01 | First Flame

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[ An image flickers onto the screen. At first it's an aerial view of the grass below, but the camera shifts focus. There's a trunk of a tree in the distance before the camera flips again, whirling past a sea of red, before settling on a horizontal view of the surrounding foliage]

Just what is this thing?

[The images spin and whirl again as Hikaru

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Have we met? How do you know my name?

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[Hikaru's tone brightens]

Thanks! I'd really appreciate it!

I'm Hikaru Shidou.. but you already knew that.. It's nice to meet you Konata!

So this place is called "the City"? It doesn't really have a name?

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For some reason that seems kind of sad. As if no one named it because no one has grown an attachment to it. It isn't really that bad here is it?

Has anyone ever spoken to the Deities and asked them why they're doing this?

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That is kind of confusing but since you say it's not bad--

Then we should give it a name! Since you know more about this place than me, What would you call it Konata?

I'll have to try anyway. Everyone is counting on us to protect Cephiro. [Her voice fills with determination as she recalls all her friends still back in Cephiro, and how the world was on the verge of collapse] I won't let them down!

[She eases up a little] That's why I have to get back there, there must be a way to leave this City.

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With these device things we could hold a poll! but, I really have other things to be concerned with.. and you seem fine with the name.

[Blinks once. Then a few more times] Technically, wasn't I taken out of both? Maybe. I mean.. This isn't Cephiro or Earth is it? So I was taken from that world.

Wait-- What's this about a timeline? I'm afraid I'm not following you.