Sumino Takumi

🌙🌾🌊 One life: me and you.

[Sumino Takumi @34ternity]

@sys_AO1 Forget it. Are you alright?

[Sumino Takumi @34ternity]

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Sumino Takumi (@34ternity)
Cause of Death: Laceration of the carotid artery.
Estimated time of death: 7:00PM-7:30PM

[Sumino Takumi @34ternity]

@sys_AO1 [Takumi isn't left-handed, so slicing his own neck turns out to be a hassle. This body has become far too numb to feel ours. It will be reborn alongside theirs, as it should be.]

[Sumino Takumi @34ternity]

@sys_AO1 [The Infuser leaves AO1's neck with a jostle that almost gives him lifelike motion. Its remaining coating of blood brushes over Takumi's neck. There is reassurance in the fact it will mingle with his own.]

[Sumino Takumi @34ternity]

@sys_AO1 I could absorb you, [he whispers; an admittance, a secret.]

[...Then, there would never be suffering, between us. Never again.]

[His own Infuser is recovered. With it, he severs what is left of another's mark on what should be his.]

[Sumino Takumi @34ternity]

@sys_AO1 [He breathes out. With the last of the air in his lungs, all emotions, all turmoil exit him. He leans down, forehead nestled against theirs.]

[When he breathes again, what enters his body is love. It is all that he needs.]

[Sumino Takumi @34ternity]

@sys_AO1 Why won't you--

[His voice cracks. He wheezes, matching a staccato to the ghoul beneath him.]

--just let me do this, for you, just once?

[Sumino Takumi @34ternity]

@sys_AO1 [Her Infuser is an offending sight, still lodged into flesh. Takumi rips it out with bitterness, discarded in the fire behind them to rot.]

[His fingers dig into soiled blood. Its warmth is not for him. Is it truly worth another failure? And another? And another? And another?]

[Sumino Takumi @34ternity]

@sys_KR1 @sys_AO1 @NozomiPoisoner [...It should have ended without casualties. It was far too late for that, now. He spares Sumino a single glance, as if daring.]

[And the Reaper raises his damning left hand. His katana manifests, perfectly positioned— trained, practiced— to crack into the plating of her heart.]

[Sumino Takumi @34ternity]

@sys_KR1 @sys_AO1 @NozomiPoisoner [His fingers grasp numbly into fire, as if held gently in a cusp. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘮𝘦, 𝘍𝘉.]

[It opens once more. AO1 is unceremoniously shoved through to the other side. Beyond that, he cannot bear so much as a glance.]