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Ladies and gentlemen, can any of you hear my voice? I pray that my voice will reach you. Do you remember me, old friend?
I call myself Outer.
There are many things I’d like to say, but currently, I’m just a humble narrator of this tale. Or perhaps an observer...or maybe even a commentator. Both are correct.
I wasn’t allowed to even appear in this tale, you see. Is this a coincidence or the inevitable?
You don’t understand my words, you say? Well, I guess that’s my fault. It’s not right to suddenly talk nonsense like this, is it?
But if you can hear my words, it means that you’re just like me—a being who observes this world without being in it. We are the “audience” to this tale, so to speak.
So, won’t you humor me for a bit? I’ve always been alone, you know. Just take this as the rambling of an old man.
Now then...
This world has stepped away from the “game” it was originally meant to be. One of the causes for this is, as you might know, Lofus Ray Lightless. He has learned of his grisly future and seen a dream where he was killed countless times.
He was supposed to be one of the heels or villains of this game, but now he’s decided to jump into action to avoid a future of his own destruction. Though it seems Roguebert, the village he visited, has undergone a change of its own; it, too, has deviated from the script.
The monsters weren’t supposed to become aggressive this early in the timeline. No, that was scheduled to happen much later. The whale, which Lofus called the “Wicked Whale,” didn’t even exist in the game. Where did it come from? What’s going on here?
Are there others, like Lofus, who’ve learned of their futures and are trying to change it? When the Wicked Whale summoned monsters in the sea and turned them aggressive, it was eerily similar to the Catastrophe, which occurred when the Demon Lord was resurrected.
Perhaps the normal conclusion to draw is that Lars, the Demon Lord of the first arc of this game, is related to the whale somehow. Or is this the work of the God of Darkness? The game was consolidated into five arcs, each containing a villain that could be seen as the “final boss” of their tales. All of them were related to the God of Darkness, the root of everything. Is the Wicked Whale related to the God of Darkness too?
Personally, I’m more interested in Lofus’s archnemesis, Faltiana, and her change in character. She now seems infatuated with him, but such a thing should be impossible, especially according to the game’s script. After all, Faltiana’s wrath and anger toward Lofus within the game were immeasurable. It was certainly not some kind of half-hearted hatred. More unexpected was that Lofus seems to have opened up a bit to Faltiana. Unexpected, and certainly unforeseen.
After the two were thrown into the sea, she risked her very life to save his, and perhaps that softened his attitude toward her. Was his nightmare of being killed countless times by her not enough of a deterrent?
Now, then, I suppose that’s all the time I have today.
I wish you all a wonderful day ahead, and I pray that we can meet again.