04 - Sora - MidChilda - Yagami Household - Video

[sora_no_raito]

I... did it?

I DID IT! Kairi! Riku! I did it! I beat the game!

I beat the game! I beat the game, finally, after 3 weeks of sweat and tears I... I...

I have more games to play...

I'm never going to finish before Destiny Islands gets swallowed by Darkness...!

How much time do I have?

[He checks the months left...]

IT'S BEEN A MONTH AND A HALF?! HOW?! I didn't take THAT long did I? Oh my Light, I'm going to fail!

[Sora flops onto his back and buries himself in Zaphira's fluffy side.]

Bury me with my Munny. I'm dead.

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[soft_focus]

[Reira doesn't need video. Reira just needs to go down a hall. Or upstairs, maybe. Either way she just opens the door because screw knocking.]

...We did a lot of things that weren't playing games.

[That's how. In case the question wasn't hypothetical.]

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But...

[Well okay there was that, and the vacation with that, and the shopping and the...

Sora hung his head.]

Oh my Light, we're so doomed.

[soft_focus]

[....]

...'M not in the game.

[The point here is probably 'aren't things different enough already?' Shame her presence is actually making all of this a sustained time loop instead, if anything

As it is, she moves to where the game is, and looks to see which one would even have come next.]

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Yeah I know, but progression! I need to still visit these worlds and make friends and make sure nothing goes wrong. I mean... this is still something I need to do.

[Sora heaves a deep sigh.]

What's the next game?

[soft_focus]

Umnn...

[...Sora did you leave any instructions, because she's sort of frowning at this pile.] ...There's a two and a three, but there's a lot of other ones too.

[And anyway-] ...How do you know what parts have to happen and what parts don't?

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[Wait... Sora looks at the pile.

And goes cross-eyed.] Oh... oh... well uh... I guess we choose at random?

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[ok sora she might be seven but she's not dumb]

.....that's not how things work. You can't just pick for a story, otherwise things don't make sense.

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But we don't know which one goes next! There's literally one here that has a sequel number in the hundreds!

[Days. He's referring to Days, Reira.]

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....You knew which games to 'buy', [She says after a moment of marveling at the title of days.]

...Would that place know?

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But I didn't buy these, I borrowed all of this from Hayate! This is HER house after all!

I wouldn't have any of this munny to buy it all.

[perfectlynormalcthulhu]

There's a long pause as Anri blankly stares at the screen of her laptop. That's Reira. That is Reira. What is she wearing. Why is it so cute. Once she can think straight again and isn't overwhelmed by cuteness, she opens the Duck menu and warps directly to Reira.

"Reira? Reira you look so cute - wait, no, where have you been."

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Mnhh...I guess not, but-

[Just as she's about to say 'well we can ask Hayate then', someone else is there. She has zero idea who this is.

Um.] ............you know my name?

[wat]

[perfectlynormalcthulhu]

Outwardly, Anri still looks like a Cool Beauty (shut up, she's totally a Cool Beauty, she'll sue) but inwardly she is STRUCK. Is she a bad sister? Sure, it took her a long time, but she properly learned Reira's name! (Although not until after adopting her.)

Oh no. Oh no. She's a BAD SISTER. Okay. Okay. She can still turn this around and be a cool big sister, right? Right. She'll just mentally rifle through her Item Box and there it is, she'll pull out a small envelope from her shadow (ignore the Ominous Latin Chanting as she does this, she can't turn that off) and hand it with all due ceremony to Reira.

"Here. Your allowance."

Yes. She's a Cool Big Sister.

Nailed it.

[soft_focus]

[what oh no-] Ahhh...

Um, I think something isn't right... [This is a little worrying. She doesn't want to upset anyone. But. She's also pretty sure that's exactly what's going on, thanks empathy, you're a pal.]

...I can't take this, I don't even know who you are right now...

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OH NOOOOO.

"You have amnesia?!"

SHE'S NOT A BAD SISTER, SHE'S A SAD SISTER.

"I'm your sister, Anri. We live together."

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[Oh no. Reira blinks at Anri. Reira blinks at Sora. She looks back at Anri.] Um...

Do...I? [Let's back up.] ...I didn't think I forgot anything that wasn't really bad though...

[no don't say this out loud you'll give anri a fear]

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Anri stares, perfectly levelly, at Reira for several long moments. When she speaks, her voice is devoid of inflection.

"I'm going to melt into a little puddle and die now."

And with that, Anri shifts into Shadow Form, which really does look like a little puddle of inky darkness.

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Wait, hold on. Is this uh... wait, is this what they call AU?

[Sora is confused, but hes' been doing GASP READING.

Kairi would be so proud of him.]

Like if... one person came from one world... and another person came from another world... wouldn't the two people be AU? What does AU stand for?

[A beat]

Your eyes are real pretty by the way miss.

[soft_focus]

[Well. Sora is definitely right-] ...Oh...I guess if there were other Yuuyas, there could be other Mes.... [No those Yuuyas were actually other people Reira, no-] ...and also the you in the games, and-

[Wait oh no Anri no-] Ah...!!

D-

Please don't die..! [Reira panics at the shadow.]

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OH NO SHE'S AN EVEN MORE TERRIBLE SISTER

The little shadow puddle suddenly turns into a rushing pillar of solid darkness before it dissipates, revealing Anri standing there. She appears to be wearing a mask made of shadows, so that nobody can see her face anymore.

"Ahh, Anri-neechan is sorry, Reira, she's a terrible sister who took too long to remember your name and didn't know you had amnesia and were lost and alone and she was so terrible you decided to forget her and then she said something stupid and made things worse but Oneechan really loves you, you know? So if you don't remember Neechan because she was stupid and terrible than all she can really do is express her love and make it so you want to remember our time together again and also you look super cute in those clothes, did you new friend help pick them out and also young man you are like twelve you shouldn't be flirting with me I already have someone I like and shouldn't you focus on someone your own age? Not Reira. Reira is younger than you."

Another of Anri's many failings is that she can only be emotionally honest when she's wearing a mask. Although at this point it's mainly a matter of habit, and not actually a curse like it used to be, although this does lead to oversharing. She'll probably hide under her blanket in embarrassment later.

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Sora is...

Completely lost.

So he zeros in on what he can.

"Well if you're going to be her sister, then that's perfect at least! You can rebuild your relationship with Reira no problem! Just come and live with us and take care of her while I sort out the world exploding stuff!"

A beat. "And wait, flirting?"

Smooth Sora.

[soft_focus]

Frankly, Reira looks more than a little concerned about this. "...I don't forget things like that...I forgot things about where I was before I met Reiji-niisama, and before his mom adopted me..." she explains. "...Things like what caused loud, thunder noises...or why there were people with weapons, or..."

Perhaps she should stop there. But. "...I wouldn't forget something like that... ...I think... ...maybe, it's like what Sora said, and there's just...another me, and you found the wrong one..."

Also.

"....what's flirting..." She'll just frown at Sora about darkness later.

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There's a long pause before Anri melts the shadow-mask off her face.

"Flirting is when you think someone is pretty, so you say nice things to them so they'll like you. It's inappropriate for him to be flirting with either of us because the age difference in either direction is too large."

Another pause to remake the mask.

"Also Neechan doesn't want to give up on any version of Reira."

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"Well, then that's settled. When the world is in trouble, you should take care of Reira while I sort out the troublesome stuff until we can reunite!" Exclaimed Sora. "No problem at all!"

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Um excuse what-

"Yes it is..!" Reira has concerns. First off- "She just said she wants 'all' the different mes..! That's what Leo did, and he tried to destroy all the dimensions to do that..!" This is very concerning, mostly because she worries the same thing could happen in this case. Bad stuff.

Also- "And you still don't know what game is next!"

HOW CAN YOU SAVE THE WORLD WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW THE SEQUEL ORDER

[perfectlynormalcthulhu]

"Not 'all' of them, just the ones I meet. I wouldn't destroy other worlds just to start a collection of little sisters, how would I keep them all fed?"

A pause as she looks over at the games.

"And it's Chain of Memories."

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"I think having little sisters is different than destroying worlds for people, Reira," replied Sora, picking up the Chain of Memories game.

"Oh thanks!"

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Uh. "She just said the only problem was feeding everyone, not that worlds would be destroyed," Reira hisses, looking quite put off.

...

"I guess it's good she knew that though..."

[perfectlynormalcthulhu]

"You should have more faith in Neechan, Reira, she wouldn't destroy a world for any reason."

There's a pause as she considers.

"Well, once Neechan accidentally destabilized a religion by causing their god to reveal the foundation of lies their church was built on, but I don't think that counts? And why don't you just watch it on Youtube, anyway? Wouldn't that be faster?"

Anri is an online merchant, she is surprisingly savvy about Internet stuff.

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"Wait, you can watch this on youtube?" said Sora. "But doesn't youtube just like make convoluted explanation videos?"

Sora has never heard of lets plays before.

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"Mnhhhmnhhh..." There is only the sound of uncertainty, at this point.

No words at all. She really wishes she could think of some way to sort this out right now actually, or-

Oh wait. "...why do you want...'all the Reiras' you know anyway..?"

She'll. Just let Sora sort himself out on lets plays.