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Falling, falling, falling. It felt like water to him, fluid and drifting, no real direction. Kekaki's eyes slightly open as he continues to drift, not moving in his own, simply letting himself move by his body own wishes
He stops falling as his foot touch something solid to which he now stands on. Slowly, with his eyes still half closed, looks around where he is. A pinging sound soon rings out with Kekaki's eyes opening fully and widening in surprise
"What?"
The darkness underneath him shatters to reveal a hexagonal shape colored a light purple hue, to soon all the darkness around breaks to reveal the same. Far off there a sort perpetual sunset rounding this space. He looks above him and is surprised once more
"Skeith?"
Above him high in the sky of this space was Skeith, a scythe in hand, was staring down an entity surrounded in blue flames. "Damnit answer me!" A voice yells out from Skeith, not his but another's. The blue figure says nothing as it charges at Skeith, three blades on it's left arm about to strike him before it's blocked by the scythe
"What is that thing?"
"Damnit! Answer me! Tri-Edge!" Skeith roars as the figure, Tri-Edge, and himself soon blitz around the space at insane speeds. As they sped around they struck each other, shockwaves shot out at each hit. As this continued Kekaki was being pushed back by these strikes as he tries to stand his ground
Both of them soon enter a lock of blades, both staring each other down intensely "RETURN ALL OF THE LOST ONES!" Skeith yells out in extreme anger as both fly up to the highest point and then crash down to the bottom at insane speeds
Once both touch the bottom, all shatters around. The ground under Kekaki shatters and he falls. Tumbling down in the darkness he lands on ground once more, face first
Kekaki stands up, rubbing his face, and sees two people standing in front of him. He looks around sees that they're in a ruin of sorts, the moon beaming down it's silvery glow upon them. One of them was wearing spiked red and black armor, his silver hair flowed in the wind, face with red markings was twisted in a look of anger, horror and disgust
The other wore a cloak of sorts that reached half of his back, steam punkish clothes dyed a soft blue clothed him. Eyes hidden by orange glasses looks indifferently at the one in red. On his right shoulder a twisted and thin appendage that ended in a curved edge protruded forth
"Why!?" The one in red yells, to which Kekaki notes as the same that came from Skeith earlier, to the one in blue "Why Ovan!? Why did you do this!? Do you know how many you've harmed doing this!?"
"Yes, I very much do Haseo" The blue figure, known as Ovan, says to the red one, said to be Haseo "I have done all this so you can get stronger! So you can defeat me, and purge me of this disease!" He says. As this going one Kekaki looks over to Haseo, a bit of awe in his eyes
"So that's how Haseo was before Xth form"
Tears slowly fell from Haseo as he grit his teeth "And all those people who became Lost Ones, how do they come into all this!? They're in comas for who knows how long, and you caused it!"
Ovan shakes head "A necessary evil, but half of those were caused by A.I.D.A, not me" he lowers his head a bit
"A.I.D.A my ass! You still made half of those players into Lost Ones!" Haseo continues yelling in anger, tears falling while doing so
A small grin forms on Ovan's face "Yes Haseo, get angry! Give into anger so you can defeat me! Give me all your rage and hatred!" Ovan encourages
With a face of pure anger, and tears running, Haseo looks at Ovan with determine eyes "If that's what you want, then you got it!" He yells as a grand blade is summoned in his hands while charges forth, the small blades on it spinning rapidly as if it were a chainsaw
With a jump Haseo his to strike Ovan, to which he responds with two blades and his claw like extra. All four clash and a large shockwave results. All shatters and returns to darkness, Kekaki falling once more
He lands once more, this time on his feet. He looks about and sees a distorted space similar to the first he was in, only he was standing on a mass, of something. He turns and sees Haseo once more, now clothed in white and holding two guns aimed at a large skull like monster
"Oh holy hell what is that thing!? And I see he's in Xth form now"
"This, this is the moment where you fall!" Haseo calls out "Your terror and fear you're causing ends here, right now!" A glow of red surrounds him briefly "Even through all you've done, you know nothing of your actions. Yet you still seek chaos!" 7 ghostly figures appear and stand next to him, all in different but sole color. "And for that, you deserve Judgment" all say, as Haseo pulls the triggers of the guns
At that, all shatters once more. Though darkness does not greet Kekaki, simply a void of white
"Well that was one hell of a quick one compared to the other two"
The void soon gains color and shape as it materializes into a throne room of sorts, but not banners adorned the wall neither was it as large as a normal throne room. A woman wearing Magenta was sitting on a small throne eyeing another woman wearing red who was kneeling before her. Besides the woman in magenta stood a man in a cloak with clicks lining the center, his eyes trained on the woman in red, his silver hair resting on his back
"Aroul, stand. You need not act so formal with me! Live a little!" The one in magenta says encouragingly to the one in red, now known as Aroul
Aroul stands up and looks at the woman in magenta with sharp green eyes reminiscent of a cat. On her head were cat ears that twitched slightly. "If you want me live a little would it be fine for me to refer you as Titiana?" She asks The woman in magenta, Titiana, beamed a wide and happy "Well of course! It is perfectly fine with me!" She looks at the man besides herself "What of you Flugel? Would it be fine if she referred to you with your actual name instead of "Examiner"?"
Flugel looks at Titiana, then at Aroul. He closes his eyes for a moment "If that would speed this discussion, then yes"
Titiana claps her hand her hands together "Well you heard that folks! He's fine with that! Silence reigns for a few minutes after that
Aroul coughs a bit, that grabs Titiana's attention as she looks into Aroul "You have an assignment for me correct? That's why I'm here yes?"
Titiana snaps her fingers in realization "That's right! Flugel?" She looks back at him, to which he was holding a small box with. She takes it with a nod, she stands up from her seat and walks to where Aroul is
"Is that for my assignment?" She asks contemplating on the box
Titiana nods happily as she opens the box, a black gauntlet lay. A large dome of glass was in the center of it. "This will be crucial for your assignment, you'll be planting A.I that we collected from the last Sideline we destroyed"
Aroul nods in understanding "So ya want me to plant an A.I into a computer? Psssshh, easy" she says in slight bravado
Titiana shakes her head "No no, you won't be doing it that way. You'll have to enter a program physically to even plant this, and that program we want you to enter is from the Mainline of the that sideline"
Aroul steps back in shock "You want me to enter a game physically!? And in Mainline?!" "Very much so, do you still accept?" She asks in a bit of a soft tone
A cocky grin on her face showed her slightly pointed teeth "Oh hell yes I'm doing this! Time to cause some havoc!" She takes the gauntlet out of the box and places it on her right hand, to which it fits perfectly "Like a glove"
Titiana smiles gleefully as this occurs, she takes out seven discs "You'll need these, it took some time to make them docile" she sighs "But even so, one of them is still acting up so please be careful around this one"
Aroul nods with a grin "Got it!" She takes the seven discs. Behind her a tear forms, she turns around and walks through it
"Wow, what was even all of that?"
"Kekaki" Kekaki turns to see Skeith towering over him "How are you seeing my memories?"
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Hirigaya Residence, Kyoto, Japan
The moon shines softly into Kekaki room. Kekaki lays asleep in his bed. Peace was present, until he awakes abruptly and noisy "Ah! My god! HowthefuckdidIevenseethat?! And why!?" He puts a hand to heart as he tries to calm down "Skeith? Do you know what happened?" He asks aloud
No answer comes forth. He sighs and turns over to see the clock, it read "2:53 AM". Turns over again and sighs "God damn, my life is going for a tailspin ain't it?" He chuckles as he closes "But damn it's much than a boring one huh? Minutes after he falls asleep once more