Grape paced around her room. "What to do, what to do? I can't keep up this behavior, but I can't stop what I have been doing. I mean, I took over an entire state! But I was hurting my Sour Bunch, and I was being a bad leader, so how can I fix this? How can I still keep up my reign of terror, without hurting them?"
She tapped the bottom of her mask. She didn't have the heart to apologize to them, but Pauline was right. Rex had poisoned her brain.
"Wait, who was that man who gave me that potion to begin with? This started with him, so it'll end with him as well."
She went back to the area with the pipe and looked around. She went the same direction he had when he'd left her after giving her the potion.
"I need to give that low life a piece of my mind. How dare he make a fool of...me."
She realized his purpose then. He had given her that potion and false directions in order to lead her into the human realm. The question was, did he know how her battle with Pauline would play out, or was it just a sick prank?
"Is he...? No, it can't be. Unless..."
She reached into her jacket. She pat it a couple of times, then glanced quickly around at the ground.
"Where did it go? The letter that Tinala gave me...I couldn't have lost it, could I?"
She looked everywhere for it, but couldn't find it. She eventually gave up and went back home. Some Bunchlings tried to talk to her, but she wouldn't pay them any attention. She flopped into bed, hugging her pillow.
"What do I do? I failed everything, and everyone. I really don't deserve the Sour Bunch, and they don't deserve me. What have I done? I wasn't ready, I'll never be ready. What was Rex thinking, putting me in charge at this state?"
She looked at the sewn-up cut on her glove. It no longer bled since she'd fixed the hole, but what made her wonder was why it bled in the first place. The only other time she'd ever had blood was in Izuku's world, while trapped in a cell where she couldn't access her Darkle. But she was perfectly able to use Darkle in the Dark Realm, so why was it that she could actually feel...pain?
She was a freak.
She could eat mainly different foods from the Bunchlings, and she lacked any actual physical form. She didn't need as much sleep as them and was obsessed with puppets and dolls since she was young. Her "blood" was just Darkle mist, and she was unable to die. She was a witch, despite not even knowing properly what exactly a witch was. Her half-brother was a psychotic jester, and her father knew little to nothing about Darkle despite having it for a few years before Grape had even come alive.
And her future-seeing "mother" was murdered instead of Grape.
"...I have a feeling that I'm the reason my family fell apart. Darkle took Dimen's arms, leading him to be abandoned. Darkle lead my father to becoming a recluse. Darkle being split from David caused Tinala's death. I...I made my family fall apart. I messed up everything before I was even born! I really am a heartless person!" She buried her face into the pillow.
She felt herself becoming tired. She muttered one last thing before she dozed off.
"What have I done?"
