[She's on the home stretch now, and her tone becomes more confident and a little more boisterous. She's had enough of depression already even if the story is still very depressing.]
Ryoji-kun didn’t want the world to end any more than we did, but he didn’t think we could beat Nyx. He gave us a choice, though. We could ‘kill’ his human form to erase the Dark Hour and our memories of it. If we did that, we’d forget all about the Fall and wouldn’t worry about it until it actually happened. The other choice was to fight Nyx. ...I think it’s probably pretty obvious which one we went with.
[Even if it’d been far less than obvious back then. December had been one of the worst periods for all of them – but it was done with, and revisiting that time wouldn’t do anyone any good.]
Ryoji-kun told us Nyx would appear on January 31st, at the top of Tartarus. So, that was January. We spent the whole month climbing up there. Strega wasn’t helping much, they set up a whole cult for people to welcome Nyx. The city really looked awful... [All those flyers and weird graffiti everywhere. She’s sure Shinji wouldn’t have approved. Also, around here she’d mention whether Chidori was revived or not, but we’ll leave that up to any future Junpei-players to establish.]
The 31st came, and we went to Tartarus. We had to beat Strega again, but this time they’re gone for good. Jin blew himself up, and Takaya... well, actually, I’m not sure what happened to him. [But from tone it’s apparent she doesn’t really care. He’d attempted to murder two of her friends - had murdered one, in another reality, and was generally a nasty person. She doesn’t wish death on him because she wouldn’t do that to anybody but she doesn’t need to spare any effort wondering what happened after Tartarus collapsed.]
At the top, we met Ryoji-kun again, only he’d turned completely into Nyx’s avatar and wasn’t human anymore. We fought him, and we won. But… it turned out what he’d told us before was true. We really couldn’t kill Nyx. She was coming regardless and it looked like we were going to lose despite everything. That’s when...
[she pauses. Explaining what exactly happened – what exactly she’d been able to do, wasn’t an easy concept. It’s still hard for her to grasp her own mind around it in some ways. But the things they’d learned since coming to Hinoto-ri might make it simpler.]
Do you remember how when we arrived here they talked about the Velvet Room?
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Ryoji-kun didn’t want the world to end any more than we did, but he didn’t think we could beat Nyx. He gave us a choice, though. We could ‘kill’ his human form to erase the Dark Hour and our memories of it. If we did that, we’d forget all about the Fall and wouldn’t worry about it until it actually happened. The other choice was to fight Nyx. ...I think it’s probably pretty obvious which one we went with.
[Even if it’d been far less than obvious back then. December had been one of the worst periods for all of them – but it was done with, and revisiting that time wouldn’t do anyone any good.]
Ryoji-kun told us Nyx would appear on January 31st, at the top of Tartarus. So, that was January. We spent the whole month climbing up there. Strega wasn’t helping much, they set up a whole cult for people to welcome Nyx. The city really looked awful... [All those flyers and weird graffiti everywhere. She’s sure Shinji wouldn’t have approved.
Also, around here she’d mention whether Chidori was revived or not, but we’ll leave that up to any future Junpei-players to establish.]The 31st came, and we went to Tartarus. We had to beat Strega again, but this time they’re gone for good. Jin blew himself up, and Takaya... well, actually, I’m not sure what happened to him. [But from tone it’s apparent she doesn’t really care. He’d attempted to murder two of her friends - had murdered one, in another reality, and was generally a nasty person. She doesn’t wish death on him because she wouldn’t do that to anybody but she doesn’t need to spare any effort wondering what happened after Tartarus collapsed.]
At the top, we met Ryoji-kun again, only he’d turned completely into Nyx’s avatar and wasn’t human anymore. We fought him, and we won. But… it turned out what he’d told us before was true. We really couldn’t kill Nyx. She was coming regardless and it looked like we were going to lose despite everything. That’s when...
[she pauses. Explaining what exactly happened – what exactly she’d been able to do, wasn’t an easy concept. It’s still hard for her to grasp her own mind around it in some ways. But the things they’d learned since coming to Hinoto-ri might make it simpler.]
Do you remember how when we arrived here they talked about the Velvet Room?