For one thing? Mitsuru Asahina? Time traveler. Kyonko has no idea what to think when he tells her in person until a future version of him shows up and leaves her a mysterious clue to remember. He also shows off a mole on his chest that would later prove important due to the number of time loops Kyonko would inevitably find herself stuck in.
Yuuki Nagato? Alien. Kyonko initially thinks he's crazy when he tells her he's a lifeform made of data sent by the Data Overmind to observe Haruki Suzumiya. Then the Class President, Ryou Asakura, who is another Interface for the Overmind tries to kill her in hopes of Haruki reacting when he finds out she's dead. Yuuki saves her, thankfully, and it's kind of hard to ignore the evidence at this point even if she's understandably freaked out. Ryou's data is deleted during this incident and everyone thinks he suddenly had to move to Canada. Everyone but Haruki who decided to investigate.
And Itsuko Koizumi? Esper. After the other two made their initial approach to Kyonko she decided to confront Itsuko who told her she was an esper, part of an Organization of them, in fact, meant to keep Haruki in check. Kyonko didn't believe her either at first, but when Haruki opened up to her after trying to look into Ryou's move with no real leads, Itsuko picked Kyonko up at her front door and demonstrated her powers.
The truth of the situation is this: somehow, some way, Haruki is able to manipulate the world around him at a whim. He has no idea he does this and all factions involved in watching him want to keep it this way. There is every chance he could destroy the world and ample evidence to suggest he did this before. Three years prior to entering high school to be precise. The time travelers cannot travel back further than that, the espers awoke with the knowledge of what they need to do in their heads after that, and the Data Overmind noted a huge flow of data from Earth. When upset Haruki can create pocket dimensions referred to as Closed Space filled with physics defying energy creatures called Shinjin that proceed to destroy everything and make it grow. If the world is covered by Closed Space then there's a very good chance it'll end and be remade into something more of Haruki's liking. The espers can sense Haruki's moods and when it dips enough that Closed Space is created. They can then locate and enter the Closed Space and are then granted abilities to destroy the Shinjin and destroy the Closed Space itself.
Despite knowing this, Haruki somehow still gets restless and bored, not helped by him getting jealous of Kyonko being protective of, defending, and obviously being attracted to Mitsuru. He ultimately tries to unconsciously end the world and take Kyonko with him. The pair wind up in Closed Space in North High, surrounded by Shinjin smashing everything to the ground and the espers unable to properly enter. Itsuko needs the help of her fellow espers to only enter as a phantom of herself that is slowly fading away as she gets locked out and sends messages from her friends: Mitsuru apologizes and says the whole thing is his fault. Yuuki asks her to check the computer, which has a clue about what to do on it.
Unlike Kyonko who was scared, worried, and freaking out, he's actually excited about the destruction around him. It takes the two of them running from the Shinjin smashing up the school, Kyonko expressing a desire to return to the original world, and then making an epic speech before yanking him down by the tie and kissing him to convince him. Haruki thinks he just had a weird dream. Everyone else is left unsure as to if he changed the world once again or not with no hard evidence either way and no way to get said hard evidence.
Now convinced of Haruki's abilities and the dangers they're in, Kyonko winds up in the center of a lot of his unknowing antics. These ranged from a baseball game, a student film she needs to convince him isn't how reality works by making him read out loud a disclaimer at the end of the film before the world changes forever, and a myriad of timeloops the older Mitsuru has to help her complete to keep did try to explain the situation to him, but Haruki dismissed it as a sick prank she was playing on him.
During one of the stable timeloops she winds up caught up in Kyonko discovers she, under the pseudonym of Jenn Smith, is the reason Haruki decided to go to North High. One of the things Haruki had been notorious for in middle school was writing a weird Nazca-style symbol with the tool to draw chalk lines on a baseball field with. Turns out Mitsuru had taken Kyonko back in time to Tanabata three years prior, passed out, and from there Kyonko was guided by Mitsuru's future self. Kyonko was then directed to go to East Middle School where she ran into a younger Haruki, who proceeded to boss her around and goad her into doing the drawing for him. Turns out the drawing was to contact Hikiboshi and Orihime, the two stars representing the gods who grant wishes at Tanabata and due to it being the middle of the night, Haruki never got a clear look at her face and Kyonko gave him the name "Jenn Smith" when he asked for it. Apparently this prompted Haruki to go to North High, believing other people like "Jenn" would be there, if not to meet "Jenn" herself again. Mitsuru wakes up after Haruki leaves and they both get home via the Yuuki of that time period freezing the timespace around them in a small room for three years. For them only a second passed.
There was also a Groundhog Day style of timeloop that involved the last week of August, before school started back up. Haruki wanted the best end of summer ever and, damn it, he was going to try. Yet by the end of the week he was always left unsatisfied and the week would repeat 14859 times. Less than in canon, true, but it was a stroke of luck that after hunting cicadas, going to a bon festival, having a summer job, and everything else, that Kyonko hit upon finishing her homework as a group. Kyonko is a lazy-butt. Of course she hadn't bothered with her summer homework. Turns out what Haruki had been missing was a true end-of-summer event that left them all feeling accomplished and ready for the new school year. At least this is how I interpret it.
These two incidents in particular to provide context for the next incident. Shortly before Christmas Kyonko wakes up to find the world has changed: Asakura sits behind her in class and is apparently human, Yuuki and Mitsuru are normal people, and Haruki and Itsuko might not exist, Kyouyen is now apparently a co-ed school, and the SOS Brigade never happened. Kyonko is frantic and freaks out during this. Sure, she has her family, but the world just isn't right and she just about tears apart the classroom looking for Haruki since, for all she knew, the world had ended and been remade with no warning whatsoever. This naturally causes an uproar but people assume it's stress and the flu going around that are getting to her.
The next day she manages to find a clue left by the Yuuki of the original timeline to find the "key" and execute the program to return things to as they should be. This involves finding Haruki and one of her classmates, Taniguchi, who had been out sick, comes in and points out that, yeah, Haruki exists. He just went to Kyouyen instead of North High after it went co-ed a couple years ago. Sure enough, Haruki is there and Itsuko is one of her closest friends there. By using the pseudonym of "Jenn Smith" Kyonko manages to convince him to get this version of the Brigade together, something easily done considering Haruki's personality. They all gather into the Literature Club's room and a message from Yuuki pops up on the screen, giving Kyonko the choice to keep things as they are or to return them to how they were.
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For one thing? Mitsuru Asahina? Time traveler. Kyonko has no idea what to think when he tells her in person until a future version of him shows up and leaves her a mysterious clue to remember. He also shows off a mole on his chest that would later prove important due to the number of time loops Kyonko would inevitably find herself stuck in.
Yuuki Nagato? Alien. Kyonko initially thinks he's crazy when he tells her he's a lifeform made of data sent by the Data Overmind to observe Haruki Suzumiya. Then the Class President, Ryou Asakura, who is another Interface for the Overmind tries to kill her in hopes of Haruki reacting when he finds out she's dead. Yuuki saves her, thankfully, and it's kind of hard to ignore the evidence at this point even if she's understandably freaked out. Ryou's data is deleted during this incident and everyone thinks he suddenly had to move to Canada. Everyone but Haruki who decided to investigate.
And Itsuko Koizumi? Esper. After the other two made their initial approach to Kyonko she decided to confront Itsuko who told her she was an esper, part of an Organization of them, in fact, meant to keep Haruki in check. Kyonko didn't believe her either at first, but when Haruki opened up to her after trying to look into Ryou's move with no real leads, Itsuko picked Kyonko up at her front door and demonstrated her powers.
The truth of the situation is this: somehow, some way, Haruki is able to manipulate the world around him at a whim. He has no idea he does this and all factions involved in watching him want to keep it this way. There is every chance he could destroy the world and ample evidence to suggest he did this before. Three years prior to entering high school to be precise. The time travelers cannot travel back further than that, the espers awoke with the knowledge of what they need to do in their heads after that, and the Data Overmind noted a huge flow of data from Earth. When upset Haruki can create pocket dimensions referred to as Closed Space filled with physics defying energy creatures called Shinjin that proceed to destroy everything and make it grow. If the world is covered by Closed Space then there's a very good chance it'll end and be remade into something more of Haruki's liking. The espers can sense Haruki's moods and when it dips enough that Closed Space is created. They can then locate and enter the Closed Space and are then granted abilities to destroy the Shinjin and destroy the Closed Space itself.
Despite knowing this, Haruki somehow still gets restless and bored, not helped by him getting jealous of Kyonko being protective of, defending, and obviously being attracted to Mitsuru. He ultimately tries to unconsciously end the world and take Kyonko with him. The pair wind up in Closed Space in North High, surrounded by Shinjin smashing everything to the ground and the espers unable to properly enter. Itsuko needs the help of her fellow espers to only enter as a phantom of herself that is slowly fading away as she gets locked out and sends messages from her friends: Mitsuru apologizes and says the whole thing is his fault. Yuuki asks her to check the computer, which has a clue about what to do on it.
Unlike Kyonko who was scared, worried, and freaking out, he's actually excited about the destruction around him. It takes the two of them running from the Shinjin smashing up the school, Kyonko expressing a desire to return to the original world, and then making an epic speech before yanking him down by the tie and kissing him to convince him. Haruki thinks he just had a weird dream. Everyone else is left unsure as to if he changed the world once again or not with no hard evidence either way and no way to get said hard evidence.
Now convinced of Haruki's abilities and the dangers they're in, Kyonko winds up in the center of a lot of his unknowing antics. These ranged from a baseball game, a student film she needs to convince him isn't how reality works by making him read out loud a disclaimer at the end of the film before the world changes forever, and a myriad of timeloops the older Mitsuru has to help her complete to keep did try to explain the situation to him, but Haruki dismissed it as a sick prank she was playing on him.
During one of the stable timeloops she winds up caught up in Kyonko discovers she, under the pseudonym of Jenn Smith, is the reason Haruki decided to go to North High. One of the things Haruki had been notorious for in middle school was writing a weird Nazca-style symbol with the tool to draw chalk lines on a baseball field with. Turns out Mitsuru had taken Kyonko back in time to Tanabata three years prior, passed out, and from there Kyonko was guided by Mitsuru's future self. Kyonko was then directed to go to East Middle School where she ran into a younger Haruki, who proceeded to boss her around and goad her into doing the drawing for him. Turns out the drawing was to contact Hikiboshi and Orihime, the two stars representing the gods who grant wishes at Tanabata and due to it being the middle of the night, Haruki never got a clear look at her face and Kyonko gave him the name "Jenn Smith" when he asked for it. Apparently this prompted Haruki to go to North High, believing other people like "Jenn" would be there, if not to meet "Jenn" herself again. Mitsuru wakes up after Haruki leaves and they both get home via the Yuuki of that time period freezing the timespace around them in a small room for three years. For them only a second passed.
There was also a Groundhog Day style of timeloop that involved the last week of August, before school started back up. Haruki wanted the best end of summer ever and, damn it, he was going to try. Yet by the end of the week he was always left unsatisfied and the week would repeat 14859 times. Less than in canon, true, but it was a stroke of luck that after hunting cicadas, going to a bon festival, having a summer job, and everything else, that Kyonko hit upon finishing her homework as a group. Kyonko is a lazy-butt. Of course she hadn't bothered with her summer homework. Turns out what Haruki had been missing was a true end-of-summer event that left them all feeling accomplished and ready for the new school year.
At least this is how I interpret it.These two incidents in particular to provide context for the next incident. Shortly before Christmas Kyonko wakes up to find the world has changed: Asakura sits behind her in class and is apparently human, Yuuki and Mitsuru are normal people, and Haruki and Itsuko might not exist, Kyouyen is now apparently a co-ed school, and the SOS Brigade never happened. Kyonko is frantic and freaks out during this. Sure, she has her family, but the world just isn't right and she just about tears apart the classroom looking for Haruki since, for all she knew, the world had ended and been remade with no warning whatsoever. This naturally causes an uproar but people assume it's stress and the flu going around that are getting to her.
The next day she manages to find a clue left by the Yuuki of the original timeline to find the "key" and execute the program to return things to as they should be. This involves finding Haruki and one of her classmates, Taniguchi, who had been out sick, comes in and points out that, yeah, Haruki exists. He just went to Kyouyen instead of North High after it went co-ed a couple years ago. Sure enough, Haruki is there and Itsuko is one of her closest friends there. By using the pseudonym of "Jenn Smith" Kyonko manages to convince him to get this version of the Brigade together, something easily done considering Haruki's personality. They all gather into the Literature Club's room and a message from Yuuki pops up on the screen, giving Kyonko the choice to keep things as they are or to return them to how they were.