out of them. They were nothing but brainless corpses now, or at the very least, knocked out without a memory of what had happened to them.
"So. You must be Taka's other self. How convenient of you to slip out right when his life was in danger."
"What ...?"
Sensing the change within him, Kagura punctured the heart and crushed it in her fist so that it would pass through this man's throat with ease. Her other hand went to his neck and assisted him in gulping down the flesh. As grotesque as it was, it would allow
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his head as a subconscious response.
"S-Stop...I've got...n-no idea what...???"
He's never even been "here" outside of one time!! Nothing was making sense.
Was Hisan going to die here if he didn't talk his way out of th--
"I"M NOT TAKA! Timeout, timeout!!"
out of reach from the gazes and hands of others.
"Hey. Do you hear me? You might want to stay in that side of your consciousness before I change my mind and decide to kill you."
A whoosh of her fan and the souls she had commanded collapsed as if the life had been sucked
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an arm to direct her focus to Taka. Every one of the spirits did the same, all of them hungry, all of them vengeful. There was no such thing as peace where they were at now.
"Take him!" she commanded to the spirits. "He is holding you hostage! Take him and exact your revenge!"
Her whole body pulsed as that swarm of whatever it was he did to her filled her chest.
It was disgusting. Terrible. She hadn't felt so weak, so pitiful ...
ever.
"Taka, you ... you bastard!"
And with that, Kagura snapped her fan and set out an array of wind blades that +
"Earthly Attachments" until you have nothing left, and then you're ready to pass on the same way all of these other spirits do? Because that was going to be your fate...until I stepped in.
This is YOUR second chance too, loser. Don't make me repeat myself."
with her fan.
"Dance of the Dead!"
The realm they were in hummed with a hoarse, vibrating groaning, and suddenly, all of the spirits currently caught within the Twilight began to rise and congregate around them. Every single one of them was under Kagura's control.
She snapped+
Initially she was going to comment that yes, it had been a while, but her attention takes a drastic shift to what was initiated by his clapping.
"What? Envy, what is that?"
"Kaguraaaa! It's been a while! Notice anything different about me? Hmm?"
He strikes some poses before playfully clapping his hands together, and with that! Some sparks of alchemic reactions take place!
"There are some out there who would enjoy witnessing an execution. Others may even find enjoyment in being killed. It's hard for me to pinpoint exactly what levels humans sink to in the name of pleasure."
"You really should stop bothering your mother every time you have the chance."
A sigh.
"If you anger her too much, remember you can come back to the flat I'm renting."
He finds @holderofsin wherever she is at home. Even if there was a door, Envy did not knock and instead allowed himself in.
"Mother! Mom! Mooommm! Daaanteeee!"
the trap of your story I have fallen into -- no, the trap of your story that I had no choice but to become intertwined in.
Hm, after all, someone else has chosen for me to be here. Not you, not me, not Envy, Tamamo or whoever else you name.
Someone even beyond you, Taka. +
see if you're correct, because I promise you that the hostage-holding doesn't end with you.
You, too, are being held hostage. From the moment you first spoke with me, you were captured in what is beyond us both."
She laughed again. "Certainly, this is why I was prodded to +