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Is anyone else being visited by someone from home?

What could it mean, that they appear like this? Are they really here or just figments of our imagination? They certainly seem real enough, when you talk to them...

[Another voice pipes up, a woman's voice who sounds much more cheerful than Kain. The phone shifts just a little, and the ghostly figure of a young, blonde-haired woman can be seen as well.] Kain, don't be silly. Of course I'm real. Now, didn't you say you had a goal of some sort?

[Oh, right. Ahh, he’d initially meant to do this in order to reach out and be more sociable as Ikaruga keeps trying to make him do. He may have gotten a little too troubled there for a moment. Lucky him, Rosa, or the ghost of her, is as stubbornly on top of making him do things for his own good as ever. After a pause while he considers things, he finally adds more.]

What sort of people have appeared for the rest of you? Is it someone you wanted to see? Tell me about who's visiting you.

That wasn't so bad, was it? But aren't you going to start by introducing me?

Ah... right. Everyone, this is Rosa. She's my ...friend... from back home. [There's a small, barely noticeable hesitation on the word "friend".] We grew up together. I've... I've missed her. I've missed you, Rosa.

Oh, Kain... It's all right. I'm here now. [Aaand he'll stop this video now, before he shows too much emotion. He can't have that.]

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I'd agree that: that doesn't sound like the best sort of plan, but... I definitely get it. We've spent so long hoping to see our loved ones and now that they're here? [ A pause. Her words are heavy with sorrow. ] This is fucking cruel.

It’s perhaps one of the cruelest things they’ve ever done, thus far. All of the monsters that appear are easily handled. Everything else that’s mentally affected us, we’ve found some way to handle… but this…

[He doesn’t want to subject Rosa to this place, but what he wouldn’t give for her to be substantial, to be truly here.]

I only wish this meant they could be brought here, for real. Yet I know that's wrong to dare hope for...

They've become masters of cruelty. [ They just poke and poke and poke until they find that one wound and then they dig. Fuck, it hurts. ]

We shouldn't hope for them to be here. Our loved ones don't deserve this and if my father or mother ever truly appeared, I wouldn't stop until I killed each god.

They truly have. They have far too much control over us, far too much power... and unfortunately they seem to know how to best exploit us.

[She's right, Kain knows she's right. It's been bothering him in the back of his mind the whole time. But whenever he looks at Rosa, his heart melts again and he loses his common sense. Damn these gods... they made the worst possible person appear to him. And the best.]

It's not fair to hope for it, you're right. They don't deserve this fate, and we should be glad they aren't truly here.

[And yet... and yet...]

This must end. [He doesn't trust himself when it comes to Rosa, so it needs to stop before anything worse happens.]

Don't worry, it will end, Kain.

I hope you're right. I'll trust your word on that.

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