What I'm about to say, I say because I trust in your ability to keep a secret.
Back where I'm from, I'm just like the Fog, like Elias - arguably moreso like the latter. I was human once. I've not been for quite some time.
I oversee the district of Shibuya, and more specifically, the souls of the recently deceased there. I can restore them to the plane of the living, I can send them along to the afterlife. No matter what, they all have their memories, unless the soul disperses naturally before it can be sent to one place or the other.
[It's a kind way of describing being Erased. He... will leave out taking memories as entry fees, though. That's not relevant to this conversation.]
The point here is, memories can be lost entirely, but memories typically don't go somewhere without the soul they're attached to. Likewise, a soul can go elsewhere, but it is like a ghost. The body remains in the realm of the living to decompose in an altogether different branch of the cycle of life and death. There is no tangible, physical imprint of a person left in Shibuya once that soul has gone elsewhere, and certainly not their memories.
There is, also, a power higher than me. I may appear to be the top of the food chain to those near the bottom of it, but perspective can be deceiving. Reira mentioned that something created the Day, the Night, and the Fog, and gave them their jobs. It's not dissimilar.
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What I'm about to say, I say because I trust in your ability to keep a secret.
Back where I'm from, I'm just like the Fog, like Elias - arguably moreso like the latter. I was human once. I've not been for quite some time.
I oversee the district of Shibuya, and more specifically, the souls of the recently deceased there. I can restore them to the plane of the living, I can send them along to the afterlife. No matter what, they all have their memories, unless the soul disperses naturally before it can be sent to one place or the other.
[It's a kind way of describing being Erased. He... will leave out taking memories as entry fees, though. That's not relevant to this conversation.]
The point here is, memories can be lost entirely, but memories typically don't go somewhere without the soul they're attached to. Likewise, a soul can go elsewhere, but it is like a ghost. The body remains in the realm of the living to decompose in an altogether different branch of the cycle of life and death. There is no tangible, physical imprint of a person left in Shibuya once that soul has gone elsewhere, and certainly not their memories.
There is, also, a power higher than me. I may appear to be the top of the food chain to those near the bottom of it, but perspective can be deceiving. Reira mentioned that something created the Day, the Night, and the Fog, and gave them their jobs. It's not dissimilar.