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[eatsyourscience]

[The video shows a young man asleep in a chair in one of the tea rooms. Enjoy a really boring feed for a couple of minutes until he wakes up.

Once Souji does wake up, he sits up straighter, glancing around the room. Although he looks a bit surprised, he doesn't seem too alarmed or even bothered by where he finds himself.]...This isn't the train

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[jivitadana]

[Sleeping in a tea room? Minato couldn't deny that it was a nice enough day for that, and there were no events going on either. But... Hey, he sees what you did there.

... Did he just eat that cookie? Oh, well.]

You're in a different world. It's called Wonderland.

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[jivitadana]

Shadows appeared. Some people had to face their own individual Shadows too.

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[eatsyourscience]

[Yyyep, that's definitely something Naoto would have strong memories of.]

Does this happen often?

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[jivitadana]

[Minato shook his head.]

Events do. But not ones with Shadows. ... She helped fight them.

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[eatsyourscience]

[It honestly doesn't sound much different to him than everything that was going on for his first few months in Inaba. So it doesn't seem all that daunting.]

She would.

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[jivitadana]

[Minato nodded again, thinking back about fighting alongside her.]

... You have that power too, right?

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[eatsyourscience]

Yes.

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[jivitadana]

Mn.

[Minato paused, looking out toward the ocean for a moment.]

Did you finish your investigation?

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[eatsyourscience]

[Jeez, how much did the others tell you. :|]

Yes. Yesterday.

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[jivitadana]

[A lot, man. It's almost unfair. But this did tell him that Souji was farther in the future than Naoto had been. Perhaps the same time frame as Yousuke.]

She arrived before it was over. She would've been glad to hear it.

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[eatsyourscience]

She won't have to hear it now. [She's done it.]

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[jivitadana]

Right. [That was a relief too to know, even if Yousuke had confirmed it as well. Minato was quiet for a while.]

... We're from the same world. But different times. It was 2010 for me.

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[eatsyourscience]

[He nods. He'd figured out the same worlds part.] 2012 for me.

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[jivitadana]

[Minato knew that too from Yousuke, but again, it did seem unfair that he knew that at all. He was still unable to figure out why the Shadows had returned in the first place, but from the sound of it, the world was peaceful again. Another pause.]

... You use a card to summon yours?

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[eatsyourscience]

[Souji nods and produces one of them to show him.]

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[jivitadana]

[Minato looked at the card, seeing that the back of it resembled the cards he had seen before, but didn't recognize the image on the front. He wondered though if his friends' Personae also existed on some sort of card. It hadn't occurred to him before really that they could have.]

... What's its name?

[Susano-o came as a surprise. Same name, different look, different Arcana too.]