fight on!

So since the person who made the wish only knew Good Friend Kim Soleum, and Soleum explicitly had to reform from goop to return to his world, it's definitely only the Good Friend version of him that's returning right? While his original self is still in the Fox Counseling Room. Which works, because a Good Friend is something that channels a being from the Otherworld. So now his world is a place where a being from the Otherworld can be channeled -- a place with ghost stories. (Which is totally going to be revealed when the original normal keychain plush that Soleum himself purchased at the popup store starts talking to him. Helpful that he already has a medium he recognizes as his Friend in his original world, without even having to bring the one from the ghost story world! Though Braun speaking up almost feels too obvious. Maybe instead there'll be a callback to the May 4th loop, when Soleum unconsciously expected Braun to speak up but he didn't..?)

We know that the DER wiki's full name is "Prophecy of the Apocalypse" but we don't know anything about that apocalypse (and it's unclear what, if anything, Kim Soleum knows about it beyond the wiki title). What if the apocalypse is not one taking place in the DER world, but the DER wiki itself is the prophecy: a prophecy that the apocalypse will come to Kim Soleum's world when the events of the wiki enter it?

I'm also really curious how all this is connected to the Tamra train -- the "Paradise Test" Darkness. What is Paradise? "Paradise" can't just mean a world without ghost stories since the Children's Paradise Syrup preceded the Invitation research.

>watch father get murdered right before my eyes at age 9

>become a respected public prosecutor

>15 years later (just before the statute of limitations runs out), father's killer's defense attorney asks to meet at the lake around midnight

>meet him

>row out to the middle of the lake together

>hear him say some cryptic shit

>watch him pull a gun and

>BANG

>BANG

>and he's gone

>what the fuck did he just shoot himself??

>pick up the gun in shock

>put the gun down

>stand there in the middle of the cold foggy lake

>row back to shore alone

>leave the gun there in the boat

>wander the shore in the cold, muttering to myself about what I just saw

>get questioned by police

>tell them nothing

>go home

>don't sleep (nightmares)

>get arrested the next morning

Evolution

SISYPHUS GETS A 9 TO 5