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So, show of hands. Who here remembers a name of the person they're getting flashbacks from?

The bug monster's original name was Joker. That much I'm fairly certain about.

After the playing card, you think?

With the way things have been going

[And the reply suddenly goes quiet there for a moment, like Hajime forgot to complete the thought. After a few minutes, a more complete reply will come.]

Probably. Now I'm remembering some guy about your age throwing a handful of Joker playing cards at me just to piss me off. Some kid trying to play cool with a fedora and a bad piercing.

[He's irritated now...he can remember the guy's face, knows he said the name, but can't remember what it was.]

...I'm not sure which is lamer, the attempt at being a troll or the fedora...

Also, trying to piss off a guy who turns into a bug monster? Counts as attempted suicide.

I wasn't in good shape in the memory. Had an arm wound. Maybe he thought that would be enough.

He still seemed way too smug for his own good. I feel like I'm not remembering something important, but I guess I'm going to go along with my life hoping I at least wiped the smirk from his face.

I hope so too. Gave the bastard a good scare to team him not to mess with you.

And likely you're only getting a fragment of it. Most of this stuff is like that.

I'm sure whatever lesson I might have showed him would not be pretty--I could take that guy on as I was before I turned into the bug, much less with that sort of power.

It's the most fragmented I've had anything show up so far. Not like I've had much luck with names, anyway. There are two guys in weird bug-eyed armor that I know I don't like, and then there are all the monsters I remember fighting. Joker's still the only name I remember, I guess because it was important.

Because it's the name of your powered up form, right? Kinda like how I remember Diabound's name clearest and I'm still not sure what Egyptian me was called.

Bug eyed guys on your side or the monster's side?

Yeah, it's the bug's name.

I'm not sure whose side the bug-eyed guys were on. One definitely didn't like Joker to the point I'd consider him an enemy of mine, and the other wanted to work with me but I wasn't at all interested.

So standard anime plotline stuff, then, huh? "We should work together!" "No, fuck off!" "Friendship!" "Bite me!" While number three is all "WTF do you want to work with the asshole for"

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