3rd Course - Necessary Ingredients [Video]

[starofpleiades]

[Kazumi's expression is worried; not surprising after how the last few weeks have been. She wasn't really affected much, but she saw people who were...]

Is everyone alright now? Back to normal...?

[She sighs, looking a bit forlorn.]

Things making people act unlike themselves... what's "like yourself" though, other than how you acted before? I mean... what makes up a person? Our bodies? Our actions? Our memories?

[Memories...]

...hey, what do memories mean to you? How important are your memories? If you had something painful in your past... do you think it'd be better not to remember it?

[She's taking the video just outside the apartment complex, so anyone is free to run into her there or respond over the vine]

Comments

[tookupthesword]

I dunno, I know a rock and a robot, do you think they count as a person?

[starofpleiades]

A.... what?

[You lost her]

[tookupthesword]

... Well, what I'm trying to say is your question about what makes up a person is probably not as big of a deal as you're making it out. I hope.

[starofpleiades]

Hmmm... you think so?

So what do memories mean to you, then?

[tookupthesword]

Memories are things that you've seen and went through, right?

[starofpleiades]

Well, I mean, yeah, that's literally what they are... but do you think they're important?

[tookupthesword]

Well... it's hard to say that they wouldn't be. I guess it's something I never really thought about.

[starofpleiades]

I guess normally it's not something someone would think about, huh?

I've just been wondering since there are a lot of happy memories, and a lot of painful ones... if you could forget the bad ones, would you? Or is it better to remember them?

[tookupthesword]

... I don't know. I've been through something really bad myself, that I don't think anyone else here can say they've been had happen to them.

[As far as she knows.]

[starofpleiades]

Bad things here...? Or do you mean back home?

[tookupthesword]

Ah, back home. Nothing quite like that here.

[starofpleiades]

Mm. I guess things could be pretty bad. [Puella magi and all...] But, I wouldn't want to forget those things. Everything that happened is why my friends and I are together.

[tookupthesword]

Even if it was something that drove you apart, for whatever reason?

[starofpleiades]

Well... I'd want to know why, so maybe I could fix it!

OOPS

[tookupthesword]

... They die?

GJ

[starofpleiades]

Oh...

Well, then that's all the more reason I wouldn't want to forget them! Since those memories are all you have...

[tookupthesword]

... I think we may have gotten a bit side tracked.

[starofpleiades]

Really? It's the sort of thing I was wondering about... I mean, that's how I feel... but would you rather forget them?

[tookupthesword]

I meant... you said you would try to fix something, if it drove you apart from your friends.

[starofpleiades]

Oh... yeah, I mean, I would. I didn't know you meant...

[tookupthesword]

Of course, dying off could be considered better than some other things...

[starofpleiades]

That's... true. [being megucas is suffering]

I didn't know, at first. I mean, when I woke up... I didn't have any memories. So I didn't know at all the kind of pain my friends had gone through because of all of that... and maybe I was happier that way but... I don't think that was a good thing.

[tookupthesword]

Didn't know what at first? There's... a few things to know, right?

[starofpleiades]

Well... I mean, everything! What witches are, what we are... and everything we'd gone through because of it. I just thought we were magical girls, just like in the anime.

[tookupthesword]

And then it turns out the only things in common are that we are girls and use magic. It would take a sick and twisted mind to think up this kind of stuff.

... Wonder what would happen if someone wished "I want to be a magical girl just like from an anime" during a contract.