Shiki Day 2
This is where the game officially kicks you out of the tutorial zone, and you can start actually dying in battles. I set my level back down to 1, and my difficulty to normal. No game overs, but my post-battle rankings (mostly Ds) indicate I am definitely in need of some practice. Especially since I'm going to have to start turning the difficulty up to collect Secret Reports soon.
Anyway, I sped through this day (hi Rhyme and Beat!) pretty quick. So quick, in fact, that I realized I progressed to Day 3 without finding the sailor suit I need to unlock today's Secret Report. Fuck my life, I have to go replay…
Luckily you can grab the sailor suit pretty quickly, so I didn't have to watch Neku choke Shiki out a second time. Not his finest moment, but I do have to love how stupidly dramatic this day's ending is. There's lots to unpack with Neku and Shiki already, but I think I'll save that for the next entry.
P.S. I added a music player to this journal so you can listen to tracks from the game while reading! Enjoy the ambiance. I wonder if this is what Neku is listening to on those headphones, too...
Today's Secret Report:
As the Game was set to end, I felt an intense burst of Soul. And at its source, I found the Composer's handpicked proxy-one Neku Sakuraba.
Let it be noted that once danger was past, the Soul he expelled rapidly tapered off.
I shall define Soul as it exists in the UG later. For now, let it suffice to say it is the energy he bears within him. His unstable Soul is the result of a rift between his body and emotional mind.
This discord can be traced to a few causes: 1: his dense and all-inclusive Soul composition, 2: emotional confusion inhibiting the unity of his emotional self and physical body, and 3: the exacerbation of that confusion by memory loss, due to his entry fee. However, anyone possessing such diverse Soul can become a formidable wielder of Imagination. The Composer was right to choose this boy. Shibuya's fate may rest on how well he manages to stabilize his Soul.
To measure his stability. I gave him a Harmonizer Pin. It can only be used when he cooperates with his partner.
Synchronizing with another hinges on his ability to first stabilize his own Soul; thus successful use of the pin would indicate he has made progress on that front. The further he is able to push his and his partner's psych resonance through Fusion, the greater his own internal stability will have become.
The progress of his Soul merits close observation henceforth.