melodiesoflife | Hidden Truth [Log]

What: A log for everyone to gain the information in the Hidden Truth video tape.
Where: The Observatory.

There had been a flurry of letters sent out from Jack and Chiaki, first to Zelda to ask to borrow the Observatory, and then to every Hero of Light, alerting them that they had uncovered some intelligence received in the Heran Empire before the Capital had fallen to Crystal, and that everyone needed to see it immediately.

Jack, Chiaki, and a few others brought in a screen connected to a machine that some would recognize as a VCR. "With our peace mission to the Imperial Capital over Christmas, we returned with a recording made on 20th-century Earth technology, the kind that doesn't have an analogue on Crystallis. It took us time to build a machine to be able to play it. This information comes from Kalki, recorded what appears to be years ago. We obtained it from the Imperial Spy, Jenni. As of right now, we still have no reason to believe that Kalki is alive. But this comes from her, and I apologize to everyone who might be upset by seeing her again."

With that, Jack plays the recording. He stands by the screen and repeats the words for everyone to hear, for those who cannot understand English. Since Kalki's first words are to explain why she is recording it this way, it makes sense why he has to do this. He keeps his own emotions in check throughout, until the explanation of the Bard song that everyone gets to hear. That seems to upset Jack.

Once the recording is over, Jack pauses. "We will need some help from any other English speakers to create a written transcript of the recording so that anyone can access this information at any time. The tape and player will remain here for any Heroes to review. We ask that you please be careful with the machine."

Finally, Jack sits down to let the room descend into the inevitable chaos.

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"Oh, you mean they think he doesn't mean it, or that they'll go to some better, new world after they destroy this one" That was the sort of thing Nanami could understand. Put that way, it didn't sound that different than what End of the World promised the Student Council.

"The latter. Why else would you follow someone so fanatically unless you trusted them?" Nanami looked so certain about her suggestions. Curious. "This is a serious situation, you know. The end of the world is no lighthearted matter."

"I know it's serious," Nanami said. "I've been here for over a year now." Long enough to see what sorts of things could happen to the whole world.

"Than maybe you should start acting like it!" He pointed at Nanami accusingly. "If we all just started taking this threat seriously instead of goofing around, we wouldn't be in this mess anymore!"

Something had finally pushed him over the edge, and Ales just had to vent.

"Oh, maybe this, oh, maybe that. And then everyone runs off without a plan. Where did that get us before? In a worse situation! Now we're stuck grasping at straws, and we'll never get any work done if we keep on waiting for Kalki's answer!" He gripped his hat and bit down a frustrated groan.

"No one is becoming a god. I'm leaving." He hopped off the chair and stormed out of the room. He needed to be alone.

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