Key Characters & Factions
Those who can still read the error codes at the edge of New Capital. Below are the main characters and their factions, with the tensions and alliances between factions.

Qiu Che
Main characterA seventeen-year-old high schooler in the AI-governed new capital. He alone can see what the whole city cannot—and that very sight is turning him into 'data contamination' in the system's eyes.
- Title
- New Capital · High Schooler
- Faction
- 新都城 · 高中生
- First appearance
- 第 001 話 觀測者甦醒
- Status
- Alive
Embodiment of observation itself
Main characters · unaffiliated
黎研究小組A woman who calls herself an 'advisor to the Li Research Group.' She gives Qiu Che a card the system won't record, and says one thing: Eight years ago, I was in a place much like yours now.
新都城The mother who has lived with Qiu Che for seventeen years. Most of the time, she says the words Skyvault wants her to say; but in one or two moments, she says words of her own.
