It was quite a shock seeing both of them coming over for dinner.

"Great! How are we going to cover up?"[Future J: slightly tensed]
"Let's lie for now. Once we're done with dinner, Let's tell them the truth."[J]

That was one tense dinner. Me and my future self kept darting looks across the table hoping one of us came up with an idea to evade telling those two about the problem. But somewhere deep down, I wanted Cat and Fuuta to join too.
Finally, we finished dinner. We managed to convince the other two that my future self was a friend of mine, but Cat knew something was off. There isn't a friend of mine whom she doesn't know.

"Okay! Time to spill the beans! You both look so alike it's hard to believe he's just a 'friend'!"[Cat: as soon as we closed the room door]

I looked at him. He proceeded to explain everything, about why he came to the past, twice actually, and about Esper.

"There is a company called Esper Inc. And this Esper AI we spoke about, is the CEO. That's how advanced things are in the future. An AI is the CEO of a comapny. Esper Inc is a biotechnological company, mostly into pharmacogenetics. Managing and developing antivenoms for potentially fatal poisons, drug manufacturing and vaccine development. They came out with an immunity booster which does not require any medical prescription of any sort, so people took to the product. Esper Inc is one of the leading and successful pharmacogenetics company, and their immunity booster was a huge success. But after a month of the boosters' administration, kids suddenly became prodigies. Dull and lazy...