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[transmit]

HELLO

"You've reached Elysium! Lost? Need an ear? I'm your guy! I'll get back to you as soon as I can."

GOODBYE

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Comments

[aerodynamic]

Your man. [ that's still unhelpful, but he's also pausing as he slowly rubs his neck. ]

That was... so creepy. What the hell was that?! I've seen some pretty freaky Shadows but that was a whole other level. Think it had something to do with why the busts looked so weird when we left?

[vacuous]

Please don't call him "my man", that's going to invite some misunderstandings. But it is weird Obikawa keeps showing up.

[ Haunted... ]

Like it's a strange entity that was the cause for their terror?

[aerodynamic]

We are literally the only ones here. But at least he wasn't a spider this time, even though I'm not sure this was much better. Maybe though. That thing was following us from the time we started walking to when we got to P.E.C.S.

[vacuous]

Even in front of Elysium and Dahut-kun!

[ PLEASE. SOME DECORUM. ]

It was there the whole time? Is that what you were looking at with those glasses?

[transmit]

[ too late he has already taken his notes ]

[artificialsweetener]

[Paying more attention now that he's heard his name over here HELLO??? Are we talking about Tokinaga's man.]

[aerodynamic]

Sorry. [ he is not. ]

Anyway yeah. I had the idea a little while ago to check and see if they still worked. These are special glasses that were made for us to navigate the fog inside the TV world. It's how we were able to see in the dungeons and fight Shadows. But I wasn't expecting to actually see anything out there.

[vacuous]

Maybe they work on anything that can't be seen by the naked human eye in general? What else can you see with them?

[aerodynamic]

That's probably true. When the fog from the Midnight Channel started drifting into our world, we could use our glasses to see through it then, too. It showed everything for what it was. It makes me wonder if they'd be able to show us more of the true nature of this place. That was... the first time I've actually seen any kind of monster like that.

[ hum. ]

Did any of you guys visit the funeral parlor earlier? With the casket.

[vacuous]

It might be worth a shot, personally speaking.

I passed through it, yes.

[aerodynamic]

Yeah, I'm gonna keep them on me from now on and check with each new part of the maze. If it was coming toward us, who knows how long before they're even closer.

Did you check who was inside?

[vacuous]

Inside the building? I've seen some people also happening to check it out.

[aerodynamic]

Not just inside the building, I mean inside the casket itself.

[vacuous]

Oh. Yes, but... did you say "who"?

[aerodynamic]

[ a ]

Was it... not a person for you?

[vacuous]

?

No... it's a bit hard to explain what I saw, but it didn't have a person in it.

[aerodynamic]

... oh. [ now he just looks annoyed because WHY IS IT DIFFERENT. why did he get stuck with a person? he hates this place. ]

Okay, uh, never mind then.

[vacuous]

[ It's actually so hard to think of a emblematic concept for what he wants that I almost just said he only saw flowers but that would probably be really ominous. ]

Did you look inside it with the glasses on?

[aerodynamic]

[ you're so valid, luckily he's easy to distract. ]

No. She was inside and I could see her just fine before she started sinking into the flowers. So... I was thinking maybe that had something to do with why she was part of that monster.

[vacuous]

Absorbed, and respawned as that thing, you mean?

[aerodynamic]

Yeah. [ he actually manages to look very annoyed suddenly. ] Really wish they would've left her out of this...

[ mostly because he's not enjoying the saki-sounding meangirl voice in his head, actually. ]

[vacuous]

Anything to get under your skin, right?

[ Wow, haunted by peepeepooopoo forever meanwhile. ]

[aerodynamic]

I was talking to Tsukasa about this earlier, how this place really seems to be taking things from us to throw back in our faces to try and slow us down. Not sure there's anything we can do to avoid that, but it feels like it's going to get harder to ignore, too.

[ tokinaga's sleep paralysis demon... ]

[vacuous]

...I hated looking at that thing.

[ JUST OBIKAWA AS ITS STOMACH BUT ALSO EATING ITSELF? ]

Like a really bad, terrible horror movie concept or something...

[aerodynamic]

It was pretty gross... [ yeah the eating itself got to him a little, literally why. ]

... it's been a little over a year since I've seen Saki-senpai's face. I can't say I appreciate seeing her like this now either.