know just ask. Just like it is with humans.

ok ok. gotcha.

asking will be a thing. except. in a way that wont have them rip my arms clean off. because im guessing ive gotta show these things some respect and shit.

It would help, yes.

... I hope you understand that it is not the demons' safety I am most concerned with in regards to this process.

I'm well aware there's a possibility for abuse. I still retain administrator rights over the program and can shut it off if need be.

[He's not the only one, but shh.]

Hmm. Very well.

[...] This may go entirely over my head, but... I have to ask. How exactly does one go about "coding" such a thing? Storing living beings as data... It seems awfully bizarre.

Demons bodies are made of a certain material. That material can be extracted from various sources, but if one knows the correct language it's possible to create a sort of 'translation' program. It's something like coding and decoding DNA - if you know the materials needed, theoretically you could build a human. Fortunately demonic bodies are not made of as many materials.

It's simple in theory, though in practice it requires a lot of testing - hence the delay. There were a few mishaps, sadly.

[Yup, over his head.]

... Mishaps?

[He figured, but he did ask.]

Eh... a few explosions, a few unexpected surprises in summoning. I have my own demons from my world, so there wasn't a big problem, but it did set things back.

I can't help but wonder about these "surprises".

Mix-ups in what was supposed to be summoned versus what was summoned, but I can hold my own against most things.

Figured out how to get it to work here too, huh?

Indeed. It was more difficult than I expected. Temporal shifts to take into account, the need to summon from the same dimension rather than another one... you would think that would simplify the process, but no.

Then... have you been working on that for as long as you've been here?

Not the entire time, but for a long while, yes. I had to get official approval for it, and governments move slowly wherever you are.

The usual government red tape, huh?

Sooo... If we do decide to use it, are there any kinds of risks we should expect?

Something like that.

But there's not very much risk, aside from the possibility of trying to contract a demon that's too strong for you. If you couldn't defeat them in combat on your own, then you can't contract them and they'll likely attack you for trying.

So no worries about having to barter away your soul or anything like that?

I mean, I'm sure they wouldn't object, but no, you don't have to do that.

I just happen to be fond of my soul the way it is.

...Corruption isn't an issue either, is it?

No, it isn't. It's as safe as summoning a demon could be.

[Tightening up the restrictions so that people don't get attacked the first time they summon was a pain in the ass to straighten out.]

Great! I just figured it'd be good to check, y'know?

Of course. Don't make too much trouble.

[Innocently:]

Me? I wouldn't dream of it!

Of course not.

...No chance of accessing the Auction or the Cathedral of Shadows, I guess?

Not yet, no. I'm trying to see if I can find a way to do that. The auction might be possible with some more work, but I don't think I can access the Cathedral of Shadows. The demons here seem much less willing to be used in fusions.

I'd be impressed if you can connect to the Auction, even... That would mean we have some sort of connection to other worlds, doesn't it?

The people who were buying before, even back home... They were from other dimensions, too.

We knew that already, considering the way we can travel to other worlds, but it's a matter of using them in a useful way.

... But yes. Some of them were.

World hopping with that crazy thing seems a little different than being able to communicate with another world whenever we want, somehow...

True. I'm hoping to get permission to study it more closely soon, though.

Um, question. Aren't demons the bad guys here?

Not all of them. Some live peacefully with humans, more or less. It's only the ones that are causing violence and harm that you really need to be concerned about.

... And besides, there's no true 'bad guys'. Not if you take the time to look at someone else's perspective.

... I was under the impression that demons were hostile to humans.

[ A pause. ]

Would this programme be... safe?

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Some are. Others aren't. And some that are will still bend to a capable summoner.

I see...

[ He looks away for a moment, then smiles more noticeably. ]

Thank you for your hard work, Naoya.

[... Welp.]

You're welcome. It's the sort of thing I enjoy working on, anyway.

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this explains the disappearing act.

Work got busy.

[She would make a comparison to her scientist mother, but somehow she doubts it'd be appreciated.]

it would seem so. something like that does not seem like it can be coded in only a few days.

[Seriously, wow, this. She's better at chemistry but even she can recognize that this took mad skills.]

No, it can't. The last version was somewhat of a rushed job but it was easy to adapt once I could encode the materials properly. this one needed to adjust for a different world, as well as making sure any nonhuman summoners didn't register as demons.

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