ｆｏｕｒｔｈ。 ａｃｔｉｏｎ / ａｕｄｉｏ。

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( action; for keiichi (backdated to yesterday) )

[ Okay, so apparently nobody is entirely sure what happened to yesterday, but.. that only makes her feel worse about it. Regardless of whether they did or didn't celebrate Keiichi's birthday, it's still no fair if none of them can even remember it, right?

So have a knock on the door to your bedroom early in the morning, Keiichi. ]

( voice )

[ By the following day even Ange can realise something is.. well, slightly off. Aside from the fact that nobody seems to remember the 1st, there's also the fact that a lot of people are moving around and.. well, she has no clue what's going on. ]

Is this some sort of huge weird April Fool's joke tradition here in Luceti?

First off there's that day that nobody seems to remember, although those seem to at least be more common, and now there's also a lot of lost people or something like that? A lot of people moving around, at least.. [ sigh. ] Apparently spring fever really does exist if it affects so many of you, huh?

... Oh, Atsuro, Kouki, I'm coming over to check up on the two of you with all of this going on, okay? Let me join in for dinner or something like that too for once.

( action; everywhere )

[ After that message Ange will leave the house for the afternoon and go out into the village - although housemates are free to hit her up before she leaves, of course.

There's something slightly off about her though. For once she's not wearing the hairbobbles she usually always wears, and any sign of the Ushiromiya one-winged eagle on her clothes is gone as well - the band missing from her sleeve, the ring on her finger gone too. Aside from that, it does really mostly seem like it's Ange, though, if not just a little more social. Still not by a whole lot, though.

Feel free to encounter her anywhere in the village on her way to community building 7 where Atsuro and Kouki are staying, or in the community building itself. Eventually she'll definitely end up at the apartment though, knocking on the door. ]

Comments

[emp3thy]

[.....Just Battler. No 'onii-chan.' Minato's eyes narrow slightly.]

Do you remember him wearing the eagle?

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The eagle.. [ She has to think about it for a few moments, but then she seems to realise. ]

Oh, you mean that weird wing pattern on his clothes? Of course, he's been wearing that before around here. Is that what you meant by 'the eagle' all along?

[emp3thy]

[....well at least Battler seems to be normal in Ange's memories. It's just... Ange herself.

There's only one thing to still check.]

Ange, what's your family name?

random common japanese surname picking is go!!

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[ Yes, see, this is where it gets noticable. Even if Ange herself doesn't realise it. ]

What, Minato, you know my family name, right? Is this some belated April Fool's joke? Since it's definitely not funny. [ sigh.. it's slightly annoyed, but more since all of this is so confusing. ]

It's Kobayashi, right? Kobayashi.

[emp3thy]

[...]

It's supposed to be Ushiromiya.

[Better to tell her this now, than when Battler comes uwooing. Assuming his memory is right...]

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'Ushiromiya'..? But isn't that the last name of Battler and Kyrie-san next door? Besides, I remember my own last name, right?

[ Her memories seem so.. clear, then why does Minato seem this insistent on something different? ]

[emp3thy]

Because they're your family, Ange.

[and family is important. That's why this experiment is starting to make him feel sick...]

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[ What-- no.. god, how much longer will this go on? Is she just having some sort of weird dream in which nothing makes sense anymore? ]

They're.. they're not! [ getting a little defensive now since she's so confused. ] I don't know what you're talking about, Minato, but I'm not related to them at all. We only met here in Luceti, how could they be?

[emp3thy]

You should ask them that.

[He's not going to push his memory onto her, even if he's sure of it himself. This issue is between her and them.]

[repudiate]

It's not fair to just say that and then just--

[ She cuts herself off, almost frustrated. ]

... Geez..

[emp3thy]

There's an experiment going on.

[if this wasn't obvious by now.]

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Yeah, I figured. [ At least, when she's thinking rationally and not just being frustrated like this. ]

But I can't believe there's something like an experiment that changes this much of the stuff I know.. I'm supposed to remember my family of all things.

[emp3thy]

What do you remember...?

[because he's interested now, in what she thinks if she's forgotten so much.]

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[ ... ] Where am I supposed to start now.. I didn't even know Battler and Kyrie-san are from the same place as Atsuro and me, and.. well, the others, like Kouki..

[emp3thy]

Atsuro and Kouki? [...what.]

Those two should be from at least ten years later than you, Ange.

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They look pretty young for their age, then. [ Some part of her manages to get that out in a still semi-deadpan way, but she's partially just grasping at straws on the inside. ]

Come on, I've been in the same school as Atsuro since we were little.. The two of us are practically almost the same age, there's no way there's a ten year difference.

[emp3thy]

You told me before you're from 1998. [And Kouki at least is definitely from a more modern time, with those catphones.]

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I'm definitely not. I was still only a little kid back then..

[ That's what she remembers, after all, and it's pretty clear. ]

Did I tell you anything about the lockdown before..?

[emp3thy]

[The lockdown was Atsuro and Kouki's thing. He knows that much.] No.

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This just doesn't make any sense. [ Why would she mention being from 1998 when that's a lie and something she doesn't remember herself either? ]

... Keiichi was already acting weird too.. do you think he, Mochizuki-san and I all have the thing going on? Or maybe you too, and it's all of us..

[emp3thy]

I think all of us are affected somehow.

[he's not naive enough to think that his memory is more infallible than anyone else's during an experiment.] The trouble is 'how.'

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Yeah. If we're all affected, there's no way of telling what is the truth and what isn't either.

... Well, at least I think that if an experiment would make us randomly think we're related to people, I should be the one pointing out the connection between our neighbours here and me rather than you, right? Besides, this experiment seems to do more, like changing the way people look to extremes. [ ponyji.. ] So it could be that at least that much is true about me..

Although I don't remember that housemate you were talking about before either.

[emp3thy]

The more people who remember something, the more likely it's true. [...which, bothers him, because he's certain Leon was living with them before today...

But now... he needs to test this. Ange had seemed normal until she'd started talking about her memories. He has to know about his own.] Ange, what do you remember me saying about my world?

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[ She nods at the first part.. it's likely, really. Most of them remember Ryoji as something other than a pony too.. ]

You told me about how your family died when you were young.. [ and on a slightly less horrible note-- although with the deadpan way she says it it's horrible all the same, really. ] And you shoot yourself in the head to fight.

[emp3thy]

...Yeah. [wow ange so sensitive. But it doesn't really matter.] But Takuma-kun does too, and no one else has remembered that.