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Becoming self-aware
🍛 Oda Sakunosuke become self-aware the moment after he died.
🍛 At first, he felt empty. Katsumi, Shinji, Sakura, Yuu and Kousuke... Were their death just a plot point? A 'food' for 'tragedy lovers'?
🍛 Oda quickly managed to collect himself. Right now, he can't do anything. He needs to investigate. He needs to think everything through.
🍛 Stuck between Living World and Afterlife, Oda continue to stroll down Yokohama streets, as a ghost, unseen by everyone.
🍛 Oda was observing. He was looking after ADA, he saw their pain, he saw Dazai's fury.
🍛 Oda was also looking after Port Mafia. Oda saw, that Mori tried his best to keep Port Mafia members calm. To create a strategy that will resolve this bizarre situation. Oda felt the rage of other Port Mafia members.
🍛 Oda was looking after Ango. He saw panic of his former friend.
🍛 Oda saw everyone. Oda saw, how confused and lost everyone were. The world they knew didn't exist anymore.
🍛 If the world 'exist' can be said about fictional world and characters.
🍛 Oda saw other ghosts. Andre Gide, a person, dressed in a winter coat, Shibusawa Tatsuhiko and others. Oda was sure, that there was more ghost. They were almost invisible. But, he was sure, that they were here.
🍛 Other ghosts wasn't very talkative. Oda didn't try that hard in making a small talk.
🍛 And Oda was thinking. He remembered every book he has read. He thought about every time characters has died or suffer. It didn't make the author a bad person for writing these books. It didn't make readers bad people for liking these books.
🍛 Oda still feel sadness. Sadness for kids' death. Sadness for other characters.
🍛 But, despite everything, Oda can't bring himself to be angry.
🍛 It wasn't anyone's fault. Not theirs. Not readers'. Not author's.
🍛 And then, one day, he felt an entity's gaze on him.
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It was staring.
It wasn't blinking.
Its presence felt suffocating.
Oda was on his guard. He wasn't sure, if this thing was human.
Maybe, it was a demon. Or a god, that made them self-aware.
One thing was clear.
Something real was looking at them.
Oda's ability never showed him any danger. But, he wished that the imposing entity will disappear.
Right now, it didn't do anything. But, for how long it will be that way? How long it will be passive?
And can they fight against it?
Oda wonders if he can do anything against it. Anything to protect others.
And then, time resets.
And he, once again, was a fourteen-year-old assassin, captured at S&K Corporation.
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When they start feeling your presence
🍛 The Entity is gone. No more heavy gaze on them.
🍛 At least, for now, Oda can rest. As much as his situation allows him.
🍛 He heard the noise from the other room. The Bodyguard has arrived.
🍛 This time, there were someone else with the bodyguard. Oda can feel two people entering the room he was held in. The second one wasn't dangerous. The second one was simply watching. And they were... Interested? In him?
🍛 The second one was like an open book. Oda could feel their emotions as clear as day.
🍛 Bodyguard and Second One left together. And Oda, once again, heard, how Detective proved Secretary's fault. And Oda, once again, killed the secretary.
🍛 Oda felt, that he needed to do it. But, this time, he didn't want to do it.
🍛 When Bodyguard ripped off the sack, that was covering Oda's face, Oda saw Bodyguard, dead Secretary, and a person, who, for some reason, became in a light blob and were floating above them.
🍛 Apparently, they had the strangest ability ever. At least, among abilities Oda knew about.
🍛 Oda didn't even stop his gaze on them. Just another person.
🍛 Oda, once again, was taken in by police.
🍛 Oda saw Bodyguard and Strange Ability User again, when Bodyguard tried to find information about 'V'.
🍛 Strange Ability User were, once again, were curious about him. And worried about Young Detective.
🍛 And they were floating above him and Bodyguard.
🍛 Okay, why they still were a Light Blob? For what reason? What exactly this ability was for? To be cute? To be able to float? To allow others feel their emotions?
🍛 Oda decide not to ask. It's none of his business.
🍛 The strange day was over. And then time 'resets again'. Oda 'woke up' standing on his front porch. And Dazai, bloodied and wounded, was laying on his front porch. And, for some reason, Strange Ability User were there too. Still as a Light Blob.
🍛 Light Blob lowered themselves and settled on Oda's head.
🍛 Oda had an urge to throw them off. But, right now, he needs to take care of Dazai's wounds.
🍛 And then Oda heard a whisper that came from Light Blob.
"so sorry..." "why..." "him..."
🍛 And sadness. Sadness. As pure as a mountain spring. Like they were... grieving.
🍛 Light Blob... Were they really a human? Or, were they The Entity in disguise?
🍛 Maybe, Dazai knew something about them? Well, there are some time, before he will wake up.
🍛 With Light Blob on his head, Oda carries Dazai into his house.
🍛 Light Blob talked from time to time.
"Oda" "funny" "dangerous, but" "still try to help"
🍛 Okay, when few years? yesterday? Oda called them cute, he was joking. But... They are sounding adorable.
🍛 When Dazai woke up, Oda saw, that his friend looked shocked, angry, sad and happy at the same time. Oda pointed at the Light Blob and asked.
"Dazai, do you know, who are this? This Light Blob sounds adorable."
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Their talk was long. Dazai told Oda about everything he knew about The Entity.
And about thinking, that The Entity was evil.
Oda, after getting some answers about The Entity/Light Blob, was silent. Once again, it all was connected to them been fictional characters. Oda looked at Light Blob. At The Reader.
Oda has been thinking about it before. When he was a ghost on empty streets of Yokohama. Oda knew what he should tell Dazai.
"I don't think so, Dazai. We may be fictional characters. But, reading a book about a fictional character with a sad past doesn't mean, that The Reader enjoys suffering. Or, you don't think, that there's nothing interesting in us, except our suffering."
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🍛 Oda learned to enjoy Light Blob's company. Oda talked with them from time to time.
"Hey, Blobby, want to go for a walk?"
"Maybe, I should add more spice? What do you think, Blobby?"
"Don't be afraid of Dazai. I knew, that soon he will stop distrust you. He will see, that you aren't evil."
🍛 Oda encouraged Dazai to spoke to the Entity, but Dazai refused to do it. At least until their poker game.
🍛 Then came a run in with "48".
🍛 When Dazai and Oda were trying to escape, the Light Blob were floating ahead. Lighting their way. Dazai compared them to a guiding light.
🍛 Little Light were worried, when Dazai was poisoned.
🍛 Little Light was amazed by his fighting skills. And not even once they were disappointed, that Oda didn't kill anyone.
🍛 And when Dazai and Oda came to bar "Lupin" for the first time, the Light Blob was floating above them.
🍛 Oda thought, that it would be nice, if three of them, Dazai, Light Blob and him, spend time together.
🍛 And time reset once again.
🍛 Dazai, Oda and Ango, once again, met in bar "Lupin".
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There was sorrow in Dazai's and Ango's eyes.
They felt, that there is nothing they can do to change the outcome.
Little Light were trembling. They were sad.
"Why [||||||||||||] no one deserves it!"
There was sorrow in Mori's eyes.
"I am sorry, Oda-kun. If this time it could be different, I would choose another path. They like you. And I don't want Voice to be upset. They are... precious to all of us."
Little Light were still sad.
"Oda, [||||||||] don't deserve it"
Oda felt Light Blob sadness, when he was visiting Katsumi, Shinji, Sakura, Yuu and Kousuke.
"[||||||||||||] don't deserve it"
Oda felt Little Light's sympathy towards Gide.
"No one deserved it..."
Little Light were crying with Oda, when the van with orphans inside was blowed up.
Little Light were trying to stop Oda together with Dazai.
"Please [|||||||||||||] stay..."
Little Light were crying, when his battle ended. They were crying for everyone, who were hurt by this conflict.
"People live to save themselves. It's something they realize right before they die, huh...? He was... right..."
Once again, Oda died in Dazai's arms.
Oda again was a ghost. Just like before the time reset.
And he heard the voice.
"sorry" "poor kids, poor Oda, poor everyone" "if only I can"
"Oda. If only I could do it, I would make sure that everyone would stay alive. I am so sorry. I wish... You were alive... That they were alive... That your dream came true..."
Oda feels like he was embraced by someone warm and nice.
Oda feels something wet on his shoulder.
[In reality, your tears drop on LN's pages.]
Oda's words were warm. He heard, how Dazai called you 'Guiding Light'. Fitting name.
"Guiding Light, don't be sorry. It's not your fault. You are a good person. I wish, we could talk more..."
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🍛 Oda, as a ghost, was, once again, observing others. He saw, how Armed Detective Agency slowly come to see you in a good light. How last members of the Mafia accept you as a normal person.
🍛 Oda and other ghosts saw, how new people joined forces to find a way out of the fictional world. A way to you.
But then, one day, the purple moon shined above Yokohama.
And one day, the purple moonlight embraced Sakunosuke Oda.
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When you installed BSD Mayoi Inu Kaikitan
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They saw Purple Moon above them. You got an SSR card. BSD Cast were waiting. They were curious about whose card you got.
R,R,R,SR,R,SR,SR,SR,R...
And, finally, SSR...
New one...
But, no one of the characters, whose SSR cards you don't have, felt, that it was their cards.
Purple moonlight fill the room.
They heard your voice.
"Wow! Oda's card! Neat!"
Purple moonlight faded.
Oda Sakunosuke, man, who died four years ago, was standing there. Alive.
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🍛 Yosano ran a check-up on Oda. He was fine and well, just a little bit dizzy.
🍛 Dazai and Ango didn't leave Oda's side. They wanted to make sure that their friend is really here.
🍛 Oda was glad to be alive. This way, he can help others to find a way to your world.
🍛 But, for now, he will enjoy your company.
🍛 Oda didn't do much with his cards. He is more interested in where you 'throw' the marble.
🍛 If you have his card in a team, he will use his ability and 'throw' the marble for you. Because of that, you will always have 100% clear stage.
"Why Oda's cards are so pretty?"
"Okay, Oda, let's win this Boss Battle."
"It seems, that I can win Oda SR card in this event. Well, tome to clear some stages.
🍛 Oda (and then Shibusawa with Gide) was helping with adding new cards (new characters) in game. With his ability, he managed to help to add other 'ghost' characters in the game.
🍛 One time, Oda was approached by Natsume Soseki. He asked Oda if he wants to help him and Poe to write new Seasons to add in game. Natsume explained, that Seasons were written like Diary Entries. Oda promised to think about it. He feels, that observing you make him feel better. He wants to know as much as he can about you. About a real person. Maybe, his dream can become a reality.
🍛 He wants to try to write about your world. About real people. About real you.
🍛 Oda is waiting for the moment he will meet with you. He wants to discuss so many things with you. Finally, his conversations will stop to be one-sided.
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You got another note in the Gift Box.
Some Gold. And a note.
"Hello, [Y/N]. I hope, that you are alright. Hey, do you have any book recommendations? Will like to discuss literature with you while eating curry. Oda Sakunosuke"
You smile and open Oda's card in Character menu. You pat Chibi Oda's head.
"I might recommend something to you, Oda. Hope, you will like my recommendations. And, I like the idea of eating curry with you."
You didn't notice, that Oda's sprite nodded and smiled.