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| Collected page-by-page throughout each Kingdom Hearts game are the papers of '''Ansem's Report'''. It is a report in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', written by [[Xehanort]], about the [[Heartless]]. The report in ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'', written by [[Ansem the Great]], is called the '''Secret Ansem's Report'''.
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| =Secret Ansem's Report=
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| ==The Report==
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| ===Page 1===
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| ''My efforts these many years have come to fruition, with the world I govern
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| having become a paradise worthy of being called "Radiant Garden."
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| Nurtured by the pure water that is the source of life, fragrant flowers bloom in
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| abundance, and the people face each day with hopeful smiles.
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| But where there is light, darkness also lurks.
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| As noted in my earlier reports, I must solve the mystery of this "darkness of
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| the heart." This paradise depends on it.
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| I shall perform an experiment to probe the depths of a person's heart. One
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| of my own apprentices, Xehanort, has volunteered to be a subject.
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| The young man has served me ever since I nursed him back from death's door some
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| years ago.
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| He had lost all his memories at the time, but later showed remarkable
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| intellectual curiosity and readily absorbed my teachings, gaining deep wisdom.
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| Any mental immaturity is surely due to his young age.
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| If I explore Xehanort's heart with psychological tests, I may be able to
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| recall the past locked away within. My apprentice Even has also shown great
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| interest in Xehanort's memories.
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| But is he really the right subject? Xehanort does indeed exhibit extraordinary
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| talents...
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| Too extraordinary... Perhaps they are even superhuman.''
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| ===Page 2===
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| ''I have made a grave mistake.
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| My study of the "darkness of the heart" began with a simple psychological test
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| and quickly snowballed.
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| Spurred on by my youngest apprentice Ienzo, I constructed a massive laboratory
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| in the basement of my castle.
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| Unbeknownst to me, my six apprentices then began collecting a large number of
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| subjects on which to perform dangerous experiments into the "darkness of the
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| heart."
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| As soon as I found out, I called my apprentices together and ordered them not
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| only to cease their studies, but to destroy the results of their research thus
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| far.
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| What on earth was happening within the hearts of my six beloved apprentices?
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| While pursuing the mystery of the darkness of the heart, could they themselves
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| have strayed into its depths?
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| Yet I remain the most foolish of all, for having begun these experiments.
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| We are not meant to interfere in the depths of another's heart, no matter what
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| our reasons for doing so...
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| And my error plunged me into despair.
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| A visitor from another world soothed my dejected soul.
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| A tiny king named Mickey came wielding a legendary key - the infamous
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| "Keyblade," said to bring both chaos and prosperity to the world.
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| He was very knowledgeable on many topics, and we deepened our friendship as we
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| conversed companionably.
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| Upon his advice, I decided to review the data obtained at my basement lab.
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| That is when I discovered the "Ansem Reports."
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| Though they bore my name, the only one I had written was number 0.
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| Apparently he had gone on to pen numbers 1 through 8 himself.
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| Yes - the first subject in my foolish experiments.''
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| ===Page 3===
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| ''Chaos affects not only this world, but many other worlds besides.
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| In the "Ansem Reports" my apprentice Xehanort had written under my name, I
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| found the records of his hideous experiments along with his hypothesis about
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| the door that had appeared out of the darkness in my basement.
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| All living things have hearts, and all hearts hold darkness deep within.
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| Worlds are no exception. If a world is a being, the heart it holds must be
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| colossal...
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| ...and the darkness at its core must be monstrous indeed.
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| Did Xehanort pass through that door in an attempt to contact that dark realm?
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| No, not only Xehanort.
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| It appears my other five apprentices, believing it was for the sake of
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| research, stared deep into the darkness and were pulled into it.
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| Even, Ienzo, Bleig, Dilin, and Eleus...
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| They have ceased to be human.
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| I, too, have had everything taken away from me, banished to a hollow realm of
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| nothingness.
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| What is Xehanort hoping to gain with my pilfered existence?
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| Will my people cease to smile?
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| If the light of hope has been extinguished, I shall henceforth walk with
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| darkness as a friend.
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| Here, in the realm of nothingness to which I have been relegated.
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| Darkness in the midst of nothing.
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| "Darkness in Zero."
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| Thus, I shall be known as DiZ.
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| Discarding the stolen name "Ansem"...
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| And going in search of revenge.''
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| ===Page 4===
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| ''The distant days spent in that beautiful paradise are an illusion to me now.
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| How long have I been here, banished to the realm of nothingness?
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| It is only by relying upon my anger and hatred that I have been able to retain
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| my sense of self here, where all existence is nullified.
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| My heart is being overcome with hatred toward my apprentices, possessed by the
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| darkness, and with the anger I feel for stupidly allowing myself to be betrayed.
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| Is this darkness, eating away at my heart?
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| I cannot continue to idle away my time here.
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| What are Xehanort and the others attempting to do?
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| I must unravel the mystery of these Ansem Reports, intercept my apprentices, and
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| defeat them.
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| That is my mission... the only way to repay the world for my sins.
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| Those beings who lack hearts - the Heartless - must be the key.
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| The darkness of the heart, made flesh. Cursed shadows who not only lack hearts,
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| but multiply by seizing hearts from any and all living things.
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| Where have they come from, and where are they going?
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| Three elements combine to create life: a heart, a soul, and a body.
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| But what of the soul and body left behind when the heart is lost?
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| When the soul leaves the body, its vessel, life gives way to death, but what
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| about when the heart leaves?
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| A being does not perish when its heart leaves its body. The heart alone
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| disappears into darkness.
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| There is little time.
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| If I remain in this realm much longer, I will certainly learn these answers the
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| hard way.
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| My heart is already a captive of the darkness.''
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| ===Page 5===
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| ''In this realm, where all existence has been disintegrated, I have just barely
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| managed to preserve my sense of self by continuing to think and write.
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| It is a place where even time has lost all meaning. Eternity is as but a moment
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| here.
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| I must make haste. Certainly their plans are already underway.
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| The Heartless must be the key to unraveling this mystery.
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| The six traitors were operating a laboratory that churned out those cursed
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| shadows.
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| Not only did they generate "pureblood" Heartless from living hearts, but they
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| then used those Heartless to synthesize artificial versions of the creatures
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| as well.
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| These synthetic Heartless bore insignias and were called "Emblems."
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| Pureblood or Emblem, these Heartless act only to fulfill their instinctive
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| needs. They single-mindedly detect hearts and swarm around them.
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| A human's commands would be ineffective: the Heartless would easily steal the
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| human's heart and use it to increase their own ranks.
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| But what if an even stronger Heartless was giving the orders?
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| If he cast aside his own soul and body and became a Heartless, wouldn't he be
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| able to control the otherwise intractable Heartless?
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| Furthermore, wouldn't he be planning to make use of the creatures' instincts?
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| If the heart-seeking Heartless have their sights set on a larger, more powerful
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| heart, their ultimate goal is crystal-clear.
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| The largest heart in existence - the heart of the world.
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| This is all conjecture, but it would seem he is utilizing the Heartless in his
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| search for a path leading to the heart of the world.''
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| ===Page 6===
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| ''My choice to befriend darkness here in the midst of nothingness was a sound one.
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| The moment I stared straight ahead with a calm heart, neither rejecting darkness
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| nor fearing it, I gained a newfound power.
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| A superhuman power - the power of darkness.
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| It is likely Xehanort and the others were enraptured by this power, eventually
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| becoming its prisoners.
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| I do not intend to allow my heart to be devoured by the darkness as they did, of
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| course.
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| With this new power, I uncovered a "corridor of darkness" that connects the
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| realm of nothingness to the outside world. While it is still difficult to come
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| and go as I please, my banishment is now a thing of the past.
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| To deceive Xehanort and my apprentices, I first used my power to change form
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| before returning to the realm of light.
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| As I had suspected, Xehanort had become a Heartless.
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| Under my name, he commanded other Heartless in quests to snatch away the hearts
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| of many different worlds.
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| At the center of the hearts Xehanort had stolen was "Kingdom Hearts," which
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| attracts tremendous darkness to itself and attempts to send any and all matter
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| back into its depths.
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| The other five have disappeared. Have they become Heartless, like Xehanort?
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| Or did they vanish after Xehanort exploited them?
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| I became familiar with an unusual "entity" while pursuing the truth.
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| It is the soul and body that remain when a being loses its heart.
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| When a Heartless is born, these entities disappear from the realm of light, to
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| be reborn as entirely new beings in a completely different realm.''
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| ===Page 7===
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| ''While beings born of darkness and those lacking hearts may find them convenient,
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| it is dangerous for others to make much use of the corridors of darkness.
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| Darkness erodes the heart.
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| In search of place to proceed with my research and planning away from prying
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| eyes, I found myself in "Twilight Town." It is a quiet village, forgotten in the
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| chasm between light and darkness. I situated myself in the basement of an
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| abandoned mansion standing beyond the woods.
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| My underground research resulted in one new discovery after another.
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| When a Heartless is born, the body and soul left behind are reborn into this
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| world as a different being.
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| They possess different intentions than their Heartless brethren, and while it is
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| unclear what these sentient "things" are after, it would appear they are
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| responsible for much bedlam in the world.
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| My erstwhile friend the King and his subjects, along with a hero wielding the
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| Keyblade, are battling the Heartless even as a new threat approaches.
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| This new threat... they have given themselves a fitting name, I suppose.
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| These non-beings: "Nobodies."
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| A great number of Nobodies have lost human form, as have the Heartless. Yet the
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| Nobody born of someone with a strong heart retains its shape, with but the
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| faintest visible changes.
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| It appears my betrayers have retained their human forms as Nobodies, and are
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| gathering more followers in hopes of furthering a new scheme.
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| "Organization XIII," formed of 13 Nobodies with my betrayers at its core, has
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| divided into two; they are said to be carrying out some sort of research.
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| Seeking to uncover the plans of this Organization, I have decided to head for
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| where six of its members have gathered. Towering over the outer limits of the
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| realm between darkness and light: Castle Oblivion.''
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| ===Page 8===
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| ''It appears that I have been too distracted by the behavior of Xehanort and his
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| cohorts, and by the events occuring in their vicinity.
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| My friends' struggle to protect the realm of light from the threat of Heartless
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| is now over, with Xehanort's Heartless - going by the name Ansem, Seeker of
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| Darkness - defeated at last.
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| The other wielder of the Keyblade, this "hero," traveled from world to world
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| sealing up keyholes and laying Heartless low.
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| Meanwhile, the King, who had dived into the realm of darkness, worked with the
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| Keyblade-wielding hero to close the door to Kingdom Hearts from the realms of
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| both darkness and light, thus holding off the threat of tremendous darkness.
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| But there are still a great number of Heartless afoot, and Organization XIII
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| and the Nobodies continue to be active in the shadows.
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| Indeed, the world is still a very dangerous place.
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| We must find a way to do battle with these enemies.
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| Thus I will both make amends and have my revenge.
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| It is for this reason that I infiltrated Castle Oblivion.
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| It consists of 13 floors above and 12 floors below ground, with the contents of
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| its "White Rooms" transforming in response to its visitors' memories.
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| Organization XIII was conducting experiments on memory here.
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| The subject in these experiments, a girl named Namine, appeared to possess
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| extremely unusual abilities.
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| Were they attempting to derive something from these powers?
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| Refusing to be distracted by Organization XIII, I had returned to my own secret
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| research when a new visitor appeared at the castle today.
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| It was Sora, the Keyblade-wielding hero who had defeated Ansem, and his
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| companions.
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| Deep underground, the stench of darkness arose.
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| All the players are coming together, it would seem.''
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| ===Page 9===
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| ''I should have expected nothing less from a Keyblade-wielding hero.
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| Sora and friends defied the machinations of Organization XIII and rescued
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| Namine.
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| Namine was a witch who controlled the memories of others.
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| Most likely these powers were achieved through a special process when she was
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| born.
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| Namine is a Nobody, created when a young girl's heart left her body.
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| Yet she has no corresponding Heartless.
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| This is because the "young girl" in this case was a princess.
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| Kairi, a resident of Radiant Garden over which I ruled, was one of the Seven
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| Princesses that uphold the realm of light.
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| With no darkness in her heart, Kairi produced no Heartless, and instead of
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| vanishing, her body remained in the realm of light.
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| In other words, both the Nobody called Namine and the Heartless - proof of a
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| lost heart - are extremely unstable beings who lack the bodies needed to
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| produce a Nobody. Therefore, they also lack Kairi's memories. One reason for
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| this may be that Kairi's heart did not return to the darkness when separated
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| from her body, but rather migrated to another vessel... deep within Sora's
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| heart.
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| That is, Namine is an alter ego of Kairi who has directly interfered with
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| Sora's heart. Could this be why Sora and those whose hearts are connected to
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| him were able to have their memories controlled?
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| She is a "non-being" in the truest sense of the word; having not even become a
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| Nobody and with nowhere left to go, she is but the most fleeting of shadows.''
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| ===Page 10===
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| ''Sora went to sleep in order to recover the memories he lost in Castle Oblivion.
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| It would take quite some time to bring back all the memories he had created in
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| his lifetime.
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| But Organization XIII held sway over Castle Oblivion.
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| Sora would need to be kept someplace more secure.
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| I persuaded Namine to move the slumbering Sora to Twilight Town for safekeeping.
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| Namine.
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| As I have written here before, she is a most unusual being.
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| Born of the same process as a Nobody, but lacking virtually all the elements of
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| a Nobody.
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| Perhaps she continues drawing in hopes of capturing that which she lacks: the
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| memories of others, especially Sora.
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| I have arrived at a hypothesis.
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| I believe that Namine was born as a special type of Nobody when Sora attacked
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| himself with the Keyblade, causing his and Kairi's hearts to leave their bodies
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| simultaneously.
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| Namine emerged as Kairi's Nobody... but the body and soul necessary to exist as
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| a Nobody belonged to Sora.
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| When a person's heart is stolen, a Heartless is born with no sense of self, and
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| the body and soul left behind give rise to a Nobody.
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| But what if one willingly releases one's heart from one's body?
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| Sora and Xehanort retained their selfhood even after becoming Heartless.
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| Then there are Kairi and Namine.
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| Kairi was exceptional for having had no darkness within her heart. Also
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| exceptional was that her heart, once freed, migrated to a new vessel - Sora.
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| The combination of these two theoretically unlikely exceptions may be behind
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| this anomaly.
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| There are matters I must attend to while Sora is sleeping.
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| A new ally has appeared on the scene: Riku.''
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| ===Page 11===
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| ''I was reunited with an old friend at Castle Oblivion, but was unable to
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| disclose my identity.
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| If he knew the situation, he would likely try to stop me from carrying out my
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| revenge.
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| As much as I would dearly love to converse with him as in the old days... that
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| is now but a hopeless dream.
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| My friend has been fighting in the realm of darkness. Most likely he found his
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| way there through Traverse Town.
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| Like Castle Oblivion, that village also rests in the cleft between light and
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| dark. It consists of the remnants of worlds whose hearts have been stolen by
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| the Heartless.
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| It is where those who have barely escaped the destruction of their worlds
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| eventually find themselves.
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| This "realm between" is quite unstable, with corridors of darkness appearing
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| from time to time.
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| Whenever a world disappears, some of its inhabitants must arrive here through
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| these corridors.
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| Surely Sora traveled these same corridors of darkness when he first came to
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| Traverse Town.
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| It seems my friend, fighting in the realm of darkness, appeared in Castle
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| Oblivion through a corridor of darkness constructed by Organization XIII.
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| My new ally Riku also effected his return via one of these corridors.
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| He swore to me he would give his all for his best friend Sora.
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| In fact, Sora's memories have been slow to return.
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| Thus I have asked Riku to bring me another Sora - his Nobody.
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| Sora is indispensable if I am to achieve my goal.
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| I require the Keyblade-wielding hero to fly through the realm of light and
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| defeat Organization XIII.''
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| ===Page 12===
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| ''Apart from Namine, Nobodies retain their memories of their time as humans, but
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| Sora's Nobody, Roxas, has lost Sora's memories.
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| This is likely because Sora's time as a Heartless was short, having recovered
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| his heart and returned to his human form soon after leaving behind Roxas, his
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| Nobody.
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| It would seem Roxas is much like Namine. Namine is Kairi's Nobody, but came
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| into being via Sora's body and soul.
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| Likewise, Roxas is Sora's Nobody, but was left behind because Sora's Heartless
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| regained human form using Kairi's heart instead of his own.
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| It may be that Sora's memories are slow to return because the half of him that
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| is Roxas is still lacking.
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| I must convert Roxas into data and return him to Sora.
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| As a member of Organization XIII, it was exceedingly difficult to bring Roxas
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| in. Having lost to Roxas once, Riku laid everything on the line and used the
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| power of darkness in the second battle, only just maninging to bring Roxas back
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| with him.
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| But Organization XIII grows ever nearer. Here, Twilight Town, is where Roxas
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| was reborn as a Nobody.
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| This is where Roxas first encountered Organization XIII and joined its ranks.
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| They are bound to search this place thoroughly.
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| First I shall convert all of Twilight Town into data and construct a "world
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| duplicate" in Sora's memories. I shall place Roxas within that world to live
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| out his days and regain those memories.
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| There is little time.
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| The Organization's schemes must be making steady progress as well.''
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| ===Page 13===
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| ''Tomorrow Sora awakens.
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| My long and drawn-out revenge is nearing its end.
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| Xehanort, who took everything away from me. Though as a Heartless he is no more,
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| as the leader of Organization XIII his ambition once again is to capture
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| Kingdom Hearts, the most colossal heart of all.
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| His Heartless had attempted to draw out the great darkness of Kingdom Hearts,
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| created from the hearts of all worlds. His Nobody, however, is now almost
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| finished gathering human hearts to be assimilated into Kingdom Hearts as well.
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| The fool!
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| Only one mystery remains.
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| How did Xehanort manage to open the door that appeared in the basement of my
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| castle...?
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| No... any theory posited now, when everything is nearing completion, would be
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| meaningless.
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| Roxas, Ansem, Namine...
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| They defy all logic, yet there they are: singular exceptions to the rule.
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| The theories proposed by me and by Organization XIII have been blown to pieces
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| by a handful of strong-hearted individuals.
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| Sora, Kairi, Riku.
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| Ah, yes - Riku.
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| Though his heart had its weaknesses, making it prone to darkness, he found
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| support in the hope he discovered beyond suffering.
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| This hope allowed him to stand his ground and turn the darkness in his heart
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| from an enemy into his greatest weapon.
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| When all this is over, it is my foremost hope that he will be able to return
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| with Sora to his island.
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| If I can, I should like to return to Radiant Garden, to look once more upon the
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| beautiful water, the lovely flowers, and the hopeful smiles of the people.
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| Dear King, my friend!
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| I believe that, at some point in time, you will come across these, my truthful
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| accounts.
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| How I wish I could have chatted with you again.
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| I was a fool, obsessed with revenge.
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| Forgive me.''
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