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[hallowedly]

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[hallowedly]

Worried I've wronged her lile a common thief?

[sacral]

Nothing you're capable of is common.

You were wounded.

[hallowedly]

Mostly in my pride. But it might havd been worse without her knife donation.

Cheer up. You could have attended this of my funerals with your head high.

[sacral]

It's quick to heal.

You should have taken it with you, in that case. No other ritual will bear this blade.

[hallowedly]

You're talking as if I brought plague to your household.

[sacral]

You were attempting to do the opposite of that, weren't you?

[hallowedly]

( ...ah. A moment. Another. )


Subaru-kun, don't invent your heroes.

[sacral]

Invention is a kindness. I only observed.

Anyway, thank you for the gift. [ "gift" ] But I'll have to return it.

[hallowedly]

No. Be clear: you are choosing to.

[sacral]

I wouldn't like to wield it.

[hallowedly]

Then do away with it.

[sacral]

Once it's purified. Would Sharon like it back?

[hallowedly]

...what a helpful person, doing away with the taint of my body.

[sacral]

I hadn't planned on asking about the nature of the curse.

[hallowedly]

Of course, of course. After all, the Sakurazukamori's blood on your hands, what novelty that must be.

[sacral]

Yours was only the last to touch it.

[hallowedly]

Savour it. You have bad habits. You think so much of the living that you neglect the feelings of the dead. But death is an intimate exchange. You should remember names, touch, screams.

After this unsavoury interlude is done, when you return to the world, you know what you'll be. There are expectations.

[sacral]

Do you want to see me back to it, then?

[hallowedly]

...no, you don't get to make this my choice.

[sacral]

[ The Murmur dampens as if stepped on, reshapes — ]

Your blood is on both of our coats, too.

[ ...and cuts silent. ]