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[lingered_behind]

[the device clicks on and there’s the sounds of static at first, before a voice is heard.]

Where is this? Have I finally crossed over?

This isn’t- quite what I expected.

I wonder how Rei is- Is anyone else here? Can anybody hear me?

[the static returns for a moment before the device clicks off]

Comments

[illusivetactics]

You are in a place called World's End, and I'd imagine its hardly ever expected.

[lingered_behind]

No- I suppose the afterlife is not something that can be expected.

World's End, you said?

[illusivetactics]

That is its most common name, from what I've heard.

And you are?

[lingered_behind]

Asou Yuu. And yourself?

[illusivetactics]

I am called Zexion. Were you expecting a second life?

[lingered_behind]

I am not quite sure what it was that I was expecting- but this, feeling as if I am once again alive, wasn't it.

[illusivetactics]

Death is not a thing of permanence here. It comes at the price of memory, however.

[lingered_behind]

The price of memory?

[illusivetactics]

A memory lost, for another chance at life, or so it is said.

[lingered_behind]

That doesn't sound- very pleasant. I've never heard of any folklore of legends that mention World's End alongside of memory loss.

[illusivetactics]

But you have heard of World's End?

[lingered_behind]

I have, yes. I've run across the term quite a few times in my research.

[illusivetactics]

Oh? You are a scholar as well?

[lingered_behind]

Of a sort- I'm a folklorist.

[illusivetactics]

I see. Well, don't you have ironic timing.

[lingered_behind]

What makes you say that?