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-- I know I shouldn't worry anymore. That's why I'm glad you left, Hokuto. But why...

Mmh. I suppose. I thought Nill would like them. I can find you ...   Oh.

[There's a very long and uncomfortable silence, which is finally followed by a sigh. The rustle of fabric is too soft to hear, even if he's hugging nothing but a ghost.]

I'm sorry. If I had

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...Happy new year! Is something going on?

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Happy New Year. Did Kamui come to --

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...I saw Hokuto outside.

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Hokuto-san?

She returned already? Hey, that's great.

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I'm...glad, too.

How was the party, after I left?

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It was fun... [...] Might've been something in the food or something, though, but I'm not sure. Actually, some people seem to be acting kinda strangely, now that I think about it.

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...Didn't you cook the food? Do you think someone spiked it while you weren't looking?

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Oh, no, I meant, the food that showed up in the park. [...] I went there, too.

I kinda... Hmm.

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Oh, that. Maybe the scientists had something to do with it?

...Hm?

[shockinglycool]

They must have...

[...] Either a "delusion" or a "vision." I want to talk to Kamui about it... he's from my future, so...

I guess it's a little weird.

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Sorata?

Wait...a what? What did you see? Was it of us you?

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...It was weird. Like an "out of body experience..." One second I was here, and the next... I was talking to Kamui. I think we were in Ginza. I don't know how or why. And we decided, "we need to go to the girls." That would be Neechan and Yuzuriha-chan. I don't know... how or why. But we were going over to them and it got kinda... fuzzy. [...] My gohoudouji...

And then I was injured. Kamui wanted us to go to the hospital, but I wanted to make sure... because if the spell was activated, Neechan... [...] We went to them... and she was okay... and that's it. I guess I passed out, or fainted, or... died. But she was okay.

[...] ...and then I was standing in the park again.

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Yuzuriha...? I don't think you mentioned her before. Who is she? What is she like?

...Spell? I wish this wasn't so upside-down for me. I don't even know most of these people. Are you okay? Did you feel any sort of physical pain when you were in this..."experience"?

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Yuzuriha-chan. She's another of the Seals. Fourteen. From Mitsumine. She's real cute. I think you like her. I don't know the - reason, but she and Neechan were in one part of the city, and Kamui and I were in another. Usually, the four of us kinda stick together... we live together, so... [...]

Man... [...]

When I first met Neechan, I put a gohoudouji on her. With the purpose of protecting her. Intercepting... if she was ever in danger and I couldn't be there, it would act in my place. Block the damage, transfer it to me. So for it to have been activated... Yeah. It hurt. But in this distant way... when you get hurt real bad... it sort of stops hurting, y'know? But she was okay. Not even a scratch. So it worked. You know? I was able to protect her.

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Fourteen? Why would... She shouldn't be fighting. She's too young. That's --

You think that one day that will happen too? ...Is Kamui from your time, exactly?

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...Only a year younger than Kamui. [...]

Kamui's from a few months to my future. He mentioned something like this in passing the other day... I want to ask him. I hope it is real, though.