Flashback to something we had nearly forgotten about because the years are getting on now: Aspiring biological entity Pedro Edogawa doesn't know anything anymore and prolonged exposure to different time zones, never ending jet lag, extended periods of isolation, crowded narrow spaces, languages he can’t fully speak or read supplemented by a short list of phrases that get him through the day without any incident, spinning forward on purity café time hoping the staff has forgotten about him so he can stay forever, avoiding eye contact deliberately and instinctively, legs and feet always walking, always hurting, pretending he is invisible, just a fixed point of sensory input that glides through the tunnels and sidewalks of Tokyo3 like second hand smoke that no one seeks to pinpoint anymore, mixing in as it does with a light mist of human odor that is inescapable when he’s pressed flat against a door and window on the Doubutsu-sen with others like himself speeding backwards on tracks to a fixed series of destinations and transfers like this one right here.
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