devourthemfirst | Second Misfortune

[After a short trip to the grocery store, Czes comes back to the fifth floor of building seven and sets out the box of spaghetti and can of tomato sauce out on the counter. Despite how Firo made him paranoid about eating the food here, the kid has to eat something.

So as he puts a pot of water on the stove for himself then sits down at a near by table. He stares out the kitchen window for a few minutes, watching the storm outside when boredom strikes him and he pulls out his journal]

You know, it's strange. To think that a lot of us are from 'Earth' and yet they're not the same 'Earth' that each of us are familiar with. For example, someone could be from... I don't know, let's say Tokyo since a bunch of you appear to be from Japan, but it won't be the same Tokyo you know. In some way, it'll be different.

Things never happened the way one person knows it did in their version of Tokyo.

What would that be called again... parallel universes, right?

[He places some of the spaghetti into the pot of boiling water and turns down the stove a little]

So do you think that there might be like... another version of us on our different versions of 'Earth'? It's kind of exciting to think about actually. They'd have different memories, friends and maybe family...

I wonder what would happen if we ran into our other selves on this trip the Malnosso were talking about.

Would the universe just go BOOM? [He throws his hands into the air then chuckles a bit to himself]

Well, it was just a thought. [ ... ] What would you do if you could meet another version of yourself? Would you envy them for having a different life--for being set on a different path?

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Entirely. Their personalities, the history of their worlds, and other things. But they have the same appearances and [pause] seem to have the same roles?

That would depend on how many of them are working on each experiment. I have a hypothesis that each of us is monitored by a different Malnosso or group of them, which would make things like that easier, assuming decent communication between them.

Of course, I have no proof that this is the case. It is simply the way I would do things if I were in charge of their organization and had the necessary manpower.

Yeah. We look nothing alike, and there's even people we've never heard of in each other's worlds. But even then, we're still the same person. Funny, huh?

[ He is clearly finding this very amusing. ]

[The same roles as their other selves? That's... not what he expected.]

That's pretty impressive. It seems like I was right about them being different personality and memory wise! Are the histories drastically different?

[~~Zo mah goodness~~]

Whoa really? So does that mean you can travel to different worlds?

Ah well, I was just thinking about that trip the Malnosso had talked about a while ago.

Well that is pretty weird. But how do you know you're the same person if you don't even look alike? You'd think that your other self would look... well like you.

[Czes isn't!]

Hmm well I guess the chances of finding yourself isn't that high... especially considering how big the world is.

[They could be anywhere since their whole person would be different]

I see. So you don't even want to take the chance and try to find her. I'm surprised at you, Firo.

[Trololol]

Well it wouldn't be a clone! He'd be an alternate version of yourself from a parallel universe!

[Get it right Hayate god.

Ah--he's Japanese] It's nice to meet you, Hayate.

That does make sense. Do we know how many people there are in the organization itself? Has anyone ever been able to see them in person?

[There's the sound of Firo's fist slamming on the desk.]

What I don't wanna risk is leadin' these bastards right to her! What if when I find her they just drag her back here with me?

[Surprisingly, he's actually thought about this. No matter how much he wants to be with Ennis, he doesn't want her subjected to what goes on in Luceti.]

[Yes. Yes he is Japanese.]

Ah, well... To be honest, I think that's close enough to a clone to me.

No to the first. There could be anywhere from less than a hundred to more than a million, though the true answer likely lies somewhere in between. As to the second, it would be best to add those who have been taken for missions about that. I can only say for certain that I have not.

[And we are not answering those questions.]

It is something that appears to be on the minds of many. I find it odd we have received no further communication from the Malnosso on this subject.

More than anything in the entire world.

[ Or they could live in the exact same city and have the exact same friends and simply play a crossover between Beyblade and POGs instead of killing kids for fun! ]

While it's something to keep in mind, it doesn't seem like the sort of thing to hope for.

[Booboo Grune!! Czes wants his answers]

Yeah, it does seem pretty weird that they're not saying anything else. Do you think they're hiding information?

[But killing Czes--or rather killing kids is the thing to do these days with the people he knows!!]

I guess not... I still can't help but hope a little though.

I highly doubt they'd do that. Their intention for this little experiment is to send us home for sight-seeing. They don't seem to like it when more people get dragged here.

Besides, if they wanted to take people from our world at random on this trip, it wouldn't be someone that they can't find.

They're close to clones but not exactly...

[Pouting YOU'RE NO FUN HAYATE]

Golly that's a lot of people... [Too many people for Czes to worry about. Damn] Well, I guess that means I have to track down some people who have been on those missions then.

Are you married?

Maybe we will be someday! It's kind of hard to enter a binding legal contract for humans when you're a fairy, so I doubt it'll ever be officially recognized like that.

That's just what they say. Who knows what they really want from this?

Do you think you're the type to be able to get along with yourself, then?

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