Kotori route continued
-First day of the festival and, after fighting the crowds, I wind up in the park where I run into Inoue. She’s kind of zoned out and doesn’t know who I am. Seems she suffered from memory loss.
-Despite not knowing where she is, Inoue woke up this morning thinking that she had to be at the festival today. She still has her journalistic instincts, I guess. Still, she’s very different now.
-Kotori’s camera I’m borrowing dredged up some memories of how to take good pictures from Inoue. Then, she vomited. Apparently, she’s been doing this every time she’s on the verge of remembering something.
-What a girl. Sometime during her missing time, she swallowed a USB stick. And her purpose for coming her was…to find me. To continue finding out this conspiracy. That means I can’t go on with my normal life though if I investigate.
-I guess she recognizes me despite the fact that I’m lying about my name.
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-She may not remember but saying that as a reporter must be painful. I now kind of think she deserves a sprite. I guess she’d get one if Rewrite ever gets adapted but after watching Little Busters!’ adaptation, I’m not sure I want to watch a Key game turned anime anymore if I’ve played the game first.
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-The USB stick has RTFs and pictures. She somehow got pictures of those giant black dogs, a gigantic snake and big insects. Definitely not stuff that can be blamed on that rainbow swamp.
-Ah, so she Inoue had taken lots of random pictures because some of the UMAs don’t show up in her eyes but in cameras. Though that time I was fighting off the dog, the opposite happened. I could see the dog corpse and my blades but my phone couldn’t capture anything. I can guess that I could see it because of my power but doesn’t explain the discrepancy in the picture-taking.
-She also got pictures of those robed guys and theorizes that they’re trying to control the UMAs.
-Ah, so Inoue had prepared for emergencies with food up to four days worth. Also, her laptop has some amazing battery life. I want it.
-I can’t imagine the fear Inoue must have been feeling being in a forest like that alone for days, only jotting down her own thoughts to keep herself calm and impossibly large and sometimes invisible monsters cross her path.
-Reading this diary of hers, she started breaking down on day three. She got attacked by one of the monsters on day four… Hearing her calmly write about how she’d like to die is morbid as heck.
-…and then she contemplated hanging herself. No, hanging is not an easy way to die.
-What horrible false hope. She escaped the forest only to find herself in that copy world, as a town.
-So Inoue either escaped or surrendered to the robed men after swallowing the USB stick. I want to think that her missing memories aren’t PTSD-related but forced by one of them or even by Akane.
-Oh no, I ended up buying stuff to prepare for a forest trek.
-The college student tourists I ran into are annoying the heck out of me. I know they think it can’t really be that dangerous but geez, don’t wander into a huge forest, one that the entire town is world famous for, unprepared.
-Not good. I spotted Chibimoth around Kotori’s house and followed him straight into the gray city, what Inoue called that copy dimension. For the first time, I actually felt the transition between worlds.
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-Now I’m in the forest, where I’m not supposed to be. Did the robed man I bumped into warp me somehow?
-First Inoue and now this. It’s like I can’t leave the supernatural stuff alone, even if I try.
-Suddenly thrown deep into the forest with no supplies whatsoever. Luckily, Kotarou does what I would’ve done in his shoes and climbs the biggest nearby tree.
-So I spot a nearby glowing part of the forest. Glowing in broad daylight?
-Somehow, in this unusually warm area of the forest, I’m being
forced to zone out.
-That ribbon girl is there. Maybe she’s emitting that feeling I’m experiencing. She apparently is pretty emotionless.
-Flashback. So I once ran into the forest and tried to rescue a girl stuck in a tree but we both fell. That’s why I was hospitalized when I was young. This ribbon girl is the same one I tried to help back then. That’s actually a pretty normal explanation for my hospitalization. Nothing like supernatural memory loss.
-As I lose consciousness, I hear footsteps and say Kotori’s name. Then it sounds like I hear Kotori begging for help. Swear loyalty? Not the usual begging. Aren’t I just unconscious? Is it really anything serious enough for Kotori to beg for me to be saved?
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-Kotori’s voice here is seriously on the verge of crying. T___T But really, else? Who else does she know who died?
-Oh, it is serious. I’m bleeding. Kotori is telling me not to move or speak. Now why is she in the forest and why was she near ribbon girl?
-I think I’m very seriously injured and ribbon girl gave Kotori something to “heal” me with.
-Kotori, is she swearing loyalty to ribbon girl?
-After some very, very immense pain, I wake up in my own room late at night. Oh, so that whole thing with the bleeding and healing was a flashback. I guess when Kotori told me that she’s not sure what I was hospitalized for, she was blatantly lying to me.
-Kotarou doesn’t seem to remember any of the occult stuff yesterday.
-Gotta go to school. For some reason, Yoshino is asking about the absent Kotori. And that’s really all he says to me. What’s he know?
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-Takes a nap in the forest? Sleeps at home? Shops for cheap, useless things? Gardens?
-Why would someone make me forget about hanging out with Kotori for the articles today?
-It seems like a lot of my memories are shaky without really noticing. I’m not even sure about the wooden mammoth and what it’s supposed to protect me from and how.
-Oh my god, has everything occult, except for that I have some kind of fear of ghosts at night, wiped from my mind? Even UMAs are something just interesting to him. And why don’t I care about Kotori being absent right now?
-Wait, what? NOOOOOOO!!!!
-Oh my god, something’s seriously wrong with me. Kotori is my childhood friend that I love and that’s all I say? I have a feeling Yoshino is the only one who sees this as well.
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-I think Yoshino is justified in wanting to beat the crap out of him. Snap Kotarou out of it for me, Yoshino! Something very wrong with him!
-Yoshino’s actually crying. ;_;
-Oh, I didn’t know it was a brain injury back then. That explains the memories.
-So after the injury, everyone pitied me and tried to act nice but I knew it was fake. Yoshino was honest so that’s kind of why I stuck around him.
-Everyone wants to help me find Kotori. But her parents needed to get her out of our school as fast as possible in any way possible. Even an expulsion would’ve been fine with them. Wow.
-Ah, so I do still have memories of my blade. And maybe everything else. I just feel very distant from Kotori for some reason.
-Broke into Kotori’s home. It doesn’t really feel lived in. Wherever her family went, they took their hunting rifle with them.
-Books in Kotori’s also not-feeling-lived-in room.
-Arg, what could this mean? I doubt that it’s saying she’s an alien. But she’s something not human, then? She has a lot of Celtic myth books.
-Saying that Chibimoth is a mammoth to myself seems to break some kind of seal that makes me want to vomit. I can’t believe they did the same thing to me as Inoue. Didn’t think I’d get to experience that kind of memory loss thing myself.
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-She’s like those robed men? I thought Chibimoth was following her orders because it just liked her!
-Back in the forest trying to find that place again.
-Thermal vision. I suppose that would come in handy for tracking people in a forest. Kotarou’s sarcastically excited.
-Why am I finding a trail of wooden animal carvings? Kotori, these are a lot harder to make than just dropping breadcrumbs!
-It’s not a trail but a circle. And considering how my wooden mammoth is to protect me, I probably destroyed Kotori’s barrier protecting her from something/someone. Maybe from the ribbon girl.
-That’s…kind of wrong. Why am I finding dismembered corpses? I’m surprised my super senses didn’t smell it.
-I found ribbon girl. She can’t come near me because I have a pocketful of animal crackers, I mean wooden animal carvings. So I dropped them.
-No. Nonononononono!!! Damn, I don’t know if it has anything to do with me dropping those protective wards but that dragon is back! Will the ribbon girl help me? Please?
-Kotarou decided to mess with me (as in waffocopter me) and pretend to die from being stabbed straight in the head. Not funny, Kotarou.
-Shit, I’m injured. It stabbed my side.
-Ribbon girl is just calmly standing there next to me. Thankfully, her ribbons seem to be protecting me and are faster than the dragon.
-It really is odd to see her emotionless face throughout this whole fight.
-I guess Chibimoth carried me. He, uh, seems to have grown up a bit. It’s still cute. Just…slightly less cute. I still want one, though.
-So weird plants I’ve never seen before. It’s like I feel into a bubble of the far, far past with a mammoth and extinct plants.
-That poor pitcher plant being used as a toilet. This area feels lived in. Maybe Kotori?
-…and now Kotori is going to call me a pervert and it’s all Chibimoth’s fault. But really, I sound awfully calm considering I found Kotori in some funky forest place taking a shower like it’s nothing.
-I like how I hold a (mostly one-sided) conversation with Kotori before she throws something at me.
-Ah, so she healed me again? Too bad it’s still going to leave a scar.
-I do hope that I stop viewing Kotori as an acquaintance at this point.
-Powerspot? It’s not something I’d feel like standing in for fun.
-Odd. If I see liquid there and try to touch it, it’ll melt me. But…if I don’t see anything, it’s fine.
-「If you can, that means you’re on the same wavelength as that energy, so it’s dangerous.」Okay, I guess that kind of makes sense.
-Kotori’s mom is here. Didn’t say a word to us. I suppose both of Kotori’s parents have been living here for a while and their house near me is just for show. Also, there’s walking stumps for tables and chairs because why not.
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-And Shizuru’s ramen friends mentioned familiars. I’m assuming they’re all actually familiar hunters. Though if I’m right and why they do so, I’ll have to find out in her route.
-And these summons live in Kazamatsuri and their organization is called Gaia. Also, they basically control the city.
-For Gaia: Earth > Humanity Also, rather than good or evil, Kotori says it’s more like for justice. Makes me think of Akane’s words about how right is not always best.
-They kind of leave matters like global warming to the planet.
-Every once in a while, the earth sends a representative that they call the “Key”.
-And Kotori is a summoner but not part of Gaia. And a druid. It’s not clear to me if that means Kotori is something other than human or a human with funky abilities like being able to pick up messages from mistletoe. When did she learn all this? Did her parents know all along?
-Uh, Chibimoth is actually Kotori’s dead dog from a while bag, summoned as her familiar and since something went wrong, she used her dad’s seal since it’s ivory. And poof, a mammoth dog?
-Oh, if my aurora is my life (which makes sense when I noticed it smelled like blood once, I probably shouldn’t overuse it.
-Oh the Key is that ribbon girl. And…how long has she been with us on this conversation? Kotori is supposed to protect her but she seems to be doing a pretty good job of it herself.
-Oh wow, when Kotarou was young, he purposely pushed his accelerator for physical abilities. So he ended up being an elementary schooler as strong as a high schooler and had to learn to hide it.
This is going on for a while and it's not like the common route with set dates so I'm stopping in the middle of the day for this entry.
