Advance of the Fool

by ButterflyMiko

On his way to the Order, Allen Walker comes across a young priestess who reminds him painfully of himself. He cajoles the young woman to join him in his journey, but can she keep walking when her body will not hold her upright?

2. Empathy

"Please!" Kuri flew out of his reach. "Let me stay with her! I feel her in my heart! Please Allen! Don't destroy my mother!"

A look of understanding crossed the young exorcist's face, then it was replaced with shock. "You feel her? You are empathetic?"

Kuri flew down and put a hand on his cheek, indicating his eye. "Allen you see. I feel. I am a priestess after all. Even before these—" she pointed out the wounds on her arms and legs, looking to be caused by innocence "—appeared, I had empathy, and could see into the future and past, and create barriers, and purify. It is possible that akuma have been brought here by patrons and I have been purifying them all this time." She looked at her hands. "When I do it, they return to the form they once had. They apologize to their loved ones for their selfishness, and they say farewell. Then they vanish…"