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Are meaningless items the common reward for enduring the trials this place has to offer, or is there a deeper significance to these things?

My apologies if this question has been asked every time there are new people about. Please feel free to make your responses as pedantic as this question must be.

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You have memory control powers?

Oh, no. But I know that it's difficult to not have all your memories, so I just thought I'd offer my support. Sorry...

Ah, my mistake. It was either that or you too suffered from memory loss. I made the incorrect assumption, it seems.

Please do not mind. I've decided not to let it slow me down in the slightest. I would like to know, but I do not wish to pine after my memories. They won't return unless I'm actually working towards my goals, after all.

Actually if I'm honest, I did suffer memory loss when I was back home. So I guess, in a sense, we are similar. I had no idea who I really was and what my true power was like. I didn't remember how I came into existence, and I didn't remember the important things I wanted to warn the people I cared for about until it was too late...

So though I understand that you don't want to pine for them, I also know that it can be frustrating to remember things that it was important to know.

[Well, then. That he can get behind.]

It's... pleasing to see someone else with this experience. It gives a bit of hope that it is surmountable. I don't really try to explain much about it, but to only have a void where there should be something is quite... unsettling.

Yeah. I understand completely. For the longest time, I felt like there was something right at the very corner of my mind, but no matter how I reached, I couldn't grasp it.

But getting it back can be just as unsettling... so be careful.

Did you have moments where... things seemed to emerge from it of their own accord? Thoughts or feelings, I mean...

[There’s a gap of a few minutes before Ryoji finds the ability to respond.]

Yes. For a long time, I couldn’t sleep during the nights, because I found myself afraid and I couldn’t understand what was making me feel that way. I avoided one of my friends because I kept getting the feeling like something was wrong…

I thought something awful was going to happen, but I couldn’t find the words to warn anyone.

[He hasn't really had this sort of feeling except in very rare situations... that odd welling up of a mood or a taste out of nowhere.]

I don't think I've had anything like that... maybe I just haven't met the right person to get that kind of response from yet.

I can't imagine though... the idea of feeling that way and not understanding why is frightening.

I only got it back home, when I was in a very familiar situation, or talking to a person who was important to me. You may get it if you meet someone back home.

It was frightening though. I hope it won’t be that difficult on you.

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