idolpro | Flowers of Heaven 2: future is now + ☆ZRAEL

There’s a whirr and a series of quiet bleep-boops; an odd sound like stones grinding together.

Gathering around you all are strange creatures. Wheeling up to future is now are what seem to be friendly robots, almost like roombas, that have been given attachments of long, jointed arms with simple pincers at the ends, and hopping up to ☆ZRAEL are what look like a number of gargoyles, each no more than a few feet high and in the traditional gothic cathedral style—and all animate, their flesh made of living rock.
None of the creatures speak, exactly, but they chitter and nudge at you like they're greeting old friends, and usher you towards a gap that's opened in the thick curtain of kudzu vines and onto a winding path beyond.

Once you cross through, the vines grow rapidly to cover the open space behind you, and the voices of your fellow idols fade from your ears. It seems as if you’re on your own, now.

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Here, the vines that surround your path have thick, velvety leaves, and the stems of the vines are traced with shifting, fiber-optic lines that cycle through the rainbow.

The little creatures are carrying some things for you—the roombas carry a wreath of vervain, honeysuckle, and oak flowers and leaves, and the gargoyles a wreath of lotus, clematis, and wild rose. As they approach you, the air shifts in a strange way, and suddenly they have one wreath between them—all those flowers woven together into one, which they offer to you. They also have for you a collection of sixteen different flowers, and a small lantern of blue flame.

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[ Pardon her, but before the next round of debate she needs to take care of some important scolding! ]

At least no one can drop the crown on me again.

[ Someone is getting teased about someone having a crush on them back later. ]

Look at it this way--now he's one person more likely to end up wearing the crown.

[ yeah she'll probably care about that later, it'll be great! ]

Are you okay? That looked awful.

[ She's being a little more candid than usual. ]

Honestly? It sucked!

[ Laughs awkwardly and rubs at her chest again. The phantom after-pains are not great. ]

But at least it's over, right?

[ Unless she gets hit again. And then she has to have a repeat. ]

[ She offers Lumine a shoulder if she needs one ]

Yeah. It's over.

[ And Dia got hit too... ] Other than the pain, how do you feel?

Honestly? Not bad.

[ Which is kind of worrying. ]

I can't tell what that thing did to me.

[ It seems too much to hope for the answer to be "nothing." ]

...Hm.

[ Sorry she's super distracted right now ]

I can't find the person who put the crown on me. I'm not going on without them.

What? Aliza, you can't just stay here.

I can't just leave! What good is my soul if I can't even look for someone who means so much to me, who protected me from that obstacle?

Listen, we don't know, maybe they've managed to go on ahead without us. But they'll definitely be waiting for you at the end of the game, so if you stay here you'll never see them again.

[ By now her threatening tears have started falling, but she wipes at her face and nods. She knows. ]

...okay. I just -- I had to fight for them first, even if it was sort of meaningless.

It's not meaningless.

[ Reaching out and squeezing her hand reassuringly. ]

I'm sure they're going to be very happy when they find out. Okay?

[ yeah maybe after she lovingly tells him off ]

I guess so. [ sniffle ] Let's get out of here and then I'll keep looking once we get back.

[ That's legit; sometimes you gotta have that argument.

She squeezes her hand reassuringly again. ]

I'll help you look, okay?

[ Or she would, if she had any control of her urges to stay in one place once this is over. Oops. ]

Worked out pretty well, didn't it?

No.

Well, suit yourself. Plenty more problems to solve ahead, anyway.

I don't care. Burn my flowers.

[ Someone protected her and then got hurt because of it, and she can't even remember who! Who cares about this game in the face of that. ]

...Well, we've got some other options left before we go to self-destruction, mind, but we'll keep it in consideration.

Fine. Whatever. I just want to stay here and find the one I lost.

...

[ she's in this picture and she doesn't like it ]

...fair, I guess.

Don't suppose—well. Never mind. My advice isn't very good, on that topic.

And I'm not really in a place to take any advice, I guess.

Losing people you care about is hard, even if it's temporary. ...I really hope it's temporary.

[ she looks for a second like she wants to say something else and then settles on— ]

Yeah, I hope so too.

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