Lumine's POV (before Hachiman found her)

"AETHER!" I try to reach his hand to stop his fall, yet I only manage to graze his fingertip. Tears leak out as he sadly smiles at me while his eyes are full of resignation.

Then he is gone.

My twin brother.

Fell into the abyss where uncontrollable creatures live.

"What a shame… He was my favorite puppet of them all." I slowly turn around after hearing a voice mocking my brother, coupled with disdain.

Face to face with the one responsible for corrupting my brother into his pawn. The one responsible for all the tragedies I had to endure.

And it is smiling at me with the same face that I had loved.

"YOU!" Screaming as I pick up my sword, then charging at him with rage fueling me.


With a final thrust, I stab him though the head, ending it once and for all. Then falling down onto my knees while letting go of my sword.

"Over… Everything is over…" I couldn't muster up the energy to be joyful on what should have been worth celebrating at ending the war… Since it had turned into a pyrrhic victory.

Looking up to the skies filled with smoke and the ashes of the fallen, I just close my eyes with tears freely falling now.

I… Don't know how long I had stayed kneeling… But I felt something wet hitting my nose, making me look up to see the skies darkening as more and more raindrops fell while the pain had become numbness.

'Is the world mourning for the lives lost in this damned war…?' Quickly as the thought came, I discard it since it wouldn't bring Aether back.

The raindrops hit my eyes yet I couldn't bring myself to care as I felt them stinging yet still nothing compared to the pain of losing my brother.

"$%!"

I hear a loud unrecognizable voice, yet I barely even acknowledge it, just hoping that it will be gone soon and I feel it walking past me. Then I see something shielding me from the rain, making me look at the owner.

'…Aether?' My brother's face briefly surfaces on the stranger's but it quickly disappears as more unrecognizable sounds come out of his mouth.

"#( $!) " He's annoyed, I can tell from his face, but my head suddenly feels heavy, making me tilt a bit due to the sudden feeling.

He's moving his mouth more, yet my head slowly becomes heavier while a static sound is slowly dominating my ears. I narrow my eyes at him, so that he could go away… But he merely grabs my hand and hoists me up.

Finding no energy to resist, I let myself be pulled and pulled and pulled, until we came upon a building. I feel him letting go of my hand, yet I stay in place, too tired to do anything else.

"* $!$*%!"

He pulls me into the front door and says something, making a young girl with similar looks to him come out from somewhere.

They… Banter with each other… Just like how siblings do… Like how me and Aether did…

Tears come out with a renewed vigor but I don't stop it as I stand still while looking at the pair talking to each other, smiling, having fun, playing around, smiling, pla –

I sneeze, interrupting my thoughts and even their conversation. The girl comes to drag me into the building…

Even though I want nothing more than to sleep and hope that this is all a nightmare, for a future that will never come.


*AlkfsdN*

I made a Lumine POV just because I felt like it and changed few storylines for GI, though it won't be that relevant in here (or maybe it is?). Anyway, on to a comment that a guest had left.

Rejoice, for you shall be made as an example.

"no, i want you to stop writing cringe" what it says. Now, I don't really care if you find my stories are cringe, stupid, hate, whatever. But the moment you ask me to stop writing? I will kill you. Plain and simple. You, a smooth brain that never made another person happy, is asking me to stop writing just because you found my stories cringe? What, are you paying me? What gave you the balls to ask me to stop writing? Hell, I found Yagami Kuzuki (a commenter that called me a dipshit for his own failure) to have bigger balls than you since he used an account while you, a mere guest, hide behind anonymity.

Let me repeat that I am writing for my own self. It's great that I am getting views, likes, follows, etc, but those are things that multiplies my own feeling, not adding. So, if I feel like this story is boring, I will stop writing it for months or even years, never abandoning it but pseudo-abandoning it.

Hope you enjoy becoming a circus, guest.

With that rant done, let me answer the respectable comments:

bluecookie420 - apologies but that would mean I have to use multiple days or weeks for a single chapter instead of my usual 1 day = 1 chapter. Usually each chapter would contain somewhere between 500 to 2000 words with some others being more. This is why I am trying to pump out more chapters each day now.

Renashi-RE012 - thank you, I have plenty of ideas for oregairu and other worlds, so hopefully you'll look forward to them

guest - go fuck yourself.

Nearsighted - ikr, also thank you for saying about it

Cigna - apologies again but you'll find the reasons above. I might try to increase the amount but that would mean sacrificing quality since I usually write between 1-7 am now.