[He wasn't surprised by Ledah's stony expression. Seal Knights were exactly the most expressive of people, so he's used to it. So he'll just continue with his tale. ]
Yes, but it wasn't immediate.
Remember how I said you only believed the lie "as long as you were within the boundaries of Morimiya"? For the rest of the world, Shiori had died on the day of the disaster. Perhaps this would've been fine in another time period, but communication technology was advancing quickly. People could now easily talk to people from anywhere in the world, or read information that came from other places. The Greed could control anything that was within Morimiya, but there was little it could do about the truths that came from outside the city boundaries.
Eventually, this dissonance began to strain on the Grim Greed. The strain caused a number of anomalies to occur within the city. And eventually, it got to be too much, so in a last ditch effort to maintain the lie... the Grim Greed concocted a plan to drag the whole world into the Eclipse, starting with Morimiya, so it could have enough power to maintain the lie everywhere.
It wouldn't work out that way, of course. You see, all the anomalies had attracted the attention of those tasked with dealing with Greed, and they'd learned a lot in the ten years since the disaster. So when the time came to enact it's plan, there were many ready to resist it. Ultimately, the Grim Greed was defeated.
But as a consequence...Shiori ceased to be. Not just her physical presence, but any evidence she ever existed past the day of the disaster. Even people's memories of her faded. Besides a small handful of us, no one had any recollection of the happy girl that'd been in their lives all those years.
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Yes, but it wasn't immediate.
Remember how I said you only believed the lie "as long as you were within the boundaries of Morimiya"? For the rest of the world, Shiori had died on the day of the disaster. Perhaps this would've been fine in another time period, but communication technology was advancing quickly. People could now easily talk to people from anywhere in the world, or read information that came from other places. The Greed could control anything that was within Morimiya, but there was little it could do about the truths that came from outside the city boundaries.
Eventually, this dissonance began to strain on the Grim Greed. The strain caused a number of anomalies to occur within the city. And eventually, it got to be too much, so in a last ditch effort to maintain the lie... the Grim Greed concocted a plan to drag the whole world into the Eclipse, starting with Morimiya, so it could have enough power to maintain the lie everywhere.
It wouldn't work out that way, of course. You see, all the anomalies had attracted the attention of those tasked with dealing with Greed, and they'd learned a lot in the ten years since the disaster. So when the time came to enact it's plan, there were many ready to resist it. Ultimately, the Grim Greed was defeated.
But as a consequence...Shiori ceased to be. Not just her physical presence, but any evidence she ever existed past the day of the disaster. Even people's memories of her faded. Besides a small handful of us, no one had any recollection of the happy girl that'd been in their lives all those years.