(Riku: Director’s Secret Report XIII, part VIII continued from previous page…)

In the case of a Nobody being defeated, it’s a little more complicated. If the above mentioned hearts are liberated, they return to their original form. However, if the heart is still stolen by the Heartless, the Nobody’s body is swallowed by Darkness. If somewhere in the world their hearts are taken back, perhaps they might be able to return to their original human form.

IX - Could you please gather some information about the main characters? The reason Sora becomes Anti-Form, the reason Riku is able to be selected by a Keyblade, Kairi’s memories of Radiant Garden, Roxas’ and Naminé’s differences from other Nobodies, the absence of Sora and the others, their parents and friends, and what about school?

Concerning Sora’s Anti-Form, you could think that the reason is related to his changing into a Heartless once before. In fact, beyond Sora’s Nobody, it is natural to assume that Sora is influenced by the Heartless. Riku’s Dark Mode is similar. By using such a strong power too much, he may have ended up aproaching too close to Darkness. There should be a hint about Riku being a chosen wielder hidden discretely somewhere in the additions to the game, so certainly try and find it. As for Kairi’s memories, there’s nothing particularly special about them. If I personally recalled memories from before I was 5, I think I wouldn’t remember many details about them. That is to say on a general level, there are things I would remember and things I would forget.

As there is already a detailed explanation of Roxas and Naminé being special Nobodies in this volume, please read the specific details there. I’ll summarize it so it’s easy to understand. Essentially when a strong-hearted person has their heart stolen, they change into a Heartless, and on rare occasions thier body changes into a Nobody. But in the case for these two, for Kairi’s heart to be hidden within Sora, it took a special shape. Moreover, when Sora himself was changed into a Heartless he was purified by Kairi. In order for Sora to be revived without following the essential course, the special way Roxas and Naminé were born from these types, special Nobodies ended up being left behind. Still, I get the feeling from the story so far that Xemnas might also be a special Nobody.

Finally, about the people on Destiny Islands. At the time of Sora and the group’s disappearance, on the night of the storm from the previous game, Destiny Islands itself ended up disappearing, and for the people of that world, time was stopped. Afterwards, Sora slept for 1 year, and, during that time, everyone’s memories of Sora himself were no longer there. As such, the memory actually became “On the night of the storm, Riku’s body disappeared”. Once Sora awoke, the memories of him returned. Eventually the memories of Sora, just as Riku was no longer there after the storm that night, were that both of them had disappeared. (Footnote: However, Kairi alone was once assimilated into Sora’s heart. In this edition of “Kingdom Hearts II”, I strongly feel that he was influenced by this.)

X - KH’s Ansem (Xehanort) seems to have thoroughly gotten rid of his own heart, but Xemnas (Xehanort) commanding Organization XIII is seeking a fresh heart. If I understand that in becoming a Heartless and a Nobody, they became 2 different people, would their minds then become separate as well? Also, the original Xehanort should have some memory loss but in the additional scenes this time there seem to be some questionable parts. Have his memories returned, or perhaps the memory loss itself was a lie?

In essence, the two are the same. However, they function under seperate minds. Xehanort most certainly got rid of his heart, and at that time it’s assumed that a Nobody was born. The means of obtaining their goal is different due to the nature of Heartless and Nobodies. However, I think that for both of them the desire “to become a complete existence” is the same.

This time the new mysterious keyword “Xehanort’s memories” is left behind. In the “Secret Ansem Report” that Ansem the Wise wrote and mysteriously left behind, there is a hidden secret that will have a big influence on KH. As for the contents of his memories and the present condition of them, I cannot reveal that just yet.

About the Keyblade War, and other further developments of KH…

XI - Concerning the keyphrase “Keyblade War”, could you be a little more specific about that? Could it be related to the “Fairytale of Children and Light” that Kairi’s Grandmother told? (Footnote: In Kingdom Hearts, Sora experienced Kairi’s memories. It was a scene when Kairi’s Grandmother told her an old story when she was still young about when worlds were swallowed by darkness. Children used the power of fragments of light to rebuild worlds.)

To tell the story about the Keyblade War we need the capacity of hi-spec hardware and we need to accumulate all of our knowledge on this hardware. And in telling this story, we will need to tell it in separate episodes, and how specifically to tell it has yet to be figured out.

As for the fairytale that Kairi heard, for everyone to feel like such and old fairytale is real, I think we need a little more time. That is to say, to talk specifically about either this soon might perhaps be irrelevant. (Riku: Nomura has previously stated “That story wasn’t history, it was a fairy tale. It doesn’t mean that story equals the world’s history precisely. Although, there is a certain degree of overlapping.”)

XII - Of the people that appear in the new secret movie, “Birth By Sleep”, that was added to KHII:FM, several names and figures are recognizable and must be extremely meaningful. Giving specifics is likely impossible, but could you give us a hint? Furthermore, do the 3 armored figures that appear there and the similar looking armored figure in the Last Battle have some relation to Xemnas?

For the recognizable figures and the recognizable faces, reaching the secret this time is extremely difficult, but I think the video is fairly spectacular and will stir your imaginations. The armored figures have a connection to Xemnas but after all I can’t give any specifics at the present stage. But, the video this time has a foreboding opening and please think of the figures ahead as having reason and a hinting connection.

Thanks to GameFAQs’ TheWertle for translating this, and thanks to our forum member Kh3fan02 for posting it. I edited and corrected spelling and grammar. It continues on the next pages.