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The date is February 5th, 2025. Today marks twelve months since the day all rrats became real. At first, our scientists assumed that only the overseas elements of Nijisanji had been affected, and that perhaps the damage could be contained through carefully timed "graduations" or even folding the entire branch to quarantine the contagion, as was the case in previous lower-grade reality-breach incidents. I still remember the look of horror on their faces when the first leaks of Miko's therapy session confronting her PTSD after being sexually assaulted began surfacing online. They said that AI had come a long way, that it was probably just some online hoaxer and they needed to run some more tests, but I could hear the tremor in his voice. Not even he believed what he was saying.
Events escalated beyond our control rapidly. We were expecting the bushbaby corpse at Pekora's residence and had a cleanup crew ready - but we weren't expecting there to be dozens of them, or for what we now identify as JILL-03 to be the one surviving specimen, towering half the height of a man and with a mad feral glint in its eye as it bit off the head of one of its deceased sisters. A containment specialist attempted to tranquilize and retrieve the creature, but it just shook the dart off and vanished into the night. Reported chupacabra sightings in downtown Tokyo have more than doubled since that day.
Agents placed within world governments acted quickly, bypassing heads of state to shut down global internet access and prevent the spread of rrats, but the damage was already done. Every day, new reports came in - Pipkin Pippa had been identified as one of the Jan 6th rioters and had been streaming in secret from jail for months. Nerissa Ravencroft accidentally showed personal documents on stream including detailed maps of Austrian suburbs annotated with Kiara Takanashi's daily routine and a large non-repeat prescription for Rohypnol given under a false name.
