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[princedetective]

It is nearly December... and, as such, it will soon have been a year since I first arrived in this place. At the time, I was the only one from home... although you were only a week later, Senpai. [ ... ] I am not one to reminisce, and this is not the occasion. However, my time here has certainly been fast

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[masukukunai]

"Mysteries of this world," huh? [Immediately, he's interested.]

Man, I've tried, but it seems like nobody knows. You got any leads?

[princedetective]

I would not put it so broadly. Specifically, I am interested in what became of this world.

[masukukunai]

So how it died.

[princedetective]

The why, over the how.

[masukukunai]

War or disease seem like the top candidates. What else would destroy so much?

[princedetective]

From what I understand, it was a combination of both. Therefore, why.

[masukukunai]

Got me there. You've been here awhile, what do you think?

[princedetective]

That is what I would like to discover: that, and how, if at all, it ties in to our own appearances here.

[masukukunai]

It can't be random. Us coming here, I mean. I don't even want to think that it might be random.

[princedetective]

I can state for a fact that it is not.

[masukukunai]

Yeah? How do you know?

[princedetective]

Do you know anything about statistics?

As this place makes clear, there are a nearly infinite number of worlds to draw people from. In this place, I would hazard to say that every fourth person is from a new world. Assuming each world has a population similar to our own-six to seven billion-and that there are in turn a billion worlds to draw from, the odds of any two people knowing one another here previously are so staggeringly small as to be impossible, randomly. That is not to mention how certain people "leave" and are "brought back."

[masukukunai]

Yeah, I get that part; there has to be some sort of... there's a word for it... algorithm! Some sort of algorithm for who gets brought here.

What I mean more is, why us? And what the heck are the scientists trying to do anyways? I've heard "re-population," but they sure picked the wrong crowd to do something like that.

[princedetective]

So far as I understand it, they have never said one thing or another as to why, and the re-population theory is just that: a theory, created by those of us here.

My question is not as much why us as why people at all. They clearly have the power to leave and travel worlds, and this world is clearly one in ruins. Why not abandon it entirely?

[masukukunai]

Well, maybe they have, and the scientists are the only ones left? It'd be kind of a waste for everyone to leave a whole planet when it might be fixable.

[princedetective]

I do not think that is their primary goal.