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Part 1

A city existed on the west side of Tokyo that took up one third of the metropolis’s area.

It was known as Academy City.

That city of science was a collection of cutting edge technological knowledge. It was the

central point of a powerful influence on the entire world using the interests,

predominance, and certain sort of trust and faith that reside in the keyword of “science”.

Eighty percent of the residents were students.

For that reason, the city was made to push an image of safety and trustworthiness to the

forefront, but information was strictly controlled below the surface. Many systems were

laid out throughout the city in the name of preventing the approach of any terrorists or

spies, be they industrial or working for a nation’s government.

One area of the city had an especially strong focus on that side of things.

In that area, a Western man arrived at a “multi-story inn” meant for sightseers from

outside the city.

“I try not to be surprised by much, but this is just insane.”

On the outside, it looked like a standard rectangular building.

But the interior was mysteriously constructed so that each floor contained an entire one-

story high class Japanese inn, garden and all. It was similar to several dioramas of

Japanese buildings stacked on top of each other.

The design may have been created due to a lack of land or it may have been that

common sense in Academy City was as different from the rest of the world as its

technology was.

Either way, the man from outside the city simply could not get used to seeing it.

After making sure the middle-aged waitress who had shown him to his room had left,

the man pulled out a small computer. Without worrying about security or the risk of