[Video]

[demiurgos_girl]

I suppose my earlier video wasn't very nice. So I'm apologizing for that. Sorry.

Anyway, my name is Elaine Belloc. I'm new here, and now that I've introduced myself, it would be nice to know your names. And your voices too, if that's alright.

Hmm...

Haru and James, thanks for all the help when I first arrived. I was in a pretty bad state. After I've settled down, I was wondering if you two would like to have dinner? As a sort of "thank you." Or if that's not your kind of thing, then I could always do something else for you.

[Private to Castiel]

I'm sorry about my arrival. I admit it wasn't a very smart thing to do... If it's alright, then I'd like to have a talk with you and the other angels? I just want to make sure that we won't have to fight anymore.

Comments

[Video]

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

So... I guess we'll just stick to Ganta.

Hmm... Is the universe still intact, then? Because I'd seriously like to know.

[Video]

[rookie-deadman.livejournal.com]

Um...it is in my world. Why wouldn't it be?

[Video]

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

Mmm. That's good, but nevermind, it isn't important. If you're from the year 2024, then I'm guessing that a lot of other people here are from different times as well?

[Video]

[rookie-deadman.livejournal.com]

That's right. From different times, and different versions of earth, and from different worlds altogether.

[Video]

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

But so far, no one else I know is here...

How long have you been here, Ganta?

[Video]

[rookie-deadman.livejournal.com]

No one from my world is here, either.

A couple of months I think. I've kind of lost track of time. It feels like longer.

[Video]

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

I see. So how has it been so far? Manageable, or...?

[Video]

[rookie-deadman.livejournal.com]

Not that bad. There's only been one dangerous event, and I've died once, but that was more because I wasn't paying attention than because of anything the mansion did. And I've fixed it so it can't happen like that again, anyway.

I guess I'm not like most of the people you'll talk to here. I actually think this place is better than where I came from, at least for now.

[Video]

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that doesn't seem so bad. And this new entry on the network, with that mouse... thing. That's the intro to an event?

So you'd rather stay?

[Video] 2/2 Because I'm awesome like that. :D

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

[Small click in her brain.] Wait a second ...You died?

[Video] 1/2

[rookie-deadman.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's the Dormouse. He or the March Hare usually let us know about events. But they usually aren't very informative, and they won't actually answer any questions.

Maybe not in the long-run... But my situation back home wasn't very good, so I don't mind being here instead.

[Video] 2/2 :Db

[rookie-deadman.livejournal.com]

Um...yeah. No one's told you about that yet?

[Video]

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

Not really. But it makes me think that this is one of the afterlives. And dying to go to a plane of eternal torture is not an experience I want to repeat. I'm guessing it's some form of reincarnation?

...Can I ask how it happened?

[Video]

[rookie-deadman.livejournal.com]

I think a few of the people here are dead in their own worlds. But most of us were alive when we were brought here. I know I was, anyway. But when we die here, we're brought back to life after a day or two.

It's kind of a complicated story, but the short version is that I didn't take a drug I was supposed to take at specific intervals, and it killed me.

[Video]

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

That's odd. I don't know what to think of the whole dying-and-coming-back-to-life thing, but at least it offers us some leeway.

Are you sick?

[Video]

[rookie-deadman.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it takes some getting used to. But so do magic closets...

No. Until recently, I had to wear a collar that injected me with poison. The drug was the antidote.

[Video]

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

Magic closets...?

Hmm. Why would you be wearing something like that? Although I'm glad that isn't the case now.

[Video]

[rookie-deadman.livejournal.com]

Oh, the closets here will give you things you need. You just have to think of what it is, and it appears inside.

I was in prison before I came here. The collar was used for identification and for carrying out my death sentence.

[Video]

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

Mm. More leeway. I don't suppose there's any need for me to be suspicious? I doubt we're here for a vacation.

Ah, no wonder you'd rather stay. How were you able to take it off?

[Video]

[rookie-deadman.livejournal.com]

Castiel-san said not to trust anything the mansion gives for free. He has a good point, but I haven't seen anything bad happen because of it so far. It seems like the mansion would want to keep us happy and alive as long as possible, while it takes our memories.

Kite-san was able to do it for me, using a device he has.

[Video]

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

It's in his nature, I think. How bad is the memory loss here?

You must have been very grateful.

[Video]

[rookie-deadman.livejournal.com]

It doesn't seem noticeable in anyone I've talked to. But I've heard about Alice, who was here so long she lost all her memories.

Yeah, I was. I'm really grateful to Kite-san for helping me.

[Video]

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

I heard about her too. I wonder where she is now.

[Video]

[rookie-deadman.livejournal.com]

She lives inside the mirrors, I think.

[Video]

[demiurgos-girl.livejournal.com]

Inside the mirrors?

Mm. [Puts a hand to her forehead.] This place is way too confusing.