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

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.

[starofpleiades]

Yeah...

Hmm... I don't know? It'd be kind of like wishing not to turn into a witch, or maybe to get rid of witches.

[tookupthesword]

... Yeah, I wonder... [Totally heard from Madoka #1 from here that was what she did...]

[starofpleiades]

I dunno if Jyuubey would grant that kind of wish.

[tookupthesword]

[... Maybe it's a specific lisp or having heard it wrong.]

Well, has there ever been a denied wish?

... Hey, on the topic of witches... [gotta say this the right way] what would you do if a witch showed up here, but as a normal person? Well, normal as in like us, not... towering nightmare machine.

[starofpleiades]

Not that I know of... but I only know a handful of them.

Could that happen? I mean... would they really be a witch and not a magical girl?

[tookupthesword]

Well... a lot of strange things have happened, so... it might?

[starofpleiades]

I wonder how they'd act...

[tookupthesword]

Maybe that they were suffering from an extended dream?

[starofpleiades]

A dream, huh?

One of my friends thought this place was a dream for a pretty long time.

[tookupthesword]

Well, for some people, this really does seem dreamlike. I thought it was like that too.

[starofpleiades]

Yeah, it kind of is. I mean, here we don't have to worry about Soul Gems and all that...

[tookupthesword]

Though I think some dreams may be better than here.

[starofpleiades]

That's true. This last month was pretty hard...

[tookupthesword]

There's just no rest for some of us...