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Rui, owner of Fortune Chip. In the Null Void as it exists now, aside from Silver, she was probably one of the first to arrive. She knows every Timehacker—the ones still here, the ones who left, and the ones who were lost in battle. There aren't many to keep track of, but Ansel insisted on assigning each one a number. Rui's is 002.
Rui stands behind the bar all day, mixing strange drinks over and over. Maybe that sounds boring. But no... "day after day" isn't really right. There is no today or tomorrow here. The very concept of time does not exist in the Null Void...
Rui says she came from Timeline 783. Back there, she founded an underground resistance group and tried to expose the conspiracy buried beneath the metropolis, but in the end, she failed. Their base was a bar called Fortune Chip. That place was the original Fortune Chip...
Rui's drinks...? Better not get into that. It's not that they taste terrible. It's that they tend to contain... extra ingredients. Rui definitely has an experimental streak. It'd just be nice if she didn't treat everyone else like test subjects...
Among the first-generation Timehackers, Rui saw the least combat and was never known as a fighter. But when Erik betrayed them, Rui held the Null Void alone and drove back every invader—including Erik...