Forgive
Minor Ayase x Akida implications.
Disclaim
I do not own SCRYED the manga or anime series, Ayase Terada, or Akida Terada.
She wrapped her arms around him. He was shaking. Underneath her - underneath his skin - the sickness had been crawling for a long time. She couldn't take it all into herself, like she'd wanted. She couldn't make it disappear as though it had never even been there, quickening his entire life to nothing.
He was so frail, so near the end already. And still so small.
She pulls him to her bosom. He trembles.
Shh, she whispers. Quiet now.
She feels the guilt coming on. Shame twisting in her heart so blackened with these last, fatal days that it begins to throb. How could she claim to love him, if she would lie to him so willingly?
Eagerly. The greedy sister.
It will be fine. You will be fine.
Lies.
It's just for now. It soon will pass.
Lies.
Drink
this. Eat this. Lie down. Let me lie next to you. I'll rub your back
and kiss your head.
I
can make everything go away.
Lies.
You will not die. I will not let them hurt you.
Never.
They'll never take you from me.
That one was the biggest lie of all.
When they took him from her the first time, she'd used Kimishima and Kazuma to get him back.
When they took him the her second time, there was nothing she could do to stop them.
Nothing but to bite her tongue, lie down, and comply.
Whatever they said, she would do.
Connect with your ability.
Yes.
See the other side.
I will.
Harness that power.
Yes.
Submit to the refinement.
Yes.
Do away with the Native Alter User, Kazuma.
Yes.
Fight with him.
I will fight him.
Or your brother dies.
Or I die for Akida.
When the heart monitor faded to nothing but straight lines, the telltale beeping of a heart's final failure, she'd let him have the fatal stroke.
What was there if she wasn't with him?
Oh, Akida, she whispers, falling back into the water.
I'm so sorry.