rakuen | In a place where you can lose hope

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In a place where you can lose hope

Characters: Kallen and Tsuki
Format: Prose
This log is: CLOSED
Location: School's library
Summary: Just a meeting between ~~two level headed people~~ the two girls in order to catch up and maybe figure out some sort of plan.

Tsuki had mentioned to meet her in the library if Kallen ever wanted to find her, The teenager made her way there, entering the room silently. To look interested in finding a book was her facade was she quietly looked for the other girl.

Tsuki knew more about this place than Kallen did and for that, Kallen was intrigued. She needed to find out all information possible about this place before trying to muster up some reason to fight. She wasn't going to have blind faith, not now and not like before.

As she wandered around, she caught sight of the girl, sitting at one of the tables. Kallen made her way over to her and sat across from Tsuki's place at the table.

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Tsuki glanced up from her book, a bit surprised to have company. But she recognized this girl, and nodded a bit as a greeting to her. She'd told her to come and find her here if she ever wanted to talk, hadn't she?

"Hello Kallen," she said, putting her book down. "Can I help you?"

"Not help really. I just wanted to talk." Talk to someone to get her mind off just about everything. There was the dinner party, her meeting with Sora, Hiyo in math class... Well Kallen didn't want to talk about ALL those things, but one stuck out above all the rest:

Her and Meryl trying to leave.

"I discovered recently that we're unable to leave this place."

"I see," she nodded a bit. "I had expected as much, but never confirmed it myself."

After all, if they could just leave, what was the point of having brought them here? There was also the question of feasibility. They didn't know where they were, so where could they go? But more than anything else, this place was still eerily familiar to Tsuki. And where she had to go back to was perhaps far worse than it.

"I imagine if we ever want to leave, we'll have to fulfill some condition through the game."

"It was... It honestly didn't seem possible. If someone else wasn't with me during the time, I wouldn't have believed what happened. I only do because she was there with me and she went through the same thing."

Kallen thought back on her and Meryl's escape plan. Honestly, it seemed pretty much fool proof. But they happened to be the fools by the end of it.

"You mean if we unlock the ten memories, we can leave?"

"Something like that," Tsuki agreed, glancing away. "Regardless, I don't intend to leave here before regaining all my memories if I could. I don't know what I've forgotten, but I'm certain they were important things."

She paused, recalling exactly what Kallen had said. Something she wouldn't have believed? "Exactly... what happened when you tried to escape?"

"The things I think I'm forgetting are pretty mundane. And not to mention, who's not to say I won't regain them if I leave. Maybe there's something there that's making us forget."

Kallen shifted in her seat quietly before looking at Tsuki again.

"When we left, Meryl and I that is, we walked on the tracks back, trying to go to wherever the starting point was. As we walked on, we heard a tram car but there was none in sight. The whistle got louder and louder until it sounded as if it was right on top of us. And when everything cleared up and we blinked... we were back where were started."

"It's possible, but I'm not willing to take that chance," Tsuki said. "There are just far too many unknowns at the present."

As she listened to Kallen's story, she wasn't sure what to make of it. Had they been turned around somehow? Or had they just been deceived in some other way? She doubted that though. There was likely something much more important amiss.

"So there's something containing us here. Something that... seems to be able to defy the natural laws of this world," she frowned a bit at that, not liking the conclusion at all. But how else could you explain something like that?

"But it's not like we know all that much about this place either. So what's there to lose?" But even in thinking about it, she hoped that in trying to leave that she didn't lose more memories.

"That's what I believe. There's nothing I can even think of to explain as to why we just... appeared at the beginning again."

"That's reckless," Tsuki observed. "When we don't know the potential consequences of our actions, we should carefully weigh whether the risk is even worth it. But the chance of escape... that was worth gambling on, I suppose."

"Considering we seem to have been brought here from entirely different worlds, it doesn't seem strange that they'd be capable of such a thing."

"Maybe, but we can't just sit here with ducks. I'm not saying we should rush into any sort of large scale plan, but just doing as we're told like this and being okay with it? It doesn't sit right with me. But I'll consider the warning, thanks."

"It doesn't and quite honestly, it makes me weary. Just who or what has this type of power..."

But then something else came to mind. "Hiyo... is from your world, right?"

"True, we do need to do something," Tsuki agreed. Just what, she had no idea. And that was what was killing her. She would eventually have to devise some plan, but for now just going along with things was all she could do.

"We're up against an unusual and powerful foe," Tsuki said with a frown.

"Miss Shishidou? Yes, that is correct. She attends the same school as I do."

"I know and I don't like it." If things were going to be like this, then Kallen would have a reason to fight, soon rather than later.

"She mentioned about... an organization at your school who was behind a couple of things."

"That's right. The Iwahijiri Group," she nodded. "The zaibatsu that backs our school. But I don't think they would be involved in whatever this place is. Even they lack the means to do something like this."

Although at the same time, she had doubts. She knew she was forgetting things about the Group as well.

"You don't think so huh?" Kallen brought a hand up and touched her chin lightly. If the group had been brought here, then why change the nature of the 'game'?

"Then I guess our next course of action is to figure out who's behind all this."

"Another important question is why anyone would want to create a system that mirrors our own. To that extent, the Iwahijiri Group could be involved... they're the ones responsible for creating Exaclan," Tsuki asked. But who had it been specifically? It gave her a headache even trying to think of it.

"Perhaps if I could remember more about the nature of the original, that would shed some light on who's doing this."

Kallen nodded at Tsuki's words.

"That brings up my next point. I've come to you with an offer."

Tsuki blinked at that, a bit surprised. But otherwise she nodded.

"I'm listening."

"When I become a player, you'll have to become my weapon. I won't fight, not until I have a good reason and you know that. But you know a lot. If we unlock one of your memories, we should be able to figure out something."

"...that is acceptable," she nodded. Thus far she'd just been drifting along, without much of an interest in the battles herself. But this was finally at least a way to get somewhere. "I can't promise anything about my own memories, but this is a lot worth a shot."

"We can only do what we can," Kallen quietly said, smiling lightly.

"Well then, I look forward to our cooperation," she smiled, before offering a hand to shake on it.

"Likewise." Kallen took the other's hand and shook it firmly.

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