[That actually gets Joshua to look a little surprised!]

... well. It seems like a lot of people are getting curious. [The surprise shifts to amusement.] Shibuya was stagnating, and the Composer saw no way of fixing it. So, to avoid poisoning the surrounding districts, he was going to destroy it. But his Conductor was convinced otherwise... He wanted to prove that Shibuya was still capable of change. So the Composer challenged him through the Game - the Conductor had a month to prove his point, and in the meantime he would remain away from the UG but would choose a Player to act in his stead, to give the Conductor some opposition.

Unfortunately, the Conductor's means of proving that that change could happen was to force pins onto both the RGers and the Reapers alike; pins imbued with an imprint commanding the wearer to think one thing and one thing only. He thought that, by doing this, he could control the chaos that Shibuya had slowly been succumbing to, but he was wrong. Brainwashing an entire city is no way to ignite change. So... he failed.