The following is an excerpt taken from a LINE conversation between Lab Member 003 and Lab Member 009 on July 20th, 6:01 PM
-SuperBarrel: You there? - 6:01 PM
-SuperBarrel: Oi... you said to text you back now, didn't you? - 6:02 PM
-LadyAtropos: Late. -6:02 PM
-SuperBarrel: I'm going back to my game if you don't reply. - 6:02 PM
-LadyAtropos: By one minute. I said 6 on the dot. - 6:03 PM
-SuperBarrel: I was busy, okay? - 6:03 PM
-LadyAtropos: Busy cheating on your girlfriend. Yes, quite an important task isn't it?. - 6:03 PM
-SuperBarrel: 2D doesn't count as cheating! It doesn't! 2D and 3D romances are two different things, okay?! -6:04 PM
-SuperBarrel: Besides, Yuki-chan doesn't mind me playing eroges anyway. So it's fine. -6:04 PM
-LadyAtropos: Well aren't you a lucky little fellow? Blessed with such an understanding girlfriend. You better be grateful. - 6:05 PM
-SuperBarrel: Did you ask me to message you so that you could make fun of me? I get enough of that from Okabe. The things he records in that journal... seriously. - 6:05 PM
-LadyAtropos: The offer is tempting but no. I just wanted to let you know that it finally happened. - 6:05 PM
-SuperBarrel: What did? - 6:05 PM
-LadyAtropos: I switched worldlines. - 6:06 PM
-SuperBarrel: I see. - 6:10 PM
-LadyAtropos: You don't sound surprised at all. - 6:11 PM
-SuperBarrel: Oh I am. I just reached a very erotic scene in the game. Got distracted. - 6:11 PM
-LadyAtropos: Nice. - 6:11 PM
-SuperBarrel: Anyway, shouldn't you be telling Okabe this? I'm not really that knowledgeable about this type of thing. - 6:12 PM
-LadyAtropos: I thought about it. But he'll freak if I told him. He never really was gung-ho about it, to begin with." - 6:12 PM
-SuperBarrel: Yet he is trying to help you, you know. - 6:12 PM
-LadyAtropos: Yeah... point taken. I'll tell him tomorrow. - 6:13 PM
-SuperBarrel: I don't really know what questions to ask. How long did you switch for and when did it happen? - 6:13 PM
-LadyAtropos: Just for a couple of seconds. Somewhere around 4:30 in the afternoon. - 6:14 PM
-SuperBarrel: I didn't feel anything during that time. Should I even be feeling anything when you switch? I didn't forget about you or anything of the sorts. - 6:15 PM
-LadyAtropos: I don't know... maybe Okabe did? He has the Reading Steiner. - 6:17 PM
-SuperBarrel: All the more reason to talk to him about it. It's only you two that have it after all. - 6:17 PM
-LadyAtropos: I prefer to call mine the Tempus Trigger. - 6:18 PM
-LadyAtropos: Sounds cooler, don't you think? - 6:18 PM
-SuperBarrel: I'm undecided. - 6:18 PM
-SuperBarrel: Hey, if it was only for a couple of seconds, how did you know you switched? - 6:20 PM
-LadyAtropos: Because I was back there. - 6:20 PM
-SuperBarrel: Back where? - 6:21 PM
-LadyAtropos: Back in my bed, back in my home... back in my worldline. -6:22 PM
-SuperBarrel: How did you know it's yours? - 6:22 PM
-LadyAtropos: It's just a feeling. That's why I wanna try it again, to be sure. - 6:23 PM
-SuperBarrel: I don't really think that's a good idea. If Okabe hadn't shielded you that one time... Plus, is it really worth the risk of blowing up your apartment? - 6:25 PM
-LadyAtropos: I could die a million times and I still won't forgive myself for what happened to him. It was my fault that happened. But I got to go back. I don't belong here. It's lonely here... - 6:26 PM
-SuperBarrel: Look, give it time. You want to recreate the experiment, just wait another five days. A friend of ours is coming back, she can help you. - 6:28 PM
-LadyAtropos: Makise Kurisu, right? - 6:30 PM
-SuperBarrel: That's the one. Apparently she managed to help out Okabe three years back when his Reading Steiner went all funky or something. I don't know, I don't remember it clearly. I just know there was a time where I forgot him, then suddenly I remembered him. - 6:33 PM
-LadyAtropos: When that time comes... what about the others? - 6:34 PM
-SuperBarrel: Then you'll just finally be an official lab member instead of an unofficial one. - 6:35 PM
-LadyAtropos: Oh... will it be fine, though? - 6:35 PM
-SuperBarrel: That's up to our leader to decide. But I'm sure he'll finally come around to introducing you. - 6:36 PM
-LadyAtropos: Okay then. I'll wait. - 6:36 PM
-SuperBarrel: Cool. Right, I'm going to replay the erotic scene again. See you. - 6:37 PM
-LadyAtropos: You enjoy that. Bye. - 6:37 PM
*End Of Message*
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