origin.
When Iida awakens, he is surrounded by a haze.
His arms are heavy, like they had been dipped in lead. He is weak, his knees tremble and he can barely keep himself up. His tongue feels heavy in his mouth.
Somehow this place is already so familiar,
He remembers these streets as if he were looking at the back of his hand.
He realizes he does not have a body. It is faint, staticky. But he can still move.
Then he remembers in a flash.
He had been turned to a thing that was, in the simplest way, much like an unknown, incorporeal entity, floating through the folds of space and time. It was temporary-- and the moment he was thrown into this universe, he knew he had to learn more.
His body solidifies over time.
He keeps a black chess piece in his pocket.
He wants to see more.
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