[Are you kidding me?!]
[That was your first reaction. How was that possible? You had no recollection of him whatsoever.]
[As though sensing your distrust, his Great Dao's Voice rang out again from behind that eerie Clown Mask:]
["Surely you now know of the distinction between the higher-dimensional past, present, and future!"]
[You nodded in confirmation. Of course you knew that.]
[Seeing your affirmative response, he could not help chuckling:]
["It seems you truly don't remember. That makes sense. As you are now, you are incomplete."]
["Your former self would have dismissed it with contempt. Why would you ever have given such an affirmative response?"]
[You were speechless. So he had been testing you just now?!]
[But since he had said that... in what way were you incomplete?!]
[With that thought, you asked him exactly that:]
["Why do you say I'm incomplete? And... what sort of being was my former self?"]
[Though the first future letter had warned you, "He deceived you."]
[So was this a lie? What was his aim?]
[Trying to cozy up to you? Surely not.]
[As though he had anticipated this, the Great Dao's Voice answered from within the mask:]
["In terms of your current understanding, that would be the you who exists in the higher-dimensional past."]
["In other words, [Past Chen Fan]."]
["And as I mentioned earlier, it was Past Chen Fan who asked me to wait for you before this First Door."]
[Your pupils abruptly contracted.]
[Even though you knew he might be lying to you.]
[Since he had said that, he had to have some basis for it!]
[Whatever his aim, you wanted to hear more.]
[So you asked, "What basis do you have for saying that?"]
[Having spoken, you looked with interest at this mysterious being wearing the Strange Clown Mask.]
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