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So has anyone actually gotten anything useful out of all of this? Or has it all been just one big, confusing mess that's more trouble than it's worth? It's not like this is making life better for anyone...

[Yeah, someone doesn't sound happy. And he'll say something else in some incomprehensible language. It's rather discordant, and it's full of sharp, short syllables. Definitely not a friendly language. If anyone were to understand the language of the immortals called Undead on Hajime's original world, they'd know he's just admitted to the network that his blood is green...but it's just going to sound like a garbled mess.]

Figured I'd throw mine out there since everyone else is. Not like it's going to do any good to anyone.

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I have to wonder, but everything else seems pretty complete. If I didn't get the whole thing, it seems weird to have only a handful of things get forgotten.

I just don't feel like there's any more to it, if that makes sense.

As much sense as the rest of it.

Maybe it's from a planet of hats where all they did was fight?

Why would they be hats?

But I saw monsters in one of my memories. Visions. Whatever. They were fighting each other.

It's a figure of speech. In old sci fi, all the aliens of one planet were all basically the same. So they called it a planet of hats. [[It made more sense on TVTropes when he read it there...]]

Like pokemon or something like that? You think that's where the language is from, those monsters?

[He will just stare at the phone for a moment and sigh before replying.]

Yeah, that doesn't make any sense.

Not like Pokemon. Bigger. Nastier. Man-sized, most of them covered in spikes of one form or another, determined to kill everything.

[So only one had been determined to kill everything. That had been him.]

I kind of hope it's not, but it's violent enough to be a possibility.

[[There's a slight pause]]

Did they come from people's souls, do you know...?

[That's an odd question, but at this point? It's making as much sense as anything else.]

I don't think they were. They were consumed by the desire to fight, but I'm pretty sure they weren't linked to anyone's souls or anything like that.

[It hadn't felt that way in the memory, at least.]

Would have to be some seriously twisted souls to bring monsters like that into the world...

[[So something different. He wasn't sure if that was good or bad, to be honest...]]

Probably. Though it might not be a hard and fast rule. A soul that's too gentle might have a monster born of it that's harsh to protect it, a soul that's twisted might have a monster born of it that's pure, from before the soul turned to darkness.

I guess I could see it working that way.

It didn't feel like that's what they were, though. Wouldn't they have been connected somehow to whoever they were born from?

[He didn't think he'd been connected to anyone like that. Just running off his own killer monster instincts.]

I think so. But I think that connection can be severed. Not sure. It's hard to tell when it's just fragments of things.

Yeah, it would be easier if we had a clearer picture of things. Even if part of me would rather not know more about those monsters.

Afraid of them?

[More than you could ever know, Bakura.]

More like I don't want to know what they did. The vision I had of them got kind of nasty at the end.

[He almost killed a little girl because he was so swept up in that desire to fight, to destroy...and he might have, for all he knows. The memory is incomplete.]

What happened in it?

[[and is this anything at all like the battles showing up in his brain...?]]

There were several of them running around, fighting each other. It was a crowded area; there were bystanders. One of them was stronger than the rest. He was taking them all out in a single hit.

[That one? That one was him. He'll just be omitting that fact.]

This is going to sound crazy, but he'd hit them hard enough that they would turn into cards. He'd take the card from one and move on to the next. When they were all gone, he started attacking humans because there wasn't anything else to fight.

[[No crazier than things being sealed into stone tablets...]]

I wonder if it's at all related... Do you know when this was? Like time period or anything?

[If only he knew he was the only monster that could seal things into cards without the aid of a certain stone monolith, but, alas...]

It all seemed fairly recent. Looks like it was taking place in a relatively modern shopping center.

[[Huh. Maybe...

There's a bit of a pause]]

Are all the ones you've had from about the same time?

I think so, but one of them just took place in a forest. Impossible to tell when that was, I suppose.

The battles between monsters I saw... [[or at least the posturing before them, at anyrate...]] it was all in Egypt. When there were still pharaohs.

I guess they're not the same.

Mine definitely didn't take place in Egypt. Japan, if I had to put a name to the place.

What did the monsters themselves look like?

[[There's a slight pause as Bakura swaps to his sketch pad and starts drawing a half man half snake creature.]]

That's definitely not what mine looked like at all. They weren't that human. Not by a long shot. Humanoid, but most of them were covered in spikes and things.

I think this one's different than the rest. There was a fuss over him.

[[he starts to sketch in a small figure, devoid of features, to show the scale]]

But I think they're all big like this.

Mine were all definitely more human-sized.

[There's a pause as he comes to a rather unsettling realization.]

I don't think that would have stopped the one that was winning all his fights. He would have been drawn to its power. It was drawn to the strongest opponents, would work itself into a frenzy over that.

[He knows that all too well.]

You have any idea as to how they behaved?

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