I. . . [No.] I promised I wouldn't run away from things, and let others take responsibility. [So. He feels like he has to keep that promise.] I understand that there isn't a choice, that this has to happen.
But I still feel like. . . that winged lady kept saying something else. We were still missing the key. The answer can't just be. . . hurting more people.
A key? [what does that even mean in this context...?] I don't think that's the answer either even if it's part of it. But then there must be something really obvious.
In my world, she kept saying "Aren't you forgetting something?" and "Do you want to find the others?" and she said the place I was in didn't have much longer and it was still dangerous even though nothing was real. All of that, though. . . I think it was about getting me to go find Ange-san and the others in the worlds they were in.
But in Ange-san's world, she said "This has happened before, and yet is hasn't," and "You're still missing what you need, but you're running out of time," and I don't know what she meant by that.
In Hua Cheng-san's world she said "You're still missing the key" and "You won't be able to leave until you find it" and "I only wish there were more I could do for you," which could have meant we needed to get the sword Kamiki-san had, but I'm not sure.
Because at the end, after we got Kamiki-san and the sword, she said "This has all happened before, and yet it hasn't, but it won't happen again." And then she said "I'm afraid you're running out of time." And she told us we should take care of someone, but she didn't say who.
Also, when we left through the portal, we saw her again, but we also saw. . .three green eyes.
...[all of this makes sense to him and he'll keep everything in mind.]
Wonder if the eyes belonged to the original disturbance. That monster we've heard about. [a pause.] Mob, the leaders have confirmed that we've done this before. We're in something like a timeloop. Everything in your note makes sense, so...to say that this has happened before and it hasn't and it won't again...we've done this before, but not like this, and this is our last chance.
As strange as it sounds, we have to take everything seriously now.
Oh, no. That was more...people had speculated something like this for a while, but we weren't sure. Now we have solid proof. There's no going back now.
Yes. [which is scary in and of itself.] ...but one of the leaders did tell us that they remembered we failed last time because we didn't eliminate all of the destabilized people. It's possible that things got so bad because those people were left and the Realm started...rotting, I guess.
...I know. [he doesn't like it either, really.] ...my leader told me we have two weeks left for the deadline, but not two weeks left here. I think there must be something coming after that. A way we can fix things without killing. We just have to keep going.
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But I still feel like. . . that winged lady kept saying something else. We were still missing the key. The answer can't just be. . . hurting more people.
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Do you remember exactly what that lady said?
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[Thinking back to it.]
In my world, she kept saying "Aren't you forgetting something?" and "Do you want to find the others?" and she said the place I was in didn't have much longer and it was still dangerous even though nothing was real. All of that, though. . . I think it was about getting me to go find Ange-san and the others in the worlds they were in.
But in Ange-san's world, she said "This has happened before, and yet is hasn't," and "You're still missing what you need, but you're running out of time," and I don't know what she meant by that.
In Hua Cheng-san's world she said "You're still missing the key" and "You won't be able to leave until you find it" and "I only wish there were more I could do for you," which could have meant we needed to get the sword Kamiki-san had, but I'm not sure.
Because at the end, after we got Kamiki-san and the sword, she said "This has all happened before, and yet it hasn't, but it won't happen again." And then she said "I'm afraid you're running out of time." And she told us we should take care of someone, but she didn't say who.
Also, when we left through the portal, we saw her again, but we also saw. . .three green eyes.
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Wonder if the eyes belonged to the original disturbance. That monster we've heard about. [a pause.] Mob, the leaders have confirmed that we've done this before. We're in something like a timeloop. Everything in your note makes sense, so...to say that this has happened before and it hasn't and it won't again...we've done this before, but not like this, and this is our last chance.
As strange as it sounds, we have to take everything seriously now.
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[He sounds a little. . . almost, but not quite terse when he responds.]
My team has discussed all of that. But. . . taking it seriously and trying to find a different way aren't two different things. It's okay to do both.
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Don't you think it's possible. . . we have to save the people who died, and it sounds like this is the only way, so we have to do that.
But don't you think it's possible we've been so focused on that we haven't paid enough attention to why it got this bad in the first place?
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But it's just a thought.
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I. . .
[Killing people is bad!]
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