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Good to see Russell again TwT

A sudden update XD

I love surprise 

I have a theory about Pry and MC.

Although Pry says MC shut him out of the Storage Room of the Carcass, Pry is probably inside the time egg. Pry obviously knows how the time egg works and even chats with Nerus in the record. (Only Nerus and MC have conversations with Pry and only Nerus recognizes him being in a ‘story’ where Pry ‘should not exist’.) Pry doesn’t object when Nerus think he’s grudging, but he still offers fake records for Nerus to witness and says it’s heartbreaking when Nerus fails to recognise him. (Similarly, Pry acts like he hates MC and is likely to hurt MC, but I don’t think Pry would do that.)

After Obli met with the Demiurge (whose name is Samael), the Demiurge says Obli cannot be deceived anymore. Also, after reading the story of Aloys and Noch, Pry’s comments suggest that the story has changed (for example, Obli joining to witness their story). Pry does not seem surprised (also when Nerus responded to him in the prologue). Two possible explanations: one, this is a feature of a general time egg (or the specific one that MC is using); two, Pry is (producing and) expecting such emergence. I think the real function of the time egg is to hatch a soul, which may be possible because the egg says the Carcass stores the advanced soul technology. (The pattern on the egg looks like snake teeth.)

When MC is thinking about the couples, I am thinking about MC and Pry. When the shadow tells Alessia that Nerus has become something that he never intended to be, I guess if this would happen to Obli due to the aeon’s power (the light, the soul). Also, for the soul amnesia, Obli seems to forget something that Nomino knows and is important. I would take a wild guess that MC and Pry (also Nerus and Obli) are the reincarnation of a couple/pair or one thing being split into two halves.

When MC thinks about why he can’t find his records, he proposes that he just watched it but not recognised it. But I have a third argument that the room stores MC’s records but the thread is behind the current one. MC and we players use fleshy eyes to observe, but not Pry, voidborns, aeons, and the Carcass itself. Other possibilities include MC’s record in other storage room or MC’s record being deleted by Pry. (If I were MC, I would look for Pry’s record XD) But we don’t have enough info so I would leave it here.

All in all, the interaction between MC and Pry provides more clues. I hope MC will (be able to) explore the Carcass (and we can see the family cg soon).

Congrats! I like how the couples care for each other. The writing is very effective.

I want to share a song that comes to my mind when I rethink about the story over and over.

//儚くたゆたう 世界を 君の手で 守ったから
今はただ 翼をたたんで ゆっくり 眠りなさい
永遠の 安らぎに つつまれて love through all eternity

You defended this fragile and fleeting world with your hands
So please, fold your wings and rest
Sheltered by an eternal peace, love through all eternity/

The new build is exciting! I have been thinking about Pyr.

First, I think Pyr is not Neru. Pyr seems to hold hatred towards Neru and mostly uses a mocking tone. When Neru asks Pyr who he is, Pyr already knows Neru would not recognize him and Pyr says it is ‘heartbreaking’. Therefore I think it is likely that Pyr is Obli. 

Second, at the end of Ch 1 and the start of Ch 2, we know the burned man is not alone in Record Storage. Since the burned man is watching the records (Prologue and Ch 1) and Prologue ended abruptly because the playback was ‘interrupted’, it is reasonable to guess Pyr is with the burned man in Record Storage. Speaking of the Carcass, the time egg says it ‘is a facility counting with the latest advancements in soul technology and magic’. The Carcass should be closely connected with the descendants or the shapeshifters. I am not sure if the Carcass is the red mansion that Nomino mentioned due to the colour of the sky. (The burned man says the colour is black but Nomino said the colour was blue. Or we just need to for a while for the sky to turn blue, or the sky was once blue but then turned black, if the Carcass is indeed the red mansion. Could it be the single record that is below even Shax and Nerus’ story?)

We know Neru is in the void (or once was), and he ‘transformed into something he never meant to be’. At the end of Prologue, the playback is severely interrupted by Pyr, who never show up again in Ch 2 (upon Build 0.6). Pyr asks the burned man to end ‘this endless tale’ with him (though the burned man has seemingly forgotten about the Backlog). I think ‘endless’ means ‘repeating’. There are branching timelines with some common events in the time egg and Obli in Ch 2 asks himself if there are other ways to handle the Battle of Aeon. I guess when the world is almost destroyed, God will show and rewind the clock, and the mission of the burned man is to help Pyr /Obli/Shax make the correct choice/change to end ‘this endless tale’. Neru or others related to Neru (like Alessia’s father?) should be suitable to play the role as the burned man. 

Anyway, I think Pyr will show up (like at the end of Ch 2 or the start of Ch 3) because he just can’t always stay at the Backlog. Pyr is probably waiting the burned man reads the records and gains his memories. I notice that Prologue is noted with ‘the first and the last move’, I wonder if we will revisit the chapter to end the tale because it is where the ‘endless’ tale begins (if we temporarily ignore the record below Shax and Nerus’ story).

Happy birthday~