[The hilarious part is that if Wei Wuxian wasn't actually taking steps to get him to chill out he wouldn't be talking so congrats.]
Mmhm. We didn't learn how to SHIFT until recently--that's the alternate history jumping part. And Carlos didn't gain access to the field until a few hours before we got pulled here, but I learned last year when I got kidnapped for the Nonary Game.
[...how to be brief.] Guy in a mask broke into my apartment and waited for me to come home to kidnap me. Knocked me out with some white gas. When I woke up, I was on a ship and locked in a room that I had to figure out how to get out of. I had a bracelet strapped to my wrist. When I got up to another deck, I found eight other people who were in the same situation. When the broadcast began, we were told how to play the Nonary Game and what needed to be done to go through the locked numbered rooms. We had nine hours to escape before the ship sank. If we didn't do things a certain way, we'd die.
The Ninth Man was proof of that when he went ahead without us. A bomb inside his stomach detonated. We later learned that the guy, Zero, was among us. Someone hiding in plain sight...but the longer we played the game, we started trusting each other and learning more about each other.
...this girl I know. Name's Clover. She told me about the first Nonary Game that was run nine years before that. Nine pairs of siblings all kidnapped. Nine were put on a ship that was sinking, and nine were put inside a building in the desert. The whole thing was an experiment to try and force telepathy, but...things went wrong. A girl died.
[He pauses here.] We didn't know it then, but we were all there for a reason even if most of us didn't know each other. Clover and her brother, Snake, were there. They had played in the first game. They also knew Santa but I didn't know it at the time. And...then there was Akane. I've known her since I was six. But I hadn't seen her for nine years.
It wasn't until Ace--Hongou--tried to betray us that we understood what we were supposed to be doing. Or, I guess, what I was supposed to be doing. Nine years before, a young girl named Akane Kurashiki was forced into the Nonary Games. She was trapped inside an incinerator, but because she couldn't solve the puzzle to stop it, she burned alive. The thing about it is...Akane is a pretty powerful esper. She was...I don't know. Able to somehow see nine years into the present and see how the Nonary Games would run.
And so some paradoxical version of Akane recreated the Nonary Games, every single detail that she saw, including kidnapping all of us and killing the people responsible for her death. And when the time came...the Akane of the past connected with me. She had walked me through the game the entire time so that when we were locked in the same incinerator, I could help her. I could help her solve the same puzzle and save her in order to make sure she'd exist as she was then.
...we solved it. She was okay after that. But she disappeared for about a year by the time we escaped and realized we were in Building Q instead of the ship.
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Mmhm. We didn't learn how to SHIFT until recently--that's the alternate history jumping part. And Carlos didn't gain access to the field until a few hours before we got pulled here, but I learned last year when I got kidnapped for the Nonary Game.
[...how to be brief.] Guy in a mask broke into my apartment and waited for me to come home to kidnap me. Knocked me out with some white gas. When I woke up, I was on a ship and locked in a room that I had to figure out how to get out of. I had a bracelet strapped to my wrist. When I got up to another deck, I found eight other people who were in the same situation. When the broadcast began, we were told how to play the Nonary Game and what needed to be done to go through the locked numbered rooms. We had nine hours to escape before the ship sank. If we didn't do things a certain way, we'd die.
The Ninth Man was proof of that when he went ahead without us. A bomb inside his stomach detonated. We later learned that the guy, Zero, was among us. Someone hiding in plain sight...but the longer we played the game, we started trusting each other and learning more about each other.
...this girl I know. Name's Clover. She told me about the first Nonary Game that was run nine years before that. Nine pairs of siblings all kidnapped. Nine were put on a ship that was sinking, and nine were put inside a building in the desert. The whole thing was an experiment to try and force telepathy, but...things went wrong. A girl died.
[He pauses here.] We didn't know it then, but we were all there for a reason even if most of us didn't know each other. Clover and her brother, Snake, were there. They had played in the first game. They also knew Santa but I didn't know it at the time. And...then there was Akane. I've known her since I was six. But I hadn't seen her for nine years.
It wasn't until Ace--Hongou--tried to betray us that we understood what we were supposed to be doing. Or, I guess, what I was supposed to be doing. Nine years before, a young girl named Akane Kurashiki was forced into the Nonary Games. She was trapped inside an incinerator, but because she couldn't solve the puzzle to stop it, she burned alive. The thing about it is...Akane is a pretty powerful esper. She was...I don't know. Able to somehow see nine years into the present and see how the Nonary Games would run.
And so some paradoxical version of Akane recreated the Nonary Games, every single detail that she saw, including kidnapping all of us and killing the people responsible for her death. And when the time came...the Akane of the past connected with me. She had walked me through the game the entire time so that when we were locked in the same incinerator, I could help her. I could help her solve the same puzzle and save her in order to make sure she'd exist as she was then.
...we solved it. She was okay after that. But she disappeared for about a year by the time we escaped and realized we were in Building Q instead of the ship.