"Swoosh swoosh swoosh?"
Under the dim city, a figure clad in a yellow raincoat hurriedly weaved through...
Her expression was so tense, her face so panicked...
Just to escape?
But gradually, her hurried footsteps slowly began to slow...
The air seemed to have turned into a quagmire; once trapped, movement became extremely difficult.
The familiar oppressive feeling brought despair.
Caught up... again...
Her sluggish body involuntarily stiffened...
Ever since she first saw the black shadow on the television screen, she had been running...
Running...
Running...
Everything around her turned to ashes wherever she went... whether mountains or forests, villages or cities, any place she reached would only be destroyed...
Now, it was the same...
No, this time was different...
She couldn't escape...
But, at least one thing was no longer being taken away, disappearing, obliterated like before...
"mono."
A fleeting smile, like a firework, flashed and then faded into silence... The next moment,
Hum?
Space completely solidified.
Her steps, too, could no longer move forward.
"Tap
"Tap?"
"Tap
The familiar footsteps sounded from behind, like the beat of a gong, so clear, so deafeningly loud. Each fall made her heart tremble in fright.
A rising blue glow gradually extended outward, falling upon her.
As always, bone-chillingly cold, making her body stiff and numb, her nerves growing dull, leaving only the perception of fear.
"Rip
Suddenly, the solidified space flowed again.
An invisible force landed on her. Her body flew backward uncontrollably, then abruptly stopped, restrained.
It was a pair of hands like solid ice.
Devoid of any warmth, like frigid iron buried in the deepest part of a ten-thousand-year glacier.
Slowly raising her head, their gazes met. The eyes of the hand's owner, gazing indifferently, were so familiar, yet so... fear-inducing.
Time seemed to slow, breathing became difficult, her heart seemed to stop beating.
Just seeing it made despair sprout uncontrollably...
Those bloodless, frost-like lips twisted into a stiff smile, like a corpse dead for ten thousand years, revealing the white, ghastly teeth within.
(bdfd) "S...i...x..."
A dry, wailing, tearing-like sound came from before her...
Had been waiting...
Had been hoping...
Finally, at this moment... it arrived.
What familiar eyes, pitch-black yet bright as stars, deep as the cosmos, making it impossible to see the... filth hidden beneath the darkness.
This is a soul filled with sin, merely using an innocent body to conceal these heinous crimes.
Some were deceived because of this, becoming sacrificial victims.
Why did it turn out like this?
Originally, it was also a good person, but it was persecuted by such people. It was once so kind, so loyal, and so brave.
In the end, it turned into a monster.
It became a... monster that even it itself found loathsome.
Who is the culprit behind all of this?
Who could it be?
It will never forget.
That figure.
Just a cold gaze, without a trace of emotion, letting go, turning around, leaving—a figure that departed without a moment's pause.
How cold-blooded would one have to be to achieve that?
She is the culprit who should bear all this pain.
It will not forget any of this.
"Go... go... I... hah... I want... to let you see... I have always, since... then.
..been... staying... there... I guar... guarantee... you... will soon... also... grow to like..."
...that place."
The withered voice sounded like sandpaper scraping against a bellows, intermittent and layered...
...upon itself.
It couldn't even speak properly anymore.
What a sad thing.
Its voice should have been very pleasant... now, it can't even speak. Right, it forgot, it is a monster now.
A monster of revenge.
There is no need to speak.
Only a need to act.
To make the culprit who caused all this also experience the darkness it has tasted. What a wonderful idea.
In the silent stillness, two dismal auras bred... the radiated desolation almost drained the color from everything around. "Zzz?"
Slender legs strode out, about to leave.
But the television in the corner suddenly flickered with light.
The light and shadow twisted for a moment, and a small figure appeared with a sizzle. Suddenly, a grey, fierce garment was draped over its body, soaking wet and covered in mud; many parts of the pant legs and clothing were worn through.
The head was covered in sweat, hair clung to the forehead, and breathing was rapid.
So wretched and disheveled.
But the whole person stood with composure,
Q-ztr
Calm.
Like a nail, it was hard for anyone to break it.
"I said, where do you think you're going!!?"
A strange greeting came from this Little Person who had suddenly appeared.
" C—Little "
mono...
A pair of black eyes, which were originally filled with silence because they were prepared to accept their "fate," suddenly looked up and widened.
What flashed in those desolate eyes was not joy.
But horror and trembling.
She suddenly became agitated.
"No~ No, don't come over... go away... go away..."
The voice was hurried, trembling, and seemed... to be pleading.
She didn't want to lose anything else.
He would die...
If he died, everything would be gone...
Without heeding Six's words, the Long Shadow...
Mono looked straight at the tall, thin figure in front of him.
This was his future; his future self's presence was so startlingly terrifying, a twisted soul filled with Hatred.
Why was he standing in front of such an "unreasonable" monster? He really never thought there would come a day when he would actively run here to "seek death."
Had he really gone crazy too?
Everything was a mess.
Cold eyes met those resolute eyes; in just an instant, it was enough for both sides to recognize each other.
Such a weak thing had actually run up to him now.
Naive?
Yes, he was once that naive.
Completely unaware of what kind of situation he was falling into.
It was a cycle of pain.
How ridiculous.
Yet he still stood up for it.
Shouldn't he just be huddled in a corner, hiding?
Or perhaps, once again,
The cold eyes fell upon the Yellow Shadow in his hand. Was he once again deceived by this filthy and cunning soul?
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