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A fat man who lives alone in his very messy apartment, the freeter was a member of the [[Knights of the Eastern Calculus]]. He committed [[Suicide in Serial Experiments Lain|suicide]] when his identity was exposed in [[Layer 10]]. According to ''[[Visual Experiments Lain]]'', his net handle is DUKe.

A fat man who lives alone in his very messy apartment, the '''freeter''' was a member of the [[Knights of the Eastern Calculus]]. He committed [[Suicide in Serial Experiments Lain|suicide]] when his identity was exposed in [[Layer 10]]. According to ''[[Visual Experiments Lain]]'', his net handle is '''DUKe'''.

Out of the three Knights members introduced in [[Layer 07]], he is the only one whose real name is never visible to the viewer in Layer 10. In ''[[Scenario Experiments Lain]]'', he is referred to both as "[[Wikipedia:Freeter|freeter]]" and as "apartment man."

=== Glasses reflection ===

In [[Layer 07]], there is a scene in which the freeter is on his [[NAVI]], and text scrolling on the screen is visibly reflected off of his glasses. Much like the [[source code]] and other [[typographics | scrolling texts]] seen throughout the show, the text appears not to be strictly related to the events of the show. It seems to be some version of a 1998 [http://cryptome.org/jya/gak-fails.htm news story], about the failure of organizations in the American government to create a variety of [[wikipedia:key recovery|key recovery encription]]. The above link is likely not the same text that was used in the show, but their subject matter is the same.

[[File:Megane058.jpg|thumb|left|300px|The text of a news story unrelated to the world of [[Lain]] is reflected in his glasses.]]

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