Hmm... Okay, how's this?
Ah, ah, hello? I can't leave a voice log on this? Just text? Whaaat...?
Well, that's fine! Write this all down for me, okay, Navi-chan?
Uh...! Right! Ahem!
Player-san, by the time you find this message, I think Navi-chan and I will have gone back to our original VERSE.
Ummm, uhhh, my experiences this past year have been irreplaceable to me...
...Agh! That was weird! This isn't my style! I'm gonna try again!
Um, first off, Player-san, thank you sooo much! A whole year! I owe you so much!
...Wah! I'm so nervous!
Once I go back, I won't be able to rely on you anymore! If something else happens, I won't have you to help me this time!
Ugh, I wanna take you with me...but I can't, right? I can't...
It's not that I'm scared.
Something serious could happen in UHUNITHM's future, and we don't know when or how it'll happen.
No, no more of that! I decided I wasn't gonna mope around like this!
Ugh! This isn't what I wanted to say! Ummm...!
Right! Hey, do you remember? You found song data from all sorts of VERSEs while I was searching for gates.
They were records of people you recognized, right? You must have been surprised when you found them!
I looked back at the data while I was organizing it, and every one of those records was shining brilliantly!
A god flying freely through the vast sky with new wings, an actress removing the mask from her heart to fully enjoy performing, and adventurers taking the first step into unknown worlds! There were so many more amazing records, too.
But some of those kids were in terrible situations, like, "Whoa! We're in big trouble!"
But everyone, no matter how painful it got, always faced forward. They'd never give up, no matter what, so I think it was both the warm memories and the sad ones that supported them.
I'm sure I was like that, too.
Thanks to you and Navi-chan, I've found so many precious things.
When I go back, I'll always look back on my best memories.
So I have to keep moving forward too! Even if things go bad or I mess up, I'm sure that if I reach out again and again, good things will happen.
Just like that, I can pull the future closer, little by little!
You, too, Player-san, even if things are painful or difficult, let's face forward together!
That way, next time we meet, we can laugh and say we're so glad we tried our best back then!
Okay, this is the last thing for real this time! But it's not really goodbye.
'Cause we'll always be connected by those songs! Right?
Well then...see ya, Player-san!
P.S.
Oh, oh yeah! Tell Penguin-san thank you for me!
Penguin-san saw things were tough and lent me the social media account to send announcements to you, Player-san!
Whew, my senpai of ten years is on another level... I'm super grateful.
Wait... Hold on... Were you just pushing the work onto me?