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[guidetohell]

[He's alive. That's first.

He's in a house that he doesn't recognize. That's second.

There's a woman he doesn't know sleeping next to him. That's third.

His wounds are gone. That's fourth.

Whatever's going on, Nagi has a bad feeling about it. He was fine with dying; it meant an end to the pain, and he knew that his friends were safe. Mostly. But this... this is not exactly what he expected the afterlife to be like.]

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...Excuse me. Please don't panic, but I, ah- I think I might be lost. Do you happen to know where this is?

[public]

Well now. I suppose I always did want to visit America, albeit not quite like this... Ah, but I'm rambling.

I'm told that we use the phones here to communicate over some sort of wireless system? Strangely high-tech for what's supposed to be the decade of the 1950's, but I suppose it's useful. In any case, my name is Nagi Kengamine, and- [it's only then that it occurs to Nagi that maybe, as an escaped death row convict, giving his real name to a bunch of strangers isn't the best idea in the world. TOO LATE NOW.]

-and I suppose I'm new here. [SWEET FINISH.]

Comments

[endlesswitch]

From the future, are you? How interesting!

[guidetohell]

I would rather think that I'm from the present, all things considered.

[endlesswitch]

Ohoh. Despite having been taken to another time entirely...?

[guidetohell]

That's an interesting question. If you travel to the past, does that make you from the future, or the present? Maybe it's the same thing. Or... maybe I'm just rambling.

Nagi Kengamine. How do you do?

[endlesswitch]

And what of those from a time that was before yours, hmm?

I am Beatrice. You may call me by that name.

[guidetohell]

Pleased to meet you, Beatrice. As much fun as it is extrapolating about the particulars of time travel, I really should be looking for a way out of this place...

[endlesswitch]

Hoh. Is an animal able to unlock themselves from their own cage? Escape shall not be so easily done, though I am sure that you are welcome to try, okay...?

[guidetohell]

Some animals aren't meant to be caged. Humans, for one. You see, we have this annoying tendency to try to break out.

[endlesswitch]

Even if it is an inescapable prison? Not even one with magic could break this world's lock easily!

[guidetohell]

There are some things even more powerful than magic, you know.

[endlesswitch]

... What a thing to say to a witch. Do tell me. What can even come to match a power that can change time, and worlds itself?

[guidetohell]

Human resolve. I may not know much about magic, but I know a lot about adversity, and I know that there's no force on earth that can stop humans who truly believe in their goal.

[endlesswitch]

Hoh. How nice. ... Human resolve is one that can also be shattered easily, you know?

[guidetohell]

I suppose that is a little naivé, isn't it? But that's the thing about humans... even when we fail, there's always someone else ready to take up our cause. [He's learned that much himself; even after he fell, Igarashi and his friends were there to pull him back up.]

[endlesswitch]

Ahahahahahah! That's right! I have seen such things for myself. But, that what makes you humans quite fun. You resolve can be broken again and again!

[guidetohell]

[He keeps his emotions guarded, but he can tell that this woman and Tamaki have more than a little in common.] Well, we are fairly resilient. That's what happens when you only have one life to live... can't afford to throw it away.

[endlesswitch]

And if they can be revived over and over again?

[guidetohell]

I guess we'll just have to see, won't we?

[endlesswitch]

How brave. I do look forward to seeing how you shall adapt into this place.