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[forwardpresent]

[The message is quiet and blurred by constant background static.]

--large populous-- quite unexpected--

--ortex World was m-- quiet--

--o close to sum-- God--

[A large burst of static interrupts, followed by a short silence. The voice following sounds more mechanical than before.]

Terminal established.

Network path established.

Linking...

[Another static

Comments

[pendulum_holmes]

Whose 'we'? Are you part of the Keepers-- or no, perhaps the Entropi I've been told of? This is really shady.

[forwardpresent]

Keepers? ...No information found.

Entropi? ...No information found.

We don't know who 'Keepers' are.

We don't know who 'Entropi' are.

We are Amala.

[pendulum_holmes]

The way you put it makes you sound even more shady.

[forwardpresent]

We don't understand.

Clarification requested.

[hands_of_reason]

...Vortex World. Terminal.

Who are you?

[forwardpresent]

No one you need to worry about. But, you know what they are?

[hands_of_reason]

Uh, yeah. I've only been around them for months. I just haven't heard anyone use them like that since...

You're from the Vortex World, aren't you? M-maybe I know you! Come on, who are you?

[forwardpresent]

Since the hospital?

Since Ikebukuro?

Since Kabukicho?

Of course you know me, Naoki. You've probably just forgotten. I'm not surprised. You do have a habit of forgetting your friends.