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Echika’s stubborn insistence on protecting the secret of the RF Models’ Laws of Respect has driven a wedge between her and Harold. As the two partners grow distant, it comes to light that TOSTI, the mysterious AI they’ve been investigating, may have been developed on Farasha Island, an artificial landmass constructed off the coast of Dubai where researchers pioneer new technologies. When Echika is ordered to travel there and investigate with a small team, she discovers that nearly everyone living on the island has been assigned an Amicus double in an experiment called Project EGO. But soon after Echika and the others’ search for answers gets underway, Bigga is rendered unconscious in a peculiar accident, and it becomes apparent that nothing on the island is as it seems...
Harold and Echika may have brought their latest case to a close, but the AI developer who facilitated E’s campaign against Interpol is nowhere to be found. To ascertain the identity of this enigmatic individual, the pair requests the aid of their friend Bigga, now a consultant with the Electrocrime Investigations Bureau. Yet even her help isn’t enough to give them a lead. Meanwhile, a brutally dismembered Amicus is discovered in a public park, and the modus operandi bears an eerie resemblance to the “Nightmare of Petersburg” spree killings in which Harold’s mentor was murdered...
In the aftermath of the Farasha Island incident, Echika receives a one-month suspension for Brain Diving into a suspect without a warrant. Meanwhile, Harold distances himself from her in an attempt to protect the secret of his neuromimetic system, faking a decline in his data-processing abilities to get reassigned as an investigator aide. When several investors with ties to the Alliance abruptly succumb to a man-made viral infection, however, Echika and Harold must team up once again to uncover the origins of the mysterious pathogen. As their investigation gets underway, the pair soon realize that they are being manipulated...and that the Alliance’s reach is far greater than they could have ever imagined.
Echika, burdened by her decision to hide the secret of Harold’s Laws of Respect, experiences a rapid loss of Brain Dive functionality. With her prospects of being reinstated as a Diver looking grim, Echika is assigned to her next case as a normal police investigator, only to find Harold working the same inquiry with the help of a new “genius” assistant. From there, the two former partners chase separate leads after a hacker known only as E, a self-styled mind reader who has been leaking classified Interpol information on a popular message board. But what is this mysterious figure really after, and why are they inciting their followers to violence?
The Your Forma—a “smart thread” installed directly into the brain that records all its user’s sensory perceptions and emotions. It’s Electronic Investigator Echika Hieda’s job to Dive into these recordings in search of clues to the world’s toughest and most serious crimes. Unfortunately for anyone who’s ever been paired with Echika, her data processing abilities are so off-the-charts that she usually puts her partners in the hospital in the process. Interpol’s solution: assigning an Amicus—a sentient android named Harold Lucraft—to be her new aide. With the exception of his cheekiness, Harold would be everything Echika wants in a partner—if only she didn’t hate all Amicus with a burning passion...
Begrudgingly partnering with the humanoid robot "Amicus" Harold, Echika finds herself investigating crimes caused by a new type of virus. Her partner, as always, is perfect—So why does she hate the Amicus so much? As the investigation progresses, unexpected revelations from her past start to emerge, leading the investigation in unforeseen directions.
★榮獲第27屆電擊小說大賞「大賞」的科幻犯罪劇,隆重揭幕! ★隨著漸漸解開安排縝密的謎團,隱含在〈YOUR FORMA〉當中的意義令人戰慄。 埃緹卡再度以電索官的身分邁出步伐,卻有新的案件阻撓在眼前。 RF型相關人士連續襲擊案── 因被害人的指認而染上嫌疑的名字不是別人,正是她的「搭檔」哈羅德。 愈是對諸事不順的狀況感到焦慮,就愈凸顯出「人類」與「機械」之間的決定性差異。 而等待他們兩人的驚人真相,以及埃緹卡被迫面對的艱難選擇究竟是什麼──!
★榮獲第27屆電擊小說大賞「大賞」的科幻犯罪劇,隆重揭幕! ★隨著漸漸解開安排縝密的謎團,隱含在〈YOUR FORMA〉當中的意義令人戰慄。 以電子犯罪搜查局為目標的一連串案件源自AI「TOSTI」, 然而其開發者是不存在於世界上任何角落的人物。埃緹卡與哈羅德追查開發者的真實身分。 從生物駭客一職金盆洗手的比加也正式加入辦案的行列,一行人卻始終無法掌握犯人的蹤跡。 這個時候,發生了殺傷阿米客思的案件, 犯案手法酷似以往哈羅德的恩師索頌遭到虐殺的案件「聖彼得堡的惡夢」── 「這次,我必須結束這一切。」 見到哈羅德失去冷靜的模樣,埃緹卡難掩擔憂。她的聲音能打動執著於贖罪的哈羅德嗎── 榮獲第27屆電擊小說大賞「大賞」的正統派科幻犯罪劇,直逼核心的第四集揭幕!
★榮獲第27屆電擊小說大賞「大賞」的科幻犯罪劇,隆重揭幕! ★《86─不存在的戰區─》作者安里アサト大推薦! 腦部用縫線──通稱〈YOUR FORMA〉。 在病毒性腦炎大流行當中拯救人們的醫療技術進化為日常生活中不可或缺的資訊終端機。 縫線記錄著一切,視覺、聽覺,甚至是情緒。 潛入這些紀錄當中,搜索解決重大案件的蛛絲馬跡,這就是電索官埃緹卡的工作。 埃緹卡這次被分派到的新搭檔哈羅德是人形機器人〈阿米客思〉。 埃緹卡因為過去的心靈創傷而嫌棄阿米客思,哈羅德卻不以為意地拉近距離。 稀世的互補搭檔對抗危害世界的電子犯罪!
★榮獲第27屆電擊小說大賞「大賞」的科幻犯罪劇,動畫化決定! ★隨著漸漸解開安排縝密的謎團,隱含在〈YOUR FORMA〉當中的意義令人戰慄。 ──假如有一天我的「祕密」曝光了,請妳千萬不要袒護我。 埃緹卡堅決守護敬愛規範的「祕密」,哈羅德卻不想讓她成為共犯。 逃避對話的兩人之間,鴻溝愈來愈深。 此時,警方持續分析的謎樣AI「TOSTI」是在杜拜的技術研究都市 「法拉夏島」開發而成的可能性逐漸浮上檯面。 這座都市充斥著反映持有者人格的分身阿米客思「Ego」, 其特殊的環境使得潛入搜查變得極為困難。 埃緹卡等人受到居住在研究都市的天才少年尤努斯的幫助, 得以漸漸接近真相,同行的比加卻身體有異── 埃緹卡與哈羅德相識後過了一年,他們的漫長冬天即將再次開始。