[001] Video + Action for Freya District

[pastahair]

[A timid woman appears on the feed and to some... she may look familiar, but there's something different about her.]

H-Hello? Everyone can hear me, right? [She gives the bracelet a curious look.] My name is Beatrice Castiglioni, I have only been here a few days and... Could someone explain to me these recent contests I have been seeing? Some of them looked quite fun.

[She puts on a nervous, but warm smile.] By the way, does anyone happen to know a man by the name of Kinzo Ushiromiya? If so, please let him know that I am here.

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[they see me trollin']

[pastahair]

Decades?

[keep trollin trollin trollin]

[highstakesgame]

Indeed.
Hence why his grandchildren have probably already contacted you.
Do keep an eye on the red-headed boy.
He's quite a handful!

[I don't remember the rest of the lyrics :'D]

[pastahair]

You mean he is one of Kinzo's grandchildren?

But... how is that possible? And you know so much, but I do not remember him mentioning you before.

[that's okay, me neither]

[highstakesgame]

Did I spoil the surprise?
The resemblance is a bit uncanny, isn't it?
They are both possessed of an unbreakable will.
But that one cries more than his predecessor.

I am from a later time than you.
All of us are, to be accurate.

[XD]

[pastahair]

Yes, it is. In the back of my mind I thought he might have been a grandchild when he said he was not a son, or a brother, or a nephew, or a cousin.

Cries?

Is that why so many of Kinzo's relatives know of me? If the answer is yes, then how distant of a time are you all from? And how can people from different times be brought together in one place?

[Then again, this was the land of the gods, but still...!]

[highstakesgame]

When he is past the point of despair, Battler-san cries.
It is not weakness for him, though.
It is simply an outpouring of emotion,
for his will is not broken.

We are at least a good 40 years removed from you.

[pastahair]

Crying is actually a good way to release the stress you've been keeping bottled up inside you, so it's good to cry every once in a while.

F-Forty years?! That would mean I am an old woman in your time.

[highstakesgame]

Well, it certainly makes for high entertainment.
At least for anyone watching.

That is not my place to say.

[pastahair]

Why entertainment?

It is fine... everyone's hair turns grey eventually.

[She's got the completely wrong idea here.]

[highstakesgame]

Because he often makes a lively spectacle of himself when he cries!

Ah. So it does.

Shall I switch to video, then?

[pastahair]

You two must be very close friends. [If you can get away with teasing each other like that.]

Please. I prefer to be able to see the person when I am talking to him or her.

[highstakesgame]

Oh, you could certainly say that.

[and then the feed switches on, revealing... Beatrice's own face staring back at her]

How is this?

[pastahair]

[She gasps.]

Wh-What?

[Then she remembers what Claudia told her.]

Are you the "other Beatrice?" Because you really do look exactly like me.

[highstakesgame]

From my perspective, you are the "other" Beatrice.

But yes, I am the one she mentioned.

[pastahair]

I know people said we looked alike, but this is...

You are not related to the Castiglioni family in any way, are you?

[highstakesgame]

Yes and no.

Are you perhaps familiar with the concept of 'alternate realities'?