Heaven's BBS | Audio

[sweetdeath]

From: Asato Tsuzuki
Posted: July 14, 2016

Hey! Um... so I've been thinking about this for a couple of days, but I heard....

[He trails off before regrouping. He should've rehearsed this before he started recording it, but he's got no idea how to go back and delete and re-record now. Onward!]

I heard I used to be a god! I mean, I don't remember, obviously, but if I really was, I guess I should say I'm sorry. And I look forward to meeting you all again. And, um.

[Really should have rehearsed.]

I don't owe anybody money, right?

[He laughs uncomfortably and rushes ahead.]

-- Anyway I guess that's about it! Nice to meet you all again! Sorry I forgot!

[Nailed it. Before he can think better of this whole idea, he hastily stops the recording and hits send.]

Comments

[sweetdeath]

I guess they did. But all shinki are like that, though, right? When we get here that's all we remember?

[So, if he were a god once... wouldn't he forget that just like any shinki forgetting their lives?

This subject is starting to creep him out.]

[moonlitknight]

[ It made sense... But why would they turn him into a shinki? ]

Yes. They are.

They don't remember anything.

[ Just like him. He couldn't remember his time as a shinki aside from a single feeling of abandonment. ]

[sweetdeath]

... Do you really think it's because somebody took those memories away?

[moonlitknight]

I was a shinki once.

[ A fact he doesn't usually bring up, but Zero has a soft spot for shinki's. ]

When I became a god, they returned my memories.

If they weren't taken then they couldn't be restored.

[sweetdeath]

Unless it's more like shinki can't remember.

[He's scowling, deep in thought.]

I mean -- like if being a shinki makes it impossible? Nobody took them away, you just can't get to them, but when you're a god you can.

Do you remember being here before? Being a shinki?

[moonlitknight]

No one knows so you can think what you want.

[ But in his world, memories are something that can be stolen, and he suspects it's happened to him. It has. ]

I don't remember anything from that time. All that I know is from what people told me.

[ And when you attack people, they're sure to remind you. ]

[sweetdeath]

Right.

So... I guess even if that's part of it, that can't be all of it, if you've forgotten that too.

[moonlitknight]

Only Amaterasu can answer that.

[sweetdeath]

Well I'm not gonna go bother her about it! That's seriously jumping the chain of command! Can't Bishamon explain it to you?

[moonlitknight]

There's no chain of command.

[sweetdeath]

Amaterasu's got advisers, right? And Bishamon's the old god who's been working with us the most.

That sounds like a chain of command to me.

[moonlitknight]

[ Not to him. ]

Then follow it.

[ He's not telling you not too. What you do isn't his business. ]

[sweetdeath]

I mean, I was planning to, but thanks for the permission?