Rushing rain drenches Okabe's surroundings, reminiscent of the environment when he created the character of Hououin Kyouma. Okabe's upper body shoots up from the cold wooden bench placing his cold hands on his forehead.
"Where is this place..."
This place seemed familiar, yet he had a distinct feeling of unease swelling up his spine. His headache has only been growing stronger with every movement. It's almost like his body doesn't want him to move further away from where he woke. Every step further the pain intensified, but with every step back the pain would lessen.
Waiting by the bench seems like the best option, but there's nothing besides the bland grassy fields and abandoned railroad tracks in view. The aching slowly started to ramp up as he heard footsteps in the distance.
*Swish*
*Slash*
The footsteps were coming to his right, but he could hear something else approaching on his left.
"Who's There!"
The footsteps cease.
With each beat of his heart, the aching grew stronger.
Until the slow pace of the footsteps quickened to a sprint.
Okabe could see multiple silhouettes surrounding him but wasn't able to identify what they were.
"Who Are You!"
The figures stand before Okabe, covered in black. Almost inhuman.
The creatures stare intensely at Okabe, setting off a chain reaction of goosebumps throughout his entire soul.
"We are you."
Okabe perplexed by this answer watches as the beings shapeshift into his appearance.
One seemed scruffy, almost like a veteran soldier, wearing a partially damaged black suit.
The other looked frightened, wearing a bloodstained lab coat.
"Okabe Rintarou, We are your future."
More shadowy figures appear behind them extending to the horizon, all shapeshifting into Okabe.
"Cross the Delta Attractor Field"
"What if I don't?"
"Your consciousness is too unstable to exist on any one world line within the Alpha and Beta attractor fields."
"That can't be..."
"We represent every possibility for your life within every Beta and Alpha world line."
"Why can't I stay within the Alpha and Beta world lines?"
"The attractor fields cannot keep your consciousness whole, eventually it will split off and create new world lines causing an even greater butterfly effect."
"Can't I fix it?"
"There is no fixing your consciousness, there is a limit to the amount of data that can be stored within a person's mind within low divergence world lines. Because of your ability Reading Steiner, you've created a mind with enough data to manipulate the world line you reside on."
"So great power does come with drawbacks..."
"Retaining Reading Steiner requires you to enter the Delta attractor field, otherwise all of your memories of the other world lines will be erased, and you'll adopt the memories of the world line you were just in."
"How can I travel to the Delta World Line?"
"The only way to reach the Delta world line is by destroying CERN."
