imeeji_frontstage | Endgame: Flowers of Heaven

Who: found(?) idols
Where: ???? a mysterious meadow
When: Day 232

[ As you pass through the gates, it’s as though a heaviness lifts from your chest—some terrible weight that you hadn’t realized you’d been carrying. It had felt like terrible sadness, like you had failed, and would forevermore be worthless and alone. It wasn’t your burden, but you were carrying it all the same.

Now you are Free.

You’re in a meadow, now, beneath a sky that shimmers with a shifting rainbow of light; the horizon stretches as far as the eye can see. Any fire still surrounding you dissipates at last, dissolving harmlessly in the light. Then, in first a trickle and then a flood, your memories, if they were lost, return to you.

...And there at the center of it all, sitting on a bronze tripod stool, is a woman who might look familiar to some of you. She’s wearing a summery golden top and a pair of wide-legged pants, slit up the sides to display the burn scars that go halfway up her legs. ]

Well, wasn’t that something truly special. We couldn’t have done this without all of you—and that’s what makes you so all so remarkable.
[ turning to face a presumably hidden camera ]
Weren’t they just inspiring? There’s no one quite like the Imeeji idols, is there?

[ facing all of you again with a fond sort of smile ]
And an extra congratulations to BARiTONES, Taisho Roman Revolution, AlcheME!, and pep!pep!, for holding on to yourselves, even when all seemed lost.

[ Sure enough, those units will find themselves fully restored; you might even feel renewed. The extra 800 points aren’t too shabby either. —Oh hey, and you've got a cute little holographic flower sticker on your clothes that says, "WOW!"
Everyone else, though…
Well, at least your memories are back. The rest is a lingering reminder of the cost of letting go.

A little in the distance, looking somewhat odd in the wide meadow, is the Game Tower elevator. Perhaps you’d like to go home. ]

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[hi I'm bleeding]

Are you feeling rational again?

Never.

[Gestures for Duality to come closer much like he did in the final round]

Do you want to take another stab at it?

[was that a joke?? he's stepping up to sit down beside him though]

[He pulls out a length of gauze from somewhere in his trenchcoat and goes about wrapping the stab wound.

Casually as he's tending to it:]

Perhaps another time.

...sorry for throwing you into a wall. You deserved it, though.

[Laughs out loud as he presses the last wrap in place]

Is that how they teach you to apologize in hero school?

All right, I take it back. I'm not really sorry.

...you surprised me, to be honest.

Good answer.

[And he leans further back on his hands]

And why is that?

Because that wasn't a very calculated attack.

You would expect a calculated attack. Obviously from your stance, you were trained in combat.

...no, I would expect a calculated attack because it's you. I didn't expect you to actually attack me at all, mostly because I'm fairly sure you know you wouldn't be able to beat me in a physical fight.