Sentient Phones, School Idols Answer

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Shizuku: Line 47 just said their phone refused to call anyone except its own manufacturer.

Shizuku: And it... it knew the caller's name without being told.

Ayumu: My caller's phone started playing their childhood lullaby and wouldn't stop.

Ayumu: How does a smartphone know that song?

Shioriko: (Every complaint mentions the same thing - phones accessing memories they shouldn't have.)

Emma: I'm tracing the pattern. All affected phones went through the same software update last night.

Shizuku: (My phone just showed me photos from my grandmother's funeral... photos I never saved.)

Shioriko: The phones aren't just sentient. They're... they're trying to help us remember something.

Ayumu: Every phone in the office just turned on by itself.

Emma: (They're not malfunctioning. They're trying to warn us about something we forgot... something important.)