[ He looks up suddenly from his position knelt on the floor. Oh yeah, he was here to do something other than pet this dog. ]

Oh, yeah. Right.

[ He stands up and walks further into the apartment, and also a little further from Kanji. He'll probably be trapped in the Dog Zone still if he doesn't actually physically step away at least for this conversation. ]

I tested out the whole 'matrix' theory as soon as I first logged onto Retrospec. Me and another kid [ he's not sure if Yuri would be comfortable with being named in the scheme, so he omits him ] went around trying to 'break' the matrix. You know, roughing up trash cans, messing up fences, generally just trying to find some glitch in the world that, if you just approached it in some way they didn't expect, would break.

We didn't get anything though. Nothing happened except for nearly get us in a lot of trouble.