Intro song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyq-YwrUJhw / Open the Floodgates by The Smile
Style
You gotta have style
You wanna be noticed?
Heh?
Huh?
What kind of question is that?
Of course I do!
Isn't it obvious enough?
Good old telecaster
With my short skirt
And my stuffy hoody
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm
You'll never get noticed... You oaf-
What do you mean?-
You know exactly what I mean!
You stupid loner!
Pushing everybody out of your life-
Hah!
You deserve this!
You and your shitty decisions!
I-
I-
That's not true!
There's no way that is!
You know it is...
But like what some guy has said...
Why bother?
Yeah, he's right...
Why bother?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!
No way...
There's no way...
That I- I-
I did any of that!
I...
I...
I suck don't I?
Yeah you do, real me...
We both do...
Don't we?
She looks over... beneath her... her hands filled with sticky goo, her senses dulled, her consciousness muddled
She... She doesn't what she's doing, nor where she is...
Her vision is darkened, she can't see anything... her hearing is muffled, her body is numb to the touch...
"What is happening?" She ponders
Sudden flashes of light fill her eyes, it's overwhelmingly bright and white
But she wonders, why is the light sudden?
Why can't she still see anything?
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"KOYOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!" a loud scream blares through her ears, this harsh noise floods her very being as she suddenly feels some sort of sense rushing all throughout her body, but...
"But what?" her other voice calls out, life is sent coursing, she finally regains consciousness
She finally opens her eyes...
To see...
Multiple strings wrapping her entire body as she is sent flying all across the room, her aura protecting her from causing any sort of REAL damage, and yet...
She feels the pain, every single bit of it
Her dizzying vision and perspective causes her to only see a part of her assaulter
She doesn't even remember much of how she got here... in this very present moment
All she knew is that... she didn't want to live anymore...
"Oh I wonder why... ohhhh me" the voice snickers at her current situation
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Who is this?
Who the hell is beating me up?
The more she realizes what she's doing, what she's capable of...
The more she is disassociated from what her body is even doing
Her body breaks from the strings, moving and dodging attacks from her enemy at such swift motion, she couldn't believe what is happening, hell! that the one with such swift motion is even her in the first place!
The classroom as she finally sees in all its clarity, with its destroyed and frankly, bloody state... is sent into even more of a frenzy, as many desks and chairs are sent flying, both of their bodies clash into one another
They both trade blows and defensive blocks, but she... Koyo... she is just a spectator in this fight
She isn't willfully moving out of her pure intention, this...
This is somebody else, she wonders... it must be...
I woke up... I went to school...
Despairing of graduating...
Despairing of letting the cycle repeat... only for it to be harder for me...
Harsher and more unrelentless...
I was supposed to go to college... wasn't I?
So...
What in god's name is happening here?!?
Why am I-
She takes a huge blow to the head
And then to the face
Over and
Over
Over and
Over
Over and
Over
Over and
Over
"AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" a voice cries out, Koyo is sent into disarray as she is sent closer and closer to the exposed windows, her bruised body filled with dirt and grime, her clothes filled with blood and glass shards, the fists of her enemy connecting with her face without fail, her face is bruised badly, her spit and saliva is sent scattering all over her position
"TAKE THIS AND THIS AND THIS-"
"AND THIS!!!!" Koyo is propelled into the air, her enemy's fist ever getting closer and larger in her eyes, her body falling ever so slowly towards the windows
Her eyes widen, her arms all spread out, with multiple sharp school objects floating across her, she sends them charging into her enemy's direction, most of them pummeling her all across the other side of the room
Koyo's body smirks, she giggles in delight and in clear clarity, her aura flowing like an electricity current, as it powers her up, she's raring to go
She bends her knee, jumping as she attempts to stab her enemy over and over again
But...
Her scissors are soon gone from her grasp, she looks all over the room
Where did it go? she wondered
A little whirring sound is heard, it cuts through her aura, blasting many cuts all across her force field, her eyes watching every cut, her eyes following every sense of movement
Wait a second...
Where is she?
A punch punctures a huge gaping hole through her aura field, her enemy position revealed, she finds out, none of her projectiles hit her, in fact... they were completely obliterated, by something...
She has an aura field too?!? she exclaims in her mind
The both of them stare each other down, she sees her enemy with clarity, she's seen her before...
It's Manaka Yukinari! Jisei's one and only lover...
She clicks her tongue, she scoffs, her aura sharpening and slowly patching up the cuts and holes from her force field
"I swear... Koyo..." Manaka's voice cuts through her, Koyo slightly shaken by this, loses her bearing
What am I doing again?
Am I getting into this fight?
Am I? ....
Do I want to KILL her?
"WHY WON'T YOU JUST FUCKING DIE ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!! JUST LEAVE ME AND JISEI ALONE!!!!" she screams loudly right at her, her sharp strings whirring and surrounding Koyo's position
It overwhelms Koyo, the sheer number and volume of the strings get larger and thicker, it traps her
The whirring sound gets louder, the grinding sound becoming deafening
Koyo thoughts are running
What am I doing?
Did I really wanna kill her?
If I was that close, hell I'm pretty sure I'm willing to kill her...
What else have I done before I... I came here?
What have I done?
What have I done... to the others...?
God...
Oh god...
She falls to her knees, the grinding strings like a human-sized blender gets closer and closer to her position
I deserve this... don't I?
I deserve to... die...
She silently sobs...
The weight of her actions, causing her to sink newer lows...
Is she responsible for this?
Or is it somebody else's fault?
It's mine...
Isn't it?
ISN'T IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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A sudden silence fills the air
The whirring strings instantly vanish into thin air
Koyo looks over at Manaka, her face absolutely filled with terror and blood-curdling tears
Manaka looks dumbfounded, she feels a hand grasping the ankle of her foot
It's...
"JISEI!!!" she calls out, her face all bloodied and mellowed out, bursting into a sorrow
Jisei crawled slowly nearer while Manaka got Koyo cornered, seeing the situation...
He didn't want Koyo to die...
He didn't... want Manaka to be a murderer...
Even though he knows... with them sealing their fate as Ishiin agents...
Hell! They might as well be soldiers at this point...
It's just a matter of time... before they're forced to kill...
Over and over and over again...
"Y- Yuki-san... Don't... D-Don't kill her" his damaged voice all familiar but unrecognizable at the same time
"BUT WHY??? SHE DID THIS TO YOU!!!! I MEAN- YOU'RE GONNA DIE!!!" she yells out, Jisei stares at her with his eyes, looking different...
His eyes...
His look...
Looks very similar to a certain agent...
Him...
Rushiko...
"Yuki-san... just let go... this... this isn't her... The Koyo I know would never do this..." he looks at Koyo, who looks back at shock, the look of her face, so palpable
"She would never consider doing this... she would just run away... she's too scared... to do... any of this..." his calm but battered voice soothes both their ears, the adrenaline coursing through their veins wear off
Manaka drops to her knees to hold Jisei... his gaping wound rushing blood out of it, his guts all spread across the floor...
Koyo holds her head in absolute shame... she did this... she did this to him...
I- I can't take this anymore...
Why?
Why did this have to happen? she mutters to herself
Manaka sobs, embracing Jisei, his hand on hers, his touch grasping her face and head, brushing it, calming her down... despite his worse state, he's the collected one...
"J-Jisei..." Koyo's voice fills the room, her kneeling stance prevalent, as his eyes meet hers, Manaka looks over with spite and pure hatred...
The both of them lie in wait...
Anticipating her words...
She notices this, her spirit wanting to hide in her shell
She shakes this off...
"I'm- I'm sorry... for everything..." she admits her faults, her regrets, her actions, her decisions... what she did to him...
"You think that's enough, you fu-" she is immediately interrupted by Jisei, who looks at her shaking his head, his hand covering her front, as if to say-
That's enough...
"Nayu-san... it's ok..." he smiles with pure kindness tinged with a bit of melancholic sweetness
"Every- Everything's... gonna be alright... you hear me?" he continues, his voice slow and soft, his words carefully picked and considered
She whimpers while nodding, she looks ashamed but somewhat glad...
She knows she shouldn't feel relief... at all...
But he...
Despite everything...
He still cares...
He still cares?!?
"Yeah..." she softly says...
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"Yeah"
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- End of Kaizen Incident Arc -
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-To Be Continued-
Ending Song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnhKaCjCIqM / If You Say the Word – Radiohead
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Why Bother? is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9cOmtP5wxg / Why Bother? - Weezer