This was inevitable if they were discussing what had happened. The officer was prepared for this.
"This is not the first time the events that I was privy to have happened. Apparently. In another version of my world, this also happened."
Katsuya tries to sort out what he knows about this. He's heard most of it from Jun, but then, that's a pretty credible source, considering.
"My brother and his school friends. And Ms Amano. All knew each other when they were younger. One of their group was selected by an elder god to be his pawn in a dispute he was having with a second god. They were arguing over the value of humanity."
"The events that unfolded were similar to, yet unquestionably different than what took place here, in my world. But while they fought valiantly. They failed. The world was destroyed, with only Sumaru in tact. And as a final blow....Ms Amano was killed."
"Philemon, the God who granted us our abilities, wanted to thank my brother and his friends for their fight. He could not save their world. But he could use what was left of their lives to create a new one. The price....was that they would never know each other. If they remembered, Nyarlathotep would become aware of their new world. That they had 'restarted' as it were."
"They agreed. All but Tatsuya. He did not want to disappear. Did not want to lose his friends, the only people he had ever been close to. Didn't want...to think his world was gone. The price was paid, however. Their world was left to die."
"I believe that is how this world came to be. I have no knowledge of my other self, or anything that transpired that was not confided to me by someone who had been there. My brother--my actual brother-- had a run in with this world's Ms. Amano at a train station. All of his former friends were there. I do not believe it was coincidence. Nyarlathotep set them up. So many familiar faces triggered the memories of the Other World in my brother. The brother I knew in that moment was gone. Replaced by the one who had lost everything."
"He knew Nyarlathotep would try this again. He set out alone to stop it. It took us a long time to catch up to him. He was trying desperately to keep Maya and his friends from recovering their lost memories. Believed it was his fault that things were going that way again. His friends did remember, but each of them assumed they were the only ones, and tried desperately to stop this world form meeting the same fate as the last."
"When...the crisis was averted. Tatsuya and his friends reverted to who they once had been in my world. Without memories. Scattered. Lonely. My companions and I agreed not to see each other again, so as to not risk triggering the latent memories in my brother. It was...difficult. My brother and I had grown closer during the struggle. To lose all of that again...made our relationship even more strained. And were it not for the Nexus, I believe that would be the end of my story."
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Date: 2015-09-18 03:26 pm (UTC)"This is not the first time the events that I was privy to have happened. Apparently. In another version of my world, this also happened."
Katsuya tries to sort out what he knows about this. He's heard most of it from Jun, but then, that's a pretty credible source, considering.
"My brother and his school friends. And Ms Amano. All knew each other when they were younger. One of their group was selected by an elder god to be his pawn in a dispute he was having with a second god. They were arguing over the value of humanity."
"The events that unfolded were similar to, yet unquestionably different than what took place here, in my world. But while they fought valiantly. They failed. The world was destroyed, with only Sumaru in tact. And as a final blow....Ms Amano was killed."
"Philemon, the God who granted us our abilities, wanted to thank my brother and his friends for their fight. He could not save their world. But he could use what was left of their lives to create a new one. The price....was that they would never know each other. If they remembered, Nyarlathotep would become aware of their new world. That they had 'restarted' as it were."
"They agreed. All but Tatsuya. He did not want to disappear. Did not want to lose his friends, the only people he had ever been close to. Didn't want...to think his world was gone. The price was paid, however. Their world was left to die."
"I believe that is how this world came to be. I have no knowledge of my other self, or anything that transpired that was not confided to me by someone who had been there. My brother--my actual brother-- had a run in with this world's Ms. Amano at a train station. All of his former friends were there. I do not believe it was coincidence. Nyarlathotep set them up. So many familiar faces triggered the memories of the Other World in my brother. The brother I knew in that moment was gone. Replaced by the one who had lost everything."
"He knew Nyarlathotep would try this again. He set out alone to stop it. It took us a long time to catch up to him. He was trying desperately to keep Maya and his friends from recovering their lost memories. Believed it was his fault that things were going that way again. His friends did remember, but each of them assumed they were the only ones, and tried desperately to stop this world form meeting the same fate as the last."
"When...the crisis was averted. Tatsuya and his friends reverted to who they once had been in my world. Without memories. Scattered. Lonely. My companions and I agreed not to see each other again, so as to not risk triggering the latent memories in my brother. It was...difficult. My brother and I had grown closer during the struggle. To lose all of that again...made our relationship even more strained. And were it not for the Nexus, I believe that would be the end of my story."