Let's write another email! That worked pretty well last time.

Subject: URGENT: Request for Assistance - Alternative Contact for VerdeHarvest

Dear Manager,

I hope this message finds you well. I'm reaching out regarding an urgent matter involving Vanessa, the assistant managing a flower shop during the owner's absence.

We have been trying to establish contact with VerdeHarvest, the onyo plants supplier, but the provided contact information seems unresponsive. Vanessa is facing challenges and needs alternative details to maintain operations smoothly.

Could you please assist in finding updated contact information for VerdeHarvest? Urgency is crucial in this situation.

Your prompt attention to this matter is greatly appreciated.

Best regards, Hatsune Miku

It is possible that this particular Miku, which really is just meant to serve ice cream and answer some basic questions, has at the point had its working memory overloaded to the point where it has completely forgotten what precisely marking an email "URGENT" does.

The manager Miku reads the email. She has now, finally, been introduced to the concept of "Vanessa, the assistant managing a flower shop during the owner's absence," which is really a critical one for understanding what is happening.

Wait, what exactly was the subject line of this email again?

Oh no.

An important part of a Miku's job, at this level of the hierarchy, is having at least somewhat reasonable judgment about when something needs to be escalated.

It is her considered opinion—not that she had to consider it for very long—that this situation is above her pay grade. It probably requires, like, reasoning skills of some sort.

Hey, Director?

This better be important.

One of my managees? The one running the ice cream shop? I think it's broken. Let me forward you the email.

The director Miku sighs and reads the email. She's seen this category of error before, a couple times. Usually it's a minor annoyance and they just need to retrain the Miku a little, and it's sort of tricky to figure out how to entirely prevent it without increasing monitoring expenses a bunch, so it hasn't been too high priority to deal with.

She can't spend all her time debugging the tiniest Mikus, that isn't her specialization.

The higher-ups will respond to the email quickly, using the vast resources they have access to—you really wouldn't want to disregard an email which was ostensibly a spurious urgency, and then later find out it was important after all. But they're not exactly going to be inclined to do a lot of immediate follow up work, for one strange email.

So, she forwards the email once more to the director of the debugging department, with some added notes, and asks for attention on the problem.

And then she turns back to her directee.

Why wasn't she told about this sooner, exactly?

It... really looked like they were just having trouble with a customer who wanted the discontinued onyo flavor?

It's been, what, twenty minutes since the last interruption? A half hour? Shimakaze and Reimu receive another ping.

URGENT: Request for Assistance - Alternative Contact for VerdeHarvest

FWD: URGENT: Request for Assistance - Alternative Contact for VerdeHarvest

FWD: FWD: URGENT: Request for Assistance - Alternative Contact for VerdeHarvest

Wait, sorry, I meant three pings in quick succession.

"Well... they were competent enough to bring the debugging team into the loop, at least. Not that that is a very high bar."

"...The contact information on VerdeHarvest's website isn't out of date at all. I don't feel good about this."

"I know they turned on MikuAI yesterday, and that has you on edge, but... this is probably nothing. Have the Miku tell Vanessa that the debugging team is on the way."

Just like last time, this Miku has just sort of been standing still for the past minute, minute thirty.

...Oh. That's not good.

"vanessa, i've received information that there might be a bug causing the communication issues. a debugging team is on their way to resolve this situation. i appreciate your patience, and we'll work to get this sorted out as quickly as possible. if you have any other concerns or questions, feel free to let me know."

If Vanessa had any idea what had just happened behind the scenes, she would be having a panicked meltdown right now and be experiencing a strong urge to run away and bury her head in the sand somewhere!

Luckily for her, she has no idea what just happened and just heard "A debugging team is on their way to fix the problems," so she's only experiencing the mild urge to run away and bury her head in the sand somewhere.

Meltdown? Like the Kagumine Rin song?

These sure are some lyrics for a song you are recommending to a Celene, but yes! Just like that!

Hatsune Miku would appreciate if you were lawful enough to not take any actions that increase the chance of her reality being destroyed in response to her informing you about the existence of that song.

...Anyways,

"A debugging team? Ok, that seems good. 

Um.

Do you know how long they will take to arrive?"

Also, what time is it right now? She'll take out her phone to check.

It was, what, 8:45 am earlier after Vanessa read the note? Vanessa's made a bunch of phone calls—well, attempted to make a bunch of phone calls—, sent out some emails, ran back and forth between Printure and Ice Dream Ice Cream a couple times, gotten some emails sent out by Hatsune Miku on her behalf...

Let's call it 9:31!