Black and White

**Black and White** is the second story episode of Daikanyama Matching.

## In-Game Summary

Pressing Kamisaman for answers about White Omnis, you find out your power is not time travel, but the ability to awaken new possibilities. When you do so, you call forth a parallel world into which everyone is sucked. Demons are increasing because their duplicate existences in other worlds are unable to fuse during the process, causing your current mess. It also turns out that White Omnis is actually a you from a different possibility. Just then...a demon alert.

## Plot

In the Karaoke Room, the group are reflecting on the battle from the previous day, and the surprise appearance of White Omnis. As they try to puzzle out his goals, Omnis realizes he doesn't know enough, and disconnects to interrogate Kamisaman.

In the White Room, Tobio angrily demands answers from Kamisaman. She corrects his misunderstandings on multiple fronts: first, that White Omnis isn't aiming for ending Omnis' life as much as seizing his right to exist. Second, that White Omnis has the same powers as Omnis, and that power is not the power of time travel, but the ability to awaken possibilities. The same power that allows Omnis to power the magical girl transformations allows him to manipulate the various realities in the multiverse.

Omnis' apparent time travel is actually reality-hopping. Kamisaman explains that when he wishes for a different situation - for example, someone to live instead of die - he activates a reality where that is true, and moves himself and most of the people in his current reality to the new reality. The reason it appeared to be time travel is he was entering parallel worlds with very similar situations. Most duplicate existences will merge, with the 'stronger' one taking over the continued existence. The exception is demons, and magical girls. Since demons are not supposed to exist, they don't merge with any counterparts, and are just pulled into the new reality.

Before Kamisaman can explain what happens to duplicate magical girls, Tobio interrupts. He realizes that White Omnis was so angry at him because he was directly responsible for the massive increase in the number of demons with his continuous attempts to save his team. When he asks who White Omnis is, Kamisaman tells him that it was a different possible version of Tobio. When Tobio points out that only one of them should exist then, Kamisaman says that Omnis is another exception to the duplicate merging rule. Additionally, White Omnis is outside of Kamisaman's control, as he has somehow severed the connection to the console in the White Room.

## Transcript

*(In the Karaoke Room)*

Lilly
Who the heck was that guy yesterday? He was freakin' nuts...
Seira
Those demons were stronger than any I've seen before. Don't tell me we have to fight those big ones, too.
Cocoa
That White Om-om was there, too. Is he like your estranged brother?
Iroha
What?! Om-om has family? Why can't you two just get along?
Akisa
His focused attention on having you torn to shreds was clearly different from the other demons.
Omnis
...
Akisa
You awaken our magical girl powers to slay demons while White Omnis commands the demons. Plus, he's determined to end your life...
Akisa
What are the Omnises' goals?
Omnis
Akisa, I don't have all the information. Give me a sec.
Akisa
Hey, this isn't the time to be sleeping! Answer me already...
*(Scene change to the White Room)*

Tobio
What the hell is with that White Omnis!?
Tobio
What's his goal? He's dead set on ending my life...
Kamisaman
He's not so much dead set on ending your life as he is on seizing your existence.
Tobio
My existence?
Kamisaman
Yep. To put it another way, it's about who has the right to exist in this world.
Tobio
His demons are extremely powerful, and there's no way I can win against him. You think we can beat them?
Kamisaman
Maybe? I don't really know, but that guy's powers are exactly the same as yours.
Tobio
The same as mine...!?
Tobio
When you say the same powers, you mean the power to turn back time, right?
Kamisaman
Huh? What're you talking about?
Tobio
Don't whadya mean me... Then what even is my power!?
Kamisaman
Didn't I tell you? Your power is to awaken possibilities. You don't have any other powers besides that...
Kamisaman
Got it? There are infinite possibilities and parallel worlds. You're rich in one, poor in another.
Kamisaman
To put it simply, multiple, parallel worlds exist. That's easier to imagine, right?
Kamisaman
You've been leaving the other worlds behind, and any mess within it, while you transport to the other world.
Kamisaman
It looks like you're going back in time because you're overlapping with a parallel world and that's just a continuation of a similar situation.
Kamisaman
Like when you wish for someone not to die, you awaken the possibility of them being alive in a parallel world, which then joins your own.
Kamisaman
And its at that moment when that existence duplicates, the one destined to wield power is chosen.
Tobio
Destined to wield...power?
Kamisaman
I guess you can call it the possibility for sustained existence? Only the stronger side can remain, so a "better" world can be built.
Kamisaman
A pretty handy ability, huh? But there are equally troublesome risks involved too. That being rat nasty demons.
Kamisaman
Demons aren't supposed to exist, so when they get pulled into a parallel world, their duplicates don't get absorbed, causing them to multiply.
Kamisaman
One other exception is magical girls. They—
Tobio
Hold the phone! In other words, you're telling me that the more I use my power, the more demons appear? And I created all of them?
Omnis' Thoughts
Is that why White Omnis is so angry?
Kamisaman
Yeah, like the smoke that rises after a flame is lit.
Tobio
So then what in the world is that White Omnis?
Kamisaman
He's just one of you that you awakened--
Kamisaman
A different possible reality of you.
Tobio
Of...me...
Tobio
No, but wait, didn't you say that when an existence duplicates, only one of them can remain?
Kamisaman
Omnis are another exception to this whole existence thing. More than one of you can exist.
Kamisaman
Also, it's clearly now fully severed ties with its console. Now it's just thinking of itself as Omnis.
Kamisaman
Yet it's operating of its own free will. Much like a ghost...
Kamisaman
Well, that's totally out of my control.
Tobio
Oh, come on...

## Trivia

* The truth of Omnis' ability was hinted in the Karaoke Room, when DONE DOKO ROCK keeps playing different songs each time the 'loop' started.