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A/N: So I found this prompt on a website a couple days ago which said to write a 250-word piece based on the words 'butterfly wings'. Seeing as how Koushaku/Papillon Mask is associated with butterflies, I typed this drabble about him. Hopefully he isn't too OOC, but recalling the conversation him and Kazuki had on death and killing near the end of Volume Two, I figured it wouldn't be too off-the-mark if I were to include that philosophical tone.
Chrysalis
Someday I will be free from this burden.
Someday I will rise above this curse and spread my wings above the world, shedding light upon this writhing, seething mass of darkness and decay.
Someday I will no longer feel the ill effects of this insufferable disease. I will be faster, stronger, purer than any and all peoples and creatures there have ever been in the history of time.
Someday … someday I will surpass these inferior standards. I will have no limitations. I will hold no boundaries. I will be able to fly, be able to move farther than what this body can do.
Someday … I will become beautiful. More beautiful than the sparkling waters in the sun. More beautiful than the blooming sakura lofted upon a gentle breeze. More beautiful … than the first take of breath, the eyes that will open to this brand new experienced called life, and behold it with such innocence, curiosity, and naivety.
I want to be beautiful.
I want to be free.
Someday … I will burst from this cocoon, this damnable prison, in a most magnificent display of bliss and epiphany. Someday … I will unfurl my black, enchanting wings and take to the stars, where no man or pestilence shall ever find me.
I will be reborn.
I will be new.
I will transcend all that is below me.
Our time will come, little one. It will come. And when that day comes…
We will be the most beautiful butterfly ever to grace this wretched darkness.