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[punnybone]

[...He really should've expected this. But honestly, after everything? Serif had kind of forgotten about this creep.

The response is late. Of course it is. Serif wasn't even anywhere close to a board to see it for a while, spending a lot of time avoiding his room. And you know what, fine. This is happening. Okay. Why the hell not, at this point.]

yeah ok

whatever

[everything_you_love]

You found a way out of the PROMISE.

You didn't even have to kill them yourself.

[punnybone]

didn't find my way out of anything

i made a promise

i kept it

[Just not in the way he expected he would.]

[everything_you_love]

Are we even talking about the same promise? The one you made to KILL them if they ever turned on their friends?

[punnybone]

yeah

never said i kept it in the way anyone expected

but grit seemed to think it counts

["You promised."

That's what they said when he found them.]

[everything_you_love]

I wouldn't count on the judgement of an eight-year old

WHEN THEY'RE DYING.

[punnybone]

yeah maybe not

but i also wasn't about to dismiss the last things a dying eight year old said to me

[everything_you_love]

Don't you GET it?

THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO DIE.

The only reason they did was BECAUSE YOU LET THEM.

[punnybone]

pal

if there was something i could've done about that

i would've

[everything_you_love]

Is that really the truth, or just what you tell yourself so you can sleep at night?

[punnybone]

haven't been sleeping so hell if i know

but by the time i found them there wasn't really anything i could do

[everything_you_love]

This is KORIKO, Serif.

You're telling me, that in a city full of spirits, of healers, witches and WISHES FOR IMPOSSIBLE THINGS ... there was nothing you could do?

DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH. YOU DIDN'T EVEN TRY.

[punnybone]

yeah well guess i'm just useless

whatever

[He doesn't really care about defending himself, so he doesn't bother to.

What happened happened. That's just how it is.]

was there anything you could do?

[everything_you_love]

At least I tried.

Even THAT was more than you did.

You just ran and left her to rot.

[punnybone]

okay

now tell me something i don't know

[everything_you_love]

Oh I could tell you all sorts of things.

I could tell you what it's like to watch someone steel themselves and be strong right up until the end, right before they sink into the dark. Then they're just clawing, gasping for a few more seconds.

I could tell you about what it feels to step on a floor that's been soaked in blood for hours. To be covered in it when it turns cold.

I could even teach you what it sounds like when someone's last words are choked and begging.

[punnybone]

...

man

this has really gotten to you huh?

[everything_you_love]

YOU BOTH RUINED EVERYTHING.

It's all been for NOTHING.

[punnybone]

so what

blaming me for what happened making it easier for you?

[everything_you_love]

Hardly.

Is rotting away in front of his room making things any easier for YOU?

[punnybone]

[...He unconsciously grips Tempus' scarf tighter at that. Not that Sunny can see that.]

no

[everything_you_love]

Serif, don't you see?

It's just YOU and ME now.

Of all the people that could have been left to fix this rotten world, it's US.

[punnybone]

'fix it'

yeah

cause that'll happen

[everything_you_love]

Exactly. There's no fixing anything now.

Maybe they couldn't changed things, could've moved the world with sheer willpower or faith.

Like fools, they spent hours trying to drill it in our heads that we would amount to something. That we could be more than we are. They wasted all that USELESS, BLIND faith ...

On dead husks. We're empty. We're tired. Done. Finished.

We've been done with this world for a long time.

[punnybone]

geez

you're starting to sound like that other me

[It'd be annoying, except he doesn't really care. It's just an observation.]

so

what are you gonna do