>"You are still incorrect, and now you are trying to twist what the word alone means. You say they cannot be what I am? Rubbish. We eat the same food, we breath the same air. We feel the same warmth from the sun, the same chill from the night. We are formed of the same carbon. We love. We hate. We toil. We play. We exist. We are not alone. We are unique, and together. We understand so much that we can live together in harmony, yet we are so unique you cannot closely examine any two people and call us the same without lying to yourself. I do not need any hearts in my hand, I am content for them to be where they are. What reason is there to embrace a darkness that cannot understand these simple things?"
>"I don't wants the hearts of the whole world in my hands. I already have my brother, my friends. And there is the world. It may not be 'mine', but I don't want it to be. It is there, and that is what matters. I already have everything I need, and all I want is to protect that."
>The tremoring in the blackness around you grows worse as you continue to reject your solitary status. This time you actually can feel the shaking sensation in your body. Including your right arm, which is slowly regaining its feeling. You think you can hear something like a cracking sound all around you, like glass under intense pressure.
>"You think you have everything you need? Oh, but you know better. You've been warned. That being that visited you before. It warned you of the threat to your world. That threat is real. Very real. And there are only two outcomes of its presence. You accept us, and embrace the darkness, and the rule the world like the Black Goddess you were born to be. And you will do this because of the alternative. If you reject us,
this is the only fate of your world. Empty darkness, blackness. Despair, hopelessness, empty death! The utter ruination of your world, the extinction of life, the dominion of that which was forgotten and will be forgotten no more! Only if you become the Dark Lady can you save this world. Only if you become the Dark Lady can save those you
love." The enraged voice drips venomous sarcasm at the word, and her disembodied chorus jeers and moans in responce.
>"Cling to the light *moan* if you must. But it cannot save your world. It cannot save those you care for. It cannot save you. It is weak and frail, and cannot stand against the Hate and the Rage and the Sin and the Sinners. Reject me, and you condemn your world to eternal damnation! Join with me, and take up the mantle of the Dark Lady. It is the only way to save our world." In contrast to her previous rant, she now sounds like she's almost pleading with you. "I know how great your heart is, but your friends, your loved ones, they cannot help you. They cannot save you, and you cannot save them if you reject me."
>Byakuren Hijiri Corruption Score: 25.
>The chill in your chest diminishes.
