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"Oh, what the fresh fuck is this."

Next to Shinji, Koromaru whines. He has no idea either, but it doesn't smell dangerous.

Shinji sighs. "Good to know, I guess..." He maneuvers his coat around in his hands until he can reach in the pocket - okay, keys are still there, he should be able to duck back out to Liminal Space whenever he wants. Cool.

Now to figure out what the fresh fuck this is.

He ignores Igor entirely, and almost does the same to the conspiracy board until the word 'Tartarus' jumps out at him. Well, shit, that's not a good sign. Oh well. At least he knows where he stands with the Dark Hour, and he's actually way better equipped to handle it than the last time he had to.

Anyway, that gets him to stop long enough to scan the information, and then he's off to Iwatodai. Reading can only tell you so much, after all. Actually seeing what's out there is going to work a hell of a lot better.

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"And from what Minako said, shit only got worse from there."

Koromaru growls in agreement. November was not good. (Shinji's kind of glad he was indisposed for the whole Ikutsuki thing, honestly.)

"Pretty much. There was the whole thing in October, and then after the full moon in November Ikutsuki took control of Aigis and killed Mitsuru's dad." And they still had no answers as to what was causing the Dark Hour. That's about as far as Makoto is right now, he'd heard a little bit about Nyx and what it is from Crow, but he sure as hell doesn't have a full picture.

"And that wasn't your fault either. It wasn't anybody's fault except Ikutsuki's. I can say I never trusted him, but I've trusted two adults in my life and I'm not sure who decided I get to be one of the adults now." That sounds Fake And Wrong.

But it's also probably apparent by now that Shinji has a little emotional distance from everything that went down.

"According to you 'dumb fucking luck'," Makoto repeats back to Shinji mentioning he wasn't sure who decided he was an adult. "How long ago did all this stuff happen for you?" Makoto can't say he isn't curious how much distance Shinji had from the events of 2009.

Shinji snorts. Okay, got him there.

"Great question. Consistent calendars weren't really a thing. Best guess... four years or so."

Geez that was a long time. He mentions that where he went a consistent calendar wasn't something that he had. There was something else on his mind, more of a curiosity to him after what Crow had said about sealing Nyx away. "Can I ask what happened to Minako? Somebody else told me a little bit about 2016 in his world and what happened to me so...if you don't wanna say I get it." He doesn't want Shinji to be mad if it is sensitive after all.

As quick as he smiled, it's gone again.

"Well, she ended up in the same place I did, so it's kinda complicated. But as far as she knows she's supposed to be dead."

He's not going to soften the blow. It is what it is.

Yeah that was what Makoto thought. It would be what it would be if the same thing happened to him. "Yeah, Crow told me that's what happened in his world." He also got told that everyone else ends up investigating the Shadows forever, but dwelling on that doesn't seem right.

Koromaru goes to Makoto and nudges him. Nothing like petting a dog to help process bad news, right?

"Probably what happened in most of 'em."

Koromaru nudges his hand, causing him to smile. "Actually you never know. Crow also told me there's some version of me wandering around that's technically a Shadow." Makoto doesn't know the significance of that in the slightest, it's just kind of interesting to him.

"You? Not that Ryoji guy? What the fuck happened there?"

Shinji doesn't expect Makoto to be able to answer that, but clearly something got fucky.

"Ryoji?" Makoto hadn't met a Ryoji. It's more than likely going to be a future him problem.

"I haven't met that me, you might have to ask him about that directly." If Shinji's genuinely curious Makoto figures that's the only person that would have the answer to his question.

"Never met him personally. Minako didn't talk about him much, either, so I don't really know what his deal was, just that it had something to do with the Dark Hour's root cause."

Something to do with the Dark Hour's root cause. That was sort of surprising. No wonder Shinji wanted to know why Makoto's other self would be in that role. "I think there's a lot of weird different timelines here, from what I understand."

Shinji shrugs. "Ain't the first time. The Inaba kids in Liminal Space had a real clusterfuck goin' on."

"Liminal Space? Is that why you didn't have calendars?" He can only assume that Shinji had been in a similar in between reality space, since time didn't mean a whole lot here either.

"More or less. There were pretty regular Christmas parties, so we had something to guess from, but the worlds we got dropped into the rest of the time weren't even pretending to be on the same schedule."

Except for Questing Country and the space places it's connected to, but even then.

That actually sounded kind of interesting, but Makoto was sure that Shinji didn't really care to talk about all of it. Makoto had also already asked an awful lot of questions.

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