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[thanabro]

[There's a boy on the screen, and he looks rather... confused. And pretty upset, too.]

Destroyed? But... we just... that shouldn't be possible.

[He clutches his scarf tightly.]

It's not possible. It has to be lying.

Anyway. Hey there.

[He smiles a bit, putting on as much of a brave face as he can.]

I'm new here, I guess. My name's Ryoji Arisato. It's nice to meet all of you.

[He pauses, as if he's about to say something else, but then reconsiders, thinks about it another moment, and then shuts off the broadcast.]

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[busstopsign]

[Siiiigh, here we go again.]

...before you start babbling off, I heard it all before. Yeah I'm alive here and supposedly dead everywhere else.

And before you ask, I don't know you. The Ryoji I was told about was an aspect of Nyx's Avatar.

[thanabro]

[... Well all right then. He does flinch slightly at the latter part, though.]

I was... but I wasn't. I had Death inside of me for a long time, and when it got close to call Nyx, it broke away from me.

[busstopsign]

[He looks annoyed to be speaking to you at all, truthfully.]

Not quite the same from what I heard.

[thanabro]

[But Shinji-coon why. :c ]

What did you hear, exactly?

[busstopsign]

[Because he is Shinji.]

Tch. Heard this second hand from Aigis, Aki and Junpei, but you showed up a while after I was in a coma. You 'woke up' and eventually explained to Minako that you were the avatar of Nyx. They climbed up Tartarus to fight up and then Minako...she...

[busstopsign]

...forget it.

[thanabro]

[This is true.]

... We defeated the Avatar together, though.

And how do you not remember me? I know I didn't go along on missions with SEES, but I saw you a lot around the dorm.

[busstopsign]

Listen. There is no 'WE'. We don't come from the same worlds, got that? I'm from one where Minako was the only Arisato. There are a few of you around now.

[But no Minako...]

[thanabro]

[That... shocks him into silence for a long moment. That... doesn't make sense. But Shinjiro would have no reason to lie to him...]

[But still... he can't imagine it.]

... Different worlds makes the most sense... it's still hard to imagine a world like that, though.

[busstopsign]

Is it? I didn't know of a Minato before coming here, and there's two of them.

The only thing I noticed so far that seems to be a constant is I end up dying everywhere but in my own time.

[thanabro]

... I'm sorry. That must be tough to hear.

[busstopsign]

Save it. I was fine with everything happening like it did until she came into the picture...Tch.

[thanabro]

Why?

[It's not accusing... more like curious. From what he saw, that whole situation was messed up.]

[busstopsign]

...none of your business.

[SO COLD.]

[thanabro]

[... Oh.]

... All right.

[He doesn't want to push too hard. Not with a guy like Shinji, especially.]