eighth prayer ⚜ video

[prayed]

[Kyoko appears on the screen. She's obviously shaken by the last pair of network posts that preceded hers, but more than that, she's really pissed off (or, more likely, she's turned her fear and confusion into anger.)]

What the Hell was that? That girl..she just ate her own companion, didn't she? She just ate him like he was piece of meat! Even though he hadn't done a single thing wrong...! What the Hell does she mean, "rotten!?" The only thing rotten here is her!

[She clenches her teeth and reaches to end the feed, then suddenly stops. She didn't really care about Dax, but she thinks, probably, he was the only one she came close to liking, but more than that? It's infuriating to see someone betray their companion like that.]

Ruana! You're watching to this, aren't you!? So why don't you show yourself already! Tell us all about how you used to pray to keep your soul while going around and stealing everyone else's. That's the real point of all this, right!? You were never interested in saving anyone to begin with!

Seriously, whatever the Hell it means to lose your Tower in this place, you deserve it! Denying people even death, stuffing them into bodies that they don't want and killing them just for fun, doing things like that to your own companions--I hope somebody years your heart and soul out, you disgusting waste of space. Nobody here needs your kind of salvation.

As for the rest of you, I could care less about what you think of this post. If you ain't got anything useful to say, don't even bother.

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[tohko_amano]

[Tohko was, literally, fighting back breaking down and crying through sheer force of will and the fact that shit had to get done.]

Kyoko..I think I know what Ruana meant when she said that Dax's brain was rotten. Brains with empathy function differently than brains without it. Maybe..this difference is seen as 'rotten' to Ruana.

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[prayed]

Tch. What kind of joke is that? A person is rotten just 'cause they actually care 'bout the people they're taking care of?

I guess we must all seem pretty rotten to her then, huh? What a joke.

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[tohko_amano]

To Ruana and her kind, it might appear that way. If it's a joke, it's a pretty horrible one..this whole situation is just..horrible.

However, I don't care if we seem rotten to her for having empathy and emotions.

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[deusexyandere]

[ He looks like he's about to say something, but... he falls silent. He's been in shock this entire time. ]

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[prayed]

What? Spit it out already!

[She snaps quickly, but even through her anger it's clear to see how much this is all bothering her.]

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[deusexyandere]

How... how can she do something so awful?

[ He's seen some pretty fucked up things during the Survival Game. People getting blown up right in front of him with explosives. Yuno hacking people twice her size to pieces with anything sharp and/or pointy she can get her hands on with little effort. A little kid killing people. Dogs tearing people up with their teeth. But that? That?

That was high-octane nightmare fuel, and Yukiteru Amano's standards for that are pretty high at this point. ]

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[idkworldruler]

never seen a act o cannibalism

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[prayed]

Yeah, well, first time for everything.

Now get the Hell out if you ain't got anything useful to add.

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[idkworldruler]

if u want something useful then u should post something meaningful

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Kyoko!

[ Homura feels a swell of fear in her gut. Kyoko's tone and words bother her. She doesn't want for the other magical girl to be upset, but who wouldn't be? Similarly, she does not want for Kyoko to be singled out like that. ]

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[prayed]

[The look on Homura's face is almost enough to make her feel bad, but how is she supposed to respond to that if not with anger?]

Nothing that I said was wrong, y'know!

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[mask_of_suffering]

I don't understand, why would anyone do something like that? And it's not fair to deny people death...

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[prayed]

I don't want to know what kind of twisted mindset lets her pull stunts like this.

But there's no way that I can just sit back and watch to see how things turn out after something like that.

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[carabina]

[ Mami could only watch her "student" at this point. She wasn't going to stop her, because she had to let this out. In a way, Kyoko was letting her feelings out. She shouldn't have to pent them up like Mami did.

In a way, Kyoko was expressing rage for both herself and the blond. ]

Clearly, her definition of saving is different from our own.

[ Mami is not calm. Mami is anything but that. But she had to look it. She couldn't break down here. ]

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[prayed]

Obviously. I'd rather be dead than have to be saved by a person like that, y'know.

[She shakes her head furiously. This is just too much.]

"Saving us from ourselves?" Hah! Like anybody needs her to decide what's best. She can't even take care of her own companions!

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[detecting]

[The face of a very pale, incredibly shaken Naoto greets her.]

Where are you right now?

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[prayed]

Right outside of room 02-13.

[She opens her mouth to add say something, but then stops abruptly, instead falling silent for a few seconds. There's no need to ask if Naoto's alright. She fall silent for a few seconds before simply adding,]

...You coming over?

[Kyoko's not sure whether or not she herself is still alright either, not really.]

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[beknightedheroine]

He stopped playing along with his role in her games. He should've seen it coming.

...He was a good guy for trying.

_{[Sayaka's learned, anyway, the people who want to be heroes don't get good endings. Her voice sounds dull and far away.]}

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[prayed]

He probably knew it was coming, y'know. If somebody's gonna do something as stupid as trying to save the world, they're gonna do it no matter what. Talking never helps in those situations; can't even beat it into that kind of person's thick skull. Sometimes you'll get some double-idiot who doesn't even regret dying.

[She knows from experience.]

He was probably fighting to try and save himself too, y'know. I don't envy him, having to put up with that girl for as long as he did.

[yougotthatwrong]

...Rotten could mean a lot of things, Sakura-san...

[and considering their awkward meetings, Naegi looked equal parts awkward and equal parts down as he said that.]

Maybe being different to her counts as one of the meanings, but yeah.

[he's just rambling at this point OTL]

[prayed]

[Oh, hey, it's that guy whose personality changes every time she meets him. So not in the mood.]

I've got no time for games today, Makoto. I'll punch your lights out if you start again.

[Having said that, she moves on to his actual point.]

...what do you mean "being different?" The fact that he actually used his brain?

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[princeofjunes]

[His voice is strained, as he's barely keeping a lid on the sadness and anger he's feeling right now]

You're right. The only one of them who was trying to 'save' anything is gone now.

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[prayed]

What kind of joke is that, anyway? "Saving us from ourselves?" How the Hell can a person like that claim to save anything? She killed her own companion in cold blood!

[warriorscribe]

*Enoch seems to be making an incredible effort to keep his face and voice straight. As such, his voice is softer than normal, forcibly controlled, and he pauses often to keep it level. He's shaking with the effort to keep his composure to the extent he has it. The death is too raw...*

The others all said...he was "going soft". She may have meant that...in the sense of a fruit.

*He has no more sympathy for Ruana; she's proven herself far less than human with this, not even figuratively - her actions and her movements struck Enoch as purely demonic.*

...I. Kyoko, listen to me. My friends are here now...the both of them Archangels. If Zo can only pull from worlds which are about to face destruction, then...

*He doesn't finish that sentence, not that it doesn't finish itself.*

...there would have been nowhere for my soul to go. I would rather live here to be "denied death" than to roam the ruins of a world as a spirit unable to find peace.

While I'll say I don't know about other worlds, I... Truly do think that bringing us here is at its heart a rescue. But...none of our remaining hosts...would see to it beyond that, save, perhaps...Zo.

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[prayed]

[It's several moments before she's able to come up with an adequate response to that. His words give her a start, draining away the anger she feels and replacing it with something closer to genuine fear. It manages to slip into her expression, despite everything. How could heaven itself be threatened with destruction?]

That's...

[She can't even say it's wrong, not really. Can't snap and be angry like she would like to.]

It's not much of a rescue mission if all they're gonna do is bring us in to play games with, like a bunch of dolls. That girl...that girl's probably gonna wind up being the death of us in the end. She didn't just kill him, she...it sounded like she was absorbing him!

[She takes deep breath, trying to regain her composure.]

The only one that might still see it as that... [She almost mumbles as she repeats his words, trying to recall him.] You're talking about the kid, right?