That’s right. The “fairy” was me, Kobory. The one who fixed the lighting program in the second park stadium that Wrenchy-kun-san mentioned—that was me. I happened to be there at the time, carrying in some unrelated equipment. I saw Wrenchy-kun-san leave his seat in a panic, and while he was gone, I played with it a little bit. We’d used an old Epson machine in our family inn... and I’d been the one in charge of it. That was back when I was in elementary school.
We used a lot of electronics at home, too, and we had a large open-air bath, so I’d recognized the output problem immediately. I just messed with a few numbers, and soon enough... Thankfully, it was apparently useful, and the stadium was able to function properly. But I couldn’t say “I’m the one who did that.”
I’m also the person who helped Isuzu-san with the want ad she was so worried about. Her want ad—it made it seem like such a boring government job. No one in the wider world was hearing about it. I was worried as well, so I’d ended up posting the link here and there, hoping to see it get spread all over. The design also wasn’t great, so I just messed with the image data a little bit. And while I had a real internal debate about this, I also ended up posting it on various message boards anonymously. (Of course, I never do that for my own doujinshi!)
Thanks to that, the want ad had ended up spread far and wide. Applications had started to fall in May, though... I felt really bad about that. If I’d been more careful to follow up, Isuzu-san wouldn’t have had to worry so much. I didn’t tell her that I’d helped with that, either. I probably should have, but I was afraid she might get mad at me...
As for the sound system on the central stage that Dornell-senpai was having trouble with... That fix was also me. The root of the problem at the live show was the same as the trouble at the stadium: the issue was that the catalog data for the park’s equipment was very old. The output of the amps on the stage was a little less than stated, and they couldn’t get the numbers you’d expect from new speakers. There was an average of four speakers at each point around the stage, so if you shut off one speaker in each point, the problem went away.
Sorry. I’m getting a little technical. The point is, I just went to each location and unplugged one, and that had solved the problem. Whenever I notice trouble like that (and I don’t have anything else to do), I like to walk around solving problems. I could have just told Dornell-senpai, “This is the problem!” but my lack of self-confidence held me back. That’s why they’re still having sound problems.
And as for Tricen-senpai’s PV... The truth is, Tricen-senpai sometimes asks me for help and gives me access to the park’s servers. You know, he says, “What do you think of this video? The password is amaburi,” and things like that. I think he forgot we had that exchange (which is also a huge problem in its way...).
But thanks(?) to that, I was given a chance to view the (as yet unreleased) PV he had made. It really was pretty bad. And so, even knowing that it was against company rules, I made a few modifications. I salvaged the earlier video data that Tricen-senpai had saved, and edited it myself.
I knew it wasn’t a good thing to do, but I also thought it was necessary. Of course, that meant I couldn’t tell anyone. It was just another thing I pretended to know nothing about, and I feel really bad about it.
So with one thing and another, at some point, rumors about a “fairy” had started spreading around the park... After that, there was no turning back. I just had to hide it and try to ride it out. I’m sorry.
Despite my decision, I couldn’t go to sleep right away that night. There was something else I had to do. I booted up the PC that I had just finished putting together this year. I didn’t have a lot of money to spare, but I’d gotten a good Intel i7 (I used to be an AMD stan, but I eventually had to give up on it). I’d also splurged for a 16GB memory, and had two pretty expensive SSDs running in RAID 0. Thanks to that, it booted up very quickly. ...Well, not that I was running a complicated physics engine or anything; I was just connecting to the Internet.
First, I had to solve Dornell-senpai’s problem. I looked up information on the sound system’s manufacturer, and the company of the already-folded speaker maker. The Japanese site gave a 404, but there were quite a few of their foreign branches still around. Wow, Russian. I can’t read that... I doubted even a translation site would help. But I spent about an hour and finally found the PDF I was looking for. This one was only in English. I’m not great with English, either, but with a little effort, I can read it.
I found some evidence of the same problem we were having happening overseas. It had apparently come to lawsuits that still hadn’t been settled, and of course, both sides told very different stories. That meant I had no idea which was right. Political concerns were blocking me from finding the root of the problem, when what I wanted was a neutral specialist opinion. It was tricky.
Despite my doubts, though, I felt like I had gotten a general idea of how to solve the problem. I wrote down a brief explanation of the issue, hammered out some replacement code (it was just changing a part of it, so it just took me ten minutes), got myself a throwaway email address, and sent it to Dornell-senpai. I couldn’t be bothered to think of a proper email address, so I just set it as “fairy0301” (the numbers represented the time of night it was). After everything that happened, I had a feeling he’d know it was me, but I could probably make it through as long as I feigned ignorance.