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The '''Director's Secret Report XIII''' is a thirteen-part expose featuring Tetsuya Nomura's secrets about the worlds, characters, and overall story of the ''Kingdom Hearts'' series. This report is included in the book "[[Kingdom Hearts Another Report|Another Report]]" that comes with the Limited Edition version of ''[[Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix+]]''.

:The heart of [[worlds]] was a great heart that gathered everything that formed those worlds: the natural things such as the trees in the forests, the oceans and rivers, the flowers and such. The heart of people, as it is called, was the collected hearts of the humans and animals and such that lived in those worlds. A Kingdom Hearts is considered to be an aggregation of the originally invisible "proofs of life" known as [[hearts]].

:Regarding the Realm Between, four worlds have appeared so far: (A) [[Castle Oblivion]], (B) [[Twilight Town]], (C) [[Yen Sid's Tower]], and (D) [[The World That Never Was]]. You can think of them as arranged like a stairway extending between the two Realm layers, something like Light < C < B > A > D > Darkness. There are two ways to travel, one of which is to use a [[Gummi Ship]] like Sora and his friends do to move through the "Ocean Between", the space studded with all the worlds. Worlds are encased in an invisible shell which keeps the individual world from being breached by other worlds, but when the door to the heart that exists in each world is opened, the shell covering that world is broken, and it rains down as a meteor shower. The meteors, fragments of that shell, result in [[Gummi Blocks]] for Gummi Ships. Gummi Blocks have the ability to breach any world as they were originally part of the world-covering shells.

'''III - Is there a possibility that blank points in time and settings that haven't been shown in detail such as the "Realm of Darkness" etc will be depicted in the future? Was the beach that appeared at the beginning and end of ''KHII'' the "Realm of Darkness"?'''

:At present, I think there are four broad stories you could say are blank: "King Mickey's period of absence", "Riku's period of absence", "[[Roxas]]'s days with [[Organization XIII]]", and "Xehanort's past". In that case, "King Mickey's time of absence" would be a story set in the Realm of Darkness. I have been considering over and over how I ought to tell these four stories, so perhaps someday they will be told in some way.

'''IV - There are also many things regarding Castle Oblivion that remain mysterious. Did Organization XIII build that castle themselves, with [[Naminé]] the original subject of the experiments they conducted there? Please tell us the details of the experiments the Organization were carrying out. Also, was that [[Memory Pod|pod]] that Sora entered something the Organization built in relation to those experiments? Are they the same pods in Twilight Town?

:And also, around the same time that Roxas woke up in Twilight Town, Naminé woke up in Castle Oblivion. This means that after was found by the Organization after that. Just as each Organization member has an attribute ability, Naminé possesses the power to manipulate "memory", and they thought that this ability was the key to illuminating the truths of the condition of the Nobodies. This means that in that place that affected the "memory" of those who entered they carried out experiments relating to memory. Above all, [[Xemnas]], the leader of the Organization, seemed to be searching for something important related to "memory". Some of their experiments involved the breaking and rebirth of memories, and those pods were for that purpose indeed created by the Organization. The pod that Sora woke up in in Twilight Town was the same one from Castle Oblivion. DiZ had moved everything as it was in order to escape pursuit by the Organization. Also, as [[Xigbar]] says in a cutscene added to this title: when the time comes to reveal the details of "the true purpose of Castle Oblivion", all the mysteries regarding Castle Oblivion will be solved.

:Both of them share a true nature, but they were acting upon separate intentions. It is true that Xehanort abandoned his heart, but at that time Nobodies being born was probably completely outside his expectations, and the different natures of Heartless and Nobodies meant different methods for his goals, too. However, I think that both of them shared the same desire to be a "complete being". I left a new mystery hidden in the last "Secret Ansem Report", written by Ansem the Wise. The key phrase that symbolizes this mystery is "Xehanort's Memories", in which hides a secret with huge implications for future ''KH'' titles. I still cannot reveal anything concerning the content or state of his memory.

==Part 4 - ABOUT THE KEYBLADE WAR AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS FOR KINGDOM HEARTS==

'''XI - We'd like to ask for a few more details regarding the key phrase 'the Keyblade War'. Does it have anything to do with the 'fairy-tale of the children and the light' told by [[Kairi's Grandma|grandmother]]?'''

:In order to tell the story of the Keyblade War we need high-spec, high-volume hardware, and we ourselves need to gather the know-how to deal with that hardware. There are also other episodes we need to show before we can tell that story, so I won't be able to give details for some time yet.

'''XII - ''[[Birth by Sleep (video)|Birth by Sleep]]'', the new secret movie added to ''KHIIFM'', was extremely significant - and some of the people who appeared seemed familiar. Even if you can't give details, can't you give us any hints? Also, do the three who appeared in armor have any connection to Xemnas, who appeared in similar armor in the last battle?'''

'''XIII - Lastly, is this the last adventure for Sora? You've said that you have the end of Kingdom Hearts in your head, but will Sora be there? And, please give us a hint concerning the future developments of the series within the limits of what you can say at present.'''