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[Hajime doesn't look like he's been sleeping too well when he opens the feed. Between things blowing up in the Dead District, the Halloween party, and his own concern that he's slowly losing his mind in monster fight instincts, sleep hasn't been much of a thing for him as of late.]

I'm guessing everyone made it through the Halloween party okay. Can't say I remember much of it after the monster showed up.

[The actual monster fight is somewhat of a blur, Hajime was so wrapped up in those monstrous instincts. He is pretty sure he rampaged somewhere somehow and can only hope he didn't accidentally almost kill anyone the way he'd accidentally almost killed Thomas back in the Dead District. He looks like he's trying to think of something else to say before just continuing on with the reason he's posting this video anyway.]

I got something back. It's a photograph.

[He'll hold out a photograph for everyone to see. He's handling it rather carefully; some part of his brain is telling him this thing is important.]

I recognize some of the people in it from the memories I've been getting. Thought I might check to see if anyone else did, too.

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Queen Victoria? The Queen Victoria? And you're sure Biffy wasn't someone's cat or something?

[Nope, he doesn't know what to make of that.]

The girl's name is Amane. She was pretty important to the other me...

[And some of his other self's confusion about that sort of unconditional love is bleeding into his voice there.]

[Interesting. And a bit uncomfortable. Lyall knows the "other fellow" was close to a couple people, but not very many, and he doesn't know their names just yet. So he replies to the easier part.]

No, he was someone we were rescuing. I was, and someone who the other fellow habitually called "sir". I actually have seen him, in the visions.

And yes, the Queen Victoria. Though not the one in this version of the world, given she knew all about werewolves and vampires and such.

Yeah, I've seen several people...even if I'm having trouble remembering faces in some cases, and a lot of them were wearing weird bug-eyed armor anyway.

At least that gives you a definite idea of the time period you're remembering. That's got to count for something.

It's something, at any rate, even if it isn't particularly useful.

So was it weird bug-eyed armor, or actual bug-changing people, like, well, like yourself?

[It sounds awkward to come out and say it like that.]

They were human. I remember that much if only because that in particular made me angry. Like they didn't have any right to that power.

[This whole conversation has turned awkward for him. In most of these memories, he's a nasty piece of work, but then in others, he's hopelessly wrapped around the little finger of a little girl.]

[It is a bit, isn't it? Lyall plows on, anyhow. Talking about it is the only way to make it less awkward, Hajime.]

Ah. Interesting. But did your... other fellow have the ability to look human, like you, even if he did not consider himself such?

Yeah, he did...it's kind of hard to piece together, but I think he was new to passing as a human. There were some memories where he was confused that he was enjoying it...

So he learned or was given the ability to change into a human. How interesting. It sounds like you've gotten quite a lot of memories, there, though.

[And he just slipped up and called them memories instead of visions. He realizes too late, and winces on his end. Ah, well.]

He...

[There's a wince in Hajime's tone.]

I remember being sealed away by a man with my face. I also remember another instance in which I sealed him away instead, and then I took his form. That's...that's why I need the card to change back...

Sealed away. I believe you've mentioned that before. Do you know what that even is?

[Because that would help this all make a bit more sense, more than, say, locking someone in some kind of tomb.]

Yeah. It's...dark. Constricting. Pretty painful.

I remember it. Being sealed. There was this floating black stone slab, and I think my belt was broken...

[It also looks like Hajime is losing the battle to keep him and his "other fellow" separate. Lyall decides not to comment on it.]

Very strange... well, if the belt is what you use the cards with, that would make sense, I suppose.

[Hajime very much wishes it weren't so easy to fail to distance himself from the other guy. So much rampaging...]

Yeah. I kind of wish I knew exactly what was going on there, but the more I get back, the more I wish I didn't.

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