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.

Presents various stories that delve into the characters' real-world personalities and their in-game avatars, including the reasons behind Albireo's departure from The World.

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."

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.