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Personally this version is both fun and a little questionable. The thing is these guys in Section 6 are supposed to be the best of the best. They shouldn't be so easily tricked into getting stuck in a game by just some random hacker guy.
Now if this was Phaethon's mortal enemy or archnemesis or something that'd be a different story. In fact we kinda had a story like that already with Soldier 11's Agent Story. I mean it wasn't any kind of nemesis but the framework was there: rival hacker who challenged the legendary Phaethon. If they really went for it I'd call the hacker Epaphus because of the myth of Phaethon and the Sun Chariot. In Ovid's version it was Epaphus that goaded Phaethon into doing it. So in Zenless they could have had this rival hacker be the one that fooled Section 6 because this would be a major enemy and Phaethon would have needed to save Section 6. It'd be kind of the same thing they did in Chapter 2 Interlude when they saved the cops. And they might not be able to catch Epaphus. Imagine if that hacker becomes like a Moriarty to our Holmes and keeps showing up every now and again to thwart our progress. In the next update v1.4 it's anticipated that we should get Chapter 5 which will feature getting answers out of Perlman. Now at the end of Chapter 4 last update Miyabi revealed that she pretty much knows who we are and is already antagonistic so it makes sense for her to confront us when we interrogate Perlman thinking we're in on the conspiracy. Now who better to get Miyabi on our case than Epaphus?
O well. So much for that. I still believe Epaphus will become the name of a future enemy one day but I guess miHoYo plans to save it for something bigger. Miyabi could just as easily figure out where Perlman is on her own so the story can still play out.
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