You give the handle a little jiggle, and the door swings open wide.
...And you're overwhelmed with feeling:
Her clawed hand closes around you and pulls— and just like that! just like that!!! you unsheathe.
You could sing for joy; you could laugh; you do these things as a sword does: you find them in her—every bit of fury, every violent urge, and you bring your sword-voice and her warrior-voice together in harmony, and together you cut, and c͖̼̥̺u̯̱̺̙͙̳t, and c̻̜̰̞̘̹̠͎͙̀͘u̧̨̘͉̜̠͔̼̬͕t̠̹̟̞͈̞͖̜͞.
And oh, together you're unstoppable.
The others drag you apart eventually, but you won't forget it: how, for the first time in so long, you didn't feel broken. Truly, this is what love is.
The memory fades, and you're left standing back in front of the closed door.
doorframe is surrounded with photos and knickknacks, like some kind of magpie’s scrapbook: there are various photos of BAD END members, of pep!pep! at the beach, of the garden at ☆ZRAEL; there are snack wrappers from the conbini; a dangling tsum tsum of Scythe; a neat-looking leaf from the park; a handprint in what looks like old blood.
Beneath the name “HELLFIRE” (the katakana are enthusiastically oversized) are a collection of other names: “Kiri,” “Cut Through All Foes,” “Khrysaor, Temptation of Angels,” and—written like an addendum to that last one—a fourth, which is not in katakana but rather some strange script that makes your vision blur at the edges: “Khysael.”
Most prominent of all, though, is the carved crest on the door: a detailed lotus and aconite, twining together into one whole. And you understand, intuitively, that this is as much a name as all the others.
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You give the handle a little jiggle, and the door swings open wide.
...And you're overwhelmed with feeling:
The memory fades, and you're left standing back in front of the closed door.
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well.
she said she'd try leaving the recipe in hellfire's room, so once she's had a moment or so to get her bearings she's heading down there. ]
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Beneath the name “HELLFIRE” (the katakana are enthusiastically oversized) are a collection of other names:
“Kiri,” “Cut Through All Foes,” “Khrysaor, Temptation of Angels,” and—written like an addendum to that last one—a fourth, which is not in katakana but rather some strange script that makes your vision blur at the edges: “Khysael.”
Most prominent of all, though, is the carved crest on the door: a detailed lotus and aconite, twining together into one whole. And you understand, intuitively, that this is as much a name as all the others.
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Lotus, Key of the Descending Angel.
Aconite, Key of Rage.
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and, further up, to the nameplate, likewise tracing the script ]
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