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The Dude is not liking this new 'friendship'.

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“The friend of my friend is still possibly suspected to be an enemy.”

More like “The friend of my friend of my frenemy is my fiendally.”

No, it’s: “The friend of my friend is only the friend of my friend, nothing more, nothing less.”

AI: (So how do I kill them without getting Kats’ friend ticked off?”

I thought it was, “The enemy of my enemy is my enemy’s enemy. No more. No less.”

(Maxim #29 of ‘The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries’)

Since they were talking about friends I figured I’d “adjust” it a little.

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(And yes, I like that maxim; it is very accurate.)

This is so beautiful

Remember, guys: Dude has some bad PTSD from getting attacked by rampaging robots. Of course he won’t like it when an AI is acting weird.

Er, meant to say “Oh, right.”, because that actually does fit in entirely.

Good point, I’d already forgotten about that.

And it is a horror story for the age of a hacker to kill you in your Kito with an electric surge. Which a rogue AI or the virus could also do.

ya know what could be going on, is the Ai could be trying in it’s own way to give each of them an estone. perhaps it was modifed by Kat to get the estones, freeze anyone who’s not in the party that’s near them and then hand off the estones one to each person in the party. This would have it acting in a way the players don’t expect, thus why they are talking about the ai acting weird, but it be totally a good thing. Also be something that with out any context could be misunderstood very eailsy

That would be very out of character for Kat, since it would be hacking, and she views hacking as something evil that she only does when she’s giving in to the temptation to win. The idea of doing something benevolent with hacking has never occurred to her before.

Well we can be pretty positive that is not a TENka AI at this point.
Now whether it’s Kat, D, or something else completely, that’s debatable.

Perhaps… Kat has replaced the game’s AI with D?

Probably D, who is acting based on information Kat doesn’t have. Remember when Kat told D not to tell her anything she technically couldnt know (without hacking)? And for D to help her friends (Mina iirc) without telling Kat what he was doing?

D has specific orders to look out for Kats friends, and presumably defend against any threat to those friends, using info Kat doesnt have, and without telling Kat.

Right now, Kats friend is trying to convince D that the two guys who either killed her or abandoned her are “friends”. D presumably has listened in on everyone’s conversations this entire time, and is VERY skeptical and hard to convince as a result.

Ahh! I used to read this comic religiously in high school, always looked forward to updates, but eventually fell out of the habit just before they played the tutorial mission. Now I’m back and so in love with the story progression and characters. You’re such a great artist and writer, and I’m so happy this is still getting updates!

D’aw, thanks! And welcome back!

Not A Villain Webcomic

Webcomic of a semi- reformed hacker trying to redeem herself in a post- apocalyptic world she may have created.

‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 807