I try to shape it up now...
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Just another meeting of the Hourai immortals.
My (questionable) attempt at synchronizing the story with the surprisingly fitting (not saying much) lyrics of a song.
Note: Text color-coded for convenience as to whose viewpoint is whose
Kaguya = Purple
Mokou = Maroon
Eirin = Navy
Also, the lyrics of the song are in italics and I'll leave it up to your interpretation if the song lyrics are part of the dialog or not.
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It was quick. Getting into Eientei took no effort. She had known the forest down to its heart, no matter how much it may change. The rabbits were powerless, if they could do anything. Now, she stands before the grand building, and takes her step inside.
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She stood in the eternal hallway of Eientei, almost carefree. She knew what was coming for her, and she was ready.
[[♫ Room of Angel ♫]]
♫You lie, silent there before me? ♫
The eternal hallway. You could walk for miles, but still be in the same place. And then there the Hourai Princess was, standing, her back turned. The only thing that matters is she dies. No more hatred, that has faded long ago. No more rage, time has sapped it dry. No more vengeance, when the others had already moved on? Just the desire to kill.
♫Your tears? Maybe nothing to me. ♫
How the Hourai Victim still wished to kill her so many times? Some people just don?t let go of old wounds. Amusing. She can keep trying, but she won?t find any satisfaction for it. She never found satisfaction then, so why would she this time?
♫The wind? Howling at the window, ♫
The windows of the eternal hallway. They all look out towards the same area. It?s the same wind, howling against every window.
♫The love? You never gave? ♫
There is no grace to be found here. It?s a solemn moonless night, as she approached her target from behind. No bullets, no patterns, no spell cards. Just a swift, brutal blow, tailored for the kill.
♫I give to you... Really don?t deserve it. ♫
The flames were dim, barely lighting the hall, graceless as the night. And down her target went.
♫But now, there?s nothing you can do ♫
It wasn?t enough. She wanted more than just that?
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She was good, catching her there. But even as she lies on the floor, barely stained with her blood, she makes a small smirk, knowing that even as she meets her maker today, she will come back another day. It?s nothing personal...
♫So sleep? In your only memory... Of me, my dearest mother... ♫
The flames pulsated in her hands. The killing blow was ready. So this is how it will end. Not with majestic bullets, but with a flame to burn her to ashes, that she?ll just come back from tomorrow.
♫Here?s a lullaby to close your eyes? Goodbye. ♫
She heard the commotion, even from a room in a different part of Eientei.
♫It was always you that I despised. I don?t feel enough for you to cry? Oh well. ♫
...Even then, her words were only half-hearted. Not because she doesn?t really want to kill her anymore, but because the emotions of despisal just weren?t there...
♫Here?s a lullaby to close your eyes. Goodbye? ♫
She noticed that she wasn?t paying attention, allowing her to slip under the darkness of the eternal hall, her bow ready to strike. They don?t hold any true grievance or hatred against each other anymore, just the feud. Yet, she will still play her part to protect the princess. And to that end, she drew the arrow. And fired.
♫Goodbye? ♫
The arrow struck her through the gut.
♫Goodbye? ♫
As she turned around, clutching her wound, she saw her new attacker...
♫Goodbye? ♫
The doctor.
♫So insignificant... ♫
She knew that no matter what she tried, the two were destined to fight each other for eternity, until the universe itself ends. All she can do is play her part?
♫Sleeping dormant deep inside of me... ♫
The flaming wings of the phoenix flickered, as she desperately tried to find strength in an unexpected situation.
♫Are you hiding away, lost, under the sewers? ♫
A world of the rejected and shunned?
♫Maybe flying high? in the clouds? ♫
The fireflies are dancing?
♫Perhaps you?re happy without me, so many seeds have been sown in the field. ♫
The doctor? even though she had already been drained of emotions, her words? in her heart, what heart she still had, she knew it wasn?t her speaking anymore. With the arrow taking what strength she had, she lost control.
♫?And who who could sprout up so blessedly if I had died? ♫
♫I would have never? felt sad at all. ♫
She wouldn?t let anyone stop her from killing her now. The phoenix is in control, it would know what to do, wouldn?t it?
♫You will not hear me say? I?m sorry. ♫
The wings burned bright in the darkness of the halls. The surge of energy burned away the arrow that was stuck in her. Her normally red eyes gleamed a ungodly orange, and as she staggered towards her, the doctor braced as the wings embraced her. Funny how, even after blows like these, there still only a hint of bad blood between them, just the Hourai Princess and the Hourai Victim?
♫Where? is the light? I wonder if it?s weeping somewhere... ♫
Having regained control of herself, she turned back towards the princess, hoping to finish her.
♫Here?s a lullaby to close your eyes? Goodbye. ♫
She stood above the princess, like she had moments before.
♫It was always you that I despised. ♫
She prepared the same killing blow again.
♫I don?t feel enough for you to cry? Oh well. ♫
As she looks at the princess? ruined body, she realises she?s already dead, having died of her wounds. Why die just now? To spite her? To deny her?
♫Here?s a lullaby to close your eyes? Goodbye. ♫
♫Here?s a lullaby to close your eyes? Goodbye. ♫
The pain returned, hard and sudden. The wound from the arrow was still there...
♫It was always you that I despised. ♫
As the pain brought her down to her knees, she realised she too was dying.
♫I don?t feel enough for you to cry? Oh well. ♫
While staying on her knees with the last of her strength, she looked at the princess? dead body with anger, rung hollow and empty.
♫Here?s a lullaby to close your eyes? Goodbye. ♫
She finally collapsed, next to her eternal enemy.
♫Goodbye... ♫
She looked at her foe's body one last time?
♫Goodbye? ♫
And tried to reach out. Alas, she finally gave out. Her arm goes limp. Her vision simply faded to darkness. Life had stopped flashing before her eyes long ago.
♫Goodbye. ♫
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...I still failed to shape it up.
P.S. Reisen has a hell of a cleanup job waiting for her when she gets back from her errands?
P.P.S. This is very ambiguous.