four; video.

[leadthebeats]

[ There is one clearly annoyed teenage girl using the feed today, and she is annoyed. Then again, when isn't she? ]

Someone better tell me that seeing gray everywhere is normal.

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[cawmemaybe]

[ aw, man. does that mean she can't see all that orange glory? ]

Nope. It's still a rainbow party all up in here.

[leadthebeats]

Great. More reasons why I hate this place.

[cawmemaybe]

Join the club. We meet only on the worst days of the week, aka Sundays and Mondays.

[leadthebeats]

Oh, I never thought that those days were so horrible.

[notjohnsmith]

Is anything different about your sense of smell?

Or... no, for the moment, it's best just to stick with my first question.

[leadthebeats]

Ha ha, very funny.

[ Does she have to come over and punch you, Kyon? Does she? ]

But no, my sense of smell is completely fine, thank you very much.

or at least he's pretending to be

[notjohnsmith]

Then I'm out of ideas.

[leadthebeats]

Don't lie to me; I know you had another question to ask.

[notjohnsmith]

Do you see anything else unusual? It's hard to say from one difference what the problem might be. Maybe you've been transported into a television world and it's an older program, so everything is black and white. But if that's the case, the technology would look older.

The point is, it's hard to come to a conclusion from just one data point.

[leadthebeats]

[ Yuri doesn't reply until a few minutes later, after she's done. She knows that what she found out was locked, but still. It's not like anybody else is going to understand if she just tells him something that's vague. ]

Big blue giants count as 'unusual', don't they?

[notjohnsmith]

What?!

You need to call Koizumi! Right away!

[leadthebeats]

He's already told me all the details.

[notjohnsmith]

Then... be careful!

I'll see what I can do to help from out here.

You'd think at a time like this, there wouldn't be any...

[leadthebeats]

Looks can be deceiving, though. That goes the same for the human mind.

[notjohnsmith]

Obviously.

In any case, you can leave that part to me. If you deal with the Celestials that have already appeared, I'll do my best to make sure there are no more on their way.

[leadthebeats]

Well, thanks.

Your help would be appreciated.

[invisus]

I could tell you, but you'd have to come here first.

[leadthebeats]

And why exactly would I want to come to you?

[Video]

[dontmindmepleasecontinue]

Gray? What -

[Brief pause as the video is quickly locked.]

No people anywhere, nothing in the sky, unexplained dim ambient lighting, cars and objects left around randomly? Traffic lights where all the lights are on?

[ video; filtered. ]

[leadthebeats]

Yes, yes, and yes.

[ There's also a brief pause from her end before she sighs. ]

Why?

[Video]// locked

[dontmindmepleasecontinue]

[Start talking, Koizumi, you'd better explain this before the Celestials appear.

For the first time since you met him, Koizumi is not smiling.] Remember when I told you I went to high school with God?

When she got angry or frustrated, she would - unconsciously - create what we call closed space. A world in a dimensional fault - completely separated from our world. There, creatures would appear - blue giants which would destroy within the world you see, presumably venting her frustration - in this way, the real world was kept safe from the wrath of God.

However, as these creature wreaked their destruction, the closed space grew - if allowed to encompass the entire world, it would replace it. That is where I come in.

I - and a group of people like me, back on my original world - was granted the power to enter these closed space and, there, to fight and defeat the giants. When the giants are defeated, the pocket of closed space is destroyed.

[Pause.]

It would seem that at present, the island has seen fit to take away my powers and grant them to you instead.

[ video; filtered. ]

[leadthebeats]

... So basically you're saying that these 'blue giants' are like her guardian angels of doom.

[ Unfortunately, Yuri has yet to understand how exactly to defeat these giants as of right now. Thankfully, the Celestials haven't arrived yet, but this still pisses her off. ]

So exactly how do I defeat these giants if they do show up?

[Video]// locked

[dontmindmepleasecontinue]

If you were able to enter closed space, you should have my other powers as well. You should be able to fly, and to harness a form of pure energy which, if you surround yourself with it, should be able to cut through the giants very easily.

Unfortunately, I can't tell you exactly how to access these powers - from what I gather from my previous colleagues, it seems to be specific to the individual.

I'd recommend clearing your mind and attempting to fly first. Once you can do the, you should be able to accomplish the rest the same way.

[ video; filtered. ]

[leadthebeats]

I'll try.

[ Hopefully she can do this or else she will have to punch someone in the gut. ]

[ video; filtered. ]

[dontmindmepleasecontinue]

Good luck. I'll let you focus, but let me know if you need anything else.

And be careful! Even if you knew how to fully control your powers, this would be a dangerous fight; back home, there were always near to a dozen espers fighting any given Celestial - that's what we call the blue giants. Here, I've been the only one - and there's no guarantee there will only be one giant present.