Welcome to the underground business. Where the tainted stay tainted and the pure turn stained. Where allies are rare and enemies rack every agenda. The public are kept blind and dumb to international issues, and that's why one group in particular, h...
🌙: Gottahand it to them for trying. But we should still watch our backs. If they can hack Beta, I'm sure there's a Plan B-F in their agenda. Remind me why people are trying to match our identities with our online personas again?
🐻: Money. Fame. Maybe a conspiracy theory framing our morals on whether they're ethical or not. Blackmail. Possibly... a personal history with one of us.
🌙: Or all of us. We started T6-GEO@ when we got together last year. Before that, we...
🌙: I'm sorry, I can't remember what happened last... that's so... strange.
🐻: Last year? What are you talking about? We've been together for the last four years...
🌙: Huh? That can't be right. I know it's only been a year. Last year...
🌙: ... last year I... the last three years... ohmygod... it's blank.
🐻: You can't remember??
🌙: What is going on...? I'm freaking out... this isn't right. Last four YEARS? Am I delusional? I'm feeling light-headed. I'm... this...
🐻: Are you telling me... the dream I had last night... wasn't a dream... but... the truth...?
🌙: I'm freaking out. I need to get out. My teacher was right. Being cooped up in my apartment messes with my head. I'm going to take a walk. Maybe I'll come back to my senses.
🌙: HELP ME, I'm scared. What exactly is going on, Asao.
🐻: ....
🐻: What did you... just say?
🐻: What did you just—
🐻: Are you there?
🐻: VENUS? VENUS.
🌙: OH it's u. I was staring at this phone wondering who I'm typing to. Ur Pooh!
🐻: Venus?
🌙: 'Venus?' Ah, T6's business? You said we would meet the team tomorrow. Did I fall asleep while we were talking? Sorrry, man!
🐻: ... This conversation— who the hell are you? How in the world do you know that name?
🌙: Um, Asao? Are u sick in the head? I know ur mind's imaginative & stuff when we play but this is too much. Yru asking ur best friend what his name is??
🐻: 'his...?'
🌙: We literally saw each other yesterday in the yard, dude. OK actually, I just looked around & I don't know where I am right now, but I'm probably just confused after my nap. We were in DC w/ the rest of ur buddies, but I never got to meet-meet them yet. God, r u sure U don't need a nap?
🐻: J.J...?
🌙: Hi?
🐻: This is crazy. You do realize that... this conversation was... four years ago... right?
🌙: I've been... sleeping for that long...?
🐻: You're not saying 'sleeping' as in 'sleeping-sleeping,' are you?
🌙: Did something happen, Asao? I'm confused. What's going on. Where am I? What year is it? Where r u?
🐻: J.J. Go find a mirror. Tell me who you see.
🌙: That'screepy. Stop playing.
🐻: Do it. Take me with you then.
🌙: ... It's her! I remember. This is Risa's body, isn't it? Isn't she the girl u kept telling me about? She's asleep rn but I forgot how we looked. She's grown a lot.
🐻: Risa had dissociative identity disorder. That's what— shit. Oh my god, the memories are coming back. I have to go.
🌙: Asao??
🐻: Listen, I need you to listen to an old friend. Wake Risa up. Don't come out until she's ready. Will you do that? You remember our past, right?
🌙: It's the present for me...
🐻: It may not seem much at the moment but you have to believe me. Things have changed greatly over the past four years. But our memories have been stuck in time. You cannot, absolutely cannot, come out again. Not while risking the possibility that Risa's other is waking up as well.
🌙: Alright, alright! But Risa's other...?— I remember who it is now.
🐻: I'm going to erase the history of this chat up to where you came in. Please keep a low profile. And most importantly...
🐻: Do not let the other one find you.
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For those of you confused, all the clues have been scattered in each chapter. Summary of what happened in this chapter:
Risa checks the message from Pooh. It's a private message. They figure out Beta's fake and the real one's missing.
And then... you guys should be as confused as Pooh. The answer lies in DID (dissociative identity disorder). Everything will become clearer in following chapters.