Another few pieces of the puzzle fall into place with that confirmation. If Akira wields the same power they do – a seemingly infinite number of personas, he remembers Akechi telling him – then it stands to reason the rest of his friends do as well, and that's where Akechi's "anecdotal evidence" has come from. He'd been torn between the safe assumption that Akechi merely spied on them in the cognitive world and the hypothesis that they worked together, even if only briefly. ]
I intend to ask him about Yoshizawa-san. It's odd to me too. I'll let you know what I find out.
[ Nausea laps at him like the waves on the shore behind them. Maruki's entirely focused on their conversation, doesn't see the storm clouds gathering along the horizon.
He inhales, holds it for a moment. Winds his hands together in his lap, thumb pressing into the divots between knuckles methodically. ]
I don't expect you to ever tell me the truth about what you last remember, so I won't ask you to. But given the timeline of the election, I know that I was farther along than you were. You didn't see Christmas Eve.
[ Simple facts, whether or not early June is true. ]
Kurusu confirmed something strange I saw that day, right before I arrived here. If you don't want me to tell you about something you've yet to experience, I won't. But if you do...
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Another few pieces of the puzzle fall into place with that confirmation. If Akira wields the same power they do – a seemingly infinite number of personas, he remembers Akechi telling him – then it stands to reason the rest of his friends do as well, and that's where Akechi's "anecdotal evidence" has come from. He'd been torn between the safe assumption that Akechi merely spied on them in the cognitive world and the hypothesis that they worked together, even if only briefly. ]
I intend to ask him about Yoshizawa-san. It's odd to me too. I'll let you know what I find out.
[ Nausea laps at him like the waves on the shore behind them. Maruki's entirely focused on their conversation, doesn't see the storm clouds gathering along the horizon.
He inhales, holds it for a moment. Winds his hands together in his lap, thumb pressing into the divots between knuckles methodically. ]
I don't expect you to ever tell me the truth about what you last remember, so I won't ask you to. But given the timeline of the election, I know that I was farther along than you were. You didn't see Christmas Eve.
[ Simple facts, whether or not early June is true. ]
Kurusu confirmed something strange I saw that day, right before I arrived here. If you don't want me to tell you about something you've yet to experience, I won't. But if you do...
[ Maruki shrugs. ]
I leave that up to you.