A/N: My apologies for those of you who followed the first write, but I decided to rewrite it for the better. Enjoy.
"No mistakes this time! I'll make Yukiteru-kun happy…"
His soft words pounded her head continuously as she was running down these empty streets of Sakurami City. Her violet eyes were unfocused, blazing with a sorrow she had no idea she had in her. These words wouldn't leave her head as she kept running, but she didn't know what from. All she knew was that the Observer broke free of the Akashic Records, caused destruction of the imaginary space, and that… among the process, had killed Deus.
She didn't understand. Why would he do so much over one boy? One pathetic, cowardly, and half-attractive boy, that could easily be bettered off by the plenty of other fish in the sea. Additionally, this was a boy whose fate was entwined with a girl's. Murmur didn't know what Akise was planning, but she didn't want him ruining their relationship. She finds them perfect together, so perfect that someone as self-righteous as Akise shouldn't be caught in the middle. Yet, she knew thinking he shouldn't wouldn't do much harm to his plans anyway. This caused her to huff and ball her hands into paling fists.
With her powers, Murmur had as much control over Akise as much as Deus did. Given that much ability, surely would have allowed her to make him return back to where he belonged, which was the Akashic Records. However, since he destroyed her home (it had been her home for trillions of centuries) completely, she had no power left. She had nothing left at all.
"Bring deserved justice to my Observer."
Murmur never did anything for Deus. Going back through these 11 worlds, back to the very first, she could care any less about her superior but as she did go through the memories of the worlds slowly, she started to realize how much she began to appreciate him. In most of the starting worlds 1-5, she was the rulebreaking and scheming servant that he always scolded. He could never find any reason to spare his time for her or see her in a better light.
But this Deus… This Deus was much different than the former ones in the past worlds. This Deus wasn't the war-raging and conceited Deus that she grew used to. This Deus that Akise had killed, was the opposite of the formers. Deus had spent his time, not raging wars, but talking to Murmur. They would spend millenniums of time talking to each other, about absolutely anything, and the subject of when Deus was due to die never came up. The games never came up. Nothing relating to their extraordinary differences ever surfaced in such conversations.
If they weren't talking, Murmur was explaining to Deus the appeal of shoujo and shounen manga. He would listen. He wouldn't pretend to be listening and actually be thinking about the next person to die in the games. After she would be done explaining, he would tell her that he would appreciate it if they read it together sometime.
Damn it. Stinging pain pierced Murmur's heart as she stopped running, her body burning too much to keep it up. Tears were threatening to fall from her glossing eyes, but she stubbornly held them back. No, she refused to believe that she had grown so comfortable around Deus that she actually… No, she wouldn't even think about it.
When the park came into her view, she immediately sat down on the closest bench her aching body could limp towards. She watched as two humans blindly bumped each other while walking their dogs. They apologized to each other, yards away from where Murmur sat yet she could still read their lips as they started talking to each other comfortably. It was like one of those scenes from a shoujo panel, the leading lady has finally found her one.
Once they finished talking, the male had given the female his number and walked the opposite way after giving her his hearty farewells. The female, visibly overjoyed and gushy, walked forwards and held her cell phone the way a teenage girl would after her boyfriend settled a date. Murmur bit her lip, almost crying in confusing tears of happiness and sadness at the same time. She was happy for those two and she was sad, because…..
Just as she was about to let herself cry, a familiar silhouette came into her eyesight. She went wide-eyed as he sauntered through the park pathway with his hands in pockets, disappearing into the small garden of trees. She had to think fast to go after him and set him straight! Before she took any action at all of getting up and going after him, she shook her head and decided it was a bad idea.
She would need to counter him somewhere private and not so open like this park. Come to think of it, she needed to organize herself quickly if she was going to live her life like a human. Rather, an abnormally short and unprepared human. Oh was living without supernatural abilities going to be difficult….