There really is someone here. Curious, 9S follows the voice to its source. He has to admit, he's a little excited; in all the time he's been in the Carnival, there hasn't been any AI that could come anywhere near the complexity of an android like himself.

Most people didn't even know what an AI is.

9S appears the same in this hacking space as he does out in the real world when he enters Jack's virtual room: a short boy wearing what seems to be a blindfold and a stupid shirt, cat ears poking out of his hair.

"Um, hi? My name's 9S, one of Rhys' coworkers."