Hirune woke up back in the dark throne room that's part of her Forsaken Realm, just that this time, Namulenza is sitting on the thrones right arm rest her back to Hirune.
Namulenza looked behind her, then turned her body to the left. "Would you look at that! Took you long enough to need to loop. I'm honestly surprised it took you this long."
Hirune looked back at her, "What? Wait the loop thing was true?" Namulenza nodded, then she added with a solemn expression.
"Don't overdo it though. Last person that overdid it had harsh consequences happen to them due to Vereta's wrath. You see, Vereta hates it when people interrupt or get rid of their death events. Even if they lack one, she hates it when someone dies, then comes back to life without consequences. Luckily for you though, my powers can override those consequences but only to a degree."
Hirune nodded, that made sense. After all death is death. It's not as if you can avoid it.
Namulenza gave her a cheeky smirk then added, "Vereta does have a horrible memory though, so as long as your deaths are far enough apart you can probably get away with it." Her expression then turned solemn again, "But I'd still prefer it if you tried to survive your encounters, I don't like the idea of my precious little baby dying." She said as she pinched Hirune's cheeks as if she was still a little kid.
Namulenza then gave her a warm smile and a quick little hug, "Get ready though, because you're only returning 10 seconds. Which is when the wall was knocked down."
Namulenza snapped as Hirune saw a bright purple flash. After the bright purple flash disappeared she was back to aiming with a finger gun in a direction as the wall of the charcoaled building burst down.
She quickly pointed her finger gun in the direction of the smoke cloud, remembering roughly where the thing was, she aimed, then fired the Devourer Jaws out of the tip of her pointer finger like a string. She felt it go through something as it went taught then returned to her finger.
She slowly felt a burning headache hitting her, causing her to fall on one knee. As she did and a voice apologized in her head, "Sorry, I couldn't hold the pain of that nail piercing your head back for that long after you returned."
Hirune shook her head, as she stood up and accidentally said out loud, "It's fine Namulenza." She aimed her finger gun towards the thing again as Mr. Comedian just now threw his hat to suck up the cloud of charcoal. Giving Hirune a clear view of her target.
There was good news and bad news, the good news being that the Devourer Jaw did connect. The bad news being that it didn't hit a vital spot. Hirune quickly muttered as the thing got prepared to shoot the nails at her yet again, "Snake."
Again, as it shot her shadow boiled and a huge snake flew out of it and devoured all of the nails. Hirune then quickly removed the glove on her right hand as the thing generated 2 nails out of its hands and shot them at her again. This time she didn't hesitate about how much it hurt though as she devoured the 2 nails with her left-hand while she wound up her right hand behind her then muttered, "Devour Distance."
The Devourer Jaws swallowed her as the thing made more nails come out of its hands, then they spit her out right above the thing. As it raised its hands towards her, she used the Devourer Jaws with her right hand as she swung it forwards and had them devour the thing whole.
Hirune landed on one knee and quickly turned to Mr. Comedian as he looked at another of the nail creatures, just that this time it was more dog-like.
'So that was the scratching sound.' Hirune thought as she started throwing up the blood of the thing she just devoured and 2 of the visible phalanges on her left and turned void black. 'I guess those were the consequences to recklessly devouring this time.'
Hirune stood up, the blood still flowing out of her mouth. Then she closed her mouth and swallowed hard, trying to test out a theory she just came up with on the spot. "Devour Distance." Hirune appeared near the dog, then she swung her arm as she made the Devourer Jaws swing around with her hand like a whip. Then she attempted to use the Devourer Jaws in reverse.
Her logic was that if the jaws could eat something, then it could also throw it up. Which would allow her to devour things recklessly without any draw backs. She thought that if her theory was right it could come in useful, but she didn't plan to rely on it as even throwing up probably had its limit.
When she finished swinging her arm with the jaws, she attempted to somehow test out her theory by trying to force something out of it instead of trying to make something go into it. Which for a moment worked, as it did throw up a gallon of blood or 2, but it still devoured the nails in the dog's skull.
This time she had used her right hand, so it'd probably come out as some sort of mark. Hirune quickly used devour distance again towards Mr. Comedian as everything started catching up to her at once, the headache she got earlier, the throwing up, immense stomach pains from trying to swallow some of it, and fatigue. A mark of a crest that looks like a tiara with 5 nails prodded in it appearing on the back of her right hand.
Mr. Comedian looked at her with concern, then he swatted his hand towards the dog making a bunch of flesh-eating pigeons come out of his sleeve that swarmed and at the dog down to the bone.
He crouched down next to Hirune and rubbed her back as she sat down with her legs on either side of her throwing up aggressively while sobbing. Mr. Comedian had seen his fair share of consequences due to reckless uses of power, but he'd never seen any as severe as these.
Mr. Comedian summoned his Shadow Jester to stand guard as he pulled some herbs out of his pocket, using his shadow hands to mash them into powder to his best ability. He then graved a small tissue out of his pocket, put the "powder" in it and gave it to Hirune while leaning her on him and holding her head up gently.
After a couple coughs, Hirune was done with the blood pouring out of her mouth. Yet she could still feel all of the aching in her body. Mr. Comedian picked her up and put her on his back piggyback style. Letting her rest while he took on the searching.
Hirune clung onto him a bit and dug her face in his shoulder trying to get comfortable. Then she muttered, "Forsaken Realm." Mr. Comedian heard it this time and glanced at her. She seemed to be asleep, yet she had just muttered an incantation about some realm. This got Mr. Comedian thinking as he walked through their gloomy surrounding.
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"Mah Lord, it seems as though someone has gotten into the dome. What should we do." A shaky and gentle voice said while standing in the middle of roulette, watching as it spun around him. The red and black rapidly making him dizzy, the singular green stripe being the only thing keeping him from toppling over and dislocating every bone in his body.
"Give them some time. I'm sure that "they'll" be able to stop them." A deep voice said with a malevolent chuckle as he watched the messenger slowly become more and more dizzy, inevitably falling into the forever spinning roulette.