User blog:Seieireppa/God Eater:Universitas, chapter 9: Catching Up

“Alright,” Sakaki began, “run that by me again?”

Sakaki had Ken and Idenn in his office. In light of Ken’s sudden appearance at Fenrir’s Far East Branch in the year 2081, displaced temporally from his home timeline, new truths had come to light regarding Idenn’s past and her current situation.

“Okay, so, remember back in 2074 when we took out Rachel Claudius?”  Ken began recounting his past to those present.

“I was not Director at the time, but yes, I do remember hearing of that,” answered Sakaki. “You and the members of Blood pursued her up the Helix Tree and destroyed her Singularity form, freeing Julius Visconti from her grasp and resulting in the reconstitution of Romeo Leoni’s body. What of it?”

“Well,” Ken continued, “in the interest of keeping this short and to the point, a lot of stuff happened after that. Turns out Rachel wasn’t exactly dead, and I ended up fighting her again atop the Helix Tree. After that, well…”

Ken paused.

“Next thing I knew, boom, there I was in the training grounds. And if what you’re telling me is correct, I was brought into the future?! How, exactly, is that?”

“I can explain that,” interjected Idenn. “I have a… power called Lifespring, a technique that converts Oracle energy into gravitational energy and creates a gravitational singularity that pulls in and erases matter around me. Your arrival here, however, has taught me two things:  one, that the erased matter is sent through time, and two, that it can apparently work in reverse, randomly pulling things from other points in spacetime to the here and now using my Lifespring as a conduit point. Sakaki, do you think this means I could have come from the past?”

“Well…” Sakaki began. “At first, that was what I thought, so I ran a check on the records of all Fenrir branches, but no mention of your name was found. As far as Fenrir is concerned, ‘Idenn’ never existed.”

Idenn sighed in exasperation. “Then… do you think that means I could have—“

“I wouldn’t jump to conclusions, Idenn,” interjected Sakaki. “Pending further research, I think it’s a bit early to consider THAT possibility. At the present, I think it would befit us to continue operating as normal. Ken, Idenn, you are dismissed. Remain on standby and await further orders.”

And so life went on as per normal…

…but unbeknownst to everyone in the Far East Branch, a new visitor was approaching the Branch’s gates… along with a new, deadly threat…

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