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Not at all.

[ Escorting like a gentleman!! ]

Do you feel a little less stressed now?

A little. I'll feel even less! less!! stressed if we make some kind of headway.

Is it something that's been bothering you a lot?

...ah, kind of. [ he mellows out a little. ] It's frustrating. I probably haven't said, no real reason to have done so, I guess, but I'm an audition. I should have all of my memories and yet... a bunch of them are just jacked up. I'm missing something. And even if I replay them... nothing. A few people seem to think they're being messed with or I'm repressing something... yeah, well, whatever it is I want to get to the bottom of it.

Oh... that's a unique case. So your amnesia is natural, but you still have to pay points to recover those memories?

I can kind of remember them, but... not really? I remember as much as you guys see. It's just a big big BIG mess. [ his shoulders slump. ]

Well, then I'll work hard to make it less of a mess for you.

You're too sweet, you know that, right?

I only am for certain people.

[ /// ]

[ way to slay. ]

[ Maybe Alala shouldn't be so cute!! ]

[ Also when they get to AlcheME he will in fact take him straight to his room, an AlcheME version of this. Though there's also noticably a well-maintained barbie dream house on a table, with hamster tubes that attach to it and run along the walls and out of the room. ]

Please feel free to clear whatever area you'd like to sit on.

Woah, look at your room. [ going to take a few minutes to marvel at it before he notices the dream house sitting on the table. he wanders over and stoops down to peer inside. ]

Mm, sure~ [ pops back up. ] Would you just like me to start playing them one by one?

[ Taking a picture of his whiteboard before quickly clearing it off, taking out two notepads and pencils for them, along with markers for the whiteboard.

Yes, I believe I'm ready now.

[ nods, finding himself a seat. he takes out his phone to play this. ] ... [ as soon as it finished. ] It's the first one I got. Er, took. And it's... weird, right. Like... stuff is missing and, well... you saw.

[ Writing out 'rain' and 'cafe', then a spiraling arrow around them both on the white board. ]

It looked like a distorted recording.

Right. Like a VHS that's been tampered with or something. The next one isn't much better. [ plays this next. ]

I think this one might be a little... worse off. I think I might have interacted with the distortion, or... whatever was causing it if... that, like, makes sense.

Yes, and perhaps what is most concerning is that the dialogue did change after enough replays. It insinuates that either that memory in your head has been altered, or your own thoughts have been.

[ And watching the new one, noting 'phone disappears on multiple loops' on the board. ]

And this time, something physically seems to have changed around you.

Do you think that the original, er, the first loop is the most accurate, and then my brain or... something else is trying to correct or... over correct things? Like, change it to make me hear or see what I think I want to hear or see?

That would be my assumption. It could be you were forced to relive moments until you gave the right answer, or behaved the right way.

I doubt playing it over and over is going to change anything. It's already messed up. I... ah, played one last one while I've been here, but... I don't know if you want to see it.

It's when I made the contract with that demon.

Do you think it might have some clues to everything?

The demon or the contract? Ah, this is... it. [ he'll play that last memory for him. ]

[ It... takes F a bit longer this time to start speaking, and a slow breath, but when he does it's in his normal tone. ]

... Unfortunately, that seems to have only been the after-effects.

Have you had any memories that didn't have this presence in them?

... [ frowns, kind of... concerned now. he hopes he didn't scare him off. like after this he's never going to want to be near him ever again. he's vibrating a little on the inside, the flames on his tail and in his ears dimming and shrinking a bit. ]

I do, yeah. This one. [ plays this. ]

[ Watching that memory carefully, glancing in Alala's direction for his reaction- and then double taking when he sees that the flames seem a bit smaller and Alala himself seems more upset. Turning his full attention on him instead. ]

Ah- Are you okay?