Taenia Memoriae

[Mami Tomoe]

Mami awoke to the vibration of the strange phone-like device coloured gold against her right thigh, causing great pain on her recovering burn wound in that spot. She flinched and squirmed under her blankets, searching for the source of the incessant and painful shaking and humming - She found the source, lifted it to the sky and laid on her back instead of her side as she had while searching. On the screen of the device were the words 'Mobile Dataverse Device' - She did not recall learning the name of the machine, but knowing it would perhaps be convenient. There had to have been a reason for it to call upon her, as it would not be vibrating otherwise. The trio of words previously listed on the screen disappeared, and Mami saw new words replace them: '@Mami Tomoe - Mentioned in Dante's Abyss Power Rankings'. At least half of the words mentioned were news to her, so without a moment's hesitation she tapped the words and was brought to a new page. She scrolled through walls of text and, interestingly, found a picture of her face, her name hovered above it, and a wall of text. Her eyes landed on an interesting line...

If the Mami that took Harry to the edge is the one that enters DA, y’all better recognize.

Mami was confused but also impressed. She was ranked twenty on some kind of list, though she knew not what the list was about. Something to do with power. If she was strong enough to be considered twentieth-best in the Omniverse, she definitely had something to be proud of. But something was the matter - She hadn't seen anyone else in the area while she and Harry were battling. How did people already know about their fight? And if people had known, why hadn't anyone helped her in the tough times since? Then again, neither had anyone helped Harry, to her knowledge, though they had yet to stand face to face for a short while.

Regardless, this list may have given Mami a purpose. She looked back at her screen and, as quickly as it had arrived, it was gone. On her screen, something along the lines of //:SYSTEM ERROR 32x// flashed bright red. Perhaps she had simply been daydreaming moments ago? Mami put down the device beside her, rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and, with a quick snap, all the pillows and blankets vanished. "That should keep me awake," she thought aloud and picked up her Dataverse Device again whilst rising to her feet. She flipped her boat right side-up and pushed it down into the water - With a satisfyingly loud SPLASH, she watched it land in the water. She hopped down into it again, took the rows out and dipped their ends into the water, leaving her Dataverse Device on the front bench of the boat. Wherever the person who made the list was, Mami was going to find them. She began rowing her little rowboat along in the now-foggy waters of the Deep.

In not too much time, Mami had found herself at the gate to the Nexus yet again. She beached her little boat there in the sand, gently placed its rows inside the boat from the water, and she stepped out into the coarse and shell-filled sand. Something seemed depressing about leaving the little boat behind in its current state - She almost felt attached to it, strangely enough. And so she tapped its bow with her finger and gave it a bow of her own, a lovely one made of one of her ribbons.

Mami then spun on her heel and walked through the gate to the Nexus.