karaniji (kinome) 7

[feralphoenix]

You can read this chapter here on the MAGKAN official website!

Content warnings for this chapter include suicidal ideation, agoraphobia, body horror, mind control, and past parent death.



[sfx: POP]
[sfx: riffle riffle]

THE EMPTY-HEARTED GIRL AND THE RAINBOW FRAGMENTS

Mimi: They're all looking at me! I'm scared I'm scared I'm scared I'm scared...
Mimi: D!!! Don't touch me!!!

Mimi: Y-y-you're supposed t-to... get rid of intruders!! So go do that!!
Mimi: Don't let anyone come near me! Don't you come near me either!!!
[sfx: nod]
Mimi: It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay...
Mimi: As long as I have this... I'll be okay...

Eba: To sum it up, Mimi's afraid of the outside. His wish is to feel safe. The results of that wish are this house and that plushie.
Eba: So we're going to destroy it.
Mimi's Mom: Destroy...
Eba: Realistically speaking it'd be hard to destroy the house, but beating Toeto should be possible.
Eba: Toeto's the representation of Mimi's wish, so you'll take it out.
[DIAGRAM: "All safe!" / BLAMMO]
Eba: We're gonna show Mimi that you're stronger than Toeto.

Eba: If we can satisfy Mimi's wish through you, he won't need to use the shard.
[DIAGRAM: "I don't want it anymore!" / YOINK]
Eba: That way your house ougtta go back to normal too.
Mimi's Mom: ............ I see...... But Toeto...
Mimi's Mom: I wonder if I can do it...
Poyoko: ...Auntie?
[sfx: SLAP!]
Mimi's Mom: I'm sorry for complaining! It'll all be okay, Poyoko!

Mimi's Mom: I'll do my best! After all, it's to save Mimi!
Poyoko: ...Yeah.
Eba: I'll help too. You'll have to deal the finishing blow, though.
Mimi's Mom: Thank you, little boy!
Eba: I SAID STOP THAT
Mimi's Mom: Let's go, everyone!

Oz: Why must the sunlight be so bright at noon... I stick out like a sore thumb like this... I want to die...
Oz: I wish it were night... No, wait, I hate nighttime too. I can't stand the moon...
Oz: Oh!
Oz: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I'm here already!! No! I don't wanna! Now what?!
Oz: I wanna go home... I wish the informant had come with me...
(Corbeau: Seeya! It's a straight shot, you can't miss it!)
Oz: I wanna go home... but I have to find our savior...

Oz: OKAY!!!!!!!!! I'M GONNA DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M GONNA DOOOOOOOOOOOO IT!!!!!!!!!! LET'S GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oz: Huh? There's no doorknob......
Oz: IS IT TELLING ME TO SCRAM?!
Oz: ......I get it though... I'd be scared to see me at my own doorstep too...
Oz: I'm so sorry... But I... I wanna find the savior...

[sfx: pop]
Oz: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa I broke it!! I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry!
Oz: Please excuse me... Noooooo, what if I get yelled at... all I can do to apologize is die...
[sfx: KICK]

Mimi's Mom: They just keep coming! Leave us alone!
Eba: Poyoko! Get further back!
Mimi's Mom: Let's find someplace to hide for now!
Eba: LKE WHERE?!
Mimi's Mom: I know... I've been looking for a door for a while...
Scribbles: go 'way
[sfx: click]

Poyoko: Oh.
Scribbles: incoming
Eba: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH
[sfx: clink]
Scribbles: fuk yuo
Mimi's Mom: Owie owie owie!
Poyoko: (They're both tired...)
Poyoko: (Is there somewhere... to hide...? Somewhere that Eba and Auntie...)
Poyoko: (...can rest?)
[sfx: touch]

[sfx: SCHLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP]

Mimi: WHO'S THERE!!!
Mimi: (What was that just now?! Who is it?! She said as long as I had this I'd be okay!! Don't come in!! Go away, go away, go away!!!)
Mimi: TOETO!!!!!!! GO FIX IT!!!!!!!!!!!

[sfx: OPEN!]
[sfx: SHUT!]
Mimi's Mom: Phew! Thank goodness!
Mimi's Mom: Thank you for finding this door, Poyoko!
Poyoko: It came out of nowhere.
Mimi's Mom: Oh, really? I wonder if this is a secret room? It sure is empty...

Mimi's Mom: It's so white... It reminds me of the bleaching. I've never seen this place before.
Eba: (Poyoko... It looks like she's using the shards' power the right way. That's good...)
Eba: (That's why she's the perfect vessel!)
Mimi's Mom: I wonder if those little fellows are gone yet?

[sfx: BAM]

Eba: Ow! (got blown away)
Eba: (Is... is that the plushie?!)
Poyoko: Auntie!
Poyoko: Auntie... Auntie...

Poyoko: Dad... Mom...?
Eba: POYOKO!!!
Poyoko: Don't.

Poyoko: DON'T HURT HER!

Eba: P-Poyoko...
[sfx: blink]
Mimi's Mom: Huh...? I...
Mimi's Mom: ...Did... you do this, Poyoko?
Poyoko: I-I don't know... I...

Poyoko: I... I didn't want you to get hurt...
Mimi's Mom: ...So you protected me. Thank you.
Poyoko: ("Thank you...")
Poyoko: (Before... when I said that to Eba... it made me really happy.)
Poyoko: (Oh... So it makes me happy when someone says it to me, too...)

Poyoko: (No... I was happy then, but... I'm happier now!)
Mimi: Wh--WHAT ARE YOU DOING, TOETO?! H-hurry up... MAKE THE SCARY PEOPLE LEAVE!!!

Mimi's Mom: It's all okay now, Poyoko.
Mimi's Mom: I'll never lose again!
Mimi's Mom: (Hey, Mimi... The truth is...)

Mimi's Mom: (Your mama hates fighting.)
Mimi's Mom: (Mama hates to get hurt, and Mama's no good at exercise.)
Mimi's Mom: That's enough mischief from you, Toeto!
Mimi's Mom: (After all, cooking and sewing are the only things Mama's good at.)

Mimi's Mom: (...But that's not enough to protect you, is it?)
Eba: Use this!
Mimi's Mom: (To save you, Mimi, your mama's gotten used to getting hurt. She's learned to exercise...)
Mimi's Mom: (And I can hurt people too, if I have to...)

Mimi's Mom: (If I can protect you by doing so... I'll become the strongest person in the whole wide world.)

[sfx: gasp!]
Mimi: ............Mama.........?
Mimi: Where am I?! It's so dark!! Mama! Mama!!
Ghost: Good grief! The hypnosis stopped working!

Ghost: That figures. Despair is useless if it's not real.
Mimi: I'm scared!! Save me, Mama!!
Ghost: False despair is too flimsy, too weak.
Ghost: Just look at him! He can't see me anymore! He believes he can get out of here!
Mimi: Mamaaaaaaaa!
Ghost: This is why...
Ghost: THIS is EXACTLY why...

Ghost: I HATE hope!
Ghost: I should've brought the cult. At this rate, Eba's going to steal the shard.
Ghost: ...Whatever. After all...
Ghost: As long as Poyoko comes to my side, I won't NEED the shards. The whole world will disappear, and so will everything else with it.

Ghost: Poyoko... You'll come to us sooner or later...
Ghost: Because you're the only one who can understand how we feel...
Mimi's Mom: It's the key.
Mimi's Mom: Toeto must have been protecting it.

Oz: Ooh, I can tell just how much they want scum like me to leave... I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I wanna go home...
[sfx: GASP]
Oz: Oh... oh... ohh... Th... there she is...


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