I'm — ...whatever we call my state. ( Laughter ripples through the Murmur, scant. ) I'm afraid that leaves you squarely in his custody, though defection is always a noble cause.
[ Of course Kamui lies at the crux of the situation, torrential souled with an eking balance, the gravity on which black and white circle with eternally bared jaws. To cross, to side, to lose, to gain, metamorphosed by fate and fortune's spinning wheel. ]
In the moment my sister's spell activated, I was unseated from the Dragons of Heaven. [ He knew. He must have. ] So, I left them.
I thought that would be the end of it. But... it wasn't.
( Bright white blinding eruption of anger, then nothingness, then the visual cycle of sakura petals soawning, raining, scattering, spawning, dancing, dispersing, spawning —
A mantra of disciple or seclusion or both. Disgusting. He is — ...disgusted. )
You fool. The eye was yours. The powers and duty would have come indifferent of flesh, you killed the incumbent.
( Petals. More petals. A storm. He needs to breathe. )
You cut... a deal for what was already yours. You incomprehensible idiot. No. I won't be elegant. This is foolishness beyond naivete. This is — negligence. And waste. You were wasteful.
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That was then.
This is now, in an arena where the thirteenth head of the Sumeragi has been working tirelessly to support every passing stranger.
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For him, there may be something still left there.
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I did betray him.
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You're shy. It's sweet.
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I'll have to unlearn it.
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It came to that once. A defection here might complicate what balance we're afforded.
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— rupture. )
Chief Sumeragi, you certainly like to bury the lede. Now, won't you please elaborate?
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r e v u lsion
tidal fear
exhilaration —
and he is known to himself again. Static. Controlled. )
You must know this changes everything. Carry on.
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In the moment my sister's spell activated, I was unseated from the Dragons of Heaven. [ He knew. He must have. ] So, I left them.
I thought that would be the end of it. But... it wasn't.
The Kamui, the other one, approached me.
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[ In a word: he meddled. ]
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A mantra of disciple or seclusion or both. Disgusting. He is — ...disgusted. )
You fool. The eye was yours. The powers and duty would have come indifferent of flesh, you killed the incumbent.
( Petals. More petals. A storm. He needs to breathe. )
You cut... a deal for what was already yours. You incomprehensible idiot. No. I won't be elegant. This is foolishness beyond naivete. This is — negligence. And waste. You were wasteful.
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I did. I couldn't cast it away. And my apostasy would have come to fruition, if she didn't intervene.
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( Life, somehow, hasn't taught him. Monou Fuuma can but try. )
Wasting everything, but wanting for nothing. What a prince you are.
( For once, the Murmur's connection withers and pales and dies a sickly death on his end, first. )