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King: Good.
King: I think he needs all the support he can get at the moment.

Maki: Yeah.
Maki: I did my best.

King: That's the most any of us can do at the moment.

Maki: Yeah.
Maki: Let me know if I can do anything... for him or Heart Soldier in general.

[...]

Maki: I also heard about the gamerunner's deal, from Nine Nine.

King: And what was Nine-Nine's take?

Maki: He said he's like him and Anubis or you and Yugi, except that they hate each other. And that he liked the version who was left after the game better.
Maki: Apparently, he had a memory where the likeable version teamed up with him as a ghost, to kill the crazy version. But they lost.

King: I don't think it's exactly like myself and Yugi, based on what the crazy one told me. But I guess that doesn't matter very much.
King: Nine-Nine clearly remembers more about it than I do, though.

Maki: What did the crazy one tell you?

[ There's a delay ]

King: It might be easier to explain in person.

Maki: Sure. Where?

King: Somewhere isolated.
King: The park?

Maki: That works. I'll meet you at the gate.

[ There's no response to that, but when she arrives, she'll find him already leaning against the gate, arms crossed. ]

[She looks him over as she walks up.]

Should we find a bench or something?

[ He looks tense, but that's about it. ]

Sure, if you like.

Mm.

[She wanders a little ways into the park before finding one to sit down on.]

[ Nice, nice. He doesn't sit, opting instead to pace a bit. ]

Like I said, I don't remember anything about him myself. But - I spoke to the "other one" earlier, for whatever his word is worth.

[She just watched him calmly.]

And what did he tell you?

He's not a spirit like myself or Nine-Nine, but some kind of... alternate personality, borne from trauma, apparently.

...I see. Well, that would explain why he didn't get split up like the rest of you, I guess. Not the weird glowing eye in his forehead, but I'm not sure how that works anyway.

The eye appears when channeling shadow magic. I didn't think anything of it at the time, but that's because I never once thought he would be able to run a shadow game here.

What exactly makes something a "shadow game"...?

If there's magic in play that will automatically inflict penalties. In this case, apparently those penalties were a loss of memories.

[ The last part sounds very bitter. ]

Edited 2019-09-17 22:18 (UTC)

...Yeah. Winners got them back at the end, but we did lose memories over the course of the game.

... I'm sorry.

I should have taken the threats more seriously.

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