> "Two messages, and at least one request."
> "The two messages are from the Yakumo sage of the time. I will not say who it is, if only because I imagine you either have already guessed or find the mystery amusing. Apparently, some time after I disappeared from our present and reappeared in the future, there...is? Was? Will be? Will be a week or so where that stretch of history 'ceases to be'. Regarding this anomaly, one which apparently no one in the future knows why or how it happened, the sage's first message is 'Beware the Formless One'."
>"Well, I have no idea who or what that is," says Yukari. "Ran, dear?"
>"It's an evocative name, but I don't know it," Ran says. "I imagine we'll know it when we see it?"
>"That would be my assumption," Yukari says. "My, erasing a week of history. One can only wonder. Perhaps a hakutaku gone bad?"
>"Is that the sort of thing we can expect from Miss Kamishirasawa?" Ran says, as she nibbles on a cake.
>Yukari shakes her head. "I'd like to think not, but she has gotten drawn in with some rather shady characters." Then she looks to you and smiles. "I'm afraid we can't make any use of that right now. But I'm sure whomever gave you the message felt it would ultimately be enough. Thank you."
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