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Cleo Ritter
5/24 near Recolle University
Good afternoon. For those who don't know me, my name is Cleo Ritter, and I am a rather recent addition to this Retrospec community. I have some questions, to those of you who have received the strange visions after being made a part of this. Specifically, if you're willing, I'd like to hear about those visions. I thought if we collaborate and make a list of what kinds of visions each person receives, we might be able to find a pattern as to who gets what, and perhaps piece together a more complete understanding of what is going on here. Thank you in advance for being willing to share this, and I hope this will prove useful.

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I'd have liked to get more sensible flashbacks. And cool powers or something, like that guy who could change gravity.

[She hadn't even mentioned the other grisly memories, and she's not about to. Not because she's disturbed (she wasn't), but because she's said enough.]

So, what about yours?

I don't mind sharing. But for the sake of my own peace of mind, can you explain what you mean by a guy changing gravity? In your visions, or here?

I meant here. There was this guy who made a post about how he was stuck on the ceiling. I'm pretty sure he got down.

[Honestly, it'd been pretty funny.]

[There's a long pause as she takes that in. Every day since she's gotten Retrospec, she's had her sense of reality damaged further and further. This might just be too far.

So she ignores it.]

I've had two memories so far. One, I, or rather the person who the vision belonged to, wore armor and wielded a sword. She fought a monster, though I can't remember much detail about it. It had scales, but that is all. The fight occurred next to the edge of a steel city, with a view of the ocean far below it. The second was training in swordsmanship with an eldery man. The owner of the vision's grandfather, it seemed.

[No response to that? Well, if she wants to pretend that didn't happen, Nina isn't about to argue with her.]

Sounds like that person was a hero or something. A knight maybe? Or at least it sounds medieval. But a steel city?

I wonder about that? The steel city is why I can't call it medieval. I couldn't see much, but from what I could see, everything was made of steel. The ground, the buildings, everything. And it was so high above the ocean. I can only think it must have been flying, though I am hoping a more logical explanation exists.

...I'd say that's weird but I don't have any room to speak of. Maybe it's one of those mishmash settings like some video games. Floating islands're a mainstay of video games, too.

[Her family makes video games, she's gonna use that as a reference point, okay.]

... Are they? I've never played any.

Okay, you know my name?

[It's in her screenname after all.]

My parents own ÉcarlateSoft. They make a bunch of video games. So I end up exposed to a lot of them, though for me it's more of a side hobby than a primary one. Those games can get pretty weird, too.

I see. I apologize, I've never heard of that company until now.

[don't feel bad, nina, they don't make motorcycle stuff or workout equipment, so cleo just doesn't care enough.]

Do video games often involve inhuman people?

You must really not care about video games at all. It's big in that business. Well, video games aren't for everyone.

[She isn't really bothered.]

Anyways inhuman people're pretty common though usually they aren't the main character. But there're some games with nonhuman main characters.

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I do not. Sitting still for that long to play a game would drive me insane. Thank you for the information, though.

So you're an active sort, then. What do you do for hobbies?

Work out? I take karate lessons from Tatsuo, and I have a gym membership. Running, or weight lifting, or things like that. I suppose study for my classes doesn't count as a hobby.

[Does she even have an actual hobby?]

I exercise, though mostly to keep myself slim. Have to worry about that sort of thing when you're a model.

[what's a hobby. sounds fake.]

You're a model?

That's right, and I've been in some commercials, too. Still trying to break into television or movie acting, though.

I see. Is acting your goal, then? I confess I don't know much about it, but I wish you luck with it.

I like modelling, but I'd like to do some more acting, too. What about you? What's your goal?

I aim to join the police. Currently I am studying law and ethics at university with a job shadow program at the police department. Nothing as glamorous as yours.

[Oh, a would-be police officer. They'd mostly been nice to her, but she'd gotten a very serious talking to after that incident.]

Well, police're very important. There'd be way more of a mess without them.
Glamour isn't everything.

[Honestly, she can't see why people want to work in jobs like that, but good for them. All the better to enable her lifestyle.]

[Cleo is, of course, totally oblivious to all of that.]

Well-said. I don't think glamour suits me nearly as well as it does you, but that's all right. All I wish for is to help people.

Yeah. I give to charities and do some volunteer work. Everyone should do what they can.

[Mostly because it makes her look good. Her heart isn't really in it.]

[... yeah, she's falling for it 100%.]

That's rather impressive. You're quite a good person.

Thank you. You're a good person too.