The Afterschool Brave and Fantastic Party Epilogue

The scene begins with the party standing outside what I assume is Midgard as apparently Orgus asks Yuuji why he's suddenly turned around to look behind him. Narration places this all as taking place as just before Yuuji the Second has left this world, and Yuuji laughs the question off and says it's nothing. He wonders what he was thinking when he first set off on this whole adventure. He had always been looking behind him, regretting the choices he had made. Why had he always lived thinking he had made a mistake?

 

Flashback kicks in to replay Yuuji's memories at school where he got made fun of for using boku and asked if he liked another guy. Yuuji was always afraid of doing something everyone else said that you 'shouldn't do.' However, his teachers and other great people told him to live as himself. That's why he believed that the right thing to do was to face his fears. Despite that, he ran away from what he ought to have faced and regretted making the wrong choice.

 

Yuuji felt jealous when he saw people resembling himself having fun, thinking he should have been like that too. He thought that if he had another chance, he'd make the right choice next time. He regretted running away, and he thought that he shouldn't have done so.

 

Now though, Yuuji has chosen to run away from the world in which the hero and overlord must fight. He chose it despite thinking that running away was not an option, that he had to battle it out. Is this choice wrong then? He thinks on it as he puts his hand on his chest.

 

Yuuji says aloud that he feels that this is the right choice. He starts thinking back to a conversation he had with Nekros he had one night after that final battle. Nekros explains that an overlord is an eternal existence, someone who stores the memories of the living for eternity. That means he has memories of Yuuji the First, and he asks if the Second understands this. Nekros takes the moment to tell him that he can see traces of other people in him. Those are the traces of the people who traveled with the first hero, or maybe the traces of his creator that resembles Yuuji. Maybe he even sees someone that resembles himself in Yuuji. But even if all those people start from the same place, they might end up in different places. And Yuuji's choice has made things into something that only he has.

 

Yuuji reflects back on the world as a light breeze blows through. There was a time when all he had and all he saw were his regrets. Now though, he can see a vast and endless world in front of him. Before, all he saw were things that he couldn't do, and he thought that that was the most important thing in the world. He kept regretting that he didn't try to fight against it. There probably are people who'd choose to fight, but he wasn't one of them. He suffered in his regrets in being unable to fight. But if his goal is not 'reaching a point' but 'going beyond that point,' then he can look ahead and move on, take his own road forward.

 

Title card pops up, and this chapter is just titled Epilogue.

 

Camera dives back into Yuuji's mental world as Yuuji talks about needing to relearn how to move since it's been a while since he surfaced. After a bit of waving his limbs around he sighs happily about how nice it is to move around freely. Now he can do this thing and that thing with everyone, and he giggles to himself before noticing you looking at him.

 

You ask if Yuuji is the First or the Second. Yuuji says he's the First and that the Second has already left, probably from the world too. You comment that he looks the same, say he's grown, and/or say you thought he was the Second. Yuuji laughs that he's still a growing boy until you tell him you meant in a different sense. He shrugs and says it's natural he'd grow after running the adventure a second time. Then he thinks on it some more and thinks he just said something weird.

 

You ask if Yuuji can answer a question for you, which is you wondering why you're in his body. Yuuji looks freaked out for a second before laughing, then apologizes for laughing. He says he's not really the type to seriously think about how and why he's wherever he is. One moment he was born in the city he lived in, the next he gets summoned to another world. He's never once chosen to be wherever he happens to be.

 

Yuuji then takes it back and says he now has a choice he has to make, like who he ought to pick or if he still wants to stick together with the whole party. He's quick to backtrack from talking about this further as he switches the subject back to your question, saying he can at least answer as to why Yuuji the Second was there.

 

You prompt Yuuji to go on, so he agrees but needs a second to figure out how. He then starts comparing it all to computer games and the idea of different save slots. In this analogy he'd be slot one and the other Yuuji is slot two. You understand and ask him to continue or take the moment to ask if this world is a game.

 

If you go B Yuuji has some extra lines where he stresses it's just an example for discussion, but he admits he thought the same thing when he first did all this. Getting cut hurts and he has only the one body, so it'd have been easier if it was a game. But anyways while Yuuji 2 started things off, Yuuji 1 was still around. Redoing things was fine, but the starting point was unexpected. He thought it was when he was first summoned, but he says it's actually even before that.

 

You ask Yuuji to elaborate, so Yuuji says that the Tokyo he came from had some sort of calamity in the past. Specifically, stars/meteors fell on the city. You silently react to that, and Yuuji says he doesn't know why the reset started from there, but Yuuji 2 started off from the point he saw that. Yuuji 2 had no body, so Yuuji 1 lent him his. Yuuji supposes that maybe you lost your body in that same incident and ended up coming along in the confusion. You either calmly accept this or freak out that the possibility that you died.

B and C has an extra line as Yuuji stresses that he's just guessing. Anyways Yuuji admits he's reaching for an explanation since there ought to be other people who were caught up in that Incident. It was just an explanation for why only you got into his body. He laughs and says that maybe the two of you look the same to God or whatever. Yuuji then starts thinking aloud about how that logic means you might leave the same way the First did. He stops partway when he notices your body acting up.

 

You comment on your body turning into light and being pulled away, and narration says you can feel it returning somewhere. You can see them going to Tokyo, which appears like a mirage to you. You say out loud that it's Tokyo, back before it was destroyed, and/or wonder if that's the Tokyo you're going back to.

 

Scene shifts around as all the other Transients pulled into the world are also turning back to light and being sent back to Tokyo. At the arena Alp yells about disappearing and calls to Fenrir. Fenrir mentions the summoner they've contracted with back in Tokyo, so they'll be returned to the same place. He comments on how they never found out who their summoner was on this end. Alp waves the arena champion goodbye and thanks him for saving them. Fenrir says bye too before talking to himself about not finding his siblings, and he hopes the little Jormungand and Hel are living happily.

 

Scene then focuses on Horus, who saw the final battle and is also returning to Tokyo. As the transition happens, he starts thinking. Him getting involved with this incident should be an abnormality. But thanks to being here he's learned something by comparing this world to Tokyo. Maybe he could use the knowledge to steal ahead of even Michael and Amaterasu.

 

But anyways, Horus is thinking specifically about the System for the repeating game in Tokyo. If his hypothesis is correct, then it should encompass every possible ending. If so, there should be an ending where one can let go of their power like the Hero did this time. Horus had seen how in doing so, the hidden Memories of Someone Else within the hero had split off into its own being. Therefore, the same should be possible in Tokyo.

 

Horus smiles confidently, and he thinks that if that were to happen, there should be a chance for him to have a true battle to settle things with his uncle. That is what is going on in the head of the king who couldn't run away from the class and power his relatives forced upon him. Horus also thinks that the key to this is the Tower of Babel in Tokyo, the tower believed to have divided Myths when that which should not be touched was touched.

 

Speaking of Babel Tower, scene shifts over to there with Alice hanging around. Narration says that at some point, the city destroyed by countless falling stars/meteors has reverted back to before. Every road, mountain, river, and body is back to how it was, like nothing had ever happened.

 

Alice is singing what I assume is the Japanese form of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and she's stated to be standing somewhere on the tower looking over at the city. She eventually comments on how it ends on a question and asks for it not to be answered. It cannot be answered, and it cannot be spoken.

 

Sanat Kumara walks over after popping out of one of the guild's Portals and suggests she talk about something nicer and appropriate to her apparent age. Alice fires back that Sanat Kumara is always talking like an old man. She says it's not her fault how she speaks, and she says he must think so too. There are so many taboos/words that can't be said and done in the Tokyo Game. She complains that she's the one bothered by all the restrictions. It's why what she's talking about comes out as a mess.

 

Narration talks about how there are taboos in the world that will end everything if touched, just like how learning of the border of dream and reality can end a girl's ability to stay a young girl. Alice says it's different for people who keep quiet and communicate in ways other than words like him though. She is who she is, and she wouldn't be alive if she couldn't talk about pointless stuff. And he dares to say her words are nonsense?

 

Sanat Kumara says it looks to him like she's enjoying it all, but he stops himself since he can't match her verbally. Alice then starts talking about the Tower. Narration calls it a symbol of reaching for a taboo one mustn't touch. It also describes it as being built to challenge a domain that shouldn't be invaded after a great flood swept the world according to certain beliefs. A tower is the concept of a pillar rooted in the ground and piercing the sky, something that will not yield even to giant floods. The fool that touches the taboo is said to invoke the wrath of a god that surpasses the flood, and the beliefs hold that the world was split apart so that no one could communicate with one another.

Alice talks about the domain of God that cannot be touched, and the Tower of Baral(?) and languages being split apart. Narration says that Babel Tower is the center point and headquarters for the Game Masters, the administrators of the game who maintain said game. As such, those trying to win the game keep trying to make contact with it. But maybe this time they know that they cannot.

 

Alice says everything is for the sake of continuing the chess game. The game is centered on the clashing of the wills of the split apart worlds. Narration says that if anyone touches the taboo they'll be sent to another world and scattered apart. Alice closes her eyes as she thinks about the fates of such people, a path of hardship with no visible end in sight.

 

Camera switches back to your end with you nearly finished with getting transferred over, pretty much a thought form still around while that happens. You comment on your memories going hazy as you wonder where you are or where you're going.

 

Yuuji asks you to wait since he has to thank you before you go. He specifically thanks you for helping Yuuji 2. He's not him, but he was still happy about it. He has similar memories to the ones you've seen of the other Yuuji's after all. They happened to bump into each other, but he realized that there was another way to go about things from that. He feels great that the other Yuuji managed to get past it. Yuuji then says he'll go over to Tokyo too since he wants to sightsee with everyone.

 

You shake Yuuji's hand and say you'll meet him again. As you hold his hand, you feel something warm and strong connecting you two. Yuuji can also feel the separation coming in as the worlds divide you two. He promises to see you again with everyone, believing that it'll happen again even with you two parting ways. Everyone is going different directions because of their choices, but he won't get sad about it. After all, everyone decides what it means to them in the end. And as the camera shows the event party reaching Tokyo, it says one adventure is ending. And now the door to a new one opens here. The End.