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[truthdecided]

Ren is in the clinic.

[Akechi's words are blunt, monotone, and he tries desperately to not any ripples of worry or distress slip through his thoughts.

Still, those focusing closely may still feel it. A tingling feeling like ants skittering across one's brain.]

I will be doing what I can to care for him. Obviously, I'm not clinic staff, but I owe him as much.

[Something like irritation starts to flare, but it fizzles out fast.]

I told him not to overdo it. Now he's going to fall even further behind.

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[truthdecided]

Agreed. The phenomenon subsided by the time the second wave of arrivals appeared, which begs the question of why it was only us affected to begin with.

[dripdrive]

[Anasui mentally raises his hand up, as if to say 'hey, I'm one of those arrivals in the second wave'.]

The fog has been receding strangely. Maybe it's something involving that... Or it's random. Who can say?

[truthdecided]

Quite a few strange phenomena have occurred over the past several months.

[Images flicker in succession. An Orthworm defending a medicine lure as if it was its own child, a Persian deliriously fighting to defend a Purrloin it mistook for its own child... The Swoobat Swarm, the spreading fog, the rain and the memories it unveiled...

Then there's Zweilous, more recently.]

The fog, the forest spores, the general aggression among the wild Pokémon population... A great many mysteries remain, and though it's true that the fog has receded since the three large bounties joined Bottlecap Bay, that doesn't guarantee that it's over.

[dripdrive]

[Even though he's witnessed some of these events (the latter ones especially), it's fascinating to see it from another perspective. Anasui reviews the memories like someone studying footage. He gives a low hum as he mills his own thoughts over.]

More realistically, our problems are just beginning. Especially since we're going to start branching out of the forests soon. [Not that branching out is a bad thing. More, Anasui knows how a calm before a storm feels more than anyone else.]