Part 36: The Truth About Pete

So the occult club lends us a helping hand as we investigate the weird rumors circulating around Nakano Broadway.

We go floor to floor investigating but basically find nothing, disappointing the occult club.

We regroup in the K-Cafe, and, all of a sudden, we start experiencing all of the rumors we've been hearing at once.

Unfortunately, although not surprisingly... it turns out to just be an old man that keeps coming into the K-Cafe really early. This seems to be a recurring theme when it comes to 'occult' rumors. It just turns out to not be supernatural at all.

However, after we complete the case... we see a weird scene where the old man doesn't know why he keeps coming to the K-Cafe so early.

Then... Pete disappears. We find him on the third floor of Nakano but he disappears again saying he doesn't want to remember who he is...

Oh man... looks like we're going to be getting the truth about him at long last...

The old man from before wants our help finding his lost cat called 'Miko.' Could it be...?

Pete makes his appearance and the old man calls him Miko. I think we just got our answer...

Either way we chase after Pete/Miko.

We explore two different dungeons to find Pete as he continues to say that he just wants things to remain how they are and he doesn't want to remember...

I want to oblige him but... didn't he want to remember who he was in the first place when we first found him? Seems contradictory...

We make our way through the first dungeon (Connect Jump dungeon) and make it to another Digital Space dungeon and explore it as well.

Throughout the area we find various data files containing two types of information. Information on the construction of Nakano Broadway... and well as what basically seems like a 'journal' that Pete/Miko wrote.

This was actually quite saddening and it logged everything that happened to Pete/Miko. From his happy days with his owner 'Yo****o' and how he was always nice to him and talked to him about things like that singer he really liked (which explains why Pete/Miko was in that form when we first met him) all the way until Pete/Miko got locked up behind the wall. The feels man... The feels...

Eventually... we confront Pete... who asks us who he is...

No choice... it's sad... and I want him to stay... but... we tell him the truth. He remembers afterwards. Obviously, the old man from the previous case that asked for our help with this case is indeed, in fact, Yo****o. They have a tearful reunion...

It's sad to see Pete go... but... to be honest... I had a feeling something like this would happen sooner or later. However, something is still bothering Kyoko. If the old man kept coming in early... how was he getting in the building? There should have been some sort of report or something. WAIT A MINUTE...

Well... either way... the voice of Pete comes in telling us not to go looking for them. So we leave it at that. Nakano really does bring all kinds of different things together it seems.

With that the case is complete and it's just us and Kyoko once again.

However, we get a called from Sasuke, I mean Arata, who wants us to help Suedou now that Examon is weakened and warns us to tell no one, including Kyoko and to come to Odaiba alone. BECAUSE THIS ISN'T DANGEROUS AT ALL OR ANYTHING.

Well... since we're a de-facto Naruto now, we might as well. In hopes of 'rescuing' him at least. Which we'll attempt to do next time.

Next time:

Examon Round 2 with Sasuke/Arata. Will it go better this time? I'm guessing yes, but what exactly is Sasuke/Arata planning to do now?