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Khan of the Mardu
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As the three of you would lumber through the dark cavern, your body growing only weaker and weaker as time went on, it felt like your bodies would fall apart if you weren't careful. So much for "superior puppet bodies," Touko Aozaki. Soon, you'd just about be unable to use any weapons that you might have on you.
Eventually, you would eventually stop to hear a peculiar sound. It sounded like... groaning? Through the darkness that you traversed through, you would eventually come across something horrible leaning against the wall.
A person. Or what was left of them anyway. It was evident that they were still alive, though it was very easy to tell that they would be better off dead in that kind of condition. You couldn't really ascertain how they got like it, but something told you that you were better off not knowing. Kotomine often did mention orphans, likely as some sort of bad joke... but this was no laughing matter.
The more your eyes adjusted to the sudden darkness, the more of them you saw. There had to be at least fifteen people in the same exact condition as the first you saw. What the hell was going on here? What was this place? Who were these people?
And to the side.
The unconscious bodies of Rin Tohsaka, Ciel, and Erika Furudo lay next, strange misty lines appearing and leaving their mouths. Somehow, you could just tell. That dark mist...
It had to be something like their life energy leaving their body. Even now, their bodies looked weak. Skinnier and paler. Who knows how long they had been here?
Well, Erika looked a little more healthy, if only because she had been with you all since just now, but who knew how long it'd be until she'd end up the same as them, and for that matter, who knew how long it'd be until the same would happen to all of you?
At that moment, even, the misty line would appear at your own mouths as well, what was presumably your life energy leaving you as well. This place was a dangerous place. Whatever business you had here, you'd have to go about it quickly.
@BarrenThin @The Tactician
Why was Ciel here, in this place? She didn't belong here in this place of meaningless death. She deserved to be free of this place, not to be trapped to die with everyone, to die with him. She was better than that. When didn't deserve to die before someone as worthless as him.
"I won't... let you die alone... here, Ciel," The near-mute declaration escaped Minato as useless self-motivation, meant to push him on in trying to lift the nun up and carry her away.
"I won't... let you die alone... here, Ciel," The near-mute declaration escaped Minato as useless self-motivation, meant to push him on in trying to lift the nun up and carry her away.
The detective was lying on the ground, her head staring off into what she perceived as blurred darkness. Every part of her body went numb, wanting to give out and crumble apart later on... That was bound to become of her soon... it felt familiar to her... the feeling of becoming nothing.
The others would only see the blankness in her wide open eyes, breathing in a rhythm that made it look like she was fighting to stay alive... but she knew this feeling, and she wasn't going to succeed in the end. That was what a piece like her thought...
"L... Lady Bern... kastel. I wasn't... a great detective... a proper... Witch of Truth... in the end... It's disappointing... Don't... you... think?"
Due to her failing senses and perception of the things around her, Erika hopelessly hallucinated that she was talking to her master, the Witch of Miracles. She gave no sign of acknowledgement to the others, especially Robin. She was slowly losing her grip on reality.
"Maybe... your words were true... Lady... Bernkastel... I never... deserved this title... I never deserved... this life... I'm only... a mere piece... living a lie... I see the... Truth... of my... proper place... to rot away... into nothing... in the depths... of oblivion..."
Her little depressive rant of her uselessness was halted for a moment... letting the horrid coughing fit give her a moment to think about this last line. The supposed final words of the detective...
"I'm not even sure... if I deserve... to be in love... with Robin... He would be... disgusted to know... what I did... in the past... Just let me... rot away... my master... By the existence... of my fall... this level of... failure is... possible for... Erika Furudo... what do you think... everyone?"
As she went on and on... her voice become quieter and quieter, like weakening whispers. Her eyes were starting to close up, as if she were admitting defeat... but yet... a steady stream of tears rolled down her face and onto the putrid ground.
Erika Furudo was admitting defeat, and maybe then... she'll rest at last.
@BarrenThin @The Tactician
Robin was on the verge of tears as he listened to Erika shatter apart and wish not to struggle against the darkness again. How could when say those things about herself being worthless? Didn't when she know how precious she truly was to him at least?
The tactician couldn't let the detective die here. He needed to help her see how magnificent she truly was, how beautiful she was when she was on the attack, how cute she was when she played with her chopsticks. How absolutely perfect she is, Bern and her past be damned....
He couldn't do that if she died here, believing herself to be a failure. If anyone was the failure, it would be him.
Without a word to the others, Robin carefully cradled Erika in his arms as though she was finally the bride on their wedding day.
@BarrenThin @Verite
The tactician couldn't let the detective die here. He needed to help her see how magnificent she truly was, how beautiful she was when she was on the attack, how cute she was when she played with her chopsticks. How absolutely perfect she is, Bern and her past be damned....
He couldn't do that if she died here, believing herself to be a failure. If anyone was the failure, it would be him.
Without a word to the others, Robin carefully cradled Erika in his arms as though she was finally the bride on their wedding day.
@BarrenThin @Verite