1st Vision ♫ [Video]

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[The video feed from the communicator on the Mansion floor picked up on a young girl with her hair in high pigtails. The 5'2" teenager somehow ended up sitting and hunched over... on the inside of the fully open grand piano in the Music Room.]Ow! Okay, this isn't cool and is just really, really weird! This isn't how you treat a girl... or

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[masukukunai]

Heeeeeey, Rise-chan! Looks like my luck keeps getting better and better!

It's okay, you're not in the other world. This is Wonderland.

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[Only a select few ever called her that! But with that voice, it could only be one person...]

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[And sure enough, it was! Rise gave him a big smile and waved at the camera to him.]

Yousuke-senpai! You're really here too!

Yeah, I thought we ended up in the other world somehow, but that would've been weird since we just saw Souji-senpai off at the train station!

[masukukunai]

So you're from that time too, huh? Weird.

Yeah, I thought the same thing when I first got here, but it's not. This place is... different.

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Yeah, Souji-senpai said that time works in a weird way. But that's all right, everything's going to be okay since we're together!

But... what do you mean by "different"? It's nothing like the TV world from what I can see.

[masukukunai]

Well, we've got the mirrors here. For awhile I thought they were like shadows, and that just made things more confusing.

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[Rise was surprised to hear that. She glanced over at one before turning back to Yousuke.]

The mirrors? What about them? No one's said anything yet... What do you mean they're like the Shadows?

[masukukunai]

Yeah, behind the mirrors here there's another mansion that's opposite of this one. And we've all got a mirror person living there too, like our reverse.

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A mirror person?

[Rise carried her comm device over to the mirror so she could continue to talk to Yousuke at the same time. All she could see was her and the room's reflection, but she knew she had to trust Yousuke on this.]

So it's like the TV, but with mirrors? Have you met any of them over there...?

[masukukunai]

I've met a couple of them. But they're not like shadows; they're less a part of us and more like our opposites.

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[Rise stepped away from the mirror now, a bit unsure about whatever it was or whoever it was on the other side.]

But... why are they there? What's the point of them?

[masukukunai]

I dunno. What's the point of anything here?

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Huh... Then we'll just have to find out!

[Rise didn't want to let it get her down, not on her first day and not ever. They managed to save the world once, they could get themselves out of this somehow.]

Let me get this straight. There are these things called events that have to do with our memories, then this mirror world business, then rooms that work like magic depending on what we think of. Did I get it all?

Oh! Besides that, what's there to do here? Anything fun?

[masukukunai]

Yep, that's the gist of it. You got it down pretty fast, Rise-chan.

Well, it's never boring at least. There's a pool and a beach, you can have whatever food you want from the kitchen... And a garden and the woods and all sorts of other places. It's really not that bad when there aren't any events going on.

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[Rise giggled, then gave him another smile.]

Souji-senpai and Yukiko-senpai filled me in earlier! It's thanks to them and to you too.

[A pool? And a beach? Those did sound like fun and she made a mental note to go investigate later. But she was more interested in more details about the events themselves.]

... You've been here the longest so far, right, Senpai? I heard some stuff about events, but what kinds are there, exactly? What kind of things happen during them?

[masukukunai]

Oh, they're weird, and they never have anything in common either. The first one that happened while I was here was this time we all had to fight each other for this candy, and if we didn't get some, we'd die... Or the time where those two girls had a fight, and used us all as chess pieces in a game to settle it. Just a couple days ago there was one where we were all convinced we were like characters in an old detective movie.

[Sigh.] They never make any sense.