29 --^-@ [Voice]

[rose_rapture]

[Endrance's voice is trembling, and his quickly-eroding mental state is easy to hear.]

Why...why am I here?
This is not [The World]...
This is not Tokyo...

Is this real?
So many...
So many people...

They're not beautiful...they're real...
No! Go away!

I want to go home.

[The recording clicks off with a sob.]

Comments

[myownmemory]

Are you...sure its real? People keep saying we'll just go back to World's End again soon. So doesn't that make this place fake?

[rose_rapture]

But it seems real...there are strangers outside my window...so much noise...

[myownmemory]

The big park's not so crowded...have you been there yet?

[rose_rapture]

No...
I can't...go out...
Are there flowers?

[myownmemory]

Why not? You're afraid of getting hit by the cars? Or it being too crowded?

...I think so, there's gardens and stuff around. It's a park, after all.

[rose_rapture]

I don't leave my room. I can't...
But I...am Endrance...who am I?

Can it be there is something beautiful in this ugly place after all?

[myownmemory]

But you've been out to the bathhouse with those other guys in World's End...?
What do you mean? You're not anyone else.

Uh...there's...art museums?

[rose_rapture]

That is in [The World]...where I am Endrance.
No? But if this is real...

I've never been to a museum.

[myownmemory]

The world? But there's many worlds. This is just one of them...isn't it.

I don't even know if this place is real yet. People keep saying...we go back? So is it real? Or just a fake, like memories in the castle. Or some God-trick.

Neither have I. But I got this guide book, for getting around, that says its got paintings and old things from all over this world in it. Its the same place where Naruto found that shark tank.

[rose_rapture]

Well...I suppose you could call them worlds within [The World], but...this is not one of them.

I do not know.

An aquarium?

[myownmemory]

What's your problem with it? Its too noisy?

You could pretend its fake, if it makes it any easier.

An art museum. Some dead shark was supposed to be art or something. If its all weird like that, at least it'll be worth going inside to beat the street heat.

[rose_rapture]

Partly. So many people...

I do not think it would.

You could come here. ...if you like.

[myownmemory]

So many people, no one glances at you twice. It's weird, but I guess everyone's got somewhere to be. I wonder where a world like this gets so many people.

Go where? You're staying in someplace? But that's such a waste of it! You'll miss it all!

Why don't you just come out tonight. We're celebrating Gohan's birthday, and I found a restaurant for him that comes around with as much meat as you want on sticks, they saw it off on your plate, its gonna be great. You should come out with a bunch of us.

[rose_rapture]

...they never do.

I'm at home...

I do not eat meat...
Who's going?

[myownmemory]

Well I'm sure there's other stuff to eat there. I've seen the fold-out...they have a big buffet of other food?

I'm hoping a lot of people will go. Roxas, and Usagi, and Aaron, and Gohan of course...I'll probably find Yuffie and drag her.

[rose_rapture]

It's fine. Food does not matter to me.

Oh.