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[It's a cloudy mid-morning on THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, and the town is bustling as always. Many people are quite excited about the second batch of new arrivals; though they're not getting quite the celebration the first round got, they still might find themselves being greeted by bizarrely friendly folk.

Out of place is a number of geese scattered around town, each with their own little messenger bag packed full of rolled up parchment. They're putting the papers up all over, on fence posts and market stalls and storefronts, even stuffing them into mailboxes and leaving them on benches. Each paper is nearly identical, with large, blocky font and the occasional inky feather mark.

LOST
SEVERAL ITEMS OF GREAT IMPORT

SOMEONE HAS STOLEN FROM OUR HOMES THE FOLLOWING THINGS

ONE GOOSE-SIZED NIGHT CAP
THREE TEACUPS (PINK AND YELLOW FISH PRINT)
EXACTLY SEVEN AND A QUARTER LEFT SOCKS
AN APPLE CRUMBLE

IF FOUND PLEASE CONTACT
ADELICIA VON FARTHINGTON (THE FIFTH)
AT THE NORTH BANK OF THE LAKE

If stopped, the geese will be more than happy to talk at great length about how terrible this all is. Strangely, there appear to be a few other people and animals poking around as though looking for something, or acting a bit sullen for such an otherwise joyful day.]

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The books from where I come from tend to be censored... [Yeeeeah, he'll be pretty surprised if he ever picked up The Little Mermaid.]

I see. Well, the ones in the library are the uncensored versions.

I'll catch up on the more widespread fairy-stories there, then. [Yay, libraries obviously don't leave a bad taste in his mouth... but if it's a library of fairy-stories, it can't be containing books like the ones the Black Samurai gave out, right?

...

...Just... gonna make sure...]

Are there only fairy-stories in the library?

Then I suppose I'll be taking you along?

[Placing a hand on the steed, she looked ready to mount, but if Jonathan was coming along, he needed to say.]

No, fortunately. Of course, science fictions and mysteries are more outrageous in this setting. And with science here following on fantasy logic, researching things merits little. I mean, this horse runs faster than any vehicle conceived by engineers.

[R-RIDING NOW...? OKAY THEN...

...he doesn't exactly understand Naoto's example of the vehicles because he's never actually seen one work, but Jonathan doesn't bring that up.]

Oh...! Thank you very much. [He has no idea what science fiction and such mean either.] Can I ask... is there something called 'Literature' there?

[literally everything is literature gg jonathan]

[Getting up on the horse, she has to... stare at him, eyes squinting. Was he... did he hit his head upon arrival? Though, maybe being momentarily dead did something to his brain.]

Literature is any written work... Fairy tales are literature for example. A library holds literature typically for the public to read, but people may purchase books to keep in a personal library should they choose to start one.

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But- I-I see... [MAYBE... that's why the angels started scratching the epitaphs off the walls? Destroyed all books, even those regarding the country's founding being locked into obscurity?

Maybe going to the library isn't that good of an idea...

...But he's dead now and the Hansel in his head somehow convinces him to just go along with it.]

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[Helping him onto the horse, she already knows he has permission from Beast. Looking back at him, she made him hold on before nudging the horse to go. They're almost literally flying, but she's already gotten used to it.]

What sort of place are you from?

[He's messed with demons, so he's used to things like this to but not coming from something like this... oh well, he just holds on and gets over the surprise in a moment.]

The Eastern Kingdom of Mikado. [Pause.] ...Oh, I think people here come from different times... it was 1492 on the Gregorian Calendar when I left. ['Different worlds' concept still not in his head.]

Mikado? The Eastern Kingdom of the Emperor? [She doesn't get it.] I'm confused. You speak as though the kingdom is Japanese, but use the Gregorian Calendar? And you're dressed like a fusion between European knight and the Japanese samurai.

[That's a... very bewildering mixture considering historical relationships.] Are you certain it was 1492?

[...It's complicated.] Euro... pean?

...Well, that's what we were told. [Yeah.] But things... [Fell apart? Went awry? Basically just traveled to Hell and stayed there?] ...weren't exactly all as they seemed.

It's... I'll have to show you. I think we have an atlas somewhere. A few history books as well.

[Something that's not Marchen and the area around only.] ... I see. Well, we're here. [The horse was trotting them through the gates of the castle. While winter was outside the walls, it was obviously summer inside as they approached the main doors.]

Thank you very much. [He's really not liking being so confused! But he's so confused! When they reach the door and the weather just changes, he kind of straightens and blinks in surprise, again.

Now, the question is whether the history books can talk about the history of multiple worlds...] ...My apologies. For being so anachronistic.

You're welcome. [Down they both get and she hands the horse to one servant, speaks to a maid that Jonathan was Beast's guest and she would show him around, and finally, no, don't worry about her. 'Beauty' would be fine.]

It's not your fault. This place has misplaced many of us. I may be able to better understand if you told me more about your predicament. [Leading the way, she soon opens the door to the library. It's definitely stocked full of books the likes many haven't seen before. Makes her wonder if the castle was enchanted to have a copy of everything in existence depending on those present.]

[He follows her a bit solemnly, wondering if he should really tell her. It was quite a long story, and by the almost audible wince from him when the library doors open, probably something to do with books.

Juraku Bookstore... they found the Black Samurai there, didn't they? Hikaru told them to go...

...He still hasn't figured out how Hikaru managed to know their names without even asking.]

It's... rather long. But I can tell you. [He's not sure where to look in the library, or where to start looking because it's an ocean of Things He Shouldn't Touch.] Firstly, in Mikado, there used to be a caste system- the wealthier Luxurors and the Casualries who worked at the fields. Every year, a Gauntlet Rite is held, where those the age of 18 would go. It was compulsory for male Luxurors, but optional for Casualries and females.

You put on a Gauntlet- this, in fact. [He points at his Gauntlet. Burroughs was still present, but couldn't exactly deal with demons.] If it shines for the wearer, then, they become a Samurai. The job of a Samurai is kept a secret from the public, but it is actually the eradication of demons.

I was a Samurai, myself.

[Naoto decides to sit down at one of the tables. It would be easier for him to explain a long story if they were more comfortable. From the way he described it, it was that caste system Europe employed in the Middle ages; and yet, he was called a Samurai after the ceremony? Curious...]

[She takes a look at his Gauntlet, an eyebrow raised. Strangely advanced technology for a feudal period.]

... Demons, you say. Go on.

A few days after my induction, there was an attack on Kiccigiorgi, a Casualry village. The Black Samurai- in reality, the demon Lilith- turned the Casualries into demons using books.

[There's an odd feeling in his words from 'The Black Samurai' onwards. Something that's trying to be polite but also venomous.] Most books in my country were about fairy-stories or tales of its founding... nothing like the 'Literature' she brought to the Casualries. She said that the anger the Causalries felt towards reading the books and their living condition turned them into demons... but she is a demon herself, so I don't exactly trust her word.

[There has to be something else going on...!] She fled into the Underground- where the demons came from, and where we fought to keep them cordoned off. But she escaped to an area deeper than where we were permitted to go. But due to her actions, we were given an official order to find and imprison her.

...Me and my fellow prentices went into the Underground, where the Unclean Ones of legend were supposed to inhabit. We managed to reach the city of the Unclean Ones, where she was hiding- Tokyo.

[She's still following. It's bizarre to say the least; knowledge does lead to unrest and revolution maybe, but turning into demons? Something strange was going on. Lilith... ironic since that was the demon Eve became after eating the fruit of knowledge.]

[Naoto is nodding along... until he mentions Tokyo being underground. 'Unclean Ones'?]

Tokyo's underground in your world? Was that due to the demons? [Though, she doesn't understand how being underground exactly protects them from demons.]

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Yes... Tokyo was underneath Mikado. The entire kingdom was built on the ceiling above Tokyo, in fact. [Being underground is just a convenient way to hide things, most likely.]

I don't know why Tokyo is underground- but for the 1500 or so years the kingdom existed, it was always underground. Yet, the people of Tokyo claimed the ceiling has only existed for 25 years... it's most likely the work of demons, or something powerful altering time.

[WELL FOR ONE THE ENTIRE CEILING IS ONE BIG DEMON but he doesn't know that.] To the people of Tokyo, demons appeared 25 years ago, and the ceiling not long after. I'm not... entirely sure why. [He never really sought out the answer.] We were focused on finding Lilith, and we did. But since she was a demon, even after being executed, she simply returned.

We were then ordered to save three people trapped in Shinjuku National Park, as well as kill Lilith in Tokyo. The three people turned out to be the Archangels Uriel, Raphael and Michael... the Archangel Gabriel was disguising as a nun named Gabby.

Before we knew that, we found Lilith and tried to kill her again. And... [He trails off for a moment, and stiffens up- like he's looking over his shoulder.]

[The more he speaks like this, the more she's definitely sure some greater being is at play. Like the Midnight Channel becoming reality because of Izanami. Demons appearing in Tokyo; she wonder what year that was precisely for them and why. Still, the world works in mysterious ways. From that one movie on the Devil Summoner, they're always present like Shadows, but invisible except to a select people.]

... So, are you trying to say the Apocalypse basically occurred? [He's looking over his shoulder.] Nothing's going to happen should you continue to speak.

[...It's less of the lack of security, and more of some weird feeling of guilt.]

Something to that extent... but the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado was still formed. [Basically, angels dabble in a lot of bullshit.]

...When we found Lilith again, one of my friends- Walter- decided that he wouldn't kill her. He started listening to what she said... and ultimately decided to work against the Archangels.

Instead of killing Lilith, he was coiled around her finger and had the gall to say he was doing it out of free will. He opened the Gate to the Expanse, letting thousands of demons loose into Tokyo, with the plan to reduce Mikado to the same shambles we found Tokyo in.

[He doesn't look too happy anymore.] ...My friend Flynn went with me to slay Lilith, and we stumbled upon Walter opening the Gate to the Expanse. We were pulled in as well, and strange beings called The White showed us two different worlds, before urging us to reduce the world to nothing. I refused, of course, and I appeared in Shene Deque- where the Archangels were.

Well, that could be part of the Book of Revelations. When the war between the Kingdom of Heaven and Satan is to be waged, only the righteous would be saved. Those who did not follow His words would be left behind and trapped in the middle of the war.

[Facing your Shadow and the Goddess of Death makes you need to research rather out there topics to continue protecting humanity. As long as it doesn't interfere with protecting humans from each other. Still, this is his story and it sounds very chaotic.]

What happened when you came before the Archangels?

[...That sounds... vaguely like something Jonathan heard before.]

The Archangels said the only way to bring peace back to the Eastern Kingdom of Mikado and kill the demons plaguing it was to... [Pause.] Annihilate Tokyo.

...They said the Demon Lord Lucifer had resurrected in Tokyo, and time was of essence- or the people of Mikado would be faced with demons of all forms. And they needed to bring forth God's Chariot, Merkabah, to face Lucifer. If they were all to fuse with a son of man chosen by the Lord, then, Merkabah would come into being.

[...Yeah.]

[Naoto looks... disturbed by that course of actions. However, that is his world and not hers. She's to protect Japan from Shadows and any other entities looking to grant humanity's 'wish'.]

So, you became the chariot?

Yes.

...And that meant death.

[Jonathan definitely doesn't blame Naoto if she's disturbed.

He tries to piece things together- a bit pathetic, how he can't even tell the whole story of his own world- and maybe tried to forget about the notion of what happened to everyone else? But now that everything was over, there was no way he could go back and ask now, right?]