p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;""Ei, how are you feeling?" I place a plate of dango in front of the archon after bandaging her up after her fierce battle with the Raiden Shogun puppet. She huffs, feeling a bit annoyed at being treated like a child getting pacified by her mother, nonetheless she takes a stick of dango and munches on it "I should have listened to you long ago Miko, my blind outlook of eternity almost cost Inazuma once, and now because of it my own creation nearly brought on the same destruction"/span span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;""And that is why you should always listen to me, after all I am a fox for a reason, wise beyond belief don't you think" I say in a teasing manner to try and lighten the situation, she just puffs her cheeks in response "Well I am older than you and you know what they say age comes wisdom" Ei tries to joke back, I can't help but chuckle "Oh are you? What if I told you I'm much older than you my dear archon?"/span span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;""Nice try Miko, I've known you since you were born as a tiny fox, and even then, I was already 2500 years old" /spanspan style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Oh only if you knew my dear friend "/span /spanspan style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Well let's put who's wiser aside for now. What are you going to do with the puppet? She acted out once, this could very much still happen again you know?" Ei puts down her stick of dango and sighs "I know that, but I cannot help feel sorry for her, after all her logic of eternity stemmed from my belief, It just feels wrong to punish her when it was my fault" I put a reassuring hand on her shoulder /spanspan style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;""I understand Ei, but we can't erase what happened, she almost crossed the line Ei and we can't risk the citizens of Inazuma for this again" She clenches her fist on her lap and nods "Please take care of her Miko"/span span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"….../span span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Somewhere deep in a secret room in the Narukami shrine, a ritual circle sits at the center and the Raiden Shogun Puppet sits chained in the middle of the circle. "So, this is my end then, please do make it quick lady Miko" The shrine priestess emerges from the shadows, with a familiar sword strapped to her hip./span span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;""Fear not little puppet, your life will not end here, your body will house a new, much worthier soul" The priestess unsheathes the sword and thrusts it through the puppet's chest. Miko chants as the sword begins to glow "Archons! Hear my plea! font face="Nimbus Mono L, monospace"span lang="zh-CN"かつて失われたものを私に持ち帰ってください/span/font! font face="Nimbus Mono L, monospace"span lang="zh-CN"かつて失われたものを私に持ち帰ってください/span/font! font face="Nimbus Mono L, monospace"span lang="zh-CN"かつて失われたものを私に持ち帰ってください/span/font!" The sword lights brighter, engulfing the room in its light prompting the priestess to shield her eyes with her sleeves. Light fades away, Miko takes a look at the puppet's eyes, they're hollow and falls to the ground... lifeless "NO! NO NO NO" Miko runs up to the puppet and checks for any signs of life, nothing again. Failure, for the past five hundred years failure, everytime I try Ei discards a puppet and asks me to dispose of it, I always perform this ritual, hoping that maybe just maybe the gods may finally have mercy on me./span span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"I pull out the Jizo Mitama from the puppet's chest, stashing it back away to my private chambers where no one may steal it. No matter, I have waited for five hundred years, I will wait, I can get Ei to make another vessel. We will reunite once more my dear./span /p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;""And that is why you should always listen to me, after all I am a fox for a reason, wise beyond belief don't you think" I say in a teasing manner to try and lighten the situation, she just puffs her cheeks in response "Well I am older than you and you know what they say age comes wisdom" Ei tries to joke back, I can't help but chuckle "Oh are you? What if I told you I'm much older than you my dear archon?"/span span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;""Nice try Miko, I've known you since you were born as a tiny fox, and even then, I was already 2500 years old" /spanspan style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: oblique; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Oh only if you knew my dear friend "/span /spanspan style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Well let's put who's wiser aside for now. What are you going to do with the puppet? She acted out once, this could very much still happen again you know?" Ei puts down her stick of dango and sighs "I know that, but I cannot help feel sorry for her, after all her logic of eternity stemmed from my belief, It just feels wrong to punish her when it was my fault" I put a reassuring hand on her shoulder /spanspan style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;""I understand Ei, but we can't erase what happened, she almost crossed the line Ei and we can't risk the citizens of Inazuma for this again" She clenches her fist on her lap and nods "Please take care of her Miko"/span span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"….../span span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"Somewhere deep in a secret room in the Narukami shrine, a ritual circle sits at the center and the Raiden Shogun Puppet sits chained in the middle of the circle. "So, this is my end then, please do make it quick lady Miko" The shrine priestess emerges from the shadows, with a familiar sword strapped to her hip./span span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;""Fear not little puppet, your life will not end here, your body will house a new, much worthier soul" The priestess unsheathes the sword and thrusts it through the puppet's chest. Miko chants as the sword begins to glow "Archons! Hear my plea! font face="Nimbus Mono L, monospace"span lang="zh-CN"かつて失われたものを私に持ち帰ってください/span/font! font face="Nimbus Mono L, monospace"span lang="zh-CN"かつて失われたものを私に持ち帰ってください/span/font! font face="Nimbus Mono L, monospace"span lang="zh-CN"かつて失われたものを私に持ち帰ってください/span/font!" The sword lights brighter, engulfing the room in its light prompting the priestess to shield her eyes with her sleeves. Light fades away, Miko takes a look at the puppet's eyes, they're hollow and falls to the ground... lifeless "NO! NO NO NO" Miko runs up to the puppet and checks for any signs of life, nothing again. Failure, for the past five hundred years failure, everytime I try Ei discards a puppet and asks me to dispose of it, I always perform this ritual, hoping that maybe just maybe the gods may finally have mercy on me./span span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /span/p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"span style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"I pull out the Jizo Mitama from the puppet's chest, stashing it back away to my private chambers where no one may steal it. No matter, I have waited for five hundred years, I will wait, I can get Ei to make another vessel. We will reunite once more my dear./span /p
