On the other end of the receiver, there was silence for a second or two, seemingly too embarrassed to speak: "So, about that thing, the bedwetting incident! I just told you about this—she certainly doesn't know I told you about it!"
Fushimi Rokushin felt his doubts lessen slightly; he knew now was not the time for pleasantries. Getting straight to the point, he asked, "What did you mean by 'don't commit suicide'?"
"If you die once in the dream, you'll forget something!" Minamoto Tamako said urgently. "I've just died three times, only to find gaps in my memory… damn it! What exactly did I forget?!"
With her reminder, Fushimi Roku realized where the sense of anomaly had come from.
He activated the Judicial Court in his mind, quickly retrieving his memory files, and discovered that all memories from April this year were gone. He couldn't even recall what he had forgotten.