flightworks | karaniji (kinome) 4

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Content warnings for this chapter include self-harm, blood, and dismemberment.

Eba: Damn, the bleaching has spread pretty far...

THE EMPTY-HEARTED GIRL AND THE RAINBOW FRAGMENTS

Rainbow King: Eba!
Rainbow King: Ebaaaaaaaaaaa!!
Rainbow King: Oh? Another new day, another new hair color, I see! Why the change?

Eba: Eh, it's whatever. I just felt like it, that's all.
Critter: Your Majesty! You know what? Eba wants to have rainbow hair just like you!
Critter: But it looks like it's hard to turn it lots of colors at once.
Critter: So that's why he's changing it every day! So it's closer to a rainbow!
Eba: WH!!! HOW DID YOU KNOW THAT?!!!
Critter: Golly Eba, you sure do love the king!
Eba: SHADDAP!!!!!!!
Mushka: There they go again...

Mushka: Eba shouldn't feel embarrassed...
Mushka: We all love you, Your Majesty. He's completely normal.
Rainbow King: Hehe!
Rainbow King: Thank you, Mushka.

Poyoko: ...?
Poyoko: (Where am I...? This room is weird.)
Poyoko: (Everything's so white.)
Critter: Ooh!!

Critter: So you woke up! Have some food, if you like!
Critter: Sorry beforehand if it's undercooked! I can't judge by the color...
Poyoko: (So white...)
Poyoko: Um... I'm not very hungry--
Critter: You're still feverish, so no wonder! I'll just eat it myself then!
Poyoko: Um... why...
Critter: I bet you're curious about why there are no colors here! Oh dang, this is like raw!
Critter: You see... it's all because the Rainbow King disappeared.

Critter: Do you know about how the Rainbow King brought color to the world?
Cultists: And the Rainbow King created color. They gave these things to the world.
Critter: Well, the Rainbow King is gone now... so the world is losing its colors bit by bit.
Critter: Slowly, but surely... the bleached area is expanding.
Critter: So Sir Eba really needs to hurry up and bring the Rainbow King back to life!

Critter: I mean, not having colors is SO inconvenient!!
Critter: Eating food is boring when there's no color! You can't tell what liquid's poured in a cup until you drink it! You used to be able to tell which jellyfish are safe 'cause the red ones are poisonous!
Critter: And lots of people have left their homes to escape the bleaching, but I hear they're having a hard time finding a new place to live!
Colored critters: Go somewhere else! What if it's contagious?
Poyoko: ...How come the Rainbow King disappeared?
Critter: Oh! About that...
Critter: I hear it's a human's fault!

Eba: There it is.

Eba: This is the last ingredient I need to make medicine.

Eba: Tch!

Mushka: Where are you?!
Mushka: Where are you, Your Majesty?!
Eba: (They're beating their own head on the walls...)
Mushka: It's all that damn human's fault...!

Eba: Stop it! Mushka--
[sfx: CHOMP]
Eba: (Oh shit. Damn it, I can't get loose!)

Mushka: Don't leave us...
Mushka: Don't go, Your Majesty... Please...

Eba: (Oh no... I need to breathe...)

Poyoko: A human's fault...?
Critter: I don't really know what exactly went down, myself! I bet Sir Eba and the other kings do, though.
Critter: I heard Sir Eba reeeeeeeally hates humans, so I was shocked!
Critter: Suddenly he's knocking on my door telling me he wants to borrow my bed for a human! I couldn't believe it!
Critter: And then when I said I didn't have any fever medicine, he said he'd go get herbs to make one from the lake and walked out!

Critter: The lake's close by, sure, but there's a dangerous monster living in it, so we're all too scared of it to go near...
Critter: Oops! He told me not to tell you that part...
Critter: Well, that just proves how much Sir Eba cares about you! When he gets back you ought to thank him!
Poyoko: 'Kay...
Poyoko: (Oh... there it is again. That floaty sensation and my heart racing...)

Poyoko: (Just like back then...)
Poyoko: (What sort of feeling is this?)

[sfx: KOFF KOFF KOFF KOFF]
Eba: Damn...
Eba: I thought I was gonna die.

Eba: Hang in there, Mushka...
Eba: I'll get the king back no matter what.

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