User blog:Seieireppa/God Eater: The Butterfly Effect, Epilogue: The Beginning at the End

“Where… am I?”

The man woke up in the middle of a desert. Before him in either direction stretched a single asphalt road, crossing the horizon no matter which way he looked.

“Who… am I?”

Try as he might, the man could not remember a thing. His name, where he was from, how he got there, everything was a complete and total blank.

At least, he could tell, he still possessed the basic abilities necessary to function, like the ability to walk, read, speak, write… but not much else.

Before he could spend too long lamenting his condition, however, he noticed a vehicle coming towards him from over the horizon. Perhaps this would be his salvation from this wasteland… or perhaps it was a reaper come to ferry him to his death.

The question of which of these it was, of course, was answered in short order, as the vehicle came to a stop in front of him, a single woman exiting its near-side door.

“Oh, thank God you’re still okay!”

The woman’s words puzzled him. Had they met?

“Good thing you’re still here. I only noticed you when it was too late to turn around, so I had to detour a bit to the nearest city to get a doctor. Everything’s alright now, though. You’re gonna be fine.”

The man could only nod weakly, dehydration taking its toll as he collapsed to the ground, the woman rushing over to pick him up.

“Can you tell me your name? Anything.”

But try as he might, everything was a blank.

Except…

“Feldman…”

The man’s words were faint and hoarse.

“Feldman? Is that your name?”

The woman called to him as she carried him to the car with the aid of the doctor who accompanied him.

“Feld…ma…n…”

“Well don’t you worry, Mr. Feldman. We’re going to nurse you back to health before you know it.”

As the woman placed the man in the back seat and drove off along with the doctor, everything seemed like it would be alright…

…but, try as he might, something seemed a bit off…

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