ACT III - Unknown Identity

I watched a bunch of uniformed men come in and take away the old man from me, with a lot of force. I recognized them to be the 'police'. The old man struggled, shouting a lot of profanities. He was swearing towards me as well. I wondered what I had done wrong to this man, I really didn't know.

I looked around, as the man got taken away by some of the police. There were so many antique-looking items, some scattered around the floor as well. A police officer approached me, gently holding my shoulder. Despite his soft touch, I shrieked and took myself back, terrified after the bad experience I just had. The man apologized. "My bad, you must be shaken. Are you alright? What's your name?"

I thought for a bit. What was my name…?

I told the man that I didn't know, and I didn't know anything about myself. He sighed, and shook his head. "I was told he can do such a thing, but to think it was true… You're shaking so hard, please hold on to my arm, if you'd like… Yes, good. You are Rena Kogarashi, and you were involved with quite a bizarre incident but…" He squeezed my hand, giving me support. "It'll be alright. You'll get treatment right away, and you won't receive any serious charges against you, as it was clear you were just getting manipulated by that… Person, creature, whatever it is. I'm really not sure about what laws will take place, but I'll make sure you won't get affected."

I tried really hard to understand what was going on, maybe remember even the slightest detail… I looked at the man's face desperately, searching for any bit of a clue. "Did… Did I do something bad?" He grabbed a wooden seat, and made me sit down. "You just sit here and rest a bit, I'll bring you some water and some pictures to show you. Maybe you'll remember things, yeah? Just give me a sec." The policeman left in a rush, and as he walked away, I noticed something shimmering on the ground. I exerted myself to reach it. It was a pair of golden keys. I wondered what they were for…

The police came back with a water bottle and a mobile phone. "What's that, young lady?" I told him that I had found these keys on the ground, and he took them with widened eyes. "Oh! Good job finding them, I know what they're for! Well, most likely. They must have fallen down during his struggle. I'll take them for the time being, thank you." I handed him the keys, he handed me the bottle of water. He sat down next to me, ready to take notes.

"I'll just ask you some quick questions. You'll be officially interrogated later, but for now we want to make sure to take advantage of anything you might be remembering, as soon as possible. From what I understood, you didn't remember your name. What about things about the world? You can speak Japanese clearly, and you understood that we were the police, correct?" I confirmed, explaining that I remembered things about the world, numbers, facts, names of objects… All I didn't remember were things in relation to me.

He took notes, a very serious look on his face. He showed me pictures of two people, asking if I recognized them. I didn't. He shook his head grimly. "Woah…To think you don't even remember your parents… Seira-kun only seemed to have memory loss about more recent events. Speaking of…" He raised his phone to show me a picture of a boy with mint hair and a pair of golden glasses. "Recognize this young gentleman?" I shook my head, but remarked that looking at him made me feel a weird feeling in my chest, same as I had done with the picture of my parents. He took notes and then bit his pencil, deep in thought.

"Umm, excuse me…" He popped out of his concentrated state and looked at me. "Hmm, yes? Remember something?"

"Oh, not really… I just wanted to know what his relation to me is."

He showed me another photo and explained that we were classmates and even sat next to each other. I felt weird… I knew what a school was, but I couldn't picture myself going to one. At the same time, I remembered things like history and scientific facts… What was going on with me?

I felt exhausted. I held my hands over my eyes and bent over to my knees. I felt the man gently pat my back. "It's okay, everything will be okay. You'll remember everything, things will be back to normal. It was very difficult, I know, for both of you victims, and all the others who reported mysterious cases of amnesia… Be proud. Thanks to you and Seira-kun, a big case will be solved…!"

That sounded important and all, but…

I just wanted to go home, wherever that was.