[Text]

[crouching_sin]

Atsuro Kihara has left this world. If you have received any of his Pokemon, I would like to know.

It's strange. Four years isn't a very long time, but for a lot of people that's a significant chunk of their lives. At least this place offers a kind of peace even in its chaos that some people can find.

And training Pokemon isn't that different of a skill from training demons in some ways.

In any case I thought people should be informed, given how long he's been here. I'm sure he had friends who would want to know.

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[Video]

[crouching_sin]

Today, I think. I called him, and I got a 'user not found' response.

[Video]

[bylight]

I see. I didn't receive any of his Pokémon, but I hope they found good trainers.

[Video]

[crouching_sin]

I see. I managed to end up with five of them.

[Video]

[bylight]

He must have placed a lot of trust in you.

[Video]

[crouching_sin]

He was my student at home.

[Video]

[bylight]

So this much be rather rough on you then.

[Video]

[crouching_sin]

... Not as much as you might think. He has people who want to see him at home.

[Video]

[bylight]

Time has stopped in that world. It'll be like he never left. But you're still left behind.

[Video]

[crouching_sin]

[He can't help a small wince at her phrasing.]

It's better that I'm here. Things went differently for us.

[Video]

[bylight]

Enemies?

[Video]

[crouching_sin]

Heh. Yes. Diverging timelines, where the person with the power to change the world had multiple options. He chose a... better path in Atsuro's version of events. Not ideal, but better. He chose... rather poorly in mine, aiding the greatest enemy humanity has.

[Video]

[bylight]

I see. That sounds somewhat similar to what I went through. Or more like my sister. Though in the end... it's the same end.

[Video]

[crouching_sin]

... Oh?

[He'd like to hope those two timelines don't end up the same...]

[Video]

[bylight]

I saw what was, and I saw what will happen. The end was the same in all timelines in the end. There is no happy end for my world.

[Video]

[crouching_sin]

A vision of the future? Interesting. But there's always a way to fight fate, even if it's long down the road.

[Video]

[bylight]

It's what I've been doing. Something I tell everyone to.

[Video]

[crouching_sin]

Of course. Rolling over to die just isn't my style.

[Video]

[bylight]

Those who do deserve what they get in the end.

[Or she snaps them out of it, like in the case of her friends.]

[Video]

[crouching_sin]

Well, you can't get payback by just sitting around.

[Video]

[bylight]

People can be idiots. Some are content with doing nothing, accepting their 'fates' as if everything was set in stone. I don't pity them.

[Video]

[crouching_sin]

Some people don't know there's something better. I suppose those people can't be blamed as much, but those that do know... no. I don't pity them at all.

[Video]

[bylight]

I've gotten lucky with my job that most people are understanding. I've only met one man adamant that I can't do anything to help him.

[Video]

[crouching_sin]

Unfortunately it's not the case that I've found, but I'm glad that it's going well at least somewhere.

[Video]

[bylight]

I'm sure if you ask around, there's others in far worse situations than you're in. Or getting to be.