00 prototype

prototype
Story	Correctness
Date(s)	October 3rd, 2005
Location(s)	Seaside Park Bayside Towerland
End card	Punk Rock:
Moon color	Pink

#00 prototype is the first case of the Correctness story of The 25th Ward: The Silver Case and the first chapter of the game as a whole.

Description

As the first chapter, prototype serves as a brief introduction to the setting and mechanics of The 25th Ward. It notably introduces Uehara, the game's silent "protagonist", who parallels The Silver Case's Akira, and the death of Milu Yuzuki, the main subject of #01 new world order and much of the rest of the game. It also states one of the main ideas behind the story of the game, the use of criminal power to "Kill The Life" in the 25th Ward.

Summary

The case opens with a description of the state of society in Ward 24, the special administrative region of Kanto. Thirty years have passed since Ward 24 was constructed to curb overcrowding. The citizens yearned to entrust their lives to an ordered society, and saw a Utopia in the Ward. As a result, criminality began to increase and spread like a virus. The Kanto 25th Ward was created as an upgraded and accelerated version of the original, with a new structure of local government. However, this new society continues to distort like the previous one.

October 3rd, 2005, 08:13am
Michiru Kosaka waits outside the Bayside Towerland apartment complex, briefing Uehara on the ongoing situation. There has been a string of nine deaths at Bayside Towerland in the past four months, which have all been ruled as suicides. Someone or something has been leveraging power to cover the incidents up. A body was discovered on the 75th floor that morning, and Kosaka orders Uehara to infiltrate the crime scene to find out what is going on. He will have an investigator waiting for him there, and is to examine the scene before the official investigation begins.

Kosaka instructs Uehara - and the player - on how to move around and interact with the environment. He gives Uehara a fake ID to pose as a building administrator. Inside, Uehara presents his ID and is allowed to pass. He takes the elevator to the 75th Floor, where he meets up with Sakura Natsume. She is surprised to see he is sent by Michiru, and advises Uehara to wipe any "facts" he sees from now on from his mind. Sakura remarks that Uehara reminds her of Akira. They head to Room 75028, where they find the body of Milu Yuzuki. Sakura tells Uehara that his main priority is not to apprehend the criminal, but to kill crime itself. She says that Uehara can perceive crime and "everyday life", and that Kosaka sent him into the field to awaken him. Sakura says that she can't go back until one of them has killed the other. She says that Kosaka is making a dangerous gamble by trying to use criminal power to control the crime-controlled 25th Ward, and remarks that Kamui will "Kill The Life".

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