[ WP ] You 're the last person on earth - but thank god Pokemon Go still functions ! You amuse yourself by catching Pokemon as you travel so as to not feel so isolated and alone . One day , on your screen , you see in the distance that someone has set up a lure .

I ran up to the pokestop as fast as I could. It was located at the Dori square in Kyoto. It had taken me a decade just to cross from California over to Japan and find this place. This mecca. 
 
 Over the years as I played PokeGO, I had slowly convinced myself that the only people alive must be the ones running the app as it was the only thing still working on the internet. And as I approached the pokestop, my heart began to beat faster and faster. 
 
 The pokestop was empty. The derelict white-but-now-faded Nintendo HQ sign leaned wispfully at an angle in the middle of the square. Not a soul stirred, but the lure, the lure was still active for 15 minutes. I had to work fast to find the person who did this. 
 
 The Nintendo HQ building itself was a mess. The only thing that showed signs of life were a few defunct terminals that playfully lit up every now and then. I browsed through a book at reception and saw that the PokemonGo team was located on the top floor. Stairs it is. 
 
 I crept up to the top of the stairs and found the door propped open by a bowl. Ah ha I thought, and I silently slid the door open and entered. The top floor showed signs of life, dark but cleaned and organized, must be someone from Japan of course I thought. Then faintly, I heard sounds of typing: tak-tak-tak. 
 
 I yelled out, `` Hello? Do n't be alarmed, I am a pokemon trainer!'' 
 
 A non-native English voice answered back in a tired but calm manner: `` Make yourself at home Misty'' 
 
 Misty was a female character in Pokemon. But I was n't a girl and my voice certainly was n't high pitched either. I slowly approached the glow in the center of the room and peered over. Gasp. 
 
 `` Well Misty, what did you expect? A person? Do n't be so foolish, you're the last person on earth, the pokemon go servers confirmed it.'' 
 
 `` Well I, but wait, I mean..., how are you even speaking?'' I stammered as I stared at one exactly cute Corgi typing away at the console. `` Who are you?'' 
 
 `` I'm Misty's Corgi of course. Did you forget Misty?'' replied the corgi. `` But years ago I was known as another. Satoru Iwata.'' 
 
 My jaw dropped. Satoru Iwata had died in 2015 as the president of Nintendo due to a tumor. How could this be possible? Was this some sort of immortality technique the Japanese were only aware of? Or...? 
 
 Misty's Corgi stopped typing and looked up at me as if it sensed my questions. It looked me straight in the eye and replied, `` On the internet, nobody knows your a corgi.''
