Twilight Town
City of sunset
Story and background
Roxas, Axel and Xion meet at the clock tower between Organization missions. A virtual version later provides Roxas with a seemingly ordinary summer before Sora wakes.
Events and connections in the series
While Sora's memory was being repaired, Roxas worked for Organization Thirteen. His Keyblade released hearts that the Organization collected for its artificial Kingdom Hearts. He spent his free hours eating sea-salt ice cream on the Twilight Town clock tower with Axel. Then Xion joined them. The three became friends despite living inside an organization built on lies.
Riku confronted Roxas to recover him for Sora's awakening. Roxas resisted fiercely, and Riku had to release the dark power he had been fighting, taking on Ansem's appearance to win. DiZ, the mysterious man helping Naminé, placed Roxas inside a simulated Twilight Town and gave him a quiet final week before merging him with Sora. Those days were gentle and false at once. Roxas discovered that his ordinary life had been arranged to make him disappear. His summer ended, and Sora woke.
The friends celebrated their hard-won reunions. Terra, Aqua, and Ventus visited their old home and honored Eraqus. Ventus was reunited with his Chirithy, a tender link back to the fairy-tale age. Roxas, Axel, and Xion returned to the Twilight Town clock tower with their friends. Naminé received a chance to live as her own person. On Destiny Islands, Sora sat beside Kairi. Then, while she remained, he disappeared. The person who had brought so many hearts home had paid for it by being removed from his own world.
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