Studying (Open)

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The sensoriums looked a little different today, as upon entry one would find rows and rows of books. In the middle of it stood several bookshelves flying around, being shuffled about as Philip made his own studies. Even with the clock broken, he wanted to run a search on his own world.

“Keyword: Kamen Rider. Time Travel. Ryuki. Knight.”

As Phillip shuffled bookshelves, there was another person in the shelves today, his companion for the time being, Negi Springfield. The young mage was looking through shelves, plucking memories off the shelf and reading into them. It was like having your own personal library, even if the shelves rearranged themselves periodically when Philip was making a look up.

(ooc: couldn’t decide on who to post with so have a joint Negi-Philip post. Just make a note of who you wanna talk to, or just come in to gawk at the sight of the Gaia Library in full manifest. Bendytimed to after the clock is taken out.)

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Philip nodded -- and then looked at his arm. Always attentive, he asked, "What happened to the arm? That's recent."

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Ren tried to pull his sleeve down to hide the injury, but it was too late.

"Darkwing," he answered. "I didn't fulfill my Contract for a month, and I didn't think to set up a contingency plan."

He shrugged, ignoring the pain, and said, "He's fed now, so he shouldn't attack me again."

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"There has to be a safer way to keep Rider powers going than having an irritable bat-monster gnaw on you," deadpanned Philip.

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"It only happens if I don't fulfill my Contract," Ren insisted. "I've got it under control. More importantly, did you manage to fix the Lost Driver?"

Maybe some things were back to normal. He was avoiding issues just like normal after all.

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"Yes, but it no longer will automatically telescope the belt on. I had to add a clip to it."

Philip held up the Lost Driver which now sported a belt hanging from it. And hey, if Ren could avoid issues like a giant bat gnawing on him, then he could too.

"Everything works now though. Which is good."

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"What about the other Memories?" Ren asked. "Did you manage to find them?"

Just how well were they going to avoid the issue of him going nuts and attacking everybody?

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Philip nodded as well. "I gave Hoshi her half for safe keeping. We used it on a mission in between the attacks. Fang and Xtreme came back with the last couple."

Oh about as long as Philip was about to keep from saying he uses the Gaia Memories on himself now instead of the driver at times.

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Ren hesitated a moment before asking, "And the deck was destroyed?"

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"Odin deck yes," said Philip, remembering seeing that deck go boom. "Yours however I held onto till you got back to normal."

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"Good," Ren answered. "One less thing to worry about."

He slowly got back to his feet, keeping a tighter grip on the shelves than he usually would. "I managed to find it. Thanks for keeping it safe."

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"Least I could do," said Philip, leaving out the unspoken 'because you didn't want it as a kid'.

"If you're looking for your bike, Negi's been using it to get around. He's actually been taking care of you when you were de-aged. Well, more than I have at any rate, considering I've been making a note to research any possible means to stop the de-aging without outright blowing up the clock."

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"I remember that much," Ren said with a slight cringe. It wasn't until he'd gone through it all over again that he realized what a brat he'd been as a kid. This was going to be an awkward couple of weeks until they could put it all behind them.

"I'll have to see if he found anything else of mine. I already spent most of the morning looking for Eri's ring."

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"You kept misplacing that as a kid," remarked Philip with a sigh, digging into his pockets and holding out the ring on the chain. "Here. I kept it before you did something silly like leave it in a fridge."

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Ren took the ring and gave it a quick look-over to be sure it hadn't been damaged in any of the stupid things he'd done as a kid. Once he was sure it was all right, he held it tightly and heavily said, "Thank you. For everything, I suppose."

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"To be honest, I have you to thank too," said Philip after he set another book floating into the air. "You've been giving me more chances to learn about the people I stay with. If anything, I kind of enjoyed helping you out, even though it wasn't ideal."

"What you did wasn't your fault either," said Philip in a more serious tone. "Nor was the end result. It worked out, and everyone helped out."

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"I know better than to blame myself for it," Ren answered, though still not admitting just what "it" was. "Just another thing I can thank Kanzaki for the next time I see him."

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"If by thank you mean beat him silly for it," remarked Philip dryly.

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"It's hard to deny he deserves it," Ren said.

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"Not denying at all," grinned Philip, thinking of how many Riders and people they had to hit due to their timelines being crazy.

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On that note, it might be a good idea to keep that book labeled "Let's Go Kamen Riders" far out of Ren's reach, if Philip wanted to keep certain Riders from 2011 and the future from having concave skulls.

"But I have to admit," Ren said. "I guess it gives me hope." Hope to end the cycle, to have wishes granted without sacrifice, to no longer have a Rider War. And more... "That even though I've changed, over and over, I remember becoming stronger each new time."

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"And the strength for it to be over, and to endure afterwards is what makes one strong," added Philip.