"A world like ours, at least," Yu replied with a nod. He fell silent a moment, not sure how to proceed, except be blunt as usual...

"He said that the world outside of where he lived, Sumaru City, had... ended," he continued, plowing right into everything that boy had told him. "In order for them to save it and stop Nyarlathotep, they needed to reset the world; make it so that whatever caused things to fall apart would never happen so that the world could continue.

"And this happened back in Nineteen-ninety-nine."