... D-did you mean to do that?

[That rose was seriously making things weird here.]

Well, yeah, I just sorta mean-- in my world, I didn't know magic or whatever powers I have existed till a year ago. But if this power has existed for like, ever and it was only told in rumors or stories, then yeah, I think we had those sorts of monsters too. Just... different.

[It was sort of a chicken or the egg scenario, when Junpei thought about it; what came first, the shadow forms, or the things the shadows were based on...?]