Case 01: Welcome to the Tower!

[yougotthatwrong]

[Audio]

...Er... This is how you use it right? Well, it certainly looks like it's recording...

Erm, anyways, hi, I have some questions if you guys don't mind?

Is it true that our worlds' destroyed like the letter says? I mean, it sounds a bit morbid for a welcoming letter, don't you think? And just how large is this tower anyways?

That's all for now, I guess and... oh, right! My name is Makoto Naegi, in case you guys needed it.

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[pauldrons]

Place is about 38 levels high. Can't say how wide it is, though. Don't have anyway to measure that.

[Said in a light tone; he's indeed tried to measure it and gotten nowhere.]

[Audio]

[yougotthatwrong]

...Well, that's... something, I guess.

[Man, he's still... disoriented from all these developments.]

[Audio]

[pauldrons]

Yeah. And you might wanna stay off everything above the 21st level after nightfall. Lotta monsters up there.

[Audio]

[yougotthatwrong]

[...What.]

...Monsters?

[Audio]

[pauldrons]

[Can't see it because the camera's off, but he's nodding.]

Monsters. Some of 'em seem pretty harmless, but if you don't have a way to fight back, you might just wanna stay away.

[beknightedheroine]

look at it this way makoto

you're gonna get two kinds of answers to 'is the world really destroyed'

you're gonna get gloomy people who say "yup"
or you're gonna get people who want to punch the other dudes for thinking that for one second

i dunno, i think being the latter is more preferable both ways (゜▽゜)

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[yougotthatwrong]

...I don't think I'd like being punched in the face by somebody I don't know.

[beknightedheroine]

see? see? ( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ

that's why not believing that stupid letter is the smarter option

[yougotthatwrong]

[...Arguing about the letter might not be a good thing to do with this person...

>Talk about something else
>Push on with the subject]

...Uh, is there anything else to know about this place, then?

[Video!]

[imperialsun]

No one knows for sure. I do know we are stuck here for now.

The tower seems to be extremely large, I have yet to visit all the places. Be careful at night, there are monsters about. Are you able to protect yourself?

- Naoya Toudou

[Video!]

[yougotthatwrong]

...About that...

[Well, there's definitely some. Nervous laughter.]

[Video!]

[imperialsun]

...You can't.

[Sorry, Naoya tells it like he sees it cause that's how he rolls.]

[Video]

[yougotthatwrong]

[No worries, he's suffered through worse pricks.]

...Yeah, I'm not exactly a fighter. But I should be safe if I go with others, right?

[Video]

[imperialsun]

[Naoya can only understand this. He's worked with guys who threaten to break demon's fingers backwards.]

Make sure you're all prepared. The monsters can overwhelm even those who can fight back. I can help, if you need it.

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[superlvldots]

That's a difficult question to answer, Naegi-kun, given how we're all imprisoned in this one.

[This is surprising, but not unwelcome. She doesn't enjoy seeing someone she knows coming here, but given how their former situation wasn't much better...]

[In any case, Naegi is someone she can depend on to help her uncover truths, so this may not be such a bad thing. The question is what time he's from. Kirigiri hasn't heard about the differences in time between people of the same world, but it's a given, what with her supposedly coming right before the destruction of hers. If Naegi came later, and wonders about whether said destruction is true or not, then naturally, there has to be some chronological alteration at play.]

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[yougotthatwrong]

[...a familiar voice! God he is so glad that at the very least there's company from home that he can count on, because despite Kirigiri-san's mysteriousness, she has been nothing but help to him back home after all!]

Kirigiri-san, you're here too?

[superlvldots]

I am. I woke up here close to a full day ago, and have been unable to leave since.

[There's a number of things she wants to ask him, but that will have to wait. He deserves to know at least this much.]

Monobear's in the same situation. He's here as well.

[yougotthatwrong]

...

[Well, that dashed all hopes of this place being a little bit better than Hope's Peak.]

...Aaah, I should've known it wouldn't be this easy.

[superlvldots]

For what it's worth, he clearly doesn't exercise the same control as back in our world. Most likely, he's just as trapped as the rest of us.

The question is if that applies to the mastermind as well.

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[nemophila]

There are a lot of different worlds, and there's evidence for both sides, so I suppose it's possible that some worlds are destroyed and others aren't.

My name is Jun Kurosu. Nice to meet you.

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[yougotthatwrong]

...I see.

[While that is somewhat depressing, at least there's some worlds that are still standing.]

Kurosu-san, is there anyway to know the cause of their destruction?

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[nemophila]

My guess is it would just depend on what you know about your own world. I know it's possible, but the circumstances that lead to destruction are likely very different. At the least, I doubt there was one, unified force that destroyed them all at once.

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[yougotthatwrong]

...So even we don't have the means of knowing how our own worlds ended, huh?

[Audio]

[disbear]

Ehh. Makoto Naegi. Yes, Makoto Naegi. I have a problem with your report, you bastard. It says you have super high school level good luck, but just look what happened to you!

[Audio]

[yougotthatwrong]

[And there goes his not-as-lively day.]

...Kirigiri-san told me about you.