Akiko finds herself on a cargo ship with no memory and a voice in her head. She calls this voice God, and learns from God that she had volunteered herself for an experiment to get a chip put in her brain. At first, she is doubtful of the voice's power, but God proves itself by demonstrating its ability to predict the future. She continues to lose track of long stretches of time. Sometimes God goes quiet on her. The boat lands in San Francisco, where she gets off and begins her life. She visits the bank and learns she has twelve million dollars. She learns that people like money, and begins giving it out to people. She learns that people like information even more, and starts telling people the future. She learns, from God, of other people with chips in their heads—all wealthy like her. She befriends them, becoming particularly close with Noah. Noah actually hijacked a human body with the chip without the human's consent and is paralyzed. At around this time, information leaks begin occurring. In these leaks, all the data of a powerful individual is released to all. Because of the instability this causes, the stock market crashes and both she and Noah lose all their money. Akiko is convinced that she and the God of Information are behind it. She is exiled from the city, though for other reasons. Noah and Akiko decide that they should go back to stay with the family of Noah's host body, though he has been ignoring them since being implanted with the chip. Angelina, one of the other AIs, comes to visit them and encourages them to come back to the city, on the condition that Akiko works for a wealthy family. She promises Noah's mother she will take care of him. She realizes she is not malicious, but rather that she felt guilty simply because she is different.