breaks_destiny | 5th Shattering * Action/Audio

So... June already, eh? I never thought I would get to see this month again so soon.

[A pause, as he struggles about what to say next.]

There's still no trace of Haruki, right? ... Oi, Minato, do you have some time?

By the way, I was wondering, are there any festivals or something celebrated here during the summer?

I know we are all from different worlds and all, and that with the Malnosso it's not easy to have something like that, but I was thinking maybe we could try to organize something? Get our minds to have some fun and relax a bit, it could be something simple with small games or something. Anyone else up for it?

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[Keiichi will be seen in his daily routine around. Going to the forest in early morning and not returning to be seen until lunch time after which he will be around the village or at the SOS Headquarters, sorely missing a certain God complexed individual.

Also, if you're a small lying child that can throw people flying long distances afar... Keiichi is out to hunt you down. He has given you enough time to calm down, girl, it's time to talk.]

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You said this isn't how the syndrome works, and you're not the only one hallucinating.

[he picks up Keiichi's journal.] It's not just you. So there has to be another cause.

[saljdhaskj The hell you're saying? Hallucinations are the work of the syndrome, he just told you-]

[Wait, Minato's right, he said it's not how the syndrome works. The hallucinations are wrong and give off the wrong feeling.]

[And now that he mentions it... Brb, checking the journal and seeing that it's not just them both either. Either the whole village has had an outbreak, which is hard to imagine, specially as if it was possible it would have happened long before, or...]

An experiment? Again?

[They are on a roll, first flaming trees, then mean eater butterflies, then the gray zone, now this.... Keiichi wants a vacation.]

Probably.

[and better than them all being insane.]

[Much better. Tons better. It does take a big weight from his shoulders. But...]

Rena.

[He doesn't need to say how bad this could be if Rena gets those, right? Rena's clever, he knows she plays dumb most of the time, but still... She's already sensible to those things. What if she heard something that triggered her? Or that got her to start thinking and... Bad experiment is bad.]

[he can figure out what Keiichi is thinking. With Haruki missing, things could be even worse.]

We'll have to watch her.

[Keiichi nods seriously and with a frown. At least now he knows he's not getting out of control. Rena just requires some extra attention now.

He sighs as he sits down again.]

Why does June have to always be such a screwed up month?

[With such an start he's really expecting to see Takano around the village by the end of the month.]

Depends on the year. [His own Junes weren't especially unusual, but he has a feeling Keiichi has other reasons...]

[Congratulations Minato, you just set Keiichi off. He starts laughing, loud and uncontrolled, clenching to his sides as they start to hurt. He laughs and laughs until hi finally starts to slow down. Have I mentioned that laugh was full of sarcasm and pain?]

Depends on the year... Wonder if you could create a full year of Junes with that.

[Not making much sense here, no.]

[that laugh goes a long way to being unsettling...]

What do you mean?

[What does he mean? That's a good question. You can see Keiichi turning silent, obviously thinking about whether or not he should tell him that part of the story. Would he even believe him?]

Oi, Minato, have you ever wondered about what would have happened if at a certain point of your life you made a different choice to the one you did?

...A few times.

[Minato has seen far stranger things than time loops, not that Keiichi would know.]

Have you ever wondered if there's an alternative world in which you took that different choice than the one you did in your world?

It could be possible. [but it's nothing he's considered...]

What if I told you that, according to my experience, it's more than just a possibility?

You've been to alternate worlds?

[Keiichi is silent for a moment before he speaks, his tone showing that he's not joking.]

Hinamizawa was trapped in an infinite time loop that repeated the month of June until recently. Or rather until the timeline I am from, in every other timeline everyone died.

[Part of him wonders if Minato will catch what that implies about Rena's future back at home.]

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/sob late, sorry