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Chapter 14: What is a Youth? 19 42 lines
Normal YamashinaYes, I'm okay.
Normal YamashinaMy memories came flooding back all at once, so I'm still a bit disoriented, but... I am myself.
Normal YamashinaMy body may well have wanted to be reunited with its true memories for all these years.
Normal YamashinaThe EDEN beta test from eight years ago.
Normal YamashinaYes. It took place with several hundred invited participants. It was a closed beta.
Normal YamashinaWe tested both operations and gameplay.
Normal YamashinaAt the time I was working for the Nile Corporation, which Kamishiro had already bought out and acquired.
Normal YamashinaSuedou and I ran the beta test. But it was more than a test. It was a promo and a demo event in and of itself.
Normal YamashinaAnd to have such an accident occur at the event! None of the designers predicted it.
Normal YamashinaDuring the beta test, five children participating fell unconscious due to unknown causes.
Normal YamashinaFour regained consciousness quite soon, but the fifth became the first EDEN Syndrome patient.
Normal YamashinaI see... You're the daughter of Kamishiro's CEO.
Normal YamashinaI'm sorry, but I don't. It's not that my memory's been altered. I simply don't know!
Normal YamashinaI, and the EDEN I built, stole those children's lives. I couldn't bear it...
Normal YamashinaI couldn't face the failure I had created. My awareness of my guilt sickened me emotionally.
Normal YamashinaThat's why Suedou erased my memories for me. He saved me, for a time.
Normal YamashinaBy the beta test phase, the EDEN Network already had ties with various government agencies.
Normal YamashinaMassive amounts of money were in play. That was why no one could bring the project to a halt.
Normal YamashinaIn order to report that the test was a success, we had to pretend as if nothing had happened.
Normal YamashinaI think the only one to have talked to them was Suedou.
Normal YamashinaOnce they regained consciousness, the four of them all began to speak of peculiar things.
Normal YamashinaThe world they described was like something straight out of a fairy tale.
Normal YamashinaMost of the researchers concluded that excessive stress had induced a mass hysteria state.
Normal YamashinaSuedou did not, however.
Normal YamashinaHe alone insisted on hearing every last word the four children had to say.
Normal YamashinaHis eyes shone as if he were a child. Yes... As if he were a child who had found a treasure.
Normal YamashinaAh, but it's pointless to search for the children. Suedou stole their memories.
Normal YamashinaNot stole them, really, but, as he did for me, he encrypted them and sealed them away.
Normal YamashinaAlthough memories can be altered, they can never be completely erased. "Nothing" is a difficult thing to achieve.
Normal YamashinaYou would have to ask Suedou that.
Normal YamashinaStill, his sealing their memories may have saved them. They were all crying.
Normal YamashinaBy the way, I realize this is a selfish request, but there's something I'd like to ask of you.
Normal YamashinaCould you seal away my memories for me once more?
Normal YamashinaThe old me was too caught up in my work. My family couldn't depend on me, and I made my daughter--my darling Chika--cry more than a few times.
Normal YamashinaBut without my memories, I became a caring father. Without those memories, I was finally the ideal person my family needed me to be.
Normal YamashinaYou are correct. I experienced those symptoms because of a physical memory shift.
Normal YamashinaHuman memories do not exist solely in the brain. They shift to neurons throughout the body, accumulating in tiny amounts throughout.
Normal YamashinaWhich is why, for instance, no matter how hard you hide the memories in my head, my eyes, ears and hands won't forget them.
Normal YamashinaThat is how humans are made.
Normal YamashinaBut now that I've told you everything, I feel somehow more at ease. Perhaps this is a form of repentance.
Normal YamashinaI beg of you. Let me forget my past once more. I want my family to be happy for the rest of my life.