...yet how remote, that time before the world went all awry

lady_ganesh posts Gaiden fic. When did Gaiden fic become nostalgia? I wrote one just last year. But it seems to belong to some infinite long ago, eight years and more past. Happy sunny days of '01, or at most '06.

Here though the world explode, these four survive*
And it is always two thousand and five.

(*for certain values of 'survive')

At least there are now details on Tenpou's men.