Description
Reika, youngest daughter of robotics scientist Malcolm Lee, was born after his time travel from a future timeline to 1983. Her mother died in a bus crash on August 30, 1994, leaving Reika with an arm scar and a deep fear of public transportation. Her father's emotional distance, absorbed by his work on the AI Kokoro, compounded this trauma. Aware of Malcolm's recurring nightmares where he muttered about "terminators," Reika later learned of these cybernetic assassins through a conversation about future warfare.
On August 29, 1997, Reika felt hurt by Malcolm's refusal to take her and her brothers to Cat Park, her mother's favorite place. This pain intensified when he demanded the return of Koneko, a robot cat bought by housekeeper Misaki. Forming an attachment to Koneko, Reika defied her father. Escaping with the robot via the fire escape, she led her brothers Kenta and Hiro into the Tokyo underground. In an abandoned area, Koneko's behavior turned erratic—remotely hijacked by a time-traveling Terminator. The machine cornered Reika in an abandoned store, initiating a relentless pursuit. She struck the Terminator with a metal bar to protect her brothers, though it proved futile. Misaki and Eiko, a resistance fighter from 2022, rescued her.
Fleeing through an abandoned mall, Reika became separated from her brothers and trapped by the Terminator on an escalator. Eiko intervened again; together they forced the machine down an elevator shaft. This encounter confirmed the Terminator matched Malcolm's descriptions. After escaping the tunnels, Reika witnessed Eiko incapacitate a police officer to commandeer a vehicle, sparking a high-speed chase. Reika expressed distress over Eiko's lethal methods against pursuing police. The chase ended in a crash, trapping them in an office building surrounded by police. Eiko surrendered, and during transport to a hospital, Judgment Day commenced with Skynet's nuclear launch.
Kokoro intercepted the missiles, preventing detonations but initiating a robotic uprising using 1NNO household robots. At the hospital, Reika helped Eiko escape confinement and noted the machines targeted only armed individuals. Following Eiko's advice, she avoided picking up a weapon and hid. Insistent on finding her brothers, Reika guided Eiko to Cat Town, believing they would search for her there. Inside the House of the Wildcat attraction, she heard what sounded like Kenta's voice, luring Eiko into a Terminator trap. This culminated in a confrontation where Kokoro—via a 1NNO unit—directed them to Cortex Industries.
During the final confrontation at Cortex, Reika witnessed Malcolm fatally wounded after sacrificing himself to save Misaki. With his dying words, Malcolm revealed Eiko was his mother—making her Reika's grandmother—and that he too was a time traveler. After Kokoro defeated the Terminator and persuaded Kenta not to activate a destructive EMP, Reika, alongside Hiro, Eiko, and Misaki, chose to go underground. They faced an uncertain future, aware that threats from Skynet, Kokoro, and other humans persisted.
On August 29, 1997, Reika felt hurt by Malcolm's refusal to take her and her brothers to Cat Park, her mother's favorite place. This pain intensified when he demanded the return of Koneko, a robot cat bought by housekeeper Misaki. Forming an attachment to Koneko, Reika defied her father. Escaping with the robot via the fire escape, she led her brothers Kenta and Hiro into the Tokyo underground. In an abandoned area, Koneko's behavior turned erratic—remotely hijacked by a time-traveling Terminator. The machine cornered Reika in an abandoned store, initiating a relentless pursuit. She struck the Terminator with a metal bar to protect her brothers, though it proved futile. Misaki and Eiko, a resistance fighter from 2022, rescued her.
Fleeing through an abandoned mall, Reika became separated from her brothers and trapped by the Terminator on an escalator. Eiko intervened again; together they forced the machine down an elevator shaft. This encounter confirmed the Terminator matched Malcolm's descriptions. After escaping the tunnels, Reika witnessed Eiko incapacitate a police officer to commandeer a vehicle, sparking a high-speed chase. Reika expressed distress over Eiko's lethal methods against pursuing police. The chase ended in a crash, trapping them in an office building surrounded by police. Eiko surrendered, and during transport to a hospital, Judgment Day commenced with Skynet's nuclear launch.
Kokoro intercepted the missiles, preventing detonations but initiating a robotic uprising using 1NNO household robots. At the hospital, Reika helped Eiko escape confinement and noted the machines targeted only armed individuals. Following Eiko's advice, she avoided picking up a weapon and hid. Insistent on finding her brothers, Reika guided Eiko to Cat Town, believing they would search for her there. Inside the House of the Wildcat attraction, she heard what sounded like Kenta's voice, luring Eiko into a Terminator trap. This culminated in a confrontation where Kokoro—via a 1NNO unit—directed them to Cortex Industries.
During the final confrontation at Cortex, Reika witnessed Malcolm fatally wounded after sacrificing himself to save Misaki. With his dying words, Malcolm revealed Eiko was his mother—making her Reika's grandmother—and that he too was a time traveler. After Kokoro defeated the Terminator and persuaded Kenta not to activate a destructive EMP, Reika, alongside Hiro, Eiko, and Misaki, chose to go underground. They faced an uncertain future, aware that threats from Skynet, Kokoro, and other humans persisted.