Higanbana in the Red Moon
Disclaimer: I do not own any Disgaea game. They belong to Nippon Ichi. I only own the concept of who The One is in Disgaea, which his name is Prism. I also own any witch/sorcerer that works under Prism such as Raven, Alfred, Pop, K.K., Terror and Starlight. Chester, Eir, Yama and the other Witch Hunters are also mine.
Summary: While the good ending is achieved as long as everyone sticks with their morals, it doesn't stop The One from glancing at parallel universes in which the situation of the characters take a dark turn for the worse leading to what calls "bad endings"…some that even The One himself caused by his own flaws.
Pairing: Implication of canon or heavily implied pairings (Laharl/Flonne, Adell/Rozalin, Mao/Rasberyl, Almaz/Sapphire, Valvatorez/Fenrich and Valvatorez/Artina)
Rated: M (for mature)
Genre: Tragedy, Angst, Hurt/Comfort and Drama
Warning: Character death, extreme violence, dark themes, implications of rape, and OOC if the characters Grimified for the sake of going insane
These aren't happy endings for those who are interested to know. This is heavily inspired by Queen's Blade's: Vanquished Queens short novels where each Queen's Blade character is shown to have one or two bad endings that might be canon or could have happened in canon if they lost at any point in the Queen's Blade tournament. The Disgaea versions are either expanding on bad endings or what if scenarios that could screw the character over and might be OOC as a result. They're in order based on series but Disgaea and D2 are put in the same category. Enjoy…
Chapter 4: Rise of the Rebellion
Sicily: Rise of the Rebellion
As you already know, Flonne's story is only the beginning. When one finishes reading about how a great heroine fell because of her immaturity and prejudice, we must also consider how there will be a heroine that will rise against the drama and defeat the fallen heroine. If you notice that there are parts missing in this story that might be because this isn't the official storybook. One can only write so many parts in a huge book full of short stories of the beginning or the end of a tragedy that putting Sicily's odyssey would seem unfair. One would also notice that in a storybook full of misery, murder, despair and the lost of hope, Sicily's story is meant to be an enlightenment during dark times. Flonne's tale is the beginning of the dark ages of the Netherworld and Celestia while Sicily's story attempts to prow through these times with determination, love and friendship that Flonne lacked.
So be rejoiced to one of the few chapters in these books that lean toward a bittersweet ending rather than outright downer endings (or beginnings depending on how you look at it). We will only cover the most important parts of her story so please read along.
Sicily's story began way before Flonne murdered the Overlord. She was born an angel with demon blood flowing through her veins. She had no friends except the Seraph himself, but even he had to keep her from everyone's eyes in fear that Sicily's life would be in danger if anyone were to know the truth. She was already treated poorly by rumors alone but with no proof, she could not be harmed…only shunned.
The little girl hated being alone in Celestia. Angels were supposed to be friendly but angels were no different than humans then they would like to admit. Lamington told this girl that she indeed had a family that loved her but while her mother was dead, her father and brother still lived. She wanted to meet them but the Seraph insisted that she was not ready to see them. Unfortunately, Sicily will never meet her big brother who Flonne killed. Lamington refuse to tell her that Laharl was her older brother and that she will never have that faithful encounter. Instead he said that meeting Laharl would be postponed until things settled down in Celestia.
Unfortunately, things took a turn for the worst. Flonne started going on kill sprees in the Netherworld and being hailed a hero by other angels and Vulcanus. Vulcanus who intended to become the Seraph and lead Celestia to do battle with the Netherworld murdered Lamington after he told his friend to escape with Sicily and the prisoner Eir. Flonne killed Vulcanus in a futile attempt to save the Seraph and ended up promoting herself to Seraph and therefore the leader of the angels. Naturally Flonne's decision to save Celestia was to go to war with the Netherworld. The angels were on her side and if Flonne asked, the witches/sorcerers would be too. However Flonne was not aware of the Golden Land therefore their interference so early into the war was unlikely. The new Seraph was not alone in her goals because apparently there was another angel in line who would serve Seraph Lamington in case Vulcanus was demoted. In this case he was killed and the new archangel whom was a white haired male angel lord named Virunga took his place. Virunga had the same mindset as Flonne, so he happily did her biddings for her training angels and leading them to battle Netherworld demons.
Flonne was still getting human support especially since a war was going on in another human world adjacent to hers. Any pure human would become an angel that would fight against the Netherworld. The body count was going to be incredibly high but the witches/sorcerers turned a blind's eye to the catastrophe.
Vyers learned this the hard way when after sneaking Sicily and Eir out of Celestia undetected he went straight for the Holy Realm to speak to the creator of the universe who would hopefully lend a hand. Vyers was immediately turned away by his right hand woman Raven and another sorcerer who might as well have been Prism's bitch. His name was Kotsukoba but it was K.K. for short. Raven had K.K. point his pistols at Vyers if he did not leave the Golden Land at once. No matter how much he tried to talk his way into the witches/sorcerer's palace, Prism was not going to have a hearing anytime soon for whatever reason.
Sicily and Eir could not comprehend what was going on when this was the first location to go. Being rejected did not suit well with Vyers given his status as the late demon king. Other powerful allies would need to be found in order to counteract Flonne but the Golden Land was just not one of them.
Raven immediately reported the incident to Prism who refused to listen to the powerful demon because he was too busy playing guess who with his best (black) friend Layla even though she would rather go by the name Pop. The game was getting…rather heated when racial slurs were being thrown at each other when playing the game and it wouldn't be long until one of them decided to tear their friend's head off when they lost. At least they weren't playing Mario Party.
"Prism…I just chased off the king of demons…"
"You did? Did I say that?"
"Is your person a cracker?" Pop asked Prism causing the boy to put everyone away leaving a few people. Pop cackled. "I win."
"Fuck you. I didn't talk to a demon to lose to you!" Prism shouted. "What did he want Raven?"
"He wanted you to prevent the war with Celestia and Netherworld from starting and spreading to the human world."
"Who cares?" Prism asked. "I might get more witches from war. In fact, I should pay Celestia a visit."
"Prism," Kotsukoba began putting his pistols away. "Who do you intend to be your representative for Celestia?"
"Terror of course. He can kill so many demons without breaking a sweat." The blonde said with a laugh while demanding that Pop start the game over again. "I think playing the neutral grounds will be fine."
"You think sending Terror in is neutrality?" Pop questioned. "Boy, you should know that Terror would slaughter one side completely!"
"Everything will be fine. I know who will be the representative of Celestia."
The other witches and sorcerer looked at each other before they all realized who Prism would choose.
"You really want the Netherworld to lose by choosing him…" Pop mumbled. "He's still your apprentice. He'll be sent back here if he dies."
"That's the thing. It is time to test his might. Everything I have taught him will be put to the test."
While Prism said that, he would not expect that by choosing this sorcerer would actually bridge the gap between witches/sorcerers and witch hunters/sorcerer slayers.
Prism wasn't kidding when he said he would meet with the Golden Land and give Terror as the sorcerer that would side with Celestia and make the war one-sided. Terror had his normal (by normal I mean asshole) subdued personality by default. However if he went into battle, that kind personality would not last and would tear anyone in his path friend and doe alike. He made this warning to Flonne and told her to use him wisely as an ally of the Golden Land.
This was when Flonne noticed that Sicily was gone as well as her prisoner. She was so caught up in playing the leader that she didn't know that Sicily had already betrayed her and ran off. To Flonne this was enough of an excuse to bran her a traitor and to send angels after Sicily. It was unfortunate that Terror would be part of that group. Flonne warned Virunga to not get any of the angels killed when the green haired sorcerer snapped.
Around this time though, Vyers considered training Sicily and Eir in battle before rounding up allies to rebel against Flonne. While training, they ended up helping a wandering mercenary demon that went by the name Xenolith. Observing the redhead, Vyers noted how he looked familiar to another fiery demon (except he wasn't feisty like his sister). When asked what he was doing during these times when mercenaries would start being hired for war services, Xenolith explained that he would find the person who murdered his beloved sister. Sicily had a feeling that Xenolith and her were going after the same angel who harmed someone close to them (for Sicily it was just a hunch that Overlord Laharl was the big brother she would never meet).
Because of how efficient Terror was in terms of locating his targets, it wouldn't be long before he would find Vyers and his small group. Terror considered the option of engaging this powerful demon and instead looked to see if there were any demon villages nearby that he could trash. There were no villages but there were indeed demons to slaughter and take hostages.
Apparently there was a small demon going around the area declaring himself the Netherworld president's son. It did no good in this portion of the Netherworld because the president's power did not extend to all portions of hell just like how the Overlord had no influence of other demons outside of his world. The boy was with many bodyguards and after being told off by another demon chief, the kid was just furious at how he was treated. The boy was just as spoiled as Prism if he was declaring he would come back with an army to demand respect. The reason the demon chief didn't need to hear the boy though was because angels were spotted and they were preparing for battle. They did not want to waste soldiers on this little boy.
Once Terror launched the attack on the village though, it would not matter if he wasted his breath because the angels were too powerful for the demons. The spoiled demon was caught in the middle of the battle and demanded that his knights and ninjas protected him from the angels. They were of no use and even with the kid's magic, they would all be dead around him causing the boy to freak out when Terror came down and smirked seeing the terrified expression on his face.
"This is going to be fun." He hummed as he took a knife out. "I'm going to cut you to pieces and take you back to the Golden Land to do it again. Oh will this be glorious."
"N-No! S-Stay back! Or I'll tell my father!"
"Like I give a shit."
Emizel was lucky that the knife thrown wasn't aimed to kill him. However the fact a knife was thrown at his cheek made him scream. Terror continued to hum seeing the poor boy attempting to flee but tripping each time he tried to get up. Terror never let anyone out of his sight and once he had his target, he was going to torture and kill whoever the target was.
"Maybe if you took off your pants and pissed in front of me I'll reconsider killing you." Terror said with a laugh.
Such a disgusting thing to say to a child and it would make the green haired sorcerer come off as a pedophile. Terror wasn't interested in the sexual implications of a child wetting himself. To any demon, that would be humiliation at its finest and since Emizel was going on about how great he was through his dad…
Emizel on the other hand did have a limit to what he would and wouldn't do. If he gave in now then he would never hear the end of it. When he shook his head no, Terror was quick to punch Death and send him flying into a nearby brick wall (that wasn't being destroyed by the angels).
"That's a shame, but I guess even spoiled brats like you have some honor left."
The green haired sorcerer wasted no time in retrieving Emizel seizing him by the neck and lifting him up in the air.
"Well, I'll end you now." Terror chuckled as he squeezed at the child's neck. If he squeezed anymore perhaps the head would pop off like a bag filled with nothing but air.
To Terror's disappointment he had to let Emizel go when his hands were set on fire by a giga fire spell. Emizel wheezed when he was dropped but he couldn't move anywhere with Terror looming over him.
"Resistance?" Looking where the fire was coming from, he was met by a spear to the chest. Looking down, he was surprised to see a little girl stab him with a huge spear. He feint injury and decided to groan in pain to make it seem like she made a direct hit.
"Get over here!" A voice called out. It was another small child attacking them and that was the one who cast the fire spell. "Eir!"
"U-Understood!"
The young valkyrie was quick to take out her spear that was covered with blood before reaching out for Emizel who was still stunned at the sight before him.
"P-Please hurry! W-We must get away from here!"
Terror moved back to let the kids run before he glared at the children. This injury was nothing after all and it only made him want to harm those that attacked him. That was impossible though because someone stood in front of the children after Eir got Emizel toward the other girl.
"Oh a powerful demon is here to challenge me? How wonderful."
Looking around the battlefield though, angels were being knocked out of the sky and even killed by demons fighting back. The demon in the way of killing the children was probably the leader of the competent demons that managed to injure him.
"Xenolith." The man spoke. The redhead demon made quick work of the angels around the children with his sword before turning to the older man. "You must take the children and flee from here."
"…If I do that Vyers…"
The king laughed as he waved his hand back. "I'm just dealing with a bunch of low ranking angels and a sorcerer. I'll be back before you know it…"
Even with that tone of voice, Xenolith thought the contrary. Because the king was going to fight a sorcerer was why he feared the worse. This was not your average sorcerer. This was The Bloodstain Sorcerer known for leaving a gory mess behind after he tortured his opponent. He was the one sorcerer you really didn't want to fight even if you were the strongest demon around. And to top it all off, Terror was originally a human and killed so many demons and Overlords that he might as well be one himself.
Looking back at Sicily who was casting spells from her spell book, Xenolith knew what he had to do.
"…As long as you make it back in one piece there will be no objections." Xenolith said as he was prepared to put his sword away. "Sicily, Eir…we must retreat."
Sicily stopped casting her spells and looked toward Xenolith in confusion. "Huh? I thought we were going to help these demons!"
"Vyers will take care of the rest. Come."
"U-Umm…a little help here…" Eir mumbled as she alone could not carry Emizel who was pretty much dead weight given that he just now fainted.
Xenolith decided to take Emizel off of Eir's hand. He ordered Sicily to lead the way that she did. Not a single angel came after them though given that the focus was on Terror's battle with Vyers.
The battle was intense that the green haired sorcerer was obvious infatuated with his opponent. No matter what weapon Terror hand in his hands, they were either knocked aside or were broken by the King's power forcing him to fight hand-to-hand combat. Terror was the master of fighting so that did not faze him at all.
With punches thrown at each other that were so powerful that it caused shockwaves all the way around the area, no angel would dare interfere…or so the King assumed. You see Virunga planned a powerful opponent would step up and fight Terror so Virunga already summoned more angels by his side. There were more than hundred angels all with arrows in their hand. It was going to rain arrows and with how Terror had his hands full, there was no way they would miss.
"Wait for my signal." He ordered looking at the angels around him. One angel stood out in particular with her pink hair and blue eyes. She was the only angel whose hands were quivering at the idea at shooting their ally in order to kill a powerful demon. "Steady your arms. We do not want to miss our target."
If it were for the greater good then they would shoot. This angel did not like that idea though but if it was the Seraph's orders to fight then so be it…
Away from the area Sicily had to stop once the small group was out of the angels' sight. Eir was exhausted from having to run away so fast but she was still young…younger than Sicily and still needed to build up some endurance.
"Lady Sicily?" Eir questioned trying to catch her breathe.
"…Xenolith…why would Vyers want us to run when there are so many angels out there? He would not survive without anyone helping him."
Xenolith closed his eyes as he spoke. "Vyers is a powerful demon. You have witnessed that…but his opponent is a sorcerer. Even if he managed to defeat the sorcerer, he would not be able to survive the onslaught of angels."
Her heart was thumping rapidly. Sicily already knew the worse was going to happen to Vyers.
"First the Seraph and now Vyers? I…I can't let anyone die close to me die anymore when I can do something about it!" Sicily suddenly declared as she rushed back causing Xenolith's usually calm expression to falter immediately.
"Sicily, don't!"
Eir began to panic as Xenolith was forced to shove Emizel into Eir's arms causing her to fall on her back from the weight.
"Watch over that kid and do not move from this spot unless an angel is nearby! You are not allowed to die here!"
"Y-Yes sir!"
Sicily was faster than Xenolith. This was a fact that with the small amount of training, Sicily decided that if she wasn't going to survive enough hits that she would be faster than someone who hit as hard as Xenolith did.
What was Sicily trying to accomplish though by running back? She was going to run out of SP eventually and going in with below half was suicide.
"Vyers!" She called out.
Terror and Vyers were still going all out but the angels still haven't fired their arrows yet. The green haired sorcerer though was slowing down. Unknown to Terror, Vyers had some tricks up his sleeves. As an ice user and forcing Terror into hand-to-hand combat after a few blows to some pressure points, the former King used his ice powers to grab at Terror's arms and freeze them. Terror was quick though so when Vyers punched the now in cased arms, only one of them was broken off. As a being from the Golden Land, injuries like these were no problem to one's life but it would make battling more difficult. In the purple haired demon's mind, if a witch/sorcerer was treated like a mechanical being one would see being made in the human world then one wouldn't have to worry about the everlasting injuries.
"Son of a…"
"Vyers!"
Looking back, Vyers saw Sicily in the pushes intending to run out and help the king.
"Sicily, stay back!" He demanded and while he was distracted Terror used the hand that was frozen to punch the previous king sending him flying into the wall. The punch was enough to shatter the ice around said arm.
"Vyers!"
It was a reflex to wind his arm up but with the lack of his right arm, it ended up hurting him more than intention.
"Damn, he's good." Terror complimented as he looked up. "Give me a few more minutes before you shoot. This is nothing."
Virunga and the pink haired angel certainly didn't see it as "just nothing" but continued to stay on standby.
"Vyers, I'll help you!" Sicily called out as she opened her book. "451 Degrees of Evil, I summon thee!"
When she opened the book, a fire dragon came out of the pages and charged at Terror. Given he lacked an arm; it made it difficult for him to dodge the attack. If he were another witch in the Golden Land, this fire dragon would have burned him to the ground. The demon angel took the opportunity to rush after Vyers who was slowly succumbing to his injuries.
"What are you doing? I told you to flee! Where is Xenolith and Eir?"
"Vyers…I'm not going to let anyone else die if I can help it." Sicily stated. "S-So let's go while we have the chance!"
"Foolish girl, there is no way I can…"
Looking up, Vyers eyes widened in horror. They would fire if he attempted to escape. Their goal was palpable from the beginning. The knowledge given from the Golden Land was that he was the demon that tempted Seraph Lamington and needed to be punished. The attack on the village was a trap to lure him out given he was reported to be helping lesser demons against these angel attacks. Their rescue was a complete failure with the number of angels brought along this attack because they intended to take him down.
"Come on, we can go before they fire! I can put them all to sleep and-"
"…Sicily…listen to me. You must escape here alive…and become the new leader."
"Huh?!"
"Sicily…I'm finished…they won't let me leave here alive, but with you…there is still a chance…"
Her heart was slowing down by this news. Why would he say something like this? Didn't he say that he would help her and Eir grow to be powerful adversaries? Didn't he promise Xenolith that he would lead him to the person that killed his sister? Why was he giving up now?!
Closing his eyes, Vyers looked at his finger and smiled before taking off a beautiful rose ring that was on it and handing it to Sicily.
"Vyers?"
"This was…the ring I wore when I married my beloved wife…but she is gone as well as my son…I do not want to lose a daughter as well…"
Wait…daughter?! Then that meant…
"Go…now…"
Luckily for Vyers, Xenolith was not that far from Sicily and ended up rushing out of the bushes to grab the little girl who shrieked when she felt his big arms around her waist.
"W-Wait! What are you talking about?! Vyers?! Vyers!"
Terror chuckled as he stood in front of Xenolith. "You aren't going anywhere. I intend to take you all down with me here."
Xenolith cursed to himself as he readied his sword in the other hand. Vyers however stood up and rushed Terror without hesitation catching him in a grip due to the green haired sorcerer only having one arm.
"GO!"
"FIRE NOW!"
The voices were so loud that it was harming Sicily's ears. She was part of the noise though especially when the redhead demon rushed back into the bushes and ran back to where the other two children were as fast as he could. Sicily would never get to see her father's last moments. At first he had the advantage with both arms being able to use Terror as a shield when the angels fired their arrows…but at the last minute something happened to Terror that turned the situation around and with that one hand managed to overpower the previous king and switch positions. Truth be told, pushing Terror into a situation like this was not a good idea. He was called the Blood Stained Sorcerer for his split personality after all. The one that did all the fighting now was only toying with the previous king but his split personality was merciless and would use all of his strength to defeat his opponent as right now. The pink haired angel was the last one to shoot the arrow toward the king. His voice of agony would forever be implanted in her brain for as long as she lived.
The worst part was that only a few angels were needed to make the same result but Virunga had to make sure that the demon was vanquished. He had an emotionless expression seeing the previous demon king impaled on all sides from his chest, to his knee and even multiple arrows to the face. Terror on the other hand just chuckled even with the same amount of arrows inside of him as he threw the king's body to the ground.
"Such a monster…" Virunga mumbled seeing Terror using his one hand to rip arrows out of his body like they were band-aids. "Even with all of these arrows, he will not go down. I guess Seraph Flonne was right when the sorcerer's from the Golden Land are overpowered…they're inhuman…"
The pink haired girl's hands were shaking as she was on the verge of dropping her bow. She didn't want to do something this horrible again but this was the will of the Seraph and the archangel…
Terror didn't respond as he pulled the arrow in his hand with his teeth. Then looking down at the body, he seized it like a rag doll. Virguna did not want to go near Terror when he was raging like an animal.
"Hey, the Seraph's order was to bring the body back in one piece."
Hypocrital yes but when one took out the arrows, it's not like the body would fall to pieces. The green haired sorcerer just laughed like a hyena as he put his only hand through the dead body and ripped the demon's heart out. It was a disgusting sight that even the angels didn't want to see but Terror continued to cackle as he held the heart like it was a stuff doll.
"Mine…all mine…the king's heart is mine for the keeping…ha ha…hahahahaha!"
Some angels were still perusing Sicily and Xenolith when they fled from the scene. Reuniting with Eir and Emizel, Eir showed them a hidden passage she found underground that they used to hide from the angels as they circled above the trees of the forest. These were low ranking angels that would not be able to even see the hidden area in the darkness so they were going to report back with nothing. Not like it mattered when their designated target was dead and this demon area was destroyed leaving no survivors except the child that claimed to be the son of the Netherworld President. This information would be useful to them later but for now they ended up flying back to the archangel.
Sicily refused to speak to Xenolith even after the angels past overhead. She was angry with him for not saving Vyers and she was angry with herself that even when she wanted to help, she got in the way and was seen as nothing but a little girl.
"Lady Sicily?" Eir called out to the older girl. "Are you…okay?"
"How can you ask that question Eir? I'll never be okay. That entire village was destroyed, everyone died there and we lost Vyers! How can I ever be okay after what happened?!"
The projection of her voice was getting louder the more she spoke. No angels would be alerted but this anger inside was too much for her.
"I could have saved him Xenolith! Why did you pull me away! We could have all escaped together! Vyers wouldn't have left me with his ring if we showed him that we cared for his life more than hours!" Xenolith's back was turned to Sicily due to him glancing outside making sure that there were no enemies in sight. "Why aren't you saying anything Xenolith?! Answer me!"
Xenolith closed his eyes but did not turn around to face the demon angel. "And what do you want me to say Sicily?" Sicily was surprised that she was met with a question instead of an answer. He continued, "That I apologize for saving our lives? That I apologize that together we didn't defeat every angel there? What about the sorcerer that we were warned about who is out of our league?"
The older demon was calm for the most part but a part of him was equally frustrated as Sicily was that Vyers had to be sacrificed in order to retreat.
"But…"
"We either died without ending the war or we continued on sacrificing one of our own. Vyers…just happened to choose the latter…he really wants the war to end…"
"But it's not fair!" Sicily cried as she felt tears falling down her eyes. "I was just getting to know Vyers! He helped Eir and me escape when the Seraph was killed! He helped us train to be able to protect ourselves and fight the angels! And now he gave me the ring of his wife as a token to remember him by! And he said that I was his daughter! What am I supposed to do?!"
"…So…in his final moments he decided to tell the truth. How cruel of the king…"
"…Wait Sir Vyers was the…king?"
"…Yes. Vyers was the late King Krichevskoy. It was assumed he died by swallowing his favorite black pretzel…but he's apparently alive and well…but depowered and different…I recognized him immediately because of his charisma and was why I joined his party. Even if he was weaker…I assumed he would be strong enough to lead an army and stop the war, but his life ended for real and the war just started…"
He sighed as he walked away from the hole to lean against the wall. He had to think what to do now for these kids. Now that the king was dead he had to take charge of their lives. What would be the best option for these children? To take them to another part of the universe (as Xenolith was perfectly capable of jumping Netherworlds in general to get to the witch hunter realm at one point in his life) where they can forget about all the bloodshed or would he take these small group and lead a useless battle against the heavens? The former sounded better and would be less stressful (plus no one would die that easily) but…
It wasn't just Xenolith that was thinking of what to do now. Even though Sicily had tears in her eyes, she forced herself to wipe them as she tried to calm herself down. Eir just sat on her knees with her body shivering not knowing what to do. Unknown to them, Emizel was awake at this point and overheard the conversation. He had to figure out what to do now since he had no bodyguards and no way to get back to his Netherworld now that it was confirmed to him that there was a war between the angels and demons.
"What are we going to do?" Eir asked the others.
Xenolith had made his decision, but before he could give the commands, Sicily beat him to it.
"We…keep fighting." She muttered as she stood up. "We keep fighting until the war is over."
Now both demons were surprised by Sicily's tone. Her voice was still insecure about the situation but her confidence was slowly coming back.
"Are you sure about that Sicily?" The older demon asked. "It will be just us four against them." Yes he knew he added Emizel despite the boy not even agreeing to join up but with how things are now, that boy would not have a choice in the matter. "We will have to go through all of those angels, the archangels and maybe even the Golden Land itself before we reach Flonne. Do you we are capable of such a feat?"
"It's what daddy would want us to do." Sicily answered. "Giving up now would only lead to the ruin of the Netherworld and even Celestia, and if we don't do anything, the human world might be dragged into this."
"…But that's what the Golden Land wants." Xenolith pointed out. "The king tried to get help but was met with rejection and death. That sorcerer known as Terror was hired to help the angels instead of us. It goes to show you that even the Golden Land will not assist us demons."
"Then we'll find powerful allies to help us out!" Sicily declared. "There are more demons and Overlords out there! We just need to gather more powerful allies and with a big enough army we can fight against Celestia and defeat Flonne!"
"How do you expect these Overlords to listen to you Sicily? You look like an angel to them and will more likely be killed if you tried to make a pact with them."
"I may look like an angel but I can't let my appearance pull me down now! The Netherworld is in need of a savior during these times! I…I may not be like my father…or my big brother…" When she mentioned "big brother" her heart waivered. The revelation that Vyers was her father only made things worse when she realized that the Overlord Laharl was her older brother and by proxy the Overlord's most important vassal was Xenolith's younger sister. "But we have to try. If we don't do anything now everyone will suffer…and I don't want to see anyone close to me die ever again…so…"
"I'm with you Lady Sicily!" Eir declared as she stood up. "I…I want to avenge my village for what those angels have done and only when I do that…can I finally do my job as a valkyrie much sooner…"
"Eir…"
For such a little girl, Eir was definitely the first to jump to the proposal of fighting to the death. Then again any valkyrie enjoys the thrill of battle hoping to take the strongest men with them to Valhalla (if that really is a place in this universe). Turning to Xenolith, the older demon surprised at what the two young girls decided sighed in defeat.
"…I cannot let you two go alone. I will follow your orders Sicily, but I must warn you that if your plans are risky I will pull you out no questions asked."
"Y-Yes…" Sicily responded nodding her head with a small smile on her face.
"So…please do not be sad." He finally said as he went over to the brunette in order to pat her on the head. "So wipe those tears. We will avenge the king."
Sicily nodded her head again slowly wiping her tears that were forming again. He wasn't going to leave her after all even though she had been so difficult.
"Still Sicily." He stopped petting her head as he rested himself against the cave wall again "What will we do first?"
"Umm…that is…"
"We should find a way to go see my father."
Eir jumped hearing the boy behind him wake up or rather make himself known to these demons.
"So you have awoken." Xenolith spoke softly. "How are your injuries?"
"This? This is nothing but anyway, I don't know what is going on but I demand that you take me back to my father."
"Huh why?"
Emizel chuckled as he sat up but refused to stand up (even though standing would make him look cooler). "Simple. My father is the Netherworld President. He is one of the strongest demons out with a league of demons that can destroy and the universe with a few punches! If you take me back to my father then we can get back at those pesky angels." He scowled. "No angel is going to humiliate me like that!"
"He recovered fast." The redhead mocked. "But the plan is good for now. Right Sicily?"
"Yes it is. Where is your Netherworld?"
Emizel chuckled before he started to shake. He really didn't know and that caused the trio to sigh.
"Perhaps…we should take a detour?" Eir suggested.
"How so?"
"Like…umm…the vakyries have three places they like to go. We stay here in the Netherworld…but we go to the Witch Hunter Realm and Planet Order."
"Planet Order?" Sicily had to ask.
"It's just another term used to define the planet that is controlled by the Goddess of Order."
"Wait…there's more than one God? And a Goddess?"
"Yes. Anyways, I think we should find a way to go to the witch hunter realm. If the Golden Land will not assist us demons, then we will go to the witch hunter realm and hire a witch hunter or a sorcerer slayer that can deal with the witches and sorcerers. We can also go to the Witch Hunter Academy to find a book of where exactly your Netherworld is umm…"
"It's Sir Death Emizel." The young Grim Reaper said with a smirk. "And you best remember it."
"Understood Sir Emizel. But if we go to this academy we can surely go to your Netherworld."
"In order to even get to the Witch Hunter Academy, we must find a gate keeper that can open the gate for us." Xenolith sighed. "With this war though, it will be harder to find them. I know angels are slaying these gate keepers to prevent demons from regrouping to stage a mass attack. As long as demons are not reunited on this issue, we are doomed to lose to Celestia."
"Then it's settled! When morning comes we will head out and find a gate keeper!"
It was already going to be a difficult journey but Sicily would not let her father's death be in vain. She would avenge him and her brother if it were the last thing she would do. As the last heir to the throne, Sicily the Overlord would surely triumph.
Because the story from here on out while grim and gory is rather optimistic as Sicily's goal is a huge case of earn your happy ending. As a result, the story will recap on everything you need to know about Sicily's party as they march toward the final battle with Flonne.
Sicily's group originally started with Xenolith, Eir and Emizel after that declaration. However the group would soon double over the journey making the party total go up to eight.
The first person that joined them was a witch hunter. Like Eir suggested the group did manage to make it to the Witch Hunter Realm after many close calls and sacrifices that occurred by finding said gatekeeper. In the witch hunter realm similar to the Golden Land, the witch hunters turn down Sicily's request for assistance. Since there are seven Chosen (or the top seven most powerful witch hunters handpicked by the God of War himself), half of them weren't even present when Sicily begged for help. The only human of the group along with the only alien were apparently traveling around the universe searching for a high profile criminal who happened to be a sorcerer. Because this duo was incredibly dangerous it would be unwise to ask for their help. However if they ever encountered this battle duo then they had the permission to ask. The other two members that weren't around were sadly angels and instead of doing of their mission to assist either angels of witch hunters, they're going around the galaxy stealing planets and calling themselves the Celestial Angels and even recruited a few members to help with their destruction around the galaxy. Those two were out of the picture. That left the three remaining members. It was a succubus named Morrigan (no not that one) with orange hair and beautiful gold eyes. She was not the leader despite being the most friendly of the remaining Chosen members. The second was an incubus (maybe) named Chun-Kei and as the name implied he was a rather chubby individual (but he insists that its muscle) with blue hair and blue eyes. He was the one that sent his human friend off on a mission and the alien girl chased after him. The leader of the group was the cruelest woman that Sicily has ever met. She was an elf named Zelda (no not that one) with a hair color that combined dark brown and purple to get this weird lighting that matched with her purple eyes that stared down at the demons. It was her that ignored any request by proxy of no one was going to get killed in the witch hunters and unless Sicily could prove that the witches are directly involved then she would not help. This argument was only helped by the information that Terror is an out of control sorcerer that not even Prism can order around all the time and what Terror does may not be the will of the Golden Land.
Sicily wanted to give up but there were many other students that were training to become a part of the Chosen group. The one that wanted to assist Sicily just happened to be one of the most judgmental demonic assholes one could ever imagine. His name was Yama and it was fitting given that his father was the legendary Emma-O who judged the souls of hell before deciding whether the souls should be eaten or turned into Prinnies. Yama was an obnoxious teen with brown hair and brown eyes to match with it. Xenolith wanted to reject him almost immediately but they didn't have a choice in the matter since Yama had the book that they needed to decide which Netherworld they needed to go into, but by bad luck the group ended up getting teleported not to Emizel's world but to one of the many human worlds that was having a civil war of its own.
It was here that Yama forced himself into the group and it was here did they meet a mysterious human that was aware that the angels and demons were duking it out. Their war was affecting this human world and she wanted to leave the human world and do battle with angels for foolishly attacking her home. This mysterious girl was dressed up as a maid with long red hair that was in two pigtails and blue eyes. She looked ordinary to say the least…and she went by the name of Airi.
However Airi knew too much to be a mere human like she stated. She knew where the book was that was needed to get back to the Witch Hunter Academy. She knew a lot about the angels and demons in general and once they found the book and made it back to the Witch Hunter Academy (and Yama gets scolded for disobeying the rules) not a single demon batted an eye at her. It was almost like she was a demon.
Xenolith was able to confirm this later on once Yama made another mistake (and it was Emizel's fault too this time) and sent them to another place in the Netherworld where the Netherworld Academy resided. Airi would disappear from the group every night and then come back with spirits swarming around her. Eventually Xenolith managed to corner Airi and have her admit to the group she was indeed a demon. She was on the run after her mistress that summoned her from the Netherworld was killed. Her other ally buddies were either killed or simply wanted to be left alone. Airi though wanted to revive her mistress known as the Swamp Witch (just hearing the name witch made the group think she was actually a witch from the Golden Land) in order to throw the human world back into chaos, but ever since the angels declared war on the demons, finding a host for her mistress was near impossible.
Sicily didn't know what to do with the maid demon. On one hand, Airi was very helpful with information and was a great fighter to the team. On the other hand, Airi had full intention of harming the human world and if they defeated Flonne, Airi was going to throw her human world back into chaos for her Swamp Witch. That was simply immoral by demon standards since demons are meant to scare humans and give them fear energy, not cause the world despair. Airi insisted though that she is only acting on her mistress' orders and it is not of her will to throw the world into chaos. Xenolith decided to keep an eye on the wraith just to make sure she did not betray Sicily's trust.
The Netherworld Academy gave them a lot of information needed on the situation. The best part was that the new dean of the school who went by the name of Mao was holding the angels off very well. He was very powerful and less angels started to show up the more he took down. The human world connected to this Netherworld was safe by proxy meaning that Sicily's group could use this place as a hub. The only reason Mao was helping out though was because if Sicily defeated Flonne or one of the more powerful angels, she would bring them back alive so he could experiment on them.
After getting back to the Witch Hunter Academy, Yama and Emizel finally got it right and ended up in Emizel's Netherworld…but this was only after they had to deal with three idiot wannabe idols: Axel, Asagi and Lanzarote. The sad thing was only Lanzarote wanted to join Sicily's group after seeing the potential the demon angel Overlord had (plus in her mind she wanted to take advantage of Sicily's growing popularity so she can boost herself up).
The group finally made it to Hades but end up in the lowest part of that Netherworld. It is here does Eir get to reunite with her idol the werewolf Fenrich (known as the Moonlight Fang when he was a Witch Hunter back in his day) and the former Tyrant Valvatorez who was now a Prinny Instructor and Fenrich his slave. Eir was horrified by the situation at hand and foolishly challenges Valvatorez to free her idol. When that epically fails, Sicily asks why Valvatorez won't assist the demons in fighting against the angels. The vampire simply states that his job is with the Prinnies now instead of fighting epic battles. Eir has proven to have the potential to stop the threat at hand, but he only says this because the vampire simply cannot grasp how bad the war is at the moment and at the bottom of Hades nothing happens.
After leading the prison, the group would finally get to meet Emizel's dad but the angels thought about this as well. It is here where the angel groups that Airi was talking about battles and just as Emizel is reunited with his dad, similar to Sicily he ends up losing his father in the battle. This turn of events makes Emizel want to grow up and end the war faster so he could take over. (Ironically this also means that without Hugo, Nemo has no way of blackmailing the Netherworld thus preventing the events of Disgaea 4 and explains why Terror is more hinged than normal).
Hugo's death though forces Valvatorez to realize the gravity of the situation and makes a promise to round up a resistance in this Netherworld as long as Sicily can garner support from other Netherworlds and even outside the Netherworld and getting different species to help her out in this all out war.
Once Sicily starts receiving support from all over the galaxy, Prism finally decides to let one of his sorcerers side with Sicily in order to make the battle more "even". He gives Sicily his apprentice Starlight whose goal is to watch her progress and to keep Terror tame, as his recent killings do not reflect well on the Golden Land.
This is the group that ends up leading a resistance against Celestia…
Sicily, the new Overlord who will finally avenge the deaths of her father and brother today.
Xenolith, the mysterious yet lonely demon out to avenge his sister.
Eir, the young valkyrie with a goal of revenge for her village and praise from her idol hoping that this victory will allow her to become a Chosen member.
Emizel, the son of the Netherworld President who wants to grow up and end the war.
Yama, the judgmental demon who after seeing the disaster around him and meeting Starlight does he intend to change his judgment and focus it on true evil.
Airi, the Infernal Temptress who after hanging with the group considers abandoning the Swamp Witch once and for all for their sake (maybe)…
Lanzarote, the soon to be pop idol who will be famous if she saves the day with Sicily.
Starlight, the Sorcerer of Hope who will be their guiding light to the final battle.
With this group of eight with their weapons in hand, they arrive at the final door. Sicily lets out a huge breathe as she turns around to see her friends.
"This is it. The final battle guys…are you all ready?" She asked. "I mean I thank you all for helping me get this far but if you guys want to turn back…"
"After fighting through all of those angels? Hardly." Yama responded with a laugh. "I think I speak for everyone when I saw we're ready to kick some ass."
The group nodded their head in union.
"This is it, Sicily! I can finally avenge my family after all that has happened. I will never run away again!" Eir declared happily.
"Do you think I'm going to miss the chance to get famous for this? Sicily dear, you're the reason I'm still alive." Lanzarote replied happily although one has to wonder if she generally cared for the little girl or not.
"Father…please watch over me. I will avenge you now." Emizel mumbled to himself more than Sicily.
"Umm…it shouldn't be a problem…as a Sorcerer of Hope…I know we will win…" Starlight mumbled, as he blushed looking at Yama. "So please be careful…"
"This has been the most exhausting yet entertaining thing to happen to me for a while. I hope this continues." Airi said with a smile as she looked toward Xenolith and winked. "And I hope you'll keep your promise after this is all over."
"…"
"What promise?" Yama had to ask.
"I-It's nothing…"
"It's something…" Lanza teased. "Are you two really going to-"
"Sicily, remember everything that you have learned during this journey." Xenolith interrupted with a serious expression. "Do not let these lessons go to waste."
"I know…you were there since the beginning Xenolith."
"Good…then let's go."
Sicily smirked as she turned around and opened the door where the final battle awaits…
Chester laughed seeing the expression on his master's face. Prism was acting like a child who became immense into the world of a fairy tale book. However the book already gave the warning that this is only part of the story. The thing is that after the king's death though everything seemed to be summarized leading to the final battle. There was no conclusion and no extreme detail on the hardship Sicily and her friends faced that allowed them to become closer. In fact it's hard to see whether or not this witch hunter named Yama is a judgmental person when his final quote seems to imply that he was a boisterous fighter instead. Perhaps character development finally set in.
"Dammit…I want to read more of that story…" Prism mumbled. "I'm really hooked."
"Oh? What was your favorite part?"
"You know I can't have a favorite part until I finish. I want to know what this alternate universe me was thinking for not assisting the king. He could have at least given a reason. And why Terror of all sorcerers? He's the most unstable one that could turn on him at any moment."
Chester frowned when Prism stated that. Even if he was the creator of the universe, the only sorcerer in the group that Prism did not trust with all of his heart was Terror. When Prism made his friends swear their absolute loyalty to him, he made sure that they weren't of the backstabbing nature. Terror while not a backstabber by default is mentally unstable because when he died in the human world, he met a cruel fate. The story describes Terror as killing humans and demons alike in a cruel manner that was why he was codenamed Terror. Terror's real name was Antimony though and once he became a sorcerer did the green haired sorcerer start slaughtering everyone in his path (including the witches/sorcerers in this very room themselves but given their regeneration ability inside the Golden Land realm it was only an inconvenience). This was why Terror's room was different from the others. It came off as a prison meant to "help" Terror. His death gave him post traumatic stress disorder resulting in a split personality being born once turned into a sorcerer. The only way to calm down the crazed spirit was to offer a sacrifice. The sacrifice was easy though because Prism or one of the other witches/sorcerers would destroy a planet full of aliens and capture many of them and then throw a couple of them in the room while the rest were turned into food. All witches/sorcerers had resurrection powers within the Golden Land so Terror could kill his prey, revive them and kill them in a different manner so to speak. It was a terrifying fact but that was why Terror had the only door with chains on it. No one would come out unless prepared to deal with the Blood Stained Sorcerer. It pained Prism though to treat Terror as more of a monster to sick his opponents then an actual being of the Golden Land but until Antimony could control that split personality that was how it was going to be.
"…Now I really need to put the book on hold." Prism said with a sigh. "I want to see how this other me would handle Terror…and I guess I'm interested in how Starlight would handle his mission to save the universe…but that means I'll have to ask Raven for the book. What was the book called?"
"Rise of the Rebellion." Chester answered. "Angel Executioner is the prologue."
"Yeah…and the prologue is enough to affect all the Netherworlds in the universe. Without the main trio, Adell's group would never have started their journey…and it doesn't seem like Artina will ever meet her vampire with the events like these."
"Perhaps she does in this story though…but not on good terms obviously."
"Ah…Romeo and Juliet…and I didn't think that werewolf was good with children either. I'll have to remember that if he shows up again."
"So who is next?" Chester asked. "It will be hard for you to get back into reading the other chapters if its not as action packed and thrilling as this story."
"I know, but Sicily's chapter is the only one that is supposed to give you hope in the book of despair. The next one seems juicy though." Prism looked around making sure no one else was around when he turned the page. "Let's…continue."
Me: TBC with 11868 words.
Li: It got longer…
Me: Yeah the whole summary at the end of the story was longer than what I thought. I'll tell you this now, just because there is a summary of what apparently happened that leads to the final battle, many things are not left to consider.
1. Character development (and it's obvious if Yama who is labeled as judgmental is a boisterous fighter when he does speak).
2. Character relationship bonding (if you haven't noticed Xenolith and Airi are close enough to be accused of being a couple. You cannot get that though from the summary.)
3. How exactly the battles turn out. The battle with Vyers and Terror is actually longer than what was given. We cannot forget all the battles that Sicily and the co would have to go through to be strong enough to storm the heavens. The final battle as a result is not shown.
4. There is more to what has occurred then how Sicily met her companions. So it lists how she recruits Yama, Airi, Lanzarote and Starlight and even adding about meeting Mao, Valvatorez, Fenrich and Hugo. If you think things didn't happen in between then or that recruiting everyone was halfway through the story then you're wrong because by the time that all eight of the members that's more like 1/3 of the story being done because every character would have their own arc to grow into a person. Yes I seem to imply that Emizel's arc is when his father dies but that's not enough for him to start developing into a better person. And yes Emizel's father dying is a spoiler within the book.
Another thing is what Prism points out at the end on how this bad ending affects the other Disgaea games. Obviously if Flonne kills Laharl and Etna, then Disgaea 2 cannot happen by proxy of "Without Etna she cannot demonstrate her power or show Adell's group that she defeated the fake Zenon". Probably the Disgaea 2 cast would actually stay out of the war and that's if Sicily's group kills Fake Zenon before he destroys the Snow Clan and takes Veldime human souls resulting in Adell's parents to go off to fight and lose. Adell and Rozalin would never meet as a result though. Also Axel is already shown to have a different scenario because Axel hasn't completely lost his reputation yet at this point so he tags along with Asagi and Lanzarote to get famous. All of them are riding off each other so none of them do well in show blitz and with the war it makes things more difficult. Lanza is smart to ride off Sicily but again unlike Disgaea D2 where she vanished from the plot after being recruited and only mentioned in a few DLC conversations she's never mentioned again.
Which reminds me, if Etna is dead then that means a certain memory-stealing vampire is still on the loose and if she's dead that means he turns his attention to her older brother.
As for Disgaea 3, this is the ONLY game where the Disgaea 1 cast does not have any influence on the main story whatsoever meaning that Mao's group has already gone through every event so they can handle an angel war very well with little consequences. Of course this would mean I have to remove Disgaea Infinite from this timeline because this might as well be the first time Mao and Laharl have met each other.
Finally Disgaea 4…if you haven't noticed Artina is on the side of the angels. Just her luck to die in the human world and only became an angel that is killing demons. And Artina knows she's going to end up fighting Valvatorez at some point. The events of Disgaea 4 are halted for many reasons. One is that Valvatorez, Fenrich and Artina basically have 200 years instead of 400+ that the game states meaning that Nemo does not have enough hate or the influence to control the Netherworld. The second is that Valvatorez hasn't lost that much power as a result but at the same time he has taken to his Prinny Instructor job while Fenrich is only starting to spread the rumor of Valvatorez being the Tyrant. With the war though, Fenrich shuts up almost immediately since he doesn't want angels to come in when Valvatorez is getting weaker by the day. Third is that Hugo gets killed meaning there is no one to blackmail (as the story summary lampshades). This human world is also not in a good condition meaning that Fuka and Desco aren't even around by proxy and we all know that Emizel joined up with Sicily's team. The events can't happen anyway if Flonne is the villain instead of the hero who saved the moon but again, Prism is the bigger problem as now he won't even let Nemo or the aliens get close to this section of the Netherworld when a war is going on and everything is in chaos.
There is something else to talk about…and that's about the other witches/sorcerers. Pop is the Marionette Witch for her powers to use dolls, puppets and other toy like items to battle. She even has the power to turn alive or dead beings into her own dolls and that is creepy. Did I mention she's a sassy black girl? She makes an obvious racist comment toward Prism just to piss him off and win Guess Who. They're best friends to the point that these types of insults don't bother each other (and Prism has called her the n word a few times). The joke though was that if the two were playing Mario Party, they would be ripping each other to pieces for stealing each other's star.
As for the Witch Hunters, they are the opposite of the witches (I think I stated that already) and ironically, there are more witch hunters/sorcerer slayers than actual witches/sorcerers. This is because most of the witches are actually handpicked by Prism and he's already paranoid with how Terror is due to PTSD. The witch hunters however are lead by the God of War Ares (similar to how Palutena is in charge of the angels and how the Goddess of Order has her own supernatural creatures to look after). Ares only handpicked five of the witch hunters: Virtue (the human), Chun-Kei (the demon), Morrigan (the demon), Julius (the angel) and Zelda (the elf). Alacryn (the angel) is Julius' cousin and would not have been around to be picked because she's half of Julius' age at the very least. As for Jingle (the alien), Virtue specifically chose her as his partner. Even then Ares does not pull the strings…it is Zelda by proxy who decides everything and she's a spiteful bitch obviously. The summary is only a small glimpse of how mean she is but I wrote her to be very efficient manipulator and racist toward demons more than any other race specifically werewolves and valkyries (to be fair though, valkyries are put into the demon category or fairy category). Because this is Disgaea the names Morrigan and Zelda are obvious reference to their franchise but don't let the names fool you because their appearance and personality and backstories are different.
Finally, I brought up at the very beginning that Queen's Blade was a huge motivation for me to write this. This also means that Queen's Blade is allowed to show up in this story but I won't put it in a crossover fic by proxy of "only a few chapters really talk about the heaven of the Queen's Blade universe". The set up is perfect if it takes place after Rebellion (the novel not the stupid anime) when the Swamp Witch is defeated and only Airi is the last demon left and Nanael is one of the few characters that once them all dead to make sure evil doesn't come back to The Continent. Nanael is in the right but in this story it takes a sinister tone when angels declared war on the demons and suddenly Nanael is the villain while Airi goes from anti-villain to anti-hero. Her goal is to revive the Swamp Witch but Airi and Nanael have a rivalry so Airi really wants to take out Nanael. Airi's sexuality is just so hard to figure out for me. She preys on human woman to eat making her seem like a lesbian but then she loves Rana and she's an obvious Shotacon (and the Vanquished Queen's OVA makes it clear that even years later after the tournament, she still pines for Rana…wait until that kid grows up I swear). But in a universe where the men are either weaklings, useless, assholes and/or killers/rapists it would be hard for Airi to actually find someone for her and again with Xenolith who is none of those and a demon would probably make Airi re-think her plans since Airi already said in the first OVA Airi already stated that she is no longer bound to the Swamp Witch but chooses to serve her anyway. Her royalty is just as strong as Fenrich's is to Valvatorez. And of course while I wanted to pick a human character to join with Sicily's group, there are way too problems with that. Leina is a Mary Sue so she's out. I don't want any of the Vance siblings, the Hinamoto girls (both Tomoe and Izumi) I would have chosen them if Tomoe didn't go through all that hell before and is blind while Izumi in the anime is an incompetent fighter. The elves are out because Zelda is enough and so are the dwarves.) Angels are out because they're all working for Flonne and then anyone in the Rebellion group is pretty much out because either I didn't like them or they were doing something else in canon. For example I already said Eir was the alternate universe of Mirim. The difference is that Eir is an obvious valkyrie in the Norse mythology while Mirim is called a valkyrie in her profile but is never once stated to be a valkyrie (but this does explain why Mirim is one of the stronger girls in the franchise). Plus Mirim and Eir's personality are so different. Mirim is a shy girl that apologizes when she uses her chainsaw sword in battle. Eir not only uses a spear in battle like the female warrior does in Disgaea but she is more prone to battle lust due to valkyries taking the men from the battlefield that they deem strong. Eir also intends to get revenge on the death of her family and while Mirim would too, Mirim would ask why something this terrible had to happen while Eir would show no mercy if she generally doesn't like you. Finally their age is important. Mirim is implied to be 15-17 despite looking like a loli character while Eir I specifically have her around 535 (5) in this particular timeline while in Disgaea 4 and the normal timeline she would be 735 (7) (add 200 more years to make it 400+ years of not seeing Fenrich). So…probably at the end of the day Eir is my character more than an alternate universe because the only thing Eir and Mirim have in common is their appearance.
That's it of long notes. Reviews are appreciated. If anyone wants to see Flonne/Sicily's chapter be turned into an actual fanfic, they can say it in their review. Judging from Prism's reaction there's going to be some dirty stuff in the next one but given how Vanquished Queen's is a huge cock tease where bad things are going to happen but never get to happen because the story ends when things are getting naughty, I will write in the same format.