27th sigh - Second verse, same as the first

[slave_of_suzumiya]

[At 915 Bilko Boulevard, Kyon awakens completely unaware of the fact he's been gone a month...]

(... I didn't leave my room like this last night. Hold it... Is this even the same room? Let's see if I can get some bearings here... Is it even the same house!? Ugh, stupid Mayfield geography... Identical streets... What the hell is going on here?)

[To the phones!]

Hey uh, what the heck is going on here? I'm pretty sure I wasn't in this house yesterday. Ugh, stupid Mayfield...

Comments

[bogusmagicker.livejournal.com]

It has been one month and eight days.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

That long, huh? ... Did I miss anything interesting?

[bogusmagicker.livejournal.com]

Obligatory truths. And the Fourth of July.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Obligatory truths, huh? Well, I guess it's good I missed out on that one. I'd rather not be telling to whole town about Integrated Data Thought Entities, Time Plane Destruction Devices and the Mighty Morphin' Esper Rangers.

[bogusmagicker.livejournal.com]

I did, instead.

Additionally, Officer Grady has been killed.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

What? So... They know now?

... Wait, hold it... What, what, WHAT? Killed? As in dead and gone and not coming back?

[bogusmagicker.livejournal.com]

Memories are data. They have been altered.

That is correct.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Hold it, I thought people weren't supposed to be dead here. You die one day and wake up the next, like Super Mario or something.

[bogusmagicker.livejournal.com]

That applies only when they desire it to. You have been previously informed of the execution of the Russian.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Oh right. Of course. I'd forgotten about that.

[bogusmagicker.livejournal.com]

In this case, both Jane Smith and Officer Grady appear to have been removed as factors within this game. I will provide you with full details in writing.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

That's an interesting development...

[bogusmagicker.livejournal.com]

It remains to be seen if it indicates a weakening in the town's operations.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Well, Lucy is the boss, right? As long as she's here, we've still got trouble.

[bogusmagicker.livejournal.com]

Yes.

It appears Lucy is a disguise for the one responsible for the creation of the town.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

A disguise, huh? Makes sense.

[bogusmagicker.livejournal.com]

His identity appears to be that of Zemekis, the name previously mentioned in the Westport notes.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Zemekis, huh? Can't say it rings any bells. Unless we're talking about the guy who wrote and directed Back to the Future.

(Well, I suppose it is the 1950s here...)

[bogusmagicker.livejournal.com]

......?

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Uh... Back to the Future. It's a trilogy of American films made in the 1980s. This guy travels back to the 1950s and almost screws up the circumstances of his birth. They were directed by a Robert Zemeckis, I think?

[bogusmagicker.livejournal.com]

[Yuki seriously considers this for a moment or two.]

I do not think he is likely to be related to this affair.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Yeah, I don't think so either.

[bogusmagicker.livejournal.com]

An examination of all notable individuals with the surname may be useful, however. I will attempt to find the data.

[slave_of_suzumiya]

Perhaps. But you'd probably need to gather data from other worlds for it to actually have a chance of working. I mean, there's a lot of people here from worlds with absolutely no semblance to our own.

[bogusmagicker.livejournal.com]

True. In an infinite multiverse, there exist an infinite number of Zemekises.