A collection of five short stories about various characters from AI Buster and.

A collection of five short stories about various characters from AI Buster and.

Haseo's Avatar, Skeith, awakens to combat Endrance's Macha in fierce battle. As more information surfaces concerning the AIDA (Artifically Intelligent Data Anomoly) menace and the power of the Epitaphs, Haseo finds himself in a battle against time to stop the rogue player killer Tri-Edge before any more of the people he knows become Lost Ones. Finally, as the web of treachery and secrets begins to unravel, The World faces crisis in the form of the largest-scale AIDA attack ever!

Kite, having learned that his friend has fallen in a dangerous online game, logs into the game to try and save him.

Hyo-Bin and her only friend, Min-Soo--who has begun sharing her horrifying dreams--must band together to solve the mystery behind their supernatural and horrifying powers after their classmates are brutally murdered.

In this exciting new novel set in the .hack universe, Akira, also known as Black Rose, keeps fighting to save her younger brother's consciousness from the world's largest online net game, "The World."

Dana sits in a courtroom with her legs shackled as a long list of charges is read out, many of them dangerous. But the panic that grips her is not because she has been caught. She knows there has been a terrible mistake - she didn't commit any of these crimes. As Dana and her lover Bridger set out to clear her name and find the person who is living a blameless life of criminal excess at her expense, they begin to test the life they have built together to its limits.