 Arata intervenes, revealing that he is the former leader of a top-class hacker group that had tried and failed to hack the Valhalla server in the past, and initiates a three-way battle between the Zaxon hackers, his own group composed of veteran hackers, and Nokia's rebels, supported by Aiba.The battle is interrupted when Rie unleashes Eaters on the hackers in the server, revealing that the entire event was a trap to get Yuugo to accumulate Eater prey, and forcibly logs Yuugo out, who turns out to in actuality be Yuuko using a false EDEN avatar modeled and named after her older brother.Rie informs Yuuko that she'd imbued the avatar with an artificial personality that she had used to manipulate Yuuko's actions, and begins extracting Yuuko's memories.