Ken's arrival (bis repetita)

[the_ken]

Okay. Well. Ken had to admit that, when he went to bed last night, he did not expect to wake up in a blue room and be welcomed by a long-nosed man. He would have thought that it was a dream, but he's been in enough of them to know it's nothing of the sort. This place had a dinstinct, strong feeling, not quite reality, but much firmer than a dream.

He wasn't certain he could trust Igor-san yet, if he was perfectly honest. But in the case that he was not lying... it was actually great news. The real world was rough, currently, with Yuki-san being...

...

Well, a pause to make new friends couldn't hurt. Especially since he was learning again, learning to be alive, learning to live for himself, like Aragaki-san had asked him to. He couldn't let him down, not in a million years.

Malicious or not, Igor-san was right. He needed bonds. And he would make them.

Someone may meet this Ken...

1) while reading the information board. Even if being here seemed to overall be a good thing, that did not mean throwing caution out of the window. He needed information, and the kind soul having put together this compilation would save him a lot of time.

2) in Iwatodai, Ken being curious to see if the dorm SEES stayed at was still a thing in this strange place.

Comments

[fruitknife]

"Exactly what I said. This ain't my first time being yanked away from home."

Koromaru barks. Shinji brought him there too! It was fun! Except for the times he was really bored.

[the_ken]

"Oh, I see. And don't worry, Koromaru, of course we're not forgetting you here. I'm sure you had adventures too."

He plopped down on the couch, looking tired.

"Wew... that's a lot to take in at once. But... I'll admit it's nice to see familiar faces in this strange new land."

[fruitknife]

"It is, kinda. Even if it's mostly kids your age from Tokyo who got their own round of bullshit, few years down the road from us."

That's the part that gets to Shinji the most. He's still trying to figure out where the hell Mitsuru was for the Phantom Thieves debacle. (Signs point to 'the asshole at the top of the human conspiracy had enough pull to block her out,' which is a different kind of upsetting.)

[the_ken]

"I've only learned a little about that, but I'm far from having a complete picture yet. All I know is that, considering how harrowing our own operation was, it can't have been much better for anyone else."

That touched upon a question to which Ken didn't yet have the answer. Did he regret having gotten this power? He got to help everyone, but at a steep price, and he certainly misused it at first, focused on the wrong goal.