[That's...good, this reaction. No words, but...it seems Elda understands, at least a little. Again, she appears a little grateful.]
...I got almost...almost three years with Riku. [This...hurts so much to say. This, she hasn't told anyone here, hasn't ever told anyone-] Enough...to fall in love, and get married...and have a child. But... One of my brethren, one who'd wanted...a challenge, against the most powerful Pureblood in the area.
[She's looking at the ground, her hands curled to fists.]
He... There are Purebloods, and there are Mixed-bloods. The Mixed-bloods, they are ones who were like spirits and tried assimilating with humans, the species with the highest functions. Basically, they became the same being, by combining before human embryos had personalities, and at the start, it worked out fine...but...Japan was overtaken by illness. And the spirits took to adolescents...and both personalities fractured, and suffered. If they reached terminal stages...they would lose all control of themselves. Kill, no longer be anything but...a monster, in every sense of the word.
[She trembles, lightly.]
So... That Pureblood, he set off a bunch of Mixed-bloods. My job, my duty, was to stop the ones that were laying waste to the village, and to watch over those who could reach terminal symptoms, so...I responded. I went to stop them, and he...
...he possessed Riku, and used his body...to fight me. There was no saving him.
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...I got almost...almost three years with Riku. [This...hurts so much to say. This, she hasn't told anyone here, hasn't ever told anyone-] Enough...to fall in love, and get married...and have a child. But... One of my brethren, one who'd wanted...a challenge, against the most powerful Pureblood in the area.
[She's looking at the ground, her hands curled to fists.]
He... There are Purebloods, and there are Mixed-bloods. The Mixed-bloods, they are ones who were like spirits and tried assimilating with humans, the species with the highest functions. Basically, they became the same being, by combining before human embryos had personalities, and at the start, it worked out fine...but...Japan was overtaken by illness. And the spirits took to adolescents...and both personalities fractured, and suffered. If they reached terminal stages...they would lose all control of themselves. Kill, no longer be anything but...a monster, in every sense of the word.
[She trembles, lightly.]
So... That Pureblood, he set off a bunch of Mixed-bloods. My job, my duty, was to stop the ones that were laying waste to the village, and to watch over those who could reach terminal symptoms, so...I responded. I went to stop them, and he...
...he possessed Riku, and used his body...to fight me. There was no saving him.