"These cities," Aneki said, pointing toward the map, "are all places where activities of tribes of children known as ‘otaku’ have been reported. The otaku have taken our name for those who obsessively become attached to the world of the Matrix and turned it into a legend, a story of children who have the ability to access the virtual reality of the Matrix without the use of a cyberdeck interface, using only the power of their own brains. R&D believes, and certain independent consultants have confirmed, that the Leonardo technology requires the special abilities of the otaku to realize its full potential. There are limits to the hardware and software that can only be overcome by engineering changes to the ‘human factor,’ to the brain itself."