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[eatsyourscience]

[Early in the morning, not long after the Midnight Channel broadcast, Souji decides he has some 'splaining to do. He fires up the old network device, but isn't really sure how to go about this.]

I can't explain the armor, but these broadcasts...they come from my world.

[It's not easy to tell from his tone whether or not he's affected by what he saw, especially for people who don't know him well. In reality, it's hard for him not to feel agitated in response to it. He spent a year hyper-alert to this thing, after all, and even after the time he's spent in Wonderland, it's become a habit to react this way.]

I don't think you should worry about what it shows you. It's probably not real.

[Probably.]

This sort of thing used to happen sometimes. Where two events got mixed together. It's been over a year though, I think.

[He can't think of anything else to say that would actually be helpful. He had thought of offering to explain the broadcasts, but he's alarmed by the fact that he can't remember what they're called. After a couple seconds of dead air, he shuts off the feed.]

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[crosscompiler]

I guess... there's nothing to be done...

Kirigiri-san... I hope she's going to be all right... I still think about her, sometimes...

[eatsyourscience]

She was here, wasn't she? How long has it been since she went back?

[crosscompiler]

It was... a couple of months, at least... it's been hard to keep track, with the events changing... and since I had been gone, during Christmas...

[eatsyourscience]

It's a chronic problem for me, too.

[crosscompiler]

Losing track...?

[eatsyourscience]

Yeah. I know about how long I've been here, but I lose track of what time of year it is until the seasons change.

[They change so suddenly that it's hard to tell the difference between July and mid-October.]