Harem Hero

Back at the Base

Momo is starstruck by how familiar the garage looks, "Wow! This is just like in the TV show!"

Barbara concurs, "I know, right? I thought I was seeing things when I appeared out of nowhere."

Mitsuru is busy hammering away at her computer's keyboard again; "Could we please talk about establishing a response system? We have no experience with this sort of thing."

Barbara chuckles and shifts back onto the main topic, "Sorry. It's hard not to get swept up in all of this..."

"I know!" Momo gushed.

"If you want something like an effective surveillance and response system, without being in touch with the authorities, you might need to break a few laws."

You snort, "Do you really think Mitsuru cares about that?"

"I thought not. We can leverage the pre-existing cameras to start off with. But the most important part is AI analysis."

"AI?"

"That's right. Whenever something is happening, people post about it online, or they call the police – we have wiretaps into those systems, and we can see when significant activity hotspots develop. The AI system automatically checks whether they're an outlier and alerts us if something significant is occurring. We have a few other methods, but they involve more complex solutions that you can't achieve at the moment."

Mitsuru nods; "I know it's a lot to ask of you, but could I possibly see a copy of the AI's code?"

Barbara grimaces, "As long as you keep it a secret."

"Don't worry. Venelana has taught me a lot about the value of discretion!" For better or worse. A Mitsuru who knows how to evade regulation is your worst nightmare. She was already bad before she knew how to hide what she was doing.

"As for disaster response, you're going to be better off leaving that to the professionals, or at least summoning someone who has the correct training. We don't tend to interfere with the emergency services when they're trying to recover people unless there's an immediate threat to their safety. You can easily do more harm than good."

"Alright, I'll stay out of the way." Barbara smiles at your compliance, now confident that you'll listen to what she has to say. You have a lot to learn from veterans like her – so hopefully you can call her through to have training sessions like you do with Chun-Li. Barbara has been fighting crime for much longer than you have. On the way to the garage she revealed that she has been Batgirl for nearly eight years now, long beyond the point of becoming a Batwoman. That doesn't roll off the tongue very well though.

Her orange hair, green eyes and professional-looking glasses are a very pleasant sight. Barbara is stunning in a way that differs from the other girls you've summoned so far. The fact that she's equally infatuated with you still feels like a bad joke, but the matching look of appreciation she gives you is enough evidence to ram it home. If only Nana was this easy to convince.

"I can get the AI analysis tool we use to you fairly fast if you send me back now. It should take me a day or so to compile it to a suitable size."

"Thank you very much," Mitsuru says, "We didn't have much time to prepare our defences before they launched their incursion. I was so focused on building an appropriate weapon that building a surveillance network fell onto the backburner. We'll have to rectify that mistake quickly."

"You'll need some heavy-duty hardware to handle that much data..."

"That's already taken care of, Barbara. I've been building a data storage facility under this garage for some time now. It should be more than enough to handle the volume we'll run through."