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[This time, Conan's sitting at the desk in his room. The desk is too high for him, so he's comandeered a couple of cushions from the Hel living room sofa to prop himself up. He's got his notebook in front of him, and is sitting pertly at his desk, every inch the little kid playing at being important. The cheery wave, kind of undoes that impression a little, but even that is intentional -- there's a very fine line between precocious child and what the heck, and Conan is trying his best not to be obvious.]

Remember I asked everyone three days ago if they were important to their world? A couple of people asked me to share what answers I got but then there were snowmen and I kind of got a little distracted but I'm ready now! Um, these are just the trends I noticed, so if you know something that'd contradict them, help us out by telling us! Any theories or plans we make here are only as good as our data!

So um -- most of the people brought here by the gods consider themselves important to that world. Of that group, I noticed there were lots of people who described themselves as members or commanders of armies, armadas or peacekeepers -- which for the small group I interviewed was kind of a surprise! We also have a few celebrities, particularly in entertainment! I guess it's not difficult to see how they'd get our captors' attention ...

There was a second group of people who had connections to someone or something important in their world! I noticed that the majority of members of this group used their skills to help out the important person or thing, so it might be that experience that caught the attention of our hosts!

There was only one person who didn't consider themselves important or have any connections to anything important -- Not-important-niichan, you forgot to introduce yourself properly! Tell me your name, okay? And everyone else I haven't talked to yet! It'd help us a lot!

Also, I think it'd be a good idea to make a list of people comfortable with the technology in the halls and those who need a teacher! Maybe if you need help you can reply saying what house you're in, what you'd like explained, and what skills you have, and people who can help can reply saying what they can do and what they're curious about, and we might be able to match people up! I think it'd be a good idea, anyway, before someone electrocutes themselves.

And what was the last thing ... oh, right! Tell us what welcome hall you're staying in too! Thank you!

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...I don't really know myself, sorry. We just sort of... "remembered"... one day.

[Not a pleasant day, either.]

Huh ...

And what did you remember?

...I guess, what had happened in our world... what had caused the Apathy Syndrome and what we did to stop it. And we... reunited again.

[She's starting to sound quite reluctant to talk about it. Not only because it's not her place to, exactly. That was also the afternoon they rushed up to the roof and... Yeah.]

Apathy syndrome?

[Conan's noted the reluctance -- but learning more about their situation is of much higher priority than some awkwardness.]

[That much she's willing to discuss, though.]

Yeah, there were weird cases of people suddenly becoming, well, apathetic to the world around them... They kept rising over time. They would just sit there and collapse without being able to do anything... not that they were dead or anything, just... apathetic.

Huh.

That's pretty interesting ...

It was pretty scary, to tell the truth.

But you're not scared now, right? And this place ... well, I guess losing it's colour and becoming apathetic aren't exactly the same, but don't you think that's similar enough to be funny?

...There are definitely some similarities, yeah.

[It might not be too hard to tell she's thinking of other stuff, too.]

Are you all right?

...Huh? Mm-hm, yeah.

Well, as far as I can tell, there aren't any monsters or Shadows here...

Those were what was making everyone apathetic?

Basically, yeah.

I'm really glad you and your friends could stop it!

...Yeah, me too.

[...But a little bit of hesitation to that answer; not that it matters anymore, since he's back here.]

[All of this hesitation is adding up to a subject change.]

Where are you staying now, Oneechan?

[A-okay by her.]

Freya House....

...Honestly, I tried staying in Heimdall, but there was this weird feeling like they really wanted me out, so... I ended up having to go back to the one they assigned.

Huh -- you too? I visited other houses but there's always this odd feeling ...

....Like they don't want you there for too long?

[It annoyed her for a while, but she gave up on it eventually.]

Yeah, I got that.

I'm glad it wasn't just my mind playing tricks!

...I guess not. Though if it's all of our minds playing a collective trick, I'm not sure it's any better.

[She kinda really wanted to stay there.]

... that's a lot of power for our captors to have.

[Conan kind of wishes that she hadn't said that.]

[Well, let's have a kind of wishing party.]

...They are gods, I guess. If you believe that.

I'm ... not a big fan of myths!

Huh, really? Some of them are kind of nice...

Either way, I guess you're surrounded by them now... Not that I've really heard of most of these gods before.