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✪ Aftermath! Another apology another day! ✪ [Video/Text]

[Cube doesn't make eye contact with the camera as he speaks, almost as if he were a shy child. However, his voice is soft and sad. Still, he pushes the words out as he knows they need to be said. Everything is then repeated in text.]

I'd like to make an announcement. In a previous post I had stated I was going to charge for medical assistance, including chip removals, and allow people to disregard any medical paperwork. Unaware to most, it was not actually I who made these claims.

There will never be a charge for medical attention or for chip removals under my supervision. I apologize for any issues this brings up and will address concerns on a case-to-case basis. If you did indeed make a deal with the one posing as me, then please advise me of so and I'll do by best to return any property of yours or something sufficient in case it was not something that can be physically returned.

I'm truly sorry to those who were harassed and humiliated. Some of the incidents I'm aware of, while others I may not. Either way, I assure you I will do what I can to prevent such an event from ever happening again.

[Locked 50% to Shinjiro and Hungary]
Thank you for assisting in the return of my body. I owe you a great deal. If there is anything I can do, anything at all, please let me know. I'll do my best to make it up to you somehow.

[Locked 50% to Saburo + Alpha]
I wish to speak to you. I can't recall what Soraoto may have said while acting as me, but if you wouldn't mind, I'd like to know if you recall who I am or anything about this world prior to three weeks ago. If not, then please disregard this message, if you wish.

[Locked 50% to Luke]
You don't need to respond if you don't wish to. I hope you're safe and well. I'm sorry for everything Soraoto has put you through. I regret ever introducing him to you and wish there were some way to reverse what he has done. Even if you don't trust me, I hope you don't immediately distrust other demons because of Soraoto and I. You're a fine young gentleman, and I will respect any actions you take towards me as long as they're only towards me and Soraoto and not any others.

[Locked 50% to Gakupo]
I'll understand if you needn't wish to speak with me but I wish you're well. I'm sorry for the humiliation you were forced to endure while I was possessed. I hope you can forgive me for failing to help you. In the event this situation has changed your mind about being int he medical field, I ask you please let me know. i will respect your wishes and will not hold anything against you.

[Locked 50% to Marco]
Thank you for keeping Soraoto occupied for a while. I'm glad you saw through his trick. I'm sorry you had to go through so much trouble, though. Please advise me how to repay you for your efforts.

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[Give Cube a moment here as he stares at Saburo or his frequency. It just confirms everything. He cries a bit off screen but then sniffles just as the video comes on.]

Soraoto is a demon I can summon. The black arms and white gloves? That was him. He usually only has that form but during a ritual he tricked me and possessed by body.

He fought you knowing its the opposite of what I wanted... he knew what I was feeling and turned that against me.

I don't suppose you recall anything from your previous visit here, do you? [Not if he is asking about Soraoto but confirmation would be nice]

[......]

[Saburo hears that sniffing. He wasn't created yesterday, and he just barely holds off asking about that. After all, he didn't want that explanation! It's still irritating. Why is this creature upset, and why does he give a damn about it?]

Heh heh heh... Interesting tactics. [Yep that's admiration. He's used similar things on Jiro after all.]

You'll have to thank him. It was a good fight--until the interruption.

What do you mean previous visit? I have no memory of this place! Unless you or someone else tampered with my circuits.

Ah... I- I'm glad you enjoyed yourself, then. [Shuffling a bit uncomfortably. He honestly doesn't know what to say]

I can't say for certain but there is a possibility your memories were tampered with. You have been here once before, for several months. The Scientists who bring us here can take us from different time lines and apparently erase our memories of previous stays. Though, sometimes I suppose it doesn't work. I have recalled all three times I've been sent home... some others, are not as fortunate.

If there is anything else I can assist in helping you with or answering, please let me know. It's the least I can do. [For Nii-san.]

Edited 2011-08-10 22:13 (UTC)

Hmph...

[He's caught between two responses here. It's annoying--he should go with his initial impulse and disregard this creature. His information is useful at least. So, Cube's attitude shouldn't bother him. This is a stranger after all, and a less amusing one now.]

Edited 2011-08-12 02:18 (UTC)

[...but for some puzzling reason (perhaps his memories WERE tampered with?) he decides not to. So he says, sharply.]

Why are you acting this way?

W-What?

[Cube becomes worried, now.]

Acting in what way?

Hm... you said that your demon used my appearance against you.

[He's going to suck at explaining this. Especially because he doesn't fully understand his own reaction, and is annoyed by that.]

Oh.

[He takes in a breath. This will be difficult to explain but he owes this Saburo that much. Even if he ends up hating him, it's better then lies.]

I know it may not come easy for you to understand, since always explained you lack the ability to understand such things but... one way or another you and I were kind-of close. I would tease you a-and call you Nii-san a-and call Alpha Onee-chan. You seemed to struggle with understanding things like feelings and bonds between other people but I-I think you were beginning to come to some conclusions.

A-Anyway, I can't say for sure. W-What I do know is we were friends and Soraoto used our bond as a way to hurt me mentally and decided to attack you.

I don't wish to burden you with such things if you do not recall the past, and so, please don't think you must uphold our previous relations. I will respect you as I would anyone else. I'd like to help explain anything I can, though, so you will not be confused, if something comes to you that I may assist with.

I thought so. If it's important, why were you acting dismissive?

[Cardinal sin in Saburo's book.

Wait. Then he goes back and actually rethinks everything Cube just said. For some reason his memory circuits DIDN'T contradict that information immediately.]

[This is the sound of Saburo's one-track mind being completely derailed.]

......

... What are you saying? You are a stranger, and I don't know anyone called Alpha!

[He sounds angry and very unsure. Especially because a face appeared in his memory when he mentioned 'Alpha.']

Perhaps it was tampered with...

[He's not liking this conclusion at all. If it's true, then what Cube is saying may also be true.]

What is the reason? Why did I ally myself with the two of you?

What do you mean?

[He sags at hearing that second outburst]

You needn't believe me, if you don't wish to but the items you left behind and the photos back in Discedo of us all are proof enough to me that your existence over a year ago was real.

[he takes the sunglasses off his head and thumbs over the sides. These were the ones Saburo had replaced his originals with. it feels so long ago now.]

I'm not sure. You were friends with Miss Alpha before I even came to know you but in the end you didn't wish to stick around either of us due to some complications with your real brother. I believe it was to protect Alpha b-but I'm not sure. You've always been rather shady.

[Then he flails, realizing he had said something he used to without much thought to it and how, now, with Saburo's memories not there, it was actually very rude]

I-I mean--!! I- It's just- I meant that y-you were always mysterious!!

[This is way too much to process at once. The words are easy enough, but the meanings seem alien...or a little unsettling, or too familiar for unknown things. Which is also unsettling.

So he just picks the least-confusing thing in this whole mess, which is the odd 'recognition' feeling about what Cube is holding.]

...Are you wearing my shades?

[He's about to take off his own for a study-comparison.]

Wait a minute...

[And this obliterates everything else in the whole conversation.]

Are you saying Kikaider was here?! What happened? Did I succeed in killing him, if he was?

...Is he still here?

Ah- y-yes. You left them behind w-with your flute and guns.

Edited 2011-08-12 04:22 (UTC)

[Then he responds very plainly]

No. Your brother is no longer here and I don't know what became of him. People disappear here quite suddenly, after all.

My...

What! That isn't my flute!

[Not after all that alone time it spent with Gill.]

[...]

[That is majorly depressing and disappointing...

...with a strange side of relief?! What? He's not sure where that came from, but he quickly kills it. None of these reactions are important if Kikaider is elsewhere.]

Are you certain? He isn't anywhere else on this world?

I-It isn't?! Then why did you have it? Where did it come from?!

[And Cube puts lips on that... *CRY*]

I can't be certain. I've only been to Discedo and Spero. However, he hasn't said anything that I can see over the communicators.

If I see him or hear from him, I'll let you know. I won't keep you from your purpose.

[If only Cube knew he was mouthing Gill's secondhand phallic object. Luckily for him, Saburo won't go there.]

It belongs to... a human. Hmmm. A coward who only relies on his toys!

[Shaking his head more. Cube seems to know too much, but he can't ignore that offer.]

Do that. [...] What was Kikaider to you, and Alpha? An enemy?

[He doubts it because of course that would make sense.]

[Please, I don't want to lose my dinner. *CRIES MORE*]

Oh...

[He seems rather depressed about that. His ears even droop.]

I did not know him very well personally but he called himself Jiro. Alpha, on the other hand, may have been friends with him.

I have no intentions of fighting him for you.

Yes, that is Kikaider.

[Sentimental, as wishy-washy as any human... hmph!

Though he does study Cube's reaction with a bit of confusion. And a stab of--some feeling when he mentions Alpha being 'friends' with Kikaider. Which is strange. His brother did have the bad habit of befriending humans--nothing surprising about that.]

Fight him for me? Ha! I'd stop you if you tried. That is my fight.

[That oddly brings a small smile to his face. Nostalgia. Even if Saburo doesn't remember him or anything, at least he is here now.]

I wouldn't. I know its yours to fight.

[Okay, now he's smiling? He'll never understand these sudden shifts, or why he feels relieved to see this one.]

I'm certain I told you that.

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