Intro Song: https://youtu.be/xXvtoUBMB_k / Leave by Whirr
I can see it...
All the way from down here...
The light...
I can see the light...
Maybe that night...
I really did die...
Maybe that night...
My life was over the moment...
I pulled...
That trigger...
I'm sorry... really...
I'm going to leave you...
Inari...
Jise...
Natsuno...
I never really got to see her...
Grow up...
Jisei...
Protect them for me huh?
I...
Can't live anymore...
Not with their eyes...
Still on me...
I-
I-
I...
I can still feel her on my shoulder...
Her teasing...
Her longing...
I should've been hers...
A long long time ago...
It's cold down here...
So cold...
Please...
My long lost love...
Warm me up...
Warm...
Us... both...
Atsushi closes his eyes, his aura all spent, his body all fatigued...
Most importantly...
His spirit... all broken...
He never really could escape them...
Her...
And now...
It all ends...
He reckoned...
.
.
A whole dome of bodies pile themselves high to protect Atsushi, whose body just shakes and whimpers from the extreme exertion of aura...
Yukki's eyes widen, his shock so palpable, an opening so huge and wide is seen...
A white flame is lit...
His arm is sent flying several meters away...
Musen... did it...
And in using Shion's aura as a source...
Yukki jumps multiple spots away from his newfound enemies...
Especially her...
Shion!
He coughs up blood... hand on wound...
Gaping...
Rushing...
Flowing...
Running out...
"Shit.. shit... shit... SHIT!!!!!!!" Yukki screamed so loud it send shockwaves right across the valley, Shion snaps her fingers... the thick mist reverts back...
As hundreds upon hundreds of the forgotten flood Yukki's position, he constantly hacks away each and every zombie in his sight, and yet...
He isn't fast enough...
They all chomp away at his form, he generates a make-shift aura barrier...
But at this rate... it won't last...
Even half a minute's worth...
"It's time..."
"To use it..."
He chuckles...
"The sacrifice..."
A white veil covers the entire valley, a strong gust of wind threatens to scatter Shion and the others, and with her help... the hands of the forgotten grab their ankles...
Musen pants... tired from augmenting such a strong amount of aura... his entire body drops from his exhaustion...
Keiko tries to get closer to Atsushi...
Knowing...
If she could just heal him-
They'd have a better advantage against Yukki... and possibly Mikoto...
Her feet slowly gather up momentum, traversing the little distance but because of the wind, it feels like she's slowly trekking up mount everest...
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The hands follow her movements... holding her place...
Lest she be flying...
She was getting closer...
A little bit more and-
She'd be-
She gasped...
A rush of blood streamed down towards a part of her...
But what was it?
...
She coughed up so much blood, it was entire litres of her own liquids...
She looked down...
She didn't believe it...
She couldn't ever...
A giant gaping wound on her chest...
A part of her...
Gone just like that...
She screamed into the void, thrashing about!
And yet...
It was no use...
It's like...
"I never existed... at all..." she whispered... her hands on her hole... in the middle...
She drops to the ground...
Extinguished... just like a bug...
Crushed... smothered...
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Musen let out a blood-curdling scream, and by the distance...
Stood Yukki, his right arm was cleaned right off, so he decided... to also sacrifice his right eye... and ear...
For what?
"Just enough aura... to obliterate your whole army..." Yukki muttered... his rage was put into a slow boil...
"SHION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" HE SCREAMED, LAUNCHING RIGHT AT HER, WHOSE BODY GLOWS TRANSLUCENT AND CLEAR, HIS BLADE-LIKE HAND GOES RIGHT THROUGH HER...
As if she was like...
A ghost...
She grasps it with her hand, fully breaking it...
He screams in extreme agony, but he licks his lips, smirking slightly despite his pain...
Shion clicks her tongue...
His body leaks this black goop... it spreads all over himself...
"Shion... oh shion... to think you were also..."
"A FUCKING RAT AS WELL!!!!!!!!!!!" He clenches his mangled-up hands on hers, his black goop clearly affecting her, despite her... spiritual-like attributes...
This black goop...
It stays on her...
Regardless...
"You know what happens now... and no..."
"There is no going back..." his voice swirls all over her mind...
Her real body drops to the ground... all lifeless and...
Spent...
Musen just stands on his position...
Not knowing what to do...
Both his comrades were just made short work of...
He guessed...
This is it...
His final mission...
And he...
Wasn't going to live to tell the tale...
Yukki's body implodes into itself, before erupting all over, covering Musen in the goop, his whole body coated in it...
He starts to feel...
The symptoms...
Dizziness...
Instant pneumonia...
Like he was burning into the very depths of...
Hell itself...
His body loses all sense, all... mobility...
And lastly...
The final symptom...
His mind starts to leave him... like... his body isn't his own anymore...
It just lies there... lifeless...
That's because it...
Is...
The black goop all gather in one place, swirving and swirling all over the area, forming his form...
Like none of this...
Had ever happened...
Yukki tries to stand but he falls to his knees... the blood having been stopped from seeping out...
And yet...
The sacrifice still remains...
A panting can be heard...
Breaking the silence the valley had found itself with...
Right across, the bodies of the forgotten fall to the ground...
Revealing...
A very much so vulnerable Atsushi...
Yukki smirks... limping out to finish his job...
The blinking light flickers once more...
The device...
Ready... to do its real job...
To capture...
To gather...
To forcefully take what is ours... Yukki thought...
"You lot... won't have any more trump cards left..." his footsteps get closer and closer to Atsushi, just before he stands above his lying form... towering over him...
"And with this..." he slowly whispered...
"WE WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!" Yukki exclaimed excitedly, raising his arm to complete it...
The... strike...
Goes right through?
A ghastly hand stops him...
Yukki's eyes widen... and with this...
His neck is snapped...
Shion hovers over him, separating his head from his body...
Strong gushes of crimson spread all over the ground, his neck still spilling...
Endlessly...
"Since w-when?" Yukki's head speaks, his words carefully thought up, he knows his time is up...
"Since when were you a rat?"
Shion holds his head, her face the same as ever...
And yet a feeling... this feeling...
Washes over her...
A hidden sorrow...
For what had to happen...
It risks being spilled out of her...
She...
She keeps it in...
"Since Atsushi killed Akari..." she coldly said, almost not surprised at the outcome they've reached
"And that infant..."
"Our anomaly..." she says with a slight pang in her tone...
"Y'know? The ICA is no different from us..." he spoke up
"They also kill and sacrifice even their own people..."
"You think you're any better?" he scoffed
"Hah!"
"You hypocrites... tch!"
"This final war... it's a battle of beliefs... once more..."
"And just like any other conflict..." his eyes start to droop, the blood in his head running out...
"The winners... they write history... they shape reality... not losers..."
"The axis powers... the soviet union... they're all losers..."
"But not us..."
"NOT THE GREAT EMPIRE!!!!!!!!!!!" He screamed one more act of defiance, Shion crushes and smothers his head with her bare hands, her eyelashes having not moved an inch
"Shut the fuck up..."
"Leader..." She sheds a confused tear for the man she used to look up to... but in seeing his final moments... of clinging... like a pathetic piece of trash...
"Oh how far you've fallen..." she muttered under her breath, her figure disappearing into the mist...
The blinking device lies there...
Flickering...
Still...
.
.
The dust clears...
The explosion... leaves huge trails of smoke...
All around the atmosphere...
The rain pelts hard onto the valley...
Multiple footsteps are heard...
The puddles splashing...
The figure... however...
Behind all this...
Isn't...
Suzushii lays on the ground... his aura having protected him... but his entire body is battered... his aura is almost spent...
He coughs... waking up...
His eyes slowly opening... to see the grey twilight sky...
The foreboding... of death...
Permeates the valley... once more...
This is where it all had started...
Where... he lost Kuroke to them...
Where he annihilated the whole city from the face of the earth...
He gets up...
Wandering through the thick mist... like a lost child...
Trying to sense any sort of aura...
He raises his guard, and focuses his aura on his body...
Knowing a likely strike could come from anywhere...
"Shion is most likely here... I can feel her presence..." he muttered, not knowing her side just yet...
His footsteps splash onto the many many craters of the valley...
"I've got to save him... I can't just... let him..." he loses his thought...
And remembers what Mikoto told him...
"YOU MADE HIM KILL AKARI!"
"Even if he never wanted to..."
His words swirl around his head...
He had to do it... surely...
For the good of the world... right?
If not... the anomaly would've been raised so strong...
To be able to kill everyone in the ICA...
To be able...
To start another world war...
And yet...
He remembers their olden days together...
As unlikely friends... comrades...
He never really got it...
But he did...
Didn't he?
Atsu...
You looked so happy...
You looked so complete...
But if you hadn't done all those things...
You wouldn't be here... by my side...
You would be on the other side of the fence...
Against me...
Would you really be a good person then?
Am I...
Did I...
Do the right thing?
He shudders...
Due to the combined chill of the rain, the mist, and the wind...
He...
Bumped into something...
A limp body... he sensed...
It was...
Familiar...
"No..."
"No..."
"nonononononononoonononononononononono-"
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" He dropped to his knees... screaming... hand in head...
Heart... in sleeve...
He looks at it directly...
A shrivelled-up body...
Like his life was sucked out of him...
It's...
It can't be...
"It's not you! It can't be you!" Suzushii says in denial, he pummels the ground next to the body over and over and over again...
His knuckles all bent out of shape...
Unable to keep on...
Yet he doesn't stop...
No pain could ever compare to this...
To losing...
So much...
I tried to do the right thing...
And yet...
I lost Kuroke...
And now...
"My brother..." he silently weeps, his head on Atsushi's chest...
His tears indistinguishable from what surrounds them...
It must be part of it all...
"I failed you... I didn't know how you felt... all this time..."
"We were so focused on stopping them... all..."
"That I... maybe you did die that day..."
"I... I... I should've done it myself..."
"Not you..."
"NOT YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!" He screams so hard, his voice turns course... it cracks... he lets a whimper...
"But maybe... I would've had to kill you... as well..."
"If I left you..."
"To them..."
He just lies there... on Atsushi's unmoving body...
Lifeless...
His regret is so heavy...
It's heavier than this entire valley...
Of the lives he had to take...
The device that did this... blinks...
Flickering...
Right above the temple of Atsushi's...
The deed is done...
The debt is paid...
There he now lies peacefully...
Having been extinguished...
Like a candle being smothered...
Oh how he longed for it...
The sweet release of death...
And yet his regrets... his pangs... his pain...
Remains...
And now it's been passed over...
To the one who tried too much...
His death...
Is on his hands...
His blood...
Coats his spirit...
A chill runs up his spine...
A ghastly presence...
Is...
...
She's here...
Suzushii turns his head to face her...
His face so empty... long gone...
Long done...
"Just do it already... you all win..." he whispered, his voice barely discernable...
"Just kill me already..."
-To Be Continued-
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Ending Song: https://youtu.be/iozTfcOPNTw / Ghost by Whirr