David Mandalis told the Megami devotees:
> 
> It's marked 2005/2 but it is the January iss.  It looks like Peorth
> is stuck on the Mortal Plane for awhile, and a new character surfaces
> that looks like to blocking her return, the first attempt sends her
> to the bath.

That is the "gate" herself.  The megami first mentioned that the gate is
'sulking', and K1 wondered why they used such a term to describe a
non-organic thing.  Turns out that the gate does really have a
personality.

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