This was the result of me RPing with a friend because of a Madoka x Oriko tag on pixiv and what might happen in a pseudo-quest co-op SI bad end (I.e if one of us just decides to give up the ghost). Also some dumb curiosity and まどおり/Madori.
I am wet. I slowly opened my eyes. finding myself in shallow pool of water that was everywhere. laying on a piece of wreckage as the wind blew. i looked just... dead. quite dead in my state. The aftermath of Walpurgisnacht was complete and utter devastation.
I don't know what happened to Kirika. let alone how i managed to survive that as i stare weakly at the sky.
My soul gem is on my chest. its glow tainted and blackened by fogs of despair inside the gem due to cracking. leading to damage that stopped me from having semi-infinite magic over time. it hurt. it stung. and it left a ringing in my ears. "Where's Madoka..." I weakly muttered.
"Oriko...!" Madoka was about to say as she ran up to where i was, However as she tried her best to run towards me, one hand on a slightly limp leg, Madoka found herself tripping to the ground.
"Madoka..." I can faintly hear shouts in the distance. maybe Homura, i am going crazy. i don't know as i felt my mortal panic settling in. knowing we had both just failed. again. even her soul gem too is blackened.
''Looks like the flowers are going to whither again, huh?'' She said, having trouble standing up. Though the pinkette did manage to finally get herself standing again, seconds after, the wobbling legs would give up after just two steps, making her fall down again, now lying right next to the white buckethead that was my figure.
"I.. I don't know.." My voice faintly crackles in pain. Most of Mitakihara was in ruins from what i guessed as flood and wind overpressure damage. and if the shelters weren't destroyed, then they most likely wouldn't be equipped to deal with the scale of destruction. Hell, even with my friend being a Magical girl already. it wasn't enough as i suffered critical damage to a component of my soul gem that was literally at the worst time.
Its weird. In any other world. i would have preferred that she be normal at least. but alas, it seems i can't even have my cake when intervening. Then again i suppose she wouldn't be the idealistic Madoka without that suicidal wish in most timelines.
The rain wets my hair and warms my skin. but i am in too much pain to really care. "Augh... We tried our best... didn't we...?"
I turned to my side before asking the great question. "Do you have... anything?" it was strained and scratchy. but i kept smiling. breakfasts. finding out about my past. introducing you to Kirika. and confronting the philosophical question of hiveminds.
''Maybe… at the very least… just one Grief Seed.'' I said, using what little strength she had left to go through her pockets, seeing what she had remaining. But I was waiting. waiting for that inevitable favor. waiting for the last resort of trying again with another time world line. I closed my eyes as tears fell. The blood... the blood staining Kirika's body...
''I… guess I don't have any…'' She said, adding ''I… I'm sorry. So… so very sorry.'' Madoka would proceed to use her last ounce of strength to wrap these arms around me into a hug, a tear falling down her face as well. Mortal fear was gripping at my heart.
"Auh...!" My eyes snapped open in surprise. looking to the pink haired girl besides me. No tricks. no grief seeds. Not even anything like a ribbon, just her face as I moved my other hand to hold her's.
"Okay."
''Do you… think that… that if Homura were here… things may have been… different…? For us…?'' She asked, adding ''If… If I could manipulate time… like her… I… I would…'' I considered my response. there was no need to hold back. was i?
"I... don't.. I..." My voice trembled with fear as i can't say anything. I was ready to die, I didn't want to make her repeat this cursed month after so many hellish attempts to try again and again and again. If i died. it was together in happiness with her. I pulled my love interest close to myself and I smiled just one of these rare smiles reserve for her. "Please... I don't... I don't want to die..."
''Me… neither…'' I said, adding ''But… this is… is it for us… no… other way out but… let go of our… bodies… to… join one… last… embrace…'' She said, keeping up the hug as more tears came from the girl.
"Y..you think I would have tried to k-kill you when... I had a vision of you destroying the world..." That was funny. given how in many timelines i had tried to kill you only to get killed myself or fail. and when we ended up here. I just tried to change the outcome of this nightmare that was the anime. other times just trying to live a normal-ish life despite all my petty actions toward you like screaming at you once for not knowing how to make dumplings before deciding that perhaps I just needed mustard beef.
Crack.
"I-If only that japanese bastard wasn't..." I was trying to refer to a certain someone in particular. but I noticed things just got more mute and deaf... Like I can't hear anything.
"That man-" I began. then stopped as the words died in my mind.
Snap.
"I-" I stopped again. I can't think of anything...
''It… it's all… going… to be… over…'' I heard Madoka, sounding quite sad as more tears flowed and the hug kept going. ''I… hope… that our n… next l… life… will… be… ha.. p…'', sounding like she was going to die seconds from now. I felt her struggling more and more to hear anything, her vision blurring and going black as I felt her going limp with me.
And I heard something like shattering glass. I heard Homura shouting in the distance, but at the moment. my eyes darkened. I couldn't hear anything, I couldn't even hear the rain and the water. I couldn't see anything for that matter...
(False) Fin
Scenario 1-My Life as Oriko Mikuni in the Sequence