karaniji (kinome) 8

[feralphoenix]

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Content warnings for this chapter include bullying, emotional manipulation, body horror, character death, suicidal ideation, and vomit.



Oz: I... I found her!!!!!!!!!!

Oz: White clothes, a ribbon in her hair... There's no mistaking her! N-n-n-now what?! What's the right way to say hello?!
Oz: And first of all, am I really allowed?! Would it be rude of me to speak to her?!
Oz: Nice to meet you, Savior, my name is Oswald. I'm honored to be in your presence... Okay! Let's try that!
Oz: Ni!!! Nice to mweet yuo!!!!!!!
Oz: Huh?

Mimi: MAMA!!!!!!!!!
Mimi's Mom: Mimi!
Mimi's Mom: Oh Mimi, I missed you so...! I'm so, so glad...
Mimi: Ow, ow, ow! Mama, that hurts!
Mimi's Mom: Oh, no! I'm sorry!
Poyoko: ......

[sfx: pat]
Eba: Good for them, huh?
Poyoko: ......
[sfx: hold]
Eba: (Wait, huh??)
Mimi: Huh? Mom, were your biceps always this big?
Mimi's Mom: Oh?
Mimi: And hey, you're hurt all over... What happened?
Mimi's Mom: Y-you don't need to worry about that, Mimi!
Eba: ...Hey. Don't you remember anything?
Mimi: Huh...?

Mimi: I... wait, huh?
Mimi: What was I just doing?
Mimi: Umm... the last time I was at school, I embarrassed myself in front of everybody...
[note: 50-meter dash]
Mimi: They teased me... Everyone was laughing... I felt so ashamed...
Mimi: Then when I was crying in my room, all of a sudden a girl came through the window.
Ghost: "Oh, you got laughed at? Poor thing... I'm sure they're still making fun of you behind your back."
Ghost: "Everybody's watching you. They're waiting for you to disgrace yourself... waiting for you to fail... They're so excited for another chance to bully you, they can't contain themselves."

Mimi: I don't really remember what happened after that... I just know I suddenly got really scared...
Mimi: I wanted to run away so bad I couldn't take it...
[sfx: slip]
Mimi: This... I remember now! They gave this to me.

Mimi: When I was holding it, I felt a little less afraid.
Eba: I see.
Mimi's Mom: A fragment of the Rainbow King... This is what you were looking for, right, little boy?
Eba: This belongs to someone important to me. Can I have it back?
Mimi: Okay.

Eba: (FUCK YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Eba: (This is the third one!! I've already got three!!)
Eba: (This is going great!! The king'll be back to normal in no time!!)
Eba: (Now I've just gotta get this into Poyoko...)

[sfx: shlorp]

Oz: Ah, ah, um um um, Savior! My! My name is Oz!
Eba: POYOKO!!
Oz: YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK

[sfx: POP]

[sfx: THUMP]
Oz: UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!! I KILLED HIM!!!!!!!!!!!
Oz: I--it's all his fault though!! He shouldn't have scared me like that!! Sheesh!!

Oz: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh I'm so sorry I'm sorry! I'm sorry for touching you!! You must have felt so uncomfortable!!!!!!!! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!
[sfx: push push push]
Oz: Huh? Huh?

Poyoko: You shouldn't apologize like that.
Oz: Yes ma'am! I'm sorry! (She hates me!!!)
Poyoko: (That's what Eba said...)
Poyoko: (......Eba is dead.)
Poyoko: (Everyone always leaves me.)
Poyoko: (Everyone I meet...)
Cultists: MISTER OSWALD!

Cultists: Ooh, Mister Oz! You brought our savior home!
Cultists: That's our Mister Oz!
Cultists: When we tried it, Eba beat us up!
Cultists: Just remembering it makes me wanna puke!
Cultists: I already am!
Cultists: Okay! Let's get it together and move out!
Cultists: To RTV's secret hideout!

Oz: But I haven't been back in so long, maybe they won't want me there...
Oz: I'm scared to go back.
Cultists: It'll be just fine!
Oz: How is Fukuju doing?
Cultists: She was asleep for a long time yesterday. She wants to see you!
Oz: Oooh, I'm scared! What if nobody wants guests today?! I just bet they don't!!
Cultists: Yeah, that stuff happens!

Cultists: It's our savior! Our savior!!
Cultists: That's our savior?!
Cultists: I want her!
Cultists: Hurry!
Cultists: Our savior!!
Cultists: Let's go pet her!
Cultists: I want her to save me!!
Cultists: Let's go see her up close!!
Oz: EEEEEEEEEK!! So many people are here!! What do we do?!
Cultists: Our savior! Our savior!!
Cultists: Mister Oz, we have a guest!
Peddler: Just by touching this orb, you can get a sneak peek at the Void! I call it the Pure Soul!

Oz: The Void?! Really?!
Peddler: First the orb will create a space! That place will gradually close off the 37 functions of a living organism... [sfx: blah blah blah]
Peddler: Your senses of sight, smell, taste... Each of them will be displaced outside the orb. And once your senses have all gone... You'll be able to experience the Void!
Oz: TAKE MY MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Peddler: Next what I have for you is...
Oz: Ohhh! The Mochama of Machabe!!!
Peddler: This will guide you to the realm of Zol...
Cultists: Come now! This way, Savior!
Cultists: Please say hi to everyone!

Cultists: It's our savior!!!
Cultists: Let's talk!!
Cultists: Wowie, is she the real thing?!
Cultists: You can ask us anything!
Cultists: Is there anything you wanna know?
Cultists: We gotta introduce her and Lord Ghost!
Cultists: We'll show you to the Egg tomorrow!
Poyoko: Egg...?
Cultists: The egg that the Void was sealed away inside!
Cultists: It's waaaaaaaaaaaay at the end of an underground passage!
Cultists: None of us can even get close!
Cultists: But you can!

Poyoko: Why?
Cultists: 'Cause you don't have a heart!
Cultists: No matter how we despair, we'll never be able to lose ours. That's just how the Kings made us!
Cultists: But you're a human from another world, so you're not bound by our rules!
Cultists: Plus, you don't have a heart!
Cultists: When we RTV and ordinary humans get too close to the Egg, we become immobilized with fear.
Cultists: The only one who can get close enough to the Egg to break it open is you, since you can't feel fear!

Poyoko: ...How come you all want to return to Void?
Cultists: 'Cause I have nightmares every day!
Cultists: 'Cause I'm worthless compared to other people!
Cultists: 'Cause some days I can't stop crying!
Cultists: 'Cause everyone said they don't need me!
Cultists: 'Cause I have no reason to live!
Cultists: 'Cause I know I'm worthless!
Cultists: 'Cause nobody loves me!
Cultists: It sucks!!
Cultists: Savior?
Cultists: What's wrong?
Poyoko: (It hurts... I know exactly how they feel.)

Poyoko: (I was always the same... I never had a place to belong. I always thought nobody would care if I disappeared... I thought it would be easier if I could just stop existing. I felt that way for so... so long.)
Poyoko: (But...)
Oz: What a great shopping trip!!!
Oz: How do you like our hideout, Savior? Everyone here's great, aren't they?
Cultists: What'd you get, Mister Oz?
Cultists: Lemme see!
Cultists: Mister Oz!!!!!!!!

Cultists: It's Fukuju...!
Oz: Fukuju! Are you okay?! Hang in there! Fukuju!!
Cultists: Eugh... Even with the door closed, it's so stinky...
Cultists: I don't know how Mister Oz can take the stench...
Oz: Fukuju... I'm so sorry. If only I were stronger... I wish I had the power to ease your pain...
[sfx: creak, waft]
Cultists: No!! It smells too bad!!!
Cultists: Mister Oz!!!

Cultists: How is Fukuju...?!
Oz: She's dead.
Oz: I'll bury her. Same place as all the others... Deep underground, where no one will ever find her...
Oz: Please forget all about her. We can't leave any trace of her in this world.
Cultists: Fukuju died... She couldn't return to Void.
Cultists: She must have hated having to leave such an ugly corpse behind...
[sfx: urp]
Oz: You shouldn't get too close. She really does smell terrible.

Oz: Her blood finally got to be too thick for her to survive.
Oz: She was abandoned because her illness made her smell so bad. Even though they knew she wouldn't be able to live without medical care her whole life...
Oz: Are you... praying for her?
Oz: Thank you, Savior...

[sfx: FLOP]
Cultists: MISTER OZ?!
Cultists: He fainted... guess he couldn't take it after all.

Oz: I wanna die...
Oz: I can't do anything for them.
Oz: All the people here are suffering so terribly, but I'm not able to help them.
Oz: I've seen this over and over again.

Oz: Society abandons them... they suffer... and then they die, unable to return to Void.
Oz: It's been such a long, long time... and I've seen so many people go to their graves just like this.
Oz: Savior...
Oz: With your empty heart, you're the only one who can release the Void.

Oz: Please... please give everyone the Void.
Oz: Not just the people here... but the outsiders too. All those awful people who left us with nowhere to go but the pits of the earth...
Oz: Please... return the whole world to Void...
Oz: And please... please let me die, too...

Poyoko: The people here are very weak.
Poyoko: They're all so sad... they're just like me.
Poyoko: What should I do, Eba? I don't understand...

Poyoko: All those feelings... like happiness, and gratefulness, and warmth...
Poyoko: Just what were they? Were they even real...?
Poyoko: I don't know anymore.

Poyoko: I just... can't stop crying...


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