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Why would I lie about that? It's one of my only good traits.

you say that like there's a point to any of your lies

anyway what about temperatures, do you like rooms that are hot or cold

I've never lied to you Hinata kun....

[It hurt that he thought that.]

Median temperature is good. I suppose colder is okay because you can always wear something to compensate.

we both know that's wrong but i didn't text you to argue

are you any good at cooking?

If you say so.

I can make toast? Other than that....

so even if you had a place with a kitchen, you wouldn't use it?

Well, I can reheat stuff.

i guess that's true

[And then, almost abruptly:]

you haven't seen any of our classmates have you?

No. Have you? It's been a while and I always thought maybe others might show up, since it seems a lot of people end up having large groups of people they know come here.

yeah that's what i thought too
like it was only a matter of time before we saw someone else

i'm worried about them
like... why is it just us?

Maybe they didn't sign the contract?

maybe, but... that doesn't really make sense either, does it?
we all agreed to keep moving toward the future
i don't know why we'd go our separate ways after everything that had happened

and even if we did, you can't tell me souda wouldn't jump at the chance to sign this kind of messed up contract

Edited 2017-05-27 04:45 (UTC)

Well, there is a discrepancy.

In fact that discrepancy is more worrying. Based on the people I've seen arrive here, and some conversations... it's rather worrying.

As for Souda kun, he would probably think he would want to, but ultimately get scared.

maybe you're right about souda, but what discrepancy are you talking about?

People have told me there are those who should be dead here. And dead for quite a while. I've been wondering this for a while, but, it feels like people don't just come from different realities and worlds, but also different times.

[...!!

There's a bit of a pause before he answers.]

we knew that already. about the different times. i mean... look at the two of us. i already knew the contents of that file you hadn't even read yet.

but what happens to dead people if they try to get on a ship and leave...? can they just go back like nothing had happened...?

We did not. We knew there was a memory issue that may or may not be related to a timeline issue. Why would anyone assume people could come here from different times? After all, people remember them being around still. As for dead people, I assume if they leave they'll go back to being dead, if the other people remember them as such. Unless leaving becomes a split timeline.

[Gngh, crap! I have to be more careful!

A longer pause.]

that's just too cruel. "going back to being dead"... i can't accept something like that.

In some theories something that is meant to be will always become. So if they come here before their death, but return right before, there is nothing that can be done. If they return after, perhaps another event will happen to claim them and bring balance.

Or, as I said, a split timeline. The people who knew them are from the timeline in which they died, but if they return home there is a new one in which they live. If you follow that sort of thinking there are infinite splits.

hang on, isn't there a contradiction in your split timelines thing?
i mean... if you're saying there's infinite timelines, shouldn't there be copies of us here too?
what are the chances of that? what are the chances of any of this?

i think i'm starting to get a headache

Not necessarily. Being here makes a split. It means that if we return we wouldn't return to the same timeline we left, as events are different. For example, if we assume my memory isn't altered, simply I left our world at the moment I last remember, the timeline I would exist when returning is not the same timeline that you exist in. It would have split at the point where I left, and yours would also split at the point when you left.

Temporal physics and theories of that nature are a bit hard, the more you think about it the more ridiculous it feels.

when you put it that way... wouldn't that mean we're from different dimensions? that i'm not the hinata you spent time with on the island?

[Maybe that Hinata Hajime actually was talented...]

this kind of weird existential debate isn't why i texted you either!!

Perhaps, but instead of thinking of different dimentions in that way, think more like a forked road. We were on the same road untill events changed.

[He didn't mean to start such a difficult topic.]

What did you need, Hinata kun?

well...
did you have some time this afternoon? meet me at this address?

[He texts an address a few levels up from their current housing.]

Of course. Did you have a specific time in mind?

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