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[jivitadana]

[That nightmare was... different. Not new, as the stuff of nightmares was something Minato was used to. But different. He had been taking a nap at his desk while working on testing something. Something had been bothering him for a long while already, and it would be a way to distract him from thinking about the dream. The nightmare was the sign of something to come. Like those event announcements. He would just be prepared for it whenever it came.

Thus once he was ready again, he began writing, solving this math problem, then the next math problem and others like it.]

...

[Done. Answers checked out. But what about something... simple?]

42 - 17 = ______
...

........ What's forty-two minus seventeen?

.....

[Blank. How could he not know this? Something had to be wrong. (And it isn't cheating to ask the network!)]

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[jivitadana]

[...

There was the sound of some scribbling as Minato wrote that down to see it for himself. He could see the numbers, obviously. He knew those. He even added them up in his head. But then trying to subtract them was... not working.]

... Tell me the answer or whatever you think the answer is.

[Now something else to figure out. Could he actually remember what she told him?]

[coldhardy]

Three hundred and fifty-nine.

[The puzzled note is back.]

[jivitadana]

[Okay, yeah, something is wrong.]

How did you do that?

[He had to ask.]