They're all on the other side... and they don't remember anything, either. That's the price we were all supposed to pay— our memories of our friendship to save the world. Eikichi, Lisa... Jun... Maya...
The cognitive world... Kurusu-san called it that, too. I think that's the place we called the Collective Unconsciousness. Or if not the same, then at least a similar concept.
[ Tatsuya is gonna pass on by the gacha game and go for one of the puzzle ones, playing it with some fascination. He's not bad, though probably not on Akechi's level. ]
[Watching the fish, thinking a whole lot about how much the apocalypse has been thwarted twice in the past two decades, these only being the apocalypses that we know of.]
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[ He hasn't even told you about Philemon. ]
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That power's been blocked by the chinchillas... But under ordinary circumstances, yes I am.
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We were cut off from the cognitive world.
[because that's the same]
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[ He's quiet for a moment, thinking about that. ]
And you lost your way there?
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[pulling out and turning on his phone to show Tatsuya; how else are you going to explain smartphones to someone from the late 90s?]
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Cell phones got a lot nicer since I last checked.
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[Pulls open a normal map app and shows him his offline map of Tokyo.]
Using this, you can search for different places in Tokyo; the version we had could search for different locations in the Metaverse.
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That's so cool.
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[Holds the phone out]
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Really? Thanks!
[ He takes the phone, holding it as he starts flipping through and trying out various apps. ]
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He looks up after he finishes a round— there's no way he's beating Akechi's top scores, but it's sure been fun trying. ]
Sorry... I'm probably not being a fun date right now.
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[ Even ask he's asking, he's shifting the phone around in his hand, trying to figure out where the battery even... is.... ]
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There's an indicator on the top of the screen. It's in airplane mode, so the drain shouldn't be too bad.
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Hey, are you alright?
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