User blog:Seieireppa/God Eater:Universitas, chapter 8: Ken

“Where am… wait, this is the training room of the Far East Branch!”

The young man who appeared before Idenn in the wake of her Lifespring appeared to be around Idenn’s age, perhaps a bit younger. He was very clearly a God Eater… perhaps he had something to do with Idenn’s past?

“Hibari.”  Sakaki’s voice crackled to life over the speakers. “I’ll run a check on this one. It’s HIGHLY unlikely that he’s also some unidentified God Eater like our friend Idenn, so with any luck, he’ll show up in our records.”

“What… what do you mean? It’s me, Ken! I’m a God Eater of the Far East Branch! But… this doesn’t make sense. I was fighting Rachel, and… how did I get here?”

Everyone present gasped upon hearing the announcement from the young man who referred to himself as Ken.

“Wait… Yes, yes, I remember!” exclaimed Sakaki. “You were a part of the Far East Branch as one of our most powerful God Eaters! But… that can’t be. That was years ago… and you should be…”

Ken straightened himself out and dusted himself off. “At any rate,” he began, “I’m… I’m free? I’m finally free from that place…?”

“Ken,” interjected Sakaki, “I don’t know what’s going on, but please, rest yourself and then come to my office. I don’t know where you’ve been all these years, or why you still appear to be little over the nineteen years of age you were when you served here, but…”

“Wait, hold on,” Ken interrupted. “‘All these years?’  ‘When you served here?’  What the hell do you mean?! And you, Sakaki, why do you look so… so old?”

Sakaki could be heard sighing. “It looks like we’ve got some catching up to do. Idenn, this training exercise is over. Return to your room… and Ken, head to the lounge. The two of you should come to my office in two hours.”

Ken and Idenn nodded, the two of them leaving the training facility.

“So,” Ken began, turning to Idenn, “I don’t believe I caught your name.”

“It’s Idenn,” she replied.

“Idenn, huh? I didn’t know there was someone like you here at the Far East Branch. I certainly don’t recognize you, at least.”  Ken stopped for a moment, then spoke up. “Come to think of it, Sakaki did say something about ‘all these years’…  If my suspicions are correct…”  Ken paused once more.

“Idenn, what year is it?”

Idenn looked back at Ken with a puzzled expression. “What do you mean, ‘what year is it?’  It’s January of 2081.”

All the color drained from Ken’s face as those words hit him like a Kongou’s fist to the gut.

Somehow, he didn’t know how, he’d been brought… into the future?

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