MEMORY #: 1. PERCEIVER'S ID #: 570. LOCATION: FALL OF FRIENDSHIP, MANINTERA (PRESENT-DAY TOHJO FALLS, BETWEEN KANTO AND JOHTO.)

"'...One guide and six aside are to come and change provide.'

'Huh?'

'That's the fortune that the Esper told me.' A woman replies to her husband, a man in blue and black. 'That apparently, sometime in the future, seven random people are gonna do something so great that all of us might actually end up being put out of our miseries.'

The man holds up a finger at his wife. 'One word of advice, dear Zoro, because I know you're still young...' he warns, '...never trust an Esper. All those wrong, wretched scams wanna do is waste our precious time. Whatever they do, they do it to benefit themselves and no one else...I would know.'

'Well, I—' argues Zoro, 'I admire the Espers at least for their ability to read the emotions of others. You could really use something like that, being so ignoran—'

'Shh!' the man spits. 'Not in front of the baby! ...Um, he is...here, right?'

'Well,' begins Zoro, her human mind trying to form an explanation that would hopefully convince the mind of her superhuman counterpart. '...That baby being your clone and all, and the cloning of humanoids having been the cause of World War III..." She exhales. 'I thought I'd put him under Aku's care for now.' Those last ten words rush along with the air expelled from Zoro's mouth, relieved to have escaped from her mind.

...Until they bump into the man's mind. 'WHAT?! Aku? How—!'

'Don't worry, Ruka,' Zoro chimes, calming her husband. 'She'll be gentle.'"_

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