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[As the feed clicks on, it reveals a very confused pink haired young lady. At first, she seems to be talking to herself.]

I don't understand. I thought the UMN networks were gone now... but this seems to be connected to something. And I don't recognize this planet at all. What's going on...?

[She pauses for a few moments as she looks around and tries to get her bearings. Then, figuring she has nothing to lose, she tries sending out a message.]

Umm, can anyone hear me? Mommy? Ziggy? Is anyone out there?

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[Well.

It would seem more and more of his own are showing up. He bothers to switch it to video solely to see her reaction, and thus attempt to judge from how far along in the current cycle she is.]

Hello, MOMO Mizrahi.

You're a far ways away from home.

[MOMO lets out a startled yelp and nearly drops her phone. This was so not a familiar face that she wanted to see.]

Y-you...!

[Well, he got what he wanted.]

I apologize for startling you.

I simply needed to know where on the timeline you had come from.

[She holds the phone at arms length, as if that will somehow protect her.]

Timeline? What do you mean?

[It's bizarre. He feels a sense of sorrow, and yet delight, at the girl's reaction. He doesn't necessarily want to be feared. What he did, he did solely to protect reality itself as a last resort, until mankind's conscious could evolve to the point where it would no longer need him. And yet, to illicit such a reaction...there's a fine line between respect and fear, Wilhelm certainly knew that, but both were signs of a single idea: power.

And power was something Wilhelm was keen on. Not necessarily personal, but his need to have it and enforce it for his duty was at least familiar. And here, where he was stripped of his powers, to see that people still feared him.

It was a comfort. A guilty one, but a comfort still. That his mere presence invoked fear. Invoked power.]

I mean I wished to see if you had come from a time period where you knew who I was, and what I had done, or not.

It seems this place, and our captors, are capable of pulling people from different periods of time.

[Enemy or not, Wilhelm was still someone from home, and that brought a bit of comfort... but why did it have to be him? Still, there were worse people from her world that could be here. Right?]

Do you know who did this? And what do you mean bu different points in time?

[Yuriev. Voyager. Arguably the Patriarch or Marguilus. Albedo in your case.

By the way Albedo's here.]

I do not. It would appear much of who I am has been stripped upon being brought here. If I was as I had been, it would not be a problem.

You've noticed there are people here from different time periods, have you not?

[She's forgiven Albedo. ~~Even if she's still scared of him.~~ And she seems to be ever so slightly less afraid of Wilhelm, the more he talks. She brings the phone a bit closer.]

You're a normal human now? Really?

Yes. Have we really been pulled to the past? To Lost Jerusalem?

[Wilhelm nods, slowly, in response to the question.]

I am.

And it would appear it is so. Whether it's our past specifically, I've yet to decipher.

[She holds the phone still closer, almost at a normal distance now.]

This is all so strange...

Indeed, it is.

I suppose at the moment we might be at the behest of our captor. It would appear we cannot move forward until they grace us with more information.

[She gives him a hopeful - if a bit skeptical - look.]

So you'll... work with the other people here, then?

[His lips curl into a smile, as if you just told a joke.]

Such is what I've always done.

But yes. I will work to aid people to return to their homes.

[MOMO smiles back! Even if that was a little scary and kind of freaked her out! Th-this is progress, right? Right?!]

That's good to hear!

[The smile, which had been an almost mischievous curl on his lip, calms a little bit. Becomes less sharp, and more friendly. How curious you are, MOMO. Inhuman, and yet so human]

I suppose it is.

I'm curious. How long has it been for you since you last saw me?

[MOMO is just happy that she's able to talk to Wilhelm like this and not worry about him trying to hurt her or her friends. Maybe this place wasn't so bad after all!]

Not very long. A few weeks. Why?

[He simply shakes his head a little.]

Curiosity. I simply wished to know.

You're with Jan Sauer and Juli Mizrahi then, correct?

Yes. Jr., Shion and Allen all left to try and find Lost Jerusalem, after...

After what happened.

[He knows that. Even if his body is destroyed, his will and conscious remain in the Higher Dimensional Domain and throughout the Lower Domain.]

I see.

[And he pauses for a moment. Before finally.]

[Filtered]

Speak.

If you wish to have answers for what occurred, I will provide them.

[For once, even he isn't entirely certain why he's reacting the way he is. After all he had done, had done with the intent of helping mankind, it had never occurred to him he might eventually have to answer and explain his actions. Nor does he understand why the clear confusion, or more accurately uncertainty, of one child should cause him to feel like explaining. Such things were trivial, were commonplace to him.

But he feels as if he might allow himself to answer. Just this once.]

[MOMO can't speak at first; she's too shocked, and unsure of how to respond.]

I...

[She shakes her head slowly.]

It's okay. You did what you thought was right, didn't you? Only... why did you hurt so many people?

[He raises his eyebrows slightly. He supposes he should have expected such a simple question, such a simple concern from the girl. But he nods.]

I did.

It was necessary to pave the way for the Recurrence. I deride no pleasure from harming those who had to be harmed [unless they were openly defying him, like Shion], but I did what I had to to pave the way for the Lower Dimensional Domain to be reset.

[She shakes her head firmly.]

It is never right to hurt people.

Right and wrong are words with different meanings to all people. To impose the idea that one concept is correct over others is a fallacy.

Sometimes, it is necessary. Even you have acted on that.

I know that there are many different kinds of people, and they have just as many beliefs. But even so, hurting and killing others...

I... [Once again, she tries to distance herself from Wilhelm, even if all she can do is hold the phone at arm's length. She struggles for words, knowing that he's right - but not quite wanting to admit it.]

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