5th Solo

[nowings_onme]

[phone]

[There's a heavy breathing on the line at first. Then Takuto speaks. He sounds angry, but also like he's about to cry.] She's gone. I told her I wouldn't let it happen. I said I was the one who would stop it. I'm an idiot! [He angrily drops slams the phone down on the counter. It hasn't been hung up though, so you can hear Takuto still

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Chronologically last ;; action

[expiatrice]

[...So that was the young man that she was assigned to kill next

Chronologically last ;; action

[nowings_onme]

[Takuto doesn't move. Where was there to go now? Mitsuki was dead and he was just a useless human. He wasn't even shinigami anymore. What good was there to the world now when the one hope he had in it was gone?

He pulls his knees to his chest and buries his head against them. Suddenly he pictured falling. Falling like he did before. When he jumped...

Dead. He might as well be dead.]

...Mitsuki.

[expiatrice]

[He seemed miserable even from afar. She noticed that on her way; people seemed tormented, but even her Sixth Sense couldn't pinpoint just what it was. Some still went unaffected, however, including herself. Why was that? It must have something to do with how this entire thing has been orchestrated, but she hasn't gathered enough evidence to pierce together just why this state befell some, but not to others.

...

The image of a bird with broken wings comes to mind, for some reason. But it must be agonizing, for a bird to lose the ability to fly that it was born with. Just as it is for any living being, to lose the willpower to keep existing.

No, she won't try to use "mercy" as justification. There is none. She's simply doing this to achieve her own ends, even if it's not a bad one in the big picture. It was just unfortunate that she received the name of an unfamiliar teenager, to whom she can't feel anything for when she pulls the trigger.]

[nowings_onme]

[He knew this feeling. He knew it well. Death. He was dying.

Maybe now he'd see Mitsuki. But no. He knew it was impossible for him to go where she had gone.

His head had been so filled with Mitsuki and then suddenly...nothing.]

[expiatrice]

[She straightens the rifle and watches him drop. After a few seconds, she finally stands from where she crouched, and will walk up to the lifeless corpse.

A clean hit. He shouldn't have suffered. And now, the least that she could do was to dispose the body properly. She can't give it a sendoff, not to someone she personally killed, but she can take care of it gracefully. Picking the body up with some care, she'll then carry it to an isolated alley and lay him down on his back. That done, she summons two Black Key, one engraved with a Dokhma Sacrament spell, and the other, a Cremation Sacrament spell