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“Sometimes, it feels like I don’t really have any options either.” CHAIN-LINK EVENT
WARNING: this Event is part of an Event Chain! You've lost all control over your own actions and must now sit back while someone else takes the wheel. Enjoy the ride while it lasts, and hope that you did things right before taking the plunge! |
"Friend" is an Event for Kaori Kadowaki. This Event is part of an Event Chain.
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Autoplays after "A House Near a Lake (The Same Place as Always)". This event belongs to an event chain started from "Rubik's Cube".
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Taking into consideration Nao-chan's signs, Sensei makes his way to the rooftop. On his way, he observes empty school halls and can't help but think about Maya. As usual, he initiates a deep monologue which develops rapidly.
Given his suspicions about a thing (or things) possessing Kaori, whom he meets eventually, Sensei reflects on his youth, his faith and his attitude towards religion. Thinking brings him further, to lurking fear of losing ties with reality and being unable to distinguish relationships with real people and non-existent entities. Before overpowering himself and beginning the talk, Sensei expresses another, rather disconnected but solid conclusion, that he would be a terrible father.
Then someone who possessed Kaori's body speaks up and attempts to imitate her extraordinary way of conversing, but Sensei, wise and experienced in otherworldly matters, sees through disguise and expresses all his anger on the one whom he presumes to be guilty for Maya's disappearance. Soon enough, the certain someone, Pareidolia, finally reveals himself.
Pareidolia parries, and gives Sensei his point of view and explanation about everything he could. The God clarifies, that every season different entities are willing to inhabit inner world of Kaori, that even now Sensei may be talking to many Gods at once: Pareidolia and all others he made dormant during his springtime power spike. And that Sensei one day becomes the same, a living reservoir for unending number of different Gods.
Additionally, Pareidolia claims that Sekai is "the root of all evil", as she inhabits Kaori's body since the day of the car incident: the indirect proves of that might be Kaori's scars, one hidden under her charming spider tattoo. Even in life, Sekai's "infested" mind allowed her to contact and communicate with all entities she could hear. And exactly because of Sekai's spirit, Kaori can be possessed by everything Sekai got in touch with. At least this is the answer Pareidolia gives to Sensei.
The God continues and explains his own nature, as well as the nature of all Gods in general, and that even Gods have rules to follow. Gods exist for a simple reason: the humanity requires an object of praising and worshipping. And as long as people reject religion and turn to scientific approach to cognition and perception of the world, Gods continue to die. If some Gods choose to wait their oblivion, others begin to act, and try to enter the world by any means necessary. Thanks to people like Sekai and Sensei, such Gods can exist and gain their power. The most powerful of them stand above all else and dictate the rules. Disrespecting the rules may lead Gods to becoming mortals (humans, animals, plants and all else), as a punishment.
Pareidolia points out, that faith is not bound by logic and is limited only by people's ability of reaching out to deities and keeping the promises they've made to praised divinities. As it turns out, Pareidolia, if we believe his words, has been a forgotten God once, whom Sensei have put out of The Wishing Well one day. And it makes the world turn round and round: people have faith in Gods, and Gods have faith in people. But one day, Pareidolia claims, The Wishing Well runs out. The time shall resume its flow as soon as the humanity finds the cure to their disease.
Logically, Pareidolia broke one of the rules when he addressed to Sensei personally, so he must be punished. But The God asks his mortal friend to have faith and reach out one day, so they achieve the perfect harmony Pareidolia craves. And naturally, Sensei's personal God, Pareidolia, fulfilled its purpose his believer set to him: to be the black sheep of the family, the scapegoat, the cause of all trials and tribulations.
As Pareidolia fades away and returns to The Wishing Well, he warns Sensei: all that was said can be a lie, a deception, designed to leave a need of worshipping inside his mind. With his final scream, Pareidolia disappears, at last. With that, Kaori is finally set free of control, and then...
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This Event was added in Update 0.44.
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