Darkness...
Pain...
It hurts.
Oh, how it hurts...
I'm lying here. I'm lying here and I can't feel the blood ooze down my skin anymore. I can't feel the deep gashes in my chest, so deep and so near my heart. My skin is numb and my eyes...I can't see...Blurry grays are all that grace me, even as the blackness touches the corner of my sight.
I'm dying...Oh, Dende, I'm dying...
He took us up. He struck us down. It was so easy for him. So easy...Why didn't we see it coming? How could one...Single...
How could he do this to everyone?
Traitor. Traitor. That single word rests upon my lips just as the black blood oozes down my chin. He knows what he's done...He's betrayed us all. In one final fit of fury he's betrayed us all. I...I can't understand. The baka yarou seemed so content...Even if a little forlorn at times. Nothing seemed wrong with his life. There was nothing wrong with his life!
So why is he taking ours?
I just don't get it. How in the world was it so easy for him? Yes, we weren't prepared...None of us were prepared to have to suddenly battle one of our own. He just blew up...Right then and there...We didn't expect such a rage to emerge so quickly...
Blood.
Gore.
Cracking bones beneath our own weight.
Power...
Rage.
Little words of what I can remember. The sounds, the feeling...the pain. Yes, I can remember the pain...
They all lie around me now; the whole team that once stood together strongly. Some in pits of char and dirt while other lie in pieces. A couple are still alive, I suppose. Like me. They stare sightlessly to the sky, dreaming of it all to go away...For someone to stand up and make it all stop. "Make it stop...Make it stop"...I can almost hear their voices.
Murmurs. Whimpers. Cries as the lights finally go out and darkness swells around the very existence...I can hear it all. My own join them in a silent chorus, our voices somehow blending into one another. Strange...We were all just one big happy family...and even in death, we still are. He tried so hard to break us...
Him. He's not going to be getting up and telling his triumph any time soon. He got us good. We're lying like ragged dolls, shattered form the fall upon the ground. But,...and I almost say this with a chuckle on my swollen lips, he's lying with us...Laying broken, laying bleeding...He's coming with us, yes he is. He has broken us apart, but he'll never tear the bonds...Our bonds...
You...
I think I hear you somewhere...
Quiet...Yes. But still clear. Your heart...does it still beat? I try to move my aching body; try to look up beyond the dirt clod, grassy ground that's stained with my very blood, to catch a glimpse. Once again, pain is all I know as jagged, shattered bones push beneath my gashed, bruised skin. But, I must...I have to...
Are you there?
He's hurt you, hasn't he? I'm sorry...I should have stopped him...But, how? I guess, I would have if I could...But, I couldn't...And now, as I stare, my stomach pushed against the rough ground and sharp pain electrifying through my very being, I can see a glimmer...Someone laying just beyond me...staring to the trees that surround us...And the Capsule Corp building, it's curve now broken and in ruin. I can almost see it too.
Arms in the dirt, dragging myself slowly, and not so surely, I feel my skin tear...Yet, the pain still doesn't match what I'm feeling inside.
Hatred?
No. Not quite.
Sadness?
It's there...But, that's not it.
Broken...Broken? A broken heart...Maybe because, as I finally reach your frail body and I reach out with those fingers of mine and touch your skin, still so warm, I realize that...This is truly the end. No more waking up to find you at my side...No more sharing a meal, nor sharing a fight, whether in a battle of the sexes or a battle of love...
I suppose I should say goodbye...
But, my lips are sealed shut with the rivers of caked blood that run down my face. And my eyes are growing tired...Tired...So tired...Maybe, if I just close them for a moment...and hold you close, I could keep you for a moment longer...Just a moment longer...
I'm hugging you softly. You're still so warm. Yet, you don't open your eyes or even show that you know it's me. Still, you know. I know you know.
Don't worry, I wont let go...
I promise I wont let go...
You're still so wonderful...I'm remembering some times we've shared. Are you remembering too?
How about, we share a little memory one last time...
Then maybe you'll remember me when I'm gone...
Cold.
You feel a little cold.
You've left me haven't you?
That's ok. I'll be following soon.
And if you see any of the others on their way...Wherever they go, tell them I said "sorry". Just for the sake of it...I want you to remember that too.
Arigato, watashi no koi. And no, I'm not going to say "good bye". Those words would be too harsh at a time like now. I'd rather think that after I close these heavy eyes of mine, I'm going to open them and see you smiling down at me one last time.
One last time...
So, I'll see you soon, I guess. Through moonlight, through sunshine, from world to world to afterworld...One day...I'll see you soon.
Darkness grows stronger
I can't feel your beating heart anymore
Silence is taking over my mind...
My own is slowing. I can feel it growing...Feel it growing ti-..tire...
I don't want to go!
P-please...d-don't...
Please, forgive...me...
P-pl...
Soon, death swallowed them into its depths, pulling them deep beneath. And as the ambulances finally pulled towards the charred terrains, their sirens whining through the putrid rubble, those who'd perished slipped away...Though, something still left itself behind.
Pain...
It hurts.
Oh, how it hurts...
I'm lying here. I'm lying here and I can't feel the blood ooze down my skin anymore. I can't feel the deep gashes in my chest, so deep and so near my heart. My skin is numb and my eyes...I can't see...Blurry grays are all that grace me, even as the blackness touches the corner of my sight.
I'm dying...Oh, Dende, I'm dying...
He took us up. He struck us down. It was so easy for him. So easy...Why didn't we see it coming? How could one...Single...
How could he do this to everyone?
Traitor. Traitor. That single word rests upon my lips just as the black blood oozes down my chin. He knows what he's done...He's betrayed us all. In one final fit of fury he's betrayed us all. I...I can't understand. The baka yarou seemed so content...Even if a little forlorn at times. Nothing seemed wrong with his life. There was nothing wrong with his life!
So why is he taking ours?
I just don't get it. How in the world was it so easy for him? Yes, we weren't prepared...None of us were prepared to have to suddenly battle one of our own. He just blew up...Right then and there...We didn't expect such a rage to emerge so quickly...
Blood.
Gore.
Cracking bones beneath our own weight.
Power...
Rage.
Little words of what I can remember. The sounds, the feeling...the pain. Yes, I can remember the pain...
They all lie around me now; the whole team that once stood together strongly. Some in pits of char and dirt while other lie in pieces. A couple are still alive, I suppose. Like me. They stare sightlessly to the sky, dreaming of it all to go away...For someone to stand up and make it all stop. "Make it stop...Make it stop"...I can almost hear their voices.
Murmurs. Whimpers. Cries as the lights finally go out and darkness swells around the very existence...I can hear it all. My own join them in a silent chorus, our voices somehow blending into one another. Strange...We were all just one big happy family...and even in death, we still are. He tried so hard to break us...
Him. He's not going to be getting up and telling his triumph any time soon. He got us good. We're lying like ragged dolls, shattered form the fall upon the ground. But,...and I almost say this with a chuckle on my swollen lips, he's lying with us...Laying broken, laying bleeding...He's coming with us, yes he is. He has broken us apart, but he'll never tear the bonds...Our bonds...
You...
I think I hear you somewhere...
Quiet...Yes. But still clear. Your heart...does it still beat? I try to move my aching body; try to look up beyond the dirt clod, grassy ground that's stained with my very blood, to catch a glimpse. Once again, pain is all I know as jagged, shattered bones push beneath my gashed, bruised skin. But, I must...I have to...
Are you there?
He's hurt you, hasn't he? I'm sorry...I should have stopped him...But, how? I guess, I would have if I could...But, I couldn't...And now, as I stare, my stomach pushed against the rough ground and sharp pain electrifying through my very being, I can see a glimmer...Someone laying just beyond me...staring to the trees that surround us...And the Capsule Corp building, it's curve now broken and in ruin. I can almost see it too.
Arms in the dirt, dragging myself slowly, and not so surely, I feel my skin tear...Yet, the pain still doesn't match what I'm feeling inside.
Hatred?
No. Not quite.
Sadness?
It's there...But, that's not it.
Broken...Broken? A broken heart...Maybe because, as I finally reach your frail body and I reach out with those fingers of mine and touch your skin, still so warm, I realize that...This is truly the end. No more waking up to find you at my side...No more sharing a meal, nor sharing a fight, whether in a battle of the sexes or a battle of love...
I suppose I should say goodbye...
But, my lips are sealed shut with the rivers of caked blood that run down my face. And my eyes are growing tired...Tired...So tired...Maybe, if I just close them for a moment...and hold you close, I could keep you for a moment longer...Just a moment longer...
I'm hugging you softly. You're still so warm. Yet, you don't open your eyes or even show that you know it's me. Still, you know. I know you know.
Don't worry, I wont let go...
I promise I wont let go...
You're still so wonderful...I'm remembering some times we've shared. Are you remembering too?
How about, we share a little memory one last time...
Then maybe you'll remember me when I'm gone...
Cold.
You feel a little cold.
You've left me haven't you?
That's ok. I'll be following soon.
And if you see any of the others on their way...Wherever they go, tell them I said "sorry". Just for the sake of it...I want you to remember that too.
Arigato, watashi no koi. And no, I'm not going to say "good bye". Those words would be too harsh at a time like now. I'd rather think that after I close these heavy eyes of mine, I'm going to open them and see you smiling down at me one last time.
One last time...
So, I'll see you soon, I guess. Through moonlight, through sunshine, from world to world to afterworld...One day...I'll see you soon.
Darkness grows stronger
I can't feel your beating heart anymore
Silence is taking over my mind...
My own is slowing. I can feel it growing...Feel it growing ti-..tire...
I don't want to go!
P-please...d-don't...
Please, forgive...me...
P-pl...
Soon, death swallowed them into its depths, pulling them deep beneath. And as the ambulances finally pulled towards the charred terrains, their sirens whining through the putrid rubble, those who'd perished slipped away...Though, something still left itself behind.
