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[endgamed]

Good day.

I'm a senior high school student, supposedly, prior to being whisked away here. I understand that it's the middle of the school year, but I was hoping to enroll have some sense of normalcy. Are there any of you here who are in the Academy, and are around my level? I'd like to know the culture, where the hangouts are, amongst other things. Do inform me. I'd hate to be the new kid in campus who knows nothing.

Or if you'd like to dissuade me from enrolling, I don't mind... I'd just like something to do in this place.

While I'm here... is there a pattern to what moonblessing people receive? I don't seem to be affected by the Sanguis moon... You'd think it this world would play on opposites, but apparently not.

So? What do you think of your own moonblessing?

Comments

[epimedium]

I'm not sure yet. I've been playing out high school on a loop for the last few years, but in real life I'm a CEO.

[endgamed]

Well, that's a confusing statement. You say you've been playing out high school on a loop, like you've been repeating grades, but I'm not sure that's what you mean entirely.

[epimedium]

It's complicated. I was stuck in a virtual reality thing. Everyone was a high school student.

[endgamed]

I see. So you aren't really a high school student— just pretending to be one.

At the very least, you're out of that situation for now.

[epimedium]

If by "pretending" you mean "forced to be one," then, sure.

But yeah, I guess so. I still have my body from the game so no idea what's up with that.

[endgamed]

I see. Sorry about that.

And... that's inconvenient. I'm not sure I can offer any hypotheses for your situation.

[epimedium]

Satake-kun and I just assumed it was some kind of weird mutation in the server. It made sense when we fought the musicians, but I'm starting to get the feeling that might have just been a coincidence.

[endgamed]

Do you normally fight (?) in this simulation?

[epimedium]

Lately, yeah. We just want to go home, you know? But the game doesn't want to let us out.

[endgamed]

Would it be rude to ask more about it?

[epimedium]

Nope. Feel free to ask away.

[endgamed]

Do you think whoever forced you in that simulation might be behind all "this"?

Behind all of everyone else being here, too. Although I assure you, I'm not forced to be a high school student or anything.

[epimedium]

I thought so, at first. But I think if this were another server, it would be far beyond anything Mu and Aria were capable of. Their designs got really repetitive, the world never felt fully real. And there are people here who aren't high school students--the variety is all a little much for them.

[endgamed]

I see. Then, if there truly is a being behind all this, they would be far more powerful than those who put you in the situation you're in now.

I still wonder if we're really meant to restore this world, or if there's something else...

[epimedium]

Sounds like you have a theory. What is it?

[endgamed]

Oh, I don't. Maybe I'm just being a little doubtful.

[epimedium]

Can't blame you there, it's not like there's an abundance of reason to trust everything that's told to us.