Three Women, Three Motives, and Three Connections to Him

Mikuru was able to repair the device much faster with my help, allowing us to go that weekend. I will have to massively upgrade the Kyon robot if it isn't possible to save Kyon from certain death. While I awaited Mikuru to finish, I thought over all the secrets we kept from Kyon. Mikuru really is actually quite serious in private, and isn't moeish at all, however she likes putting on the show because it pleases Kyon and more importantly makes her less interesting to Haruhi. Itsuki is really quite depressed in private, which mainly comes from jealousy towards Kyon. I myself though am pretty much the same wherever I am. This secret side of ourselves partially explains why we were able to recover from Kyon's death, but not entirely. Mikuru has been trained to suppress emotions, and Itsuki is right now heavily confused, having the jealousy from earlier lessoning a strange depression.

Once she got it repaired, and the weekend day came, we time traveled to the future. We soon arrived inside the organization building, which I learned is quite odd when it comes to where it's in time. It was originally constructed in 2032, but time travel wasn't even invented until 2090, but that doesn't keep them from going to a place in the past to train and coordinate their affairs. This is why you have people born in years like 2163 working in a building that was built in 2032. Mikuru lectured me on all of this before I arrived, while also discussing how the building actually functions like time travelers in that it isn't really there. This is taken further with the building because it isn't even visible to anyone outside of it, meaning without the device it would be inaccessible. This is why no one could really steal time travel devices or even access the building unless they are recruited. Speaking of which, the way people are recruited is quite interesting to say the least. Basically, you have to either come from a year past 2148 or be what's called a, "Invisible Death," in that you supposedly died in a way that no one will ever find your body. The latter is why you get people from all over time, from 1000 AD to the year 7000 AD even, although the latter is extremely rare because of events happening at the time.

When we arrived, we were suddenly transported into a metallic room, where the three women Mikuru talked about sat. I could see why anyone of them would've been attractive to Kyon, considering they all are quite well endowed. Soon, one of them spoke.

She said, "I'm Wendy, and I know why you're here. My husband is dead, having been wiped from existence. Yes, I'm the future wife of Kyon, and I also understand that Kyon was murdered in a particularly brutal way. It's a shame I couldn't have the person I sent help you, but she is one of the many operatives that is never seen for she only partially time travels, like this building."

Seeing that I comprehended, she continued with, "That same operative also listened in on your conversation a few days ago. You may be surprised to know that your theory about sexual fantasies happens all the time. There is a special term for it here, which is, "Inter-time Sex," which is quite common among those in command sadly. However, they usually keep it very controlled, knowing the consequences for it are quite high if discovered. The chances of anyone here being that close is highly unlikely in command. But, you seem to think that only a time traveler could've carried out the attack, which is true perhaps. However, doesn't the Data Integration Entity have time travel too?"

I replied, "Yes, but he would never let a creation use it. He is aware of things in the future, but only to a limited extent, as we all know that the future changes so constantly that even if you do time travel, it's impossible to predict, which is why trips to the future are heavily limited, especially the far future. You would've also noted I have already been crossed out from this because of how the murder occurred."

Wendy then said, "True. I'll grant you that you're just a robot, and would've not had the emotion for this attack. That does limit it to this organization, and basically to us three. But we heavily limit our emotions too, although perhaps not as much as others in the organization. However, lets get down to why you're here. I can't let you go back to the past and try to save Kyon. I understand that it's important for Haruhi's sake that Kyon is rescued, however if you want to avoid bringing massive destruction to time itself, you'll need to let us handle that. Only those in command have enough knowledge to avoid severely messing up the time line, and no one else. In the meantime, we have a lot of questions to ask.

I said, "Why do you need to question us? I understand that your organization needs to rescue Kyon, however the problem is someone within command is responsible for this attack. Who else would've had the knowledge required to pull this off? You have heard the conversation yourself, so what else do you need to know?"

Suddenly, the other woman said, "Because if what you said is true, than it would require massive investigation on our part. It's true that we have lives outside of the organization, and it's true that we aren't just robots, however we have been trained to control our emotions heavily, which would make it highly unlikely we would kill someone like Kyon for the motive you listed."

I replied, "But you forget that unlike me, not only do you still have emotions, but you are ultimately limited in controlling them. Suppression of emotions will lead to them flaring up elsewhere, many times at bad times. This is why many in command have done inter-time sex, to relive stress from suppressing their emotions and having a very intensive job. More importantly, I have a way to prove that you at least done inter-time sex. From brain fluids I've analyzed from Kyon, I can determine from your time travel records which one of you committed this or at least had inter-time sex with Kyon. I will do this at some time, however I can wait until you want to if you wish."

Then, the older Mikuru said, "Yuki, I know you said this in the conversation too, but even if you did look at our records, I find it unlikely you could link up to those nights. Yes, we do log in where we went in the time stream, but many times we only name the year. So someone screwing Kyon in a year could switch up the years to confuse you therefore mak-"

Suddenly, Wendy interrupted her with, "Yuki does have an excellent point with it. Besides, while many do only leave the year, that's only when they are leaving on an assignment that is known of or when emergency action has to be taken. The latter has to be explained in full detail later date wise, and the former the information is already known basically. On the other hand, if someone in command decided to leave for inter-time sex, they would've had to leave a more detailed account of when they left in the device. This would have to at least include the month and day, which would make it very difficult to hide that. Also, the years in which Kyon could've been subject to this type of sexuality are limited to two years because of the time quake."

Then, the other woman spoke up again, "Alright, I'll go get the records, but do know that afterwards, we will have questions for you regarding the Data Integration Entity during this time frame. By the way, my name is Cynthia, don't forget it."

At that, she left to get all the records. While we waited, I thought over all I had just heard. All three could've been the killer with the jealousy factor being brought to perhaps someone else having inter-time sex. This is especially the case with Kyon's future wife, who probably wouldn't appreciate someone having sex with her future to be husband before their marriage. However, they are all still possible suspects, but hopefully the records will clear up some things.

Soon, the woman returned, and came with a data chip. Once she gave it to me, I looked at it, analyzing it easily. Once I was finished, I gave it back which sent her back to the room. I found from the data file, something problematic. All three of the women had been having sex with Kyon, and quite frequently at that. Not only were the fantasies very consistent, but it also coincided many times with days where Kyon was very tired even though he had plenty of sleep, suggesting almost none of the fantasies were actually ones Kyon dreamed up, almost all of them were brought onto him by the women from the future. The few fantasies that were his own were only distinguishable in that they involved multiple women, and that was it. Otherwise they were practically indistinguishable from the fantasies constantly brought onto him by the women from the future. This bombardment of fantasies actually affected Kyon's personality, in that it caused him to become disillusioned with traditional entertainment, and that it caused him to have extra attraction to Mikuru from being frequently exposed to the older Mikuru constantly.

Wendy asked, "What did you find out?"

I replied, "All three of you had sex with Kyon. Not only that, you did it so frequently that it happened more often than just his normal fantasies. These fantasies that are brought upon him are so often that they in fact caused his personality to change. It caused his disillusionment with entertainment and also caused him to have a special attraction for Mikuru. It will be impossible to determine the killer from solely who had inter-time sex with him, because not only did all three of you, but you all three did it on a pretty regular schedule. Cynthia went every Monday, Wendy every Tuesday, and the older Mikuru every Wednesday. Sometimes one of you would also come upon him on Friday, but this is more unlikely. It appears these records are more accurate than any of you suspected, because they actually go all the way to the minute you traveled to. While Kyon's memory isn't nearly that accurate, it does allow me easily place all of you, even when you would sometimes bring multiple fantasies upon Kyon within a single night. I could go-"

The older Mikuru interrupted with, "No, I think that's quite enough. That's interesting, for if the records are that accurate now, that would mean our devices recorded more than originally planned, meaning the records would have som-"

Wendy interrupted Mikuru with, "SILENCE!"

When everyone went quiet, she said, "The records are quite accurate, a miss by a couple of minutes doesn't make the data useless. I'll freely admit that I did have inter-time sex with Kyon frequently. I guessed I did it because I wanted to remain rather loyal to my husband, which is why he is still the only man I've really consensually had sex with. However, I'm surprised that both the older Mikuru and Cynthia frequently had sex with Kyon. Mikuru I sort of understand considering her relation to Kyon at the time, however the amount is surprising considering I thought the older Mikuru only really thought of Kyon as a harmless fantasy. On the other hand, Cynthia doesn't have any relation to Kyon I know of, which makes me wonder if Kyon perhaps has a special charm and if there are other time travelers that have also decided to have inter-time sex with him because of it."

I said, "No, Kyon wasn't subjected to inter-time sex by anyone else. He didn't have any real sexual experiences with anyone else outside of the inter-time sex also. He wasn't that particularly attractive, and all the women who had sex with him probably had some sort of emotional connection. You may begin to question me now if you wish on the Data Integration Entity's activities during this time frame."

At that, I fell silent. They soon left, not really being in the proper mindset for all of this. There were certain key details I left out. I left out three, all of which would help me identify the killer perhaps however only confirmed the problem of all three being possible suspects. The first detail was that they all talked to Kyon while having inter-time sex with him. This wasn't just flirting either; there were also plenty of romantic conversations along with just talking about normal life. The second detail was that they each had caused a strange physical condition to result, namely that Kyon soon developed a sort of strange insomnia from being subjected to inter-time sex so often. The third detail was how long they had inter-time sex with him, which was usually at least three hours long, peaking at a time of about 7 hours sometimes. In the longer sessions, they would just talk to Kyon for a while before leaving, but even in the shortest sessions, they would talk to Kyon for a somewhat significant amount of time. It's impossible to determine exactly determine how long they were there because these were memories, not recording, which could make them very inaccurate.

The conversations themselves varied between the three women, but all made the relationship go somewhat beyond a, "fling." Cynthia flirted the most with Kyon, however she still frequently talked to him about love and normal life. Wendy talked quite heavily, on the other hand, with Kyon about not only love, but also at times their future marriage despite the problems in time travel that can cause. The older Mikuru though was actually the most emotional in their conversations. She went on and on about how much she wanted him but how various factors made that impossible, not the least of which is Kyon's future marriage. All of this contributed to Kyon knowing a lot more than he should have about the future. He knew Wendy would not only be his wife, he also knew the very year and even day that he would marry her. He would marry her in 2030, on December 12th, the day of the human holiday Christmas.

All of this soon made me realizes something about Kyon's memories. Specifically, the memories before Kyon was killed. In those memories, he kept on being incredibly worried about something, and thinking about the fantasies with a sense of horror. But why would he do this? Did he know that one of them would come back and kill him because of what had happened in the future? However, he also had briefly seen one thing, very briefly at that had set him off rather heavily. He briefly saw each of the girls watching him rather intently at random times during the day before he was killed. This would make sense all three of the women had threatened to kill him if he did certain things. In the case of Wendy, it was having sex with another woman. In the case of Cynthia, it was if he ever talked about their relationship with anyone. In the case of the older Mikuru, it was if he ever loved another woman as much as her. He thought he had somehow at least unknowingly broken all three. That does make sense, considering one of them is impossible to not break for him practically speaking, and another is sort of vague because he doesn't know what would constitute that. Even Cynthia's was unsure for him because he never remembered talking about it with anyone, however he could've perhaps unknowingly off hand somehow hinted at it.

What's quite odd is that the very day he was killed, I can't recover his memories. Somebody had blacked it all out somehow. This means I can't just use those that day's memory to find out the killer, I'll have to piece it together from the rest. I have figured out though the possible scenario for each killer. This will help me narrow it down later by figuring out the most likely scenario. While perhaps it's much more complicated, there is most likely three possible scenarios, one per woman.

The first scenario is with Cynthia. She finds out, or at least thinks she does, that Kyon has revealed their relationship to others. She time travels back to a date when she knows Haruhi will be gone long enough for me to fabricate a replacement. Cynthia kills Kyon that night, who then inserts something in the fluid to block the memory of that day from being recovered. She then goes to severely damage Mikuru's time travel device, doing it in a way that she figures will take at least a month to fix, however my intervention she doesn't expect because she thought my replica would take longer. This scenario currently is in the middle with possibility because I don't know much about Cynthia's personality, so am not sure how trigger happy she would be about promise breaking.

The second scenario is with Wendy. She finds out that Kyon has been having sex with other women. Despite knowing about how inter-time sex work, she goes back to kill Kyon for it. After killing Kyon, she inserts something in the fluid and then goes to damage the time travel device that Mikuru has, figuring the damage will take at least a month to fix because she thinks I won't have time to assist. She too underestimates the time it takes me to fix the robot. She is the least likely because she knows how inter-time sex works, therefore shouldn't be enraged over something she knows Kyon can't really prevent because he doesn't even know they are real women.

The third scenario is with Mikuru. She for some reason thinks that Kyon now loves a woman besides her more, so goes back to kill him for it. After killing Kyon, she inserts something in the fluid that would have the memory of that day, and then damages the device of her younger self. She once again assumes that it will take at least a month to fix because of how long it will take me to make the replica. She doesn't count on it finishing so quickly. She is the most likely because what constitutes loving another woman more is not really specified, and she does have deep feelings about him whether she wants to admit it or not.

All three must have also assumed that after I repaired the machine that we would never get a break from Haruhi long enough for me to help Mikuru repair the device. That must also be why they figured it would take at least a month on top of the type of damage done to the device being particularly bad. All of these scenarios are somewhat possible, however I still will need more evidence before pursuing any one of them particularly. More importantly, I will have to deal with their questions about the Data Integration Entity. Fortunately, those in command of the time travel organization aren't the only ones extremely vulnerable to time travel.