Intro Song: / Sa Ngalan ng Pag-ibig - December Avenue
/ 2 + 2 = 5 - Radiohead
"I didn't know what I was expecting..."
"Relief?"
"Peace?"
"How... could I expect such things...?"
"When right now..."
"He's..."
...
"He's..."
...
"He's gone..."
"D-dad..."
...
I could feel it coming...
This energy...
Surging from my fingertips...
All of the lights, all of the screaming, all of the lightning-
The buildings, all of them, warped around me-
I was going so fast-
I was...
I was lightning incarnate...
And by the slight blinking of my eyelids-
I was reaching it-
I was dodging every obstacle laid out before me-
From destroyed remains of crashed cars, to falling debris of each and every single building-
To the swelling of the cacophony of those caught up...
In this... mess...
My limbs felt like noodles, like I was transcending space itself-
This sudden potency in my aura-
What was the reason...?
Was it adrenaline?
Because of the inevitable?
Because...
Of this very day, being regurgitated by every single senior that Himura and I came across?
The...
The Final War...!
It...
Was pouring hard...
Every move I made, no matter how fast or strong I was-
It...
Weighed on me...
What did...?
I was reaching... him...
I was getting close!
I had to get there soon!
I had to help him!
...
I have to help dad!
...
But before I knew it...
The swirling architecture of the highways, along with the cars that swarmed it-
Along with the civilians that were crushed mercilessly...
Like insects to a boot...
Like a rat to a cat...
Like an exit that was blocked...
A fire...
Raged on...
It...
I wasn't sure where...
But with what I saw...
My aura...
It's potency...?
...
No wonder it became like that...
I could only stand there, gritting my teeth...
In absolute agony...
And what I heard and saw next...
...
It...
Changed me...
...
Lightning struck twice that day...
The first was with the infiltration...
The second was...
A long time coming...
They got it...
They... got their revenge...
My world continued to spin further as my head spun in all directions-
Everything was a blur...
But if there was one thing I remembered before I...
'blacked out'...
It was...
The look Kuroke gave me...
Just as the both of them made mince work of...
D-dad...
Both their attacks were causing these reverberations all over the space-
All over the air-
All of the violence halted in that split second-
Like he knew-
This was it-
He was...
He was joining his brother soon...
For once...
Kuroke looked at me...
With these slanted eyelids...
A heavy ache in the air-
He held dad in place, just for Mikoto to go all around him-
Thanks to the massive struck of the lightning-
It...
Must've been also because...
He lacked another eye...
His left eye...
It's blackness swirled from beneath and within-
Unable to see his 'former comrade' sneaking up behind him-
Because of 'the sacrifice' he did...
All... for me...
...
The flash of blue-
And the blurring of smeared vision-
This resulted in him backstabbing dad...
It's like...
All of time had stopped-
Including every singular rain drop in the vicinity-
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Dad looked me in the eye...
One final time...
With his lips curling up to say something-
It looked like...
"I've failed you all..."
"Son..."
"I'm counting on you... this time..."
"Make this right..."
What came next was the most atrocious sight I ever had to bear in this life I've lived-
My dad... got turned into a red pulp and mist...
Which got splattered all over themselves-
But... the rain washed it all away...
They could only smile at the predicament-
Those curls...
That sense of upliftment in them...
They...
Can't get away with this...
They...
...
"YOU DON'T DESERVE PEACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"FUCK YOUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I must've blacked out after this...
Cause what I do remember...
...
I don't want to remember... ever again...
…
/ The Man Who Sold the World - Nirvana
The night sky kept on looming, with the smoke of all the fires collecting-
How could it stop?
This...
This was the result of an entire century's worth of build-up...
The Ishii War...
All the senseless killing?
All the lives lost?
Due to what is believed to be the right thing to do...
To protect...
To reinforce...
Against those who believe they are the rightful heirs-
With the entire world under its bidding-
Streets swarmed with the marches of their regime-
Massive banners that showed their resolve-
The old Japan they used to believe in-
Now warped into what they deemed-
Whoring out their entire country for the world's desires...
It was inexcusable!
It was unforgivable!
It was... war...
And at the center of it all...
Even with the royal family behind it all-
The figure who barked orders and took lives away like he was just grabbing some deli from a restaurant-
Like it was his birthright-
Standing on some building-
Like he was about to sit with his laurels-
And his... 'spoils of war'...
The masked figure raised his arm forward-
To order more atrocities for his 'royal guard' to commit...
The crowd of his men kept on chanting:
"PRINCE YOKU! PRINCE YOKU! PRINCE YOKU! PRINCE YOKU! PRINCE YOKU! PRINCE YOKU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
With their footsteps building and building, their hands soaked with the blood of their own countrymen, soaked with the blood of all, old and infant alike-
No blood was spared-
Only those pure enough will be raised along with the Great Empire-
With the becking of their highness-
Soaked in royal crimson blood...
"GLORY TO THE GREAT EMPIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
He screamed...
With his eyelids focused...
"It's over..."
"Uncle..."
"Yotsu..."
The air echoed it further-
...
Lightning struck thrice upon that very fateful day...
…
/ Where I End and You Begin - Radiohead
His aura swirled and caused the air around them to contort-
Infinite calling blades kept on summoning by his will-
Being sent all over-
With lightning of his caliber, following his every breath of rage...
And...
Grief...
The night was long...
But the fight was...
Shorter than it seemed to be...
"Rushiko, Rushiko!!!!!!!!!!"
"We've got to stop meeting like this!"
Kuroke taunted him, with their expertise dodging every blade-
Its potency...
Was nothing compared to...
The Anomaly...
To Kuroke himself...
"So now..."
"You know how it feels..."
"This is what vengeance feels like, kid-"
"SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FIRST YOU TAKE AWAY HIS ATTENTION FROM ME?!?!?!?!!"
"AND NOW YOU TAKE HIM AWAY FOR GOOD??????????"
"I'VE ALWAYS HATED YOU KUROKE!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO FUCKING DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Rushiko screamed bloody murder at the sight of the two of them-
Snapping at the very ounce of word or action they did-
Kuroke could only chuckle, with Mikoto not saying a word-
How odd of him...
"OH PLEASE!!!!!!!! NOW YOU'VE GOT A TASTE OF THIS- YOU'LL WANT NOTHING MORE THAN TO KILL US BOTH!!!!!!!! SO COME ON NOW YOU FUCKING CHILD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"COME GET US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Their bodies danced through it, with Kuroke's own blackness catching his blade on fire, a void that would swallow any further-
They met...
At the center where all crossroads laid-
That very impact of all their attacks-
Mikoto's hands twirling to summon literal city blocks on top of them-
Along with explosions and cars that gave in to his calling-
Kuroke's scream and his singular blade of black flames that had more potency than Rushiko's could ever have-
Rushiko...
Didn't care...
From beneath all this, he ducked, summoning an entire dome's worth of steel cables and blades-
With lightning surging and calling-
And whirling-
It was building-
It was raining-
It was shaking-
...
"BLACK VOID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"HEAVENLY CALLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"I DON'T CARE IF SUZUSHII FUCKING DIED! KID!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT'S OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" MIKOTO SCREAMED FINALLY, WITH MASSIVE KANJI CHARACTERS APPEARING ALL OVER THEM
LOOMING FURTHER AND FURTHER-
"YOU'RE JOINING HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"THIS IS ALL FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AOKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AKARI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"YUKKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
...
The impact was so large that very lightning that struck them...
This was due to Rushiko...
There... was only way this could've happened...
He...
Went berserk...
He... he's lost his mind...
Only rage...
Only vengeance... remained...
...
A massive swirl of omen began to gather at where they fought-
A huge impact of lord knows what-
A mix of explosions, of destroyed debris and smashed cars and corpses and lightning-filled blades with steel wires attached to them, with the icing on top-
Well also with the cherry on top of that icing-
A void of black fire that consumed them, and if that wasn't enough-
The very lightning strike that could destroy and decimate entire city blocks that would stretch on for miles-
This wasn't just a skirmish-
This was war itself...
...
It would be safe to say...
Those crossroads of this highway here...?
They didn't exist anymore...
They didn't...
...
/ Ibang Planeta - Zild
"Rushiko!"
"Rushi-kun!"
"Are you alright?"
"RUSHI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
A frantic breathing was to be followed-
His chest kept on heaving and rising and lowering-
His vision was still recovering-
His hearing was blown, but coming back to him-
Only in a matter of time-
But...
Nothing was over...
As long as THEY were still alive...
His hand could only grasp onto her familiar heat-
It... was shaking-
His lips were quivering-
"They... we..." he struggled to speak-
"What is it? Rushi?"
She lowered herself to meet his gaze, even with it recovering-
He didn't need it to know who she was-
He immediately embraced her as tight as he could-
"THEY KILLED HIM!"
"THEY KILLED DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Kuroke did..."
"Mikoto... did..."
He bursted at the seams, with only her to see this-
Koyo was behind them, listening in-
Her eyes were surveying the area-
Her heart felt heavy...
If Suzushii had died...
What chance would they have...?
Against THEM?
She took off her hands from her pockets, her fists tightening with every cry and whimper Rushiko gave out-
The area-
Well let's just say, it wasn't discernable as the highway it used to be-
With a blast radius of god who knows how long and how wide-
It looked MASSIVE-
With the remnants of smoke covered on the concrete that IT couldn't reach-
Whatever corpses were with them on that blast-
It didn't exist anymore-
It was erased from this world-
But not THEM...
They're still here somewhere...
For sure...
The rain pelted them and weighed on them, the water on their clothes accumulating further-
Whatever calm before the storm this was-
It couldn't-
It wouldn't last for long-
How could it?
Many more moments like this would be happening-
And that's what Koyo feels, from the pits of her stomach-
It felt empty-
It felt...
Like it was building-
This hatred-
For Suzushii, for Rushiko's, for...
"Mom's sake..."
"I'll get them for you, Mom"
"Just you wait..."
"Just. You. Wait."
The wind grew impatient-
It kept on howling-
Further and further and further and further and further and further and further and further and further and further and-
...
"I have to get them Himura..."
"I have to!"
Himura's eyes were all the answer he needed, it...
Said a million things he knew, she would say-
Their embrace... this...
Felt different to Rushiko...
He didn't want to admit it...
But...
With all of THIS happening around them...
He's... never been more scared...
For the both of them...
For everyone he knew and loved...
"I don't want to lose you..."
"Himura..."
"I can't..."
"I JUST FUCKING CAN'T!!!!!!!!!!" he sprawled himself open before her, his face on her chest, it was wet due to the rain, it hid his tears well-
It hid...
Whatever it could...
From her...
She could only rub his hair and pat him more, their heat collecting, with their breaths all counted-
Ready for whoever was going to jump them next-
"But if Mikoto is here..."
"Doesn't that also mean..."
She kept on staring at the moon, it was a crescent one at that-
It looked like it was cut in half-
Who's to say it wasn't?
After such reckoning under it, this very night?
The stars could only twinkle above them, all blurred from the never-ending rain-
"Doesn't that also mean..."
"We'll see Mom here too...?"
"Doesn't that also mean..."
...
"I'll have to kill her too...?"
...
-To Be Continued-
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Ending Song: / Kalawakan - Juan Karlos
