[The PORTAL turns on as Akito hands it to N, unbeknownst to either of them. It's just after the sun began to rise and their voices returned for the day.]

Look after it for me until we come back to get it, okay?

I will keep it with me and take good care of it. No harm will come to it while you are gone, I promise you.

[Akito is used to N's ( Read more... )

[The PORTAL shows N in his forest, in a clearing among the trees. He is playing, with what seem to be huge, animated bags of trash: Garbodor. There are three of them, and each of them is more than six feet tall and six feet wide, but N is roughhousing with them fearlessly, smiling ( Read more... )

[During the outburst of violence in the city, N had stayed, determined to help as many people as he could, exhausting himself in the process. After the monsters had vanished and the city had returned to what seemed to be its natural state, he had, without a word to anyone, left the city for the forest, taking his Pokémon friends with him. He had ( Read more... )

[Unlike the rapid and stilted way he talks during the day, the thoughts broadcast by N's PORTAL are measured and clear (if at times accompanied by seemingly random images of his Pokémon friends). This is a way he's more comfortable communicating.]

Hello, my name is N Harmonia. I have some questions. [Akito had given him some good ideas for what ( Read more... )

[The feed shows a young man with a head of messy green hair, wearing a dragon mask. He is seated on the floor with his knees drawn up toward his chest. He is not alone.

A bright yellow insect, about 4 cm in height, is nestled in his hair, and a pigeonlike gray bird is perched on his shoulder. The bird and the insect are rather close to each ( Read more... )