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Author Note: I'm wondering, did anyone see this coming? Lo and behold a stand alone

Meltdown

Time and time again things have failed, I have failed. Time is not a toy they screamed, life is not a game they screamed, do not use things beyond your skills they screamed as they sat me back down but look, I have made progress. I have made progress in erasing every failure in my life, the failure to avenge my parents, the failure to protect the ones I love and most importantly the failure of the world itself for being unable to protect a happy family that had the potential to change the world. And so now time, the cruel bitch of a woman, is on my side at long last and I will make sure that I have a happy ending for I deserve it.

I should have threatened that woman so she'd tell me how this accursed thing works. I have tried taking apart only to be zapped and I have tried all the buttons but they merely deliver powerful shocks. Simply I have no idea how to work this object and she does. I should have threatened that woman. Another failure due to my inadequacy. Hardly surprising anymore.

I have heard that there is another sword, therefore there is another person that can use this. Whomever that person is I need to find them and soon, before the stroke of bad luck strikes me and I die. I need to go back in time and fix what went wrong. I need to fix my life. How selfish I am sure they would say if they knew of this. Why not help that heroic young man Fudou Yuusei? Because frankly I don't care. I just want my life. I just want a happy life with a happy ending. I don't have time for heroics, not this time.

The sword remains unresponsive and as such I fling it against the wall in rage. As I through it makes a distinct slashing motion and a portal opens, within that portal is the destination and date I wish to be. I run over to it and it shuts off immediately. I see. It appears that someone does not wish for me to have this object in my possession and are hacking it. Whomever is doing that will get no where for I am not allowed to fail, I shall not fail. I have made a promise and a true knight never breaks their word. Yes, yes I will repeat it a thousand times, Mama, Papa, I will give you your lives back, our lives back, or I will die trying!

I wish for the world to hear my prayers very greatly. I still hold that foolish belief that if I close my eyes and believe with all my heart that I can make my prayers come true. This isn't possible probably but still I wish with all my heart. I wish very much and I pray very much that what I seek will come to pass. Maybe if I wish enough so one will hear me. I still believe. This cruel world, this false transient Utopia, has not yet taken that from me. I can not allow that as well to be taken, it is the only thing I have left.

It bothers me greatly the fact that this sword is so difficult to master, after all the woman mastered it so easily. Is it true that her prayers were more heart felt than mine? I don't believe it to be so. Maybe my heart is no longer pure enough for wishes to be granted and prayers to be answered. Than I must hope, not pray or wish for those are for my family, that my purity can be restored, just a little. I hope that I can master this sword and travel back to before they were killed, before their lives were cruelly cut short. I want to live with Mama and Papa again and make them happy and enjoy life and never even have to come here and maybe even grow up with my heart as pure as the driven snow once more. These are things worth praying for, no one that has wielded this sword can even come close surely.

I suppose that I lost my purity after the first death. His was an accident surely. I was forcing information out of him and I used too much force. His life was crushed in my hands. I felt nothing I recall. Or perhaps I did, perhaps it was a slight tingle of loss from the hands that wrung his neck and spilt his blood. No one missed him, at least. I think I noticed when I stopped my prayers and wishes for Mama and Papa and replaced them with screaming, burning fury. I think that was what had to happen for them though. I don't think, even as a young girl, that I was ever pure enough for my prayers to me answered, never desperate enough. What baffles me completely is how that organization and that woman were able to do what I could not, can not, have their wishes granted and their prayers answer. Maybe it's what you're wishing for. Maybe they wanted small wishes or wishes that would benefit all. Perhaps my prayers and wishes are too big for my little heart to handle. Ah that is the likely solution, after all who could have a wish more pure than mine? These are the things worth wishing for.

I need to find that man or that woman or that boy, the one's who have used this sword. I need to find one and make them tell me the answer, the solution. I need to have them help me have my wishes granted and assure that I can keep my promises and my deepest vows. They must help me, surely no one would deny a wish worth killing for?

Sagiri Mikage, that's her name, I'm sure of it. A member of Security and the current Head of it though she is cut off from many of her men. She must be in her office, she wouldn't leave for risk of being struck down surely. And so I must go there once more and break her bones if I must. I'd even kill her to keep my deepest vows. Surely this is a wish worth killing for. It must be. It must be. If not than I don't believe there is any wish worth killing for. Mine is, was at least, innocent and chill and the sign of a pure heart. Nothing can compare to a love like this, familial love. Not the wish of romance, of riches, for strangers, for yourself, for the good of an entire continent. Nothing can compare to giving a little girl her family back. Family is the only thing worth living for, the bond between family is the deepest thing imaginable, the most innocent and pure.*

I set off to go and get the woman. I set off armed with my various threatening and deadly devices to which surely even the strongest would break down to. I take my keys and take my motorcycle towards her building. I wonder if she'll tell me out of the purity of her heart or her wickedness and selfishness will take center stage and drown me out. I wonder if she is a bastard like the majority of humans or a rare gem among the weeds. Ah, it is all irrelevant in the end, after all I am not leaving without this information and though it may seem cruel (as it is I suppose), she isn't leaving either, in any case. My deepest vows will not be broken over someone's pure selfishness. Even I am a little bit selfless. Just a little though. Hmn.

The best sensation in the world is the wind rustling past me. No matter how ridiculous anyone claims it may be this D-Wheel, this motorcycle represents my prayers and my wishes and my dreams. I don't care if you find it foolish or you hate them or you wish to be rid of them, you will not take away my dreams, my wishes, my prayers. They are mine to hold, they are mine to own, and I swear on the graves I have dug and the bodies I have burnt and the deepest vows I have made on my Mama and Papa's behalves that I will not sacrifice my dreams, not again. Especially not over something as ridiculous as someone finding my ability to play Duel Monsters on a D-Wheel stupid. Hmn. You don't have to like it but you do have to respect the fact that this represents my prayers and my wishes surely you must.

I pull up and with my helmet on fast I walk straight in. It seems as if Security is gone. Excellent. My prayers are being answered. Perhaps my heart is pure enough after all, or perhaps my wishing is just that strong.

I walk up to her and she looks at me with her large yellow eyes vacantly.

"Hey you can't be he- wait, you I, I remember you! Give me back that sword! I must make right what I've done wrong!" Sagiri Mikage cries.

"I am sorry Mademoiselle, but I can not return this sword. What you have done wrong is of no concern to me but this sword is necessary to repair my life. If you can not accept that and help me than I am afraid that you'll have to be forced to. It really is nothing personal." I reply.

"I, I can't! All this death, all this bruning agony, it's, it's me! I'm the one doing it and I'm so scared! Please! I need that sword so Atlus-Sama can live! I promised! It's my one and only wish!"

"Wish? Ah, you and I, we are very much the same, our bonds have turned to promises which in turn have turned into wishes for wishes are the only way to save them, right? However familial bonds are far deeper than others and you'll move on, I, I am incapable of such. Now help me or I'll destroy you."

The woman blinks and slowly walks over. She rushes forward and grabs the sword before taking off in her heels. I run after her and she's in front of the elevator and jabbing on the button with force of many pure wishes behind her. She sees me and starts running again, this time down the stairs, as I pursue. Her heels make loud clicks and she runs with the sword clutched tightly to her chest. She trips and shrieks.

I run down the stairs past her to the fallen sword and, and, and,

"You've broken it. You fool, you god forsaken, damned fool." I mutter.

She blinks and simply lays there on the floor.

"There, there is another though, perhaps, perhaps I can get it and than maybe my wish will be granted at last. Stay put, if you follow me then I will kill you and make sure that no one even sees your body, understood?"

She slowly nods.

Sagiri Mikage is a liability. She can not stay put and she can not obey orders and she is completely obsessed with Jack Atlus. I'm very sorry for her. Perhaps she'll live in this new timeline I form.

She stands up and is quickly met with a bullet to the forehead. She drops and splutters. I walk out. I am very sorry Sagiri Mikage. I pray that you find rest with your one and only love in death. I am sure that being with him, in reality, is truly your one and only deepest wish. And I walk away into the rainstorm that's started. A young man with deep blue hair walks into the building. I stop him.

"Sir, please take my most sorrowful apologies, but at least she has gotten her one and only truly deepest wish. Her heart deep down certainly was the purest I have seen in a very long time." I sigh.

He stares and runs inside. The rain pours down and all that is left, as usual, is me. No regrets. I will fulfill my deepest vow. Besides, as cruel and true as it may be, she's just another insignificant life in the end. Another tick on a piece of paper. I do hope that her wish and her prayers and her very soul is strong enough for her to join her precious one. I really do. I am very sorry Sagiri Mikage.