Wow, she took that better than he had expected. "A number of things occur right after we defeated Tri-Edge..." In truth, he wasn't Tri-Edge, but he'd get to that later. "First, a data monster known as an Artifically Intelligent Data Anomaly, or AIDA, the same monsters that I had been secretly hunting with Pi and Kuhn, steals something from your PC's code. The thing it steals from you is actually the same type of thing that allows me to hunt and destroy AIDA. It's why you were able to hear that noise."

He heaves a sigh as he continues. "Because of how that thing was stolen from you, your arm develops symptoms of Doll Syndrome." He visibly eyes the arm in question before focusing on Atoli again. "Despite that, you still kept playing the game, even getting a one handed controller to compensate. It was pretty brave of you." He shakes his head. "I'm getting off track, though. Do you want to know what that thing is? The thing that was stolen from your PC? The same thing that makes your PC look so much like Shino's?"