.Hack/Aftermath
Phase 3
Reflections
"Its not gonna stop you know… It's going to keep following me." Tsukasa growled.
"HERE IT COMES!" bear turned to witness as a guardian formed from a ripple in the air.
Everyone began to unleash their attacks, with B.t standing behind to heal everyone… mostly Silver Knight.
"Crim we need your help!" Bear yelled towards the doors before the guardian emitted a low roar and faded.
"We did it… we… OH NO!" Mimiru was glad but then once laying eyes upon the three new guardians, her hopes faded. Maha then appeared before the three guardians.
"Maha! Why are you doing this?" Tsukasa asked. All Maha did was hold up a small flower, then turn to the three guardians, spreading its arms. "MAHA NO!" he cried out, as the three guardians struck the cat player, who pulled them into oblivion with him.
"I'm afraid I can't really tell you how I came to be with my guardian." Tsukasa smirked.
"Well… I was wondering about that too… but is there any chance that you're… a girl?" Mimiru shrugged.
Tsukasa looked hurt. "Not that it's any of your business… but I'm a guy."
"No I meant… you, in real life, the player. A girl." Mimiru explained.
"Why would you ask such a stupid question? It's obvious I'm a guy…"
"Subaru? … are you hurt? Can you feel this…?"
"Shh… please. Not right now. Just… like this… for a couple minutes."
"… alright… … Subaru?"
"Yes?"
"Are you crying?"
"Yes…"
"Its ok Subaru. Cry as much as you like.. I'm here for you."
In real life, Subaru leaned against her computer screen, holding onto it like her character was to Tsukasa… and she cried…
"This is your guardian? If it is, I'm not Impressed!" Bear launched upwards, sword pointed forward towards the guardian.
"STOP NO!" Tsukasa cried out, reaching his hand towards bear as if trying to stop him.
Mimiru's eyes widened as she watched the events unfold.
"Oh. Hello. I'm Mimiru! And you are?"
Tsukasa raised his flute and disappeared.
"… the nerve… oh well. At least he left the treasure!"
"You Sora, have been a bad boy. " Mourgana's voice echoed around the dark field. "Bad boys must be punished…"
"NO WAIT!" Sora screamed as his arms were thrusted outwards and his body lifted into the air. "PLEASE DON'T!"
then, a large red wand appeared behind him…
"You didn't copy the Subaru look. You're the original." Kao-chin smirked. "I know. Because I've been watching you for a long time now…" she watched Subaru take a step back. "I bet you haven't raised your level in quite a while huh? What are you gonna do? Log out? Call for help? No one would hear you… Go ahead. I'll just post about it on the message boards. About how poor little Subaru ran away from a fight and…"
"GO AHEAD." Subaru confronted. "Go post it on the message boards. All you'll be doing is posting your own personal grudge to everyone. They won't care or listen. So go ahead and do so. I won't stop you." She was now holding her ground.
Kao-chin went wide eyed and growled, raising her axe into the air. Then she screeched as she brought it down…
"I love you… my dear… daughter… I'm sorry I couldn't be there for you… I couldn't be there for my own daughter… but… maybe this… this is all I can give you…"
"NO YOU CAN'T!" Tsukasa pushed Mimiru out of the way, taking a jellylike spire through his chest. He groaned, then screamed before the spire was pulled from him, and he fell to the ground, his character growing dark, like all the others did when they died…
"I'm going to cast a spell for you now…" Crim smiled softly.
"A… spell?" Subaru weakly asked.
"Its my phone number in the real world."
"But…. Isn't that…?"
"Against the rules? Yeah… But still. Keep it. I'm tired of being Crimson Knight Crim. I want to be Subaru's Crim."
"Subaru?"
silence comes from her. She slowly looks up. "Tsukasa… why… are you here?"
"I… really don't know. But I felt that if I waited here, I'd find you."
"You were waiting… in this dark place…?"
"… Yeah."
"the one…. Who was waiting…"
"Yes?"
"The one who was waiting… it… IT WAS ME!" Subaru said before collapsing into Tsukasa's arms…