Author's Comments: Not a very lengthy chapter, is it? Hmm.
Writing your ideas down like this is harder than I thought. But, here it is! I hope you all enjoy it!
[Location: Shinki's Scaffold]
...I want to find out.
The reason why my choice was the wrong one.
I admit I was scared and I still am. There is no way I couldn't be. But everyone else but me in Gensokyo can see the reasons as to why my choice was pathetic.
Perhaps I cannot see the hows and whys because I've never lived someone specific before?
Always running away, almost on my own, usually fighting others and eventually killing people.
I should probably consider myself lucky that I ended up the way I am, but that's beside the point. My point is that I ended up not growing more attached to anything.
This scaffold is no different. It's just a scaffold, built in a convenient place...
...But I still wanted to upgrade it, didn't I?
I'm confused. I grew attached to Gensokyo...
Maybe it was because this was the first place, with the first few people that treated me like one of them instead of food or an intruder?
...This is probably the first time I ever felt motivated about the fact I don't understand what others can see.
I want to know. But it'll never happen if I sit here on my ass and twiddle my thumbs.
Shinki "...Marvel at my awesome knowledge."
...Now that I think about it... I haven't seen much of Gensokyo yet, have I?
At least... It doesn't feel like I did. I haven't even explored the whole Forest of Magic yet.
You know what? I'll do that.
Who knows, I might even get less stupid while doing that.
But I find that extremely unlikely.
[Location: Forest of Magic]
…
I'm onto you, trees.
I'll never stop thinking this place is kinda scared of me. Well, considering I almost Zero'd it, this is to be expected.
Talking about Zero, I'm surprised at myself at how well I pulled it off back in Havoc's tower.
I keep forgetting my Magic pool got much bigger ever since I fell onto Gensokyo. I wonder for how long I can keep it up until I lay down powerless.
...Why did my Magic pool get bigger anyway? Just because I ended up here? This is not possible.
The magic in a certain place does not link directly onto mine. My magic is my own, the same thing goes for everyone else. So whatever happened to my magic, something must have happened to me.
Did the closing of the Dragon Palace somehow expand my magic pool...? The overload sis caused... Could it be that's what happened?
Or maybe...
I ate her.
I ate her.
The power. It surged through me. It surged, it surged! It was amazing...
...Gh!
Shut up! Why do I keep thinking this shit?
…Bah.
Hm? What's that... At the distance?
Rustle
A mansion? At the forest? Really?
Well, this isn't exactly on the forest... What kind of place is this?
[Location: Forest Mansion]
It's way smaller than the Scarlet Devil Mansion even looking from the outside. This is more like... A big house. With fancy pillars and woodwork.
It looks as subtle as a mansion can be. It looks like there are people living around here, but...
Why does it look so empty?
The late afternoon sky's light doesn't help this place's looks either. It looks empty, I can't even feel signals of life in this place.
...As I circle around the mansion, it definitely doesn't look any less empty.
And why is it right in such a clearing? Maybe someone important lived here before...?
Rustle
...Even the yard. It looks tidy and neat.
Someone definitely lives here. There's no way this place can be this neat and empty. It's impossible.
…?
What's that? Is that a tombstone, way farther back?
Rustle
...It IS a tombstone.
Really? Did someone bury their dead on their backyard?
There's a message engraved on the tombstone...
Here lies Layla Prismriver
Our Dear Friend
Our Dear Sister
Our Dear Mother
May your passing never be forgotten by those who stayed behind.
Prismriver.
This is a beautiful name. Were the ones who rose this grave Prismrivers too?
So did they live in this mansion? ...Or do they still live here?
…
It looks ever as empty as it did before.
Is anyone at home at all? I'll see if there is... By the front door, as of custom.
…
I walk all the way back to the front door... Which is open.
Open? ...OK, that's different.
I look everywhere, but it's still lonely as hell. The wind blowing doesn't answer anything, since the door opens to the outside.
So someone or something opened the door on purpose.
...Is something telling me to go in?
…
Fair enough. I'll do it.
And I step inside the house without looking back.
[Location: Mansion's Hall]
...Gloomy.
That's the first thing that strikes me as I gaze upon the hall. It's lifeless. Maybe it's just me, but I think that a hall with oddly clean furniture and carpets... AND curtains strike more as a phantom house than anything else in a place that looks this gray.
I can hear the wind blowing in here as if a few windows are open. It clatters the woodwork gently as I walk in, analyzing the whole area with more interest than I probably should.
Thud
And the door softly closes behind me.
Well, the possibilities are just endless, but I believe I'm in a haunted house.
I haven't been in a place like this for a long time. Last time, the one possessing the house was a rich bastard that would set other people's houses ablaze just for fun.
I don't get any hostility from this mansion, though. It feels like this place is just welcoming me in. It's a strange feeling to receive from a place that... I think it's haunted.
…
I'm totally missing the point here, ain't I?
Let's just walk around and see what happens.
If I can't get out of here through the front door after my little invasion through someone else's bedroom, I'll just punch a hole through it and call it a day. A really unaccomplished day.
[Interlude – Location: Hakurei Shrine]
Aya "Clear!"
BOOOOOM
The heavy, unsubtle landing by the wind god girl did not went unnoticed by anyone nearby.
Leaves flew up in the air, trees shook and the shrine maiden's broom flew across the air and made contact with the reporter's face as if it had been attracted like a magnet.
TAFF
Aya "BFF!"
Reimu "Don't mess up my garden like this again! Do you know how hard it is to tidy all of this up?"
Aya "My face... Ahem! Pure and honest Shameimaru Aya, on the scene! Good evening, my faithful ever-so-costumer! How would you like a copy of tomorrow's newspaper edition?"
Reimu "...Tomorrow's?"
Aya "I am that fast, baby."
The shrine maiden sighed upon seeing the extremely movie-like cocky pose by the Tengu as she picked up the broom from the floor and resumed sweeping the leaves.
The reporter blinked in astonishment.
Aya "That was uncalled for. ...Did something happen?"
Reimu "Yes. You scattered the leaves all over the place."
Aya "Hey, that's not what I..."
Suika "Reimu~! Oi~!"
The Tengu's question died in the claim of the Oni as she came from the forest accompanied by Alice. Both of them had tired expressions on their faces to match with that of the shrine maiden.
Alice "Oh. I thought I heard someone landing graciously."
Suika "More like almost killing people again. Getting' even lower grades on landing, Aya?"
Aya "I do think that the Oni lived way too long underground to fully appreciate the beauty of flight."
They dismissed each other with lack of interest as the puppeteer rose her hand, catching the attention of the two girls in front.
Alice "Reimu, we found this. I think you know well enough what this is."
She held a flute.
The nicely adorned flute was placed on the maiden's hand as she looked it with tired eyes. She let go an unbelievable sigh before lowering her shoulders with an unusually extreme lack of energy.
Reimu "He must have dropped it."
The musical instrument caught the attention of the reporter as she came closer and gazed at it in complete awe.
Aya "Isn't that... Shinki's flute? You said he dropped it?"
Suika "Well, considerin' Reimu beat him upside the head, it's no wonder he would have dropped it. I mean, he did try to leave, so I think he was too busy thinking about other stuff."
Aya "He tried to do what? The solver of the Black Tower Incident tried to leave? What happened here?"
The priestess lowered her head without any enthusiasm as she dismissed the question with a sour look.
Reimu "...Suika... Would you please? I don't feel like it."
Suika "Ouh. Fair enough, I'spose..."
...And as they sat by the shrine, she explained.
What happened after the tower broke. How did the Twisted attempt escape. Why did he attempt it, and the following events that took place.
The explanation went by smoothly as Aya simply listened. She didn't write anything, she didn't diss anything. All she did was listen, and as the little Oni finished narrating the events that passed...
She looked to the sky and scratched the back of her head uncomfortably.
Aya "Well, that explains a few things. Now I'm thinking if the name 'Twisted' is actually either ironic, or just really clever."
Alice "Perhaps both."
A moment of near silence took place as the only sounds in the air were the sweeping on the floor by Reimu, and Suika's enormous gulps on her gourd. The reporter's eyes landed on the flute as her thoughts strayed back to the day she saw him climbing Youkai Mountain.
The day she saw him play the instrument from up close.
Aya "...I don't like this."
Suika "Eh?"
Aya "He wants to leave, so why not let him? It's his choice, isn't it?"
Alice "...Did you miss the point, Aya-san? He was not choosing. He was just doing it. If next he appears and he still desire to leave, then we won't stop him."
Aya "But you all are still annoyed by it."
A slight moment of attention was paid to the Tengu as she jumped back on her feet and took the flute from the puppeteer's hands.
Alice "Aya-san?"
She did not say anything else. Aya's wings sprouted from her back as she blasted her way back onto the sky, and away from their sights in her usual burst speed.
Alice "...What is she planning...? I can never tell what's going on with her."
Suika "Grahahahah! She's probably jus' trying to do things her way. Leave her."
And as she flew towards the forest of magic, the reporter's wings flapped to the wind of the late afternoon, her hand clutching the flute on her hand with confusion.
Aya "Huh. These people are really a bother when they want to be."
[Interlude - Over]
[Location: Mansion's Hallway]
...This place is really tidy.
Considering how lonely it looks like, I am guessing that either I am blind... Or someone... Or something keeps this place neat the way it is.
It looks good, but at the same time it looks empty. It's almost as if this mansion's occupants left yesterday without taking anything with them.
Wind Blows
BAM
And that door up front opened by itself from the wind.
...Creepy.
I've seen this somewhere before, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
No way to grasp it, which just fades...
Mania and Maniac-Depressive come and go away
…! What was that?
It was a girl's voice. Did it just whisper to the wind? Or did it whisper to me?
In any case, I couldn't make much sense out of it...
I'm definitely under someone's watch. At least now I'm sure of that.
Shinki "...Is this place trying to tell me something?
I suddenly feel like there's something not quite right.
Even considering a haunted house, there are a few things that are as far as they go. A house like this that tries to tell someone something, it'll do it.
Sniff
This house smells like spirits.
What's up with all of this place, anyway?
Wind Blows
...More doors and now, windows. All of them open by the wind.
Where did that come from...?
…
From down that hallway to my left?
Let's see what's down hallway number 6 then.
I cover myself in anti-magic armor just to be safe.
[Location: Mansion's Living Quarters]
Creak
Creak
Creeeeaaaaak
This place isn't being subtle anymore.
The more I progress, the more this place reminds me of that basement filled with dead plague rats and a dude on fire.
Then again, it was I who set him on fire.
CREAK
Female Voice "Eeek!"
Another Female Voice "L-Lyrica! Get your hands off from my sister, you...!"
[SHRIIIIEEEEK!]
Really?
Now this place's weirdness is explained in more ways than one.
I slowly creep my head around the corners of the places I'm going into... And the fourth bedroom I finally see what's going on.
There's an Apparition here. A white, ghostly form embedded in silver and facial features that make a zombie look pretty, the Apparition is going absolutely nuts. They are not known for being powerful, but they are annoying little buggers.
They can possess your house in the ass and that's when things get out of hand. They are not strong per se, but the exorcism method to kill them for good requires preparation.
Or maybe all you need is someone that can eat magic like it's food.
Oh, the irony!
The Apparition is being held against the wall by three girls. Actually, only two because the third seems to have gotten a tad bit too close.
They are doing something to it. Maybe it's Gensokyo's danmaku-fest again? But I don't see no bullets, so they must be doing something else to it.
Black Clothed Girl "L-Lyrica! Come back here! Lyrica!"
Lyrica "I... I'm trying! Let go of me, You... Unsuccessful baby powder mascot!"
Well, they won't be getting anywhere like this.
I use my fang to cut the palm of my hand and I spill a bit of my blood on it.
...Hm.
OK, now... I power up my legs, jump to the wall across the entrance of the room and I kick it, sending myself in towards the room!
BAM
And I shove my hand on the Apparition's chest!
VOOSH
[IIIIEEEAAAAA!]
Girls "...Ah!"
...The silence that took place is mortifying.
As I press my hand onto the Apparition's insides, he let go of the girl I'm assuming is Lyrica.
Well then. Time to talk in a gruff, manly and menacing voice.
Shinki "Well, now. You decide. Either you go say hello to Komachi and be at peace, or I can twiddle with your guts and make you feel the pain of death over and over again."
[GGH... Y-You...!]
Shinki "I'm not here to talk to you. I'm not going to reason with you. Either you go away, or you die over and over again. Do you understand me?"
[GHHHHH]
Shinki "If that's not enough of a threat, I can just eat you. You'll never feel the peace of death then. The Sanzu river is right over there. Go away."
...Huh. How nice of me.
I'm actually giving the Apparition a chance to go away.
[…]
Voosh
…!
And... So it did.
That was... Easy. And simple. And effective.
Shinki "...Fuuuh. Well, that takes care of that."
...The mansion doesn't feel so gloomy anymore.
The Apparition's presence has died completely.
Black-Clothed Girl "...Ah."
Oh, balls!
I completely forgot! I invaded their mansion, didn't I?
...Uuuh. Well, I could tell a lie, but... I have no real excuse to give.
Might as well just say the truth.
Shinki "...The... The door kinda opened on its own, see? So... So I came in, and..."
They... They are making about-to-cry faces.
What the hell?
Girls "Waaaah! Thank you! Thank you so muuuch~!"
…?
I don't get it.
Now I kinda do.
Well, so it would appear they were in genuine trouble.
The Apparition suddenly appeared yesterday and they were chasing it off all this time. When they finally cornered it, I showed up and expelled it.
They were also the ones who opened the entrance back there. They said they felt someone's presence around the mansion and opened it in hopes that I'd come in and do exactly what I did.
Lyrica "Isn't it coincidentally amazing~?"
That's one way to put it.
I think people in Gensokyo just trust each other like that. It boggles my mind.
Now then, these girls.
So they are all sisters. The short-haired blonde in the nice-looking black dress with white long sleeves is called Lunasa. She's the elder sister.
The one with the purple dress and bluish hair is Merlin. Not the wizard. She's the middle sister.
The youngest wears a red dress with white long sleeves that match her elder. Her hair is tree bark brown. Lyrica is her name.
And together, they are...
Girls "The Prismriver Sisters!"
...Go figure!
I thought you guys were the Schwarzenegger siblings or something.
Not.
Shinki "Yeah, I get it. After introducing yourselves as 'Lunasa, Merlin and Lyrica Prismriver' I wouldn't guess anything else you could possibly be."
Merlin "It's just part of the introduction setting! It's what we do."
Lunasa "We thank you for saving Lyrica from that thing, Mr. Katsura Shinki."
...And you know my name.
Shinki "How do you know my name?"
Merlin "Eh? It's in the newspaper. Didn't you know that?"
...Oh yeah.
I cover my face with my palm as I remember that Aya published me without my consent.
Sigh.
Lunasa "...? What's the matter?"
Shinki "Ah, it's nothing. I think that no one can really stop that crazy reporter when she gets her mind on something..."
Lyrica "I see what you mean, sis. He looks down, doesn't he?"
Merlin "Did you eat something bad?"
What?
What are they talking about...?
Shinki "I'm fine. I didn't eat something bad, really. I'm fine."
Merlin "That's... Not what we meant."
Lunasa "...We are poltergeists after all. We can feel you have something pounding in your head. It's as if you're taking punishment for something you didn't want to."
Poltergeists?
You mean, ghostly figures taken form by the act of summoning?
Shinki "...Huh."
That's impressive. Summoning Poltergeists is one hell of a strenuous job. You'd usually kill yourself bringing just one to life, but three? That's nearly physically impossible...
...Unless the summoner had a great deal of emotion towards the images of these three...
Lyrica "...Hey, sis! I have an idea!"
Merlin "Hehehehe! Did we just think the same thing?"
Lunasa "I believe we did."
You thought what?
Rumble
...The ground rocks gently as they stand up and... Float towards me, grabbing me my the arms.
Girls "Come with us!"
Shinki "Hey, what's up? Where are you taking me?"
Can you even bother to answer?
Why do I get the feeling I'm just being dragged along this time...?
[Location: Poltergeist Mansion's Rooftop]
As I follow them all the way up here, I can see that night is almost coming.
The twilight sky paints the whole view orange. The lights and shading from the trees and the grass below makes everything look like a painting.
Lyrica "Waah~ It looks as pretty as ever!"
Lunasa "We couldn't see it yesterday, could we?"
I get the feeling this place is unnatural.
Why? ...It makes me feel peaceful, as if I just reached the destination I walked so far for.
Shinki "What kind of place is this...?"
Lunasa "...This is a spot that lost souls usually gather to when they can't go to the Sanzu river."
A ghost-gathering spot? Really?
There are places like this in the outside world. They are called cemeteries.
I'll keep my lovely trap shut, though.
Lunasa "You seem to know about a lot of things, but you are lost yourself, aren't you?"
Merlin "At least that's the reason half the people that come here, end up here. And we can feel this."
Lyrica "I wonder how lost you are, lost-kun. Are you lost? Or are you not?"
You are being vague and unintelligible.
Shinki "I'm not lost."
Girls "Liiies!"
W-What?
Phantom like a shade turns up your heart
No way to grasp it, which just fades
Mania and Maniac-Depressive come
and go away
Your loneliness is the reason
we could be born just on front of you
So, if you have no love, you can't see us
Quicksilver sing
...Lyrica spontaneously started to sing on her own.
I kinda recognize what she just sang. Isn't that what resonated through the building just sooner?
At least part of it?
Merlin "You still don't get it?"
Lunasa "...It means you cannot show up here like you did if you're not lost and looking for answers."
…!
It... Kinda makes sense. I mean, I did leave my scaffold looking for answers...
You mean... That was what triggered me to come here? Are you shitting me?
That doesn't really convince me, but...
Why do I feel like this makes sense?
Lunasa "Do you know what people do to release tension, Katsura-san?"
Shinki "...I hesitate to wonder."
Merlin "We play music! Sing, dance! Come on!"
I wonder why I expected such an answer.
And they pull from... Wait, where did those instruments come from?
Prismriver three sisters, present
Just to bend the sad reality
You may know matters, you may not say
We can only play fragile songs
And they burst into song before I can say anything.
As they play, I close my eyes and try to make sense of the harmony that spreads around me.
You may know ...Dream
Stepping in the clouds
just with the thunder chords
You may know ...Dream
Dancing all the time
over the rainbow sounds
You may know ...Dream
Swinging with the fog
far away from your sane
You may know ...Dream
Shaking down your pain
all by the rainbow songs
This is...
Melodically confusing, but...
It's so good to listen to.
Their musical instruments play without being touched as they flutter through the air and spread the harmony around the mansion.
It feels as if the wind has become part of the music...
Lunasa "Here, sing it with us!"
What? Sing?
Shinki "Y-You're asking me to sing? Are you serious?"
Merlin "Just do it! Come on!"
…
Phantom like a shade turns up your heart
No way to grasp it, which just fades
Mania and Maniac-Depressive come
and go away
Your loneliness is the reason
we could be born just on front of you
So, if you have no love, you can't see us
Quicksilver sing
Prismriver three sisters, present
Just to bend the sad reality
You may know matters, you may not say
We can only play fragile songs
...And as our voices join together in a harmonic chorus...
My mind gets rid of all its thoughts as I simply lose myself in the fun of the moment.
I can't help but feel my spirits inflate like a balloon.
And we sing together until the night falls upon the mansion entirely.
Lyrica "Hahahahah! Not bad! Really, not bad at all!"
Merlin "You're better at this than you look like! I'm genuinely impressed!"
Lunasa "And that's saying a lot, isn't it Merlin?"
Oh man. I'm actually feeling kinda tired after singing and playing like that.
Shinki "My favorite instrument is my flute, though... Hahah! I don't think I had such random fun in ages..."
I tiredly sit down by the edge of the rooftop as I stretch my arms up to the night sky.
It's amazing how much they enjoy singing and dancing. Merlin and Lyrica are still playing whatever they want, but it's still making harmony... Somehow.
I guess it runs in the family.
Thump
Lunasa sits by my side, contemplating the view of the Forest of Magic.
Lunasa "How do you feel now?"
And what kind of a question is that?
All I do is let go a small laugh with my nose, and she opens a grin in response.
Lunasa "What do you think of Gensokyo, Katsura-san? Did you get used to living in here yet?"
…
I heard this question before...
Shinki "...I don't know what to think of this world anymore."
...I don't...
Shinki "I wonder why I even stayed here in the first place. I could have left, but I didn't. I..."
Lunasa "...?"
Shinki "Sigh. I thought I had found the place I so desperately looked for. I found comfort in Gensokyo, the kind of comfort I never had anywhere else. So I decided it would be good to stay here... But if I stay here I risk dooming this place. But yet everyone says I shouldn't leave. ...I don't get it!"
She doesn't answer me. All she does is look at me with serious eyes, in silence.
Shinki "If I stay, I risk this world's life. But if I leave, I'll feel as if I'm breaking down again. I don't know what to do anymore. I should never have felt attachment to this world in the first place..."
...My voice doesn't come out anymore.
I'm confused again.
A few doses of silence dominated the air, being broken by the girl sat next to me after a few seconds.
Lunasa "...You know... Our sister once told us the same thing."
…?
Lunasa "...She stayed behind when she could have left, but she didn't. She felt attachment to her house, so she didn't leave it. Instead... She lived here all her life. She could have left with her original family... She could have been happy with them. But instead... She stayed here."
Shinki "...She didn't regret it?"
Lyrica "We asked her that same question once. ...She was growing old and... We weren't."
Merlin "But do you know what she answered us with?"
...I turn my head around to look at the three sisters, who are smiling fondly at the sky as if they have remembered something really good.
Lyrica "All she said was 'I love this place. How could I ever leave it...?'."
…!
Merlin "We didn't understand the meaning of what she said until she died. The place that she lived all her life... She could never leave it. A place that comforted her... That held so many memories and that she loved. It was her home."
Lunasa "She couldn't bring herself to abandon her home. She felt as if she would abandon herself if she did that. Isn't that what you are feeling right now, Katsura-san?"
...I...
Female Voice "So why don't you stop thinking about it too hard and just live the way you think you should?"
WHOA!
It's Aya! Where did you come from?
Shinki "A-Aya! Since when were you here?"
Aya "Ever since you started singing 'Cha-la Head Cha-la'. I was hidden all this time."
And I didn't notice...
I need to upgrade my stealthiness. I really do.
Aya "Catch this. It's yours, isn't it?"
…!
It's my flute! Don't throw it like this!
Merlin "Aya-san, good evening by the way! That flute is beautiful, is that yours?"
Aya "His. I'm just doing a favor here, don't mind me."
...This is the second time you've brought my flute to me.
The irony in this statement in outstanding. I think she's been told all that has happened already...
Aya "You said it yourself to me once, didn't you, Shinki? ...This world is also your home, now."
...I see.
So that's why I've been confused all this time.
I never had a real home. ...I don't want to lose it.
My presence here is threatening this world. But... I don't want to lose it...!
Shinki "...I don't want to leave."
Aya "There lies your answer. It's as simple as that."
Sniff
God damn it! I'm almost crying over this again...!
Shinki "GGRRRAAAAAHHH! DO YOU HEAR ME, WIND? I'M NOT GONNA LEAVE! I DON'T WANT TO!"
Brr! Damn! That felt really stupid!
Merlin "That's the spirit, Shinki-san! That's the spirit!"
Lyrica "Hahahaha! We did something good, we did something good!"
Lunasa "Hm. Of course we did."
And you three join hands and start spinning around in pure delight.
Tsc. It took three strangers to make me see how dumb I was being.
Oh, and Aya.
But she doesn't count. At least not as a stranger.
Aya "Hahahah! And there you have it."
Shinki "And now I owe you another one. Ugh. ...I need to apologize to everyone..."
Aya "Do as you please~ Do you want pure and honest Shameimaru Aya to put this in the newspaper? I can do that."
What? Pure and honest, do you think I'm stupid?
Shinki "Don't you even attempt that! I'd rather eat my own feet!"
Aya "...You don't have to say it like that."
Whatever.
Something tells me you wouldn't do it anyway.
But I like to be sure.
[Location: Shinki's Scaffold]
…
I'm back.
After saying my goodbyes to the Prismriver sisters and to 'pure and honest' Aya, I walked back home while playing the flute.
The melody I just played came out in a way I swear I wasn't expecting. It came out happily and energetically, almost as if I have been contaminated by the spirit of those three.
I guess I'm just glad I'm back to the way I always was.
...Seriously, what the hell was wrong with me?
It all just feels and looks so simple.
Granted, it doesn't change the fact Gensokyo might still be in danger.
...But if it ever happens...
I'll give my life for this world.
Because I fucking love it.
That's as simple as it can be in the end. I'll protect my home.
'My'? Preposterous asshole. 'Our'. Everyone's.
That sounds even better! Hehehehe.
Shinki "Well now. ...I'll definitely have to upgrade this place! I can't live in a scaffold that looks like a badly-risen hut forever!"
...And you know what? I won't.
I have all night, I have scrawny biceps that can be buffed, I have the moon backing me up. Let's do it!
Well then! What am I waiting for?
TREE PUNCHING!
BRRAACCK
...And I spend the whole night bashing down trees and building this place properly.
I'm feeling energetic as hell.
And I'm pretty sure that if I ever regret this feeling, it'll be the day I'll swallow my own hand and choke to death on it.