Initiative.

[trustwellness]

With your course of study officially completed, for better or worse, there isn't much left for you in the courtroom itself; the elevator will take you back down to the first floor, where you'll be left off – it won't take you any lower than that. But then again, perhaps it doesn't need to. Take some time to reorient yourself, to be grateful that you didn't die, to do whatever it is you need to do – however, if you return to the main part of the building, away from the dorms... Well. There's something waiting for you in the foyer.

Comments

[blackmass]

As much as Avenger and I now seem to be on terrible terms now...[CASUALLY GLANCING AT NOIR]

...I said that I wouldn't abandon it. I...don't particularly want to go back on that. But for all I know, it's this or having my heart explode in the next five seconds.

[oyashiromama]

[Ah... Hanyuu's shoulders sink a little.]

To still stay here...with it, and nothing else? Kirei... I would still help you find a place. ...Both of you, despite what you've done. I would help you too...I meant that.

[blackmass]

...

[About a month or two for a life expectancy alone with a pissed off elder god...

[...ooor eating the thing and either dying on the spot or losing all connection to it.]

Just give me the damn thing.

[Kirei Kotomine is unstable. Not stupid.]

[oyashiromama]

[...PERKS UP AGAIN she's learned from rika tbh-

Hanyuu hands him a gummy tail. Wakey tail? what the heck are these.]

[blackmass]

[Fine, he'll eat the damn thing.]

[...and immediately collapse, in a sudden rush of dissipating shadows coming off him like smoke.]

[uncouthhatcher]

[... oh uh.]

That looks really unhealthy.

[HE. CAN MOVE, TECHNICALLY, HE CAN JUST BRIDAL STYLE NOIR AROUND, BUT HE'S NOT INCLINED TO CHECK ON KIREI. IT'S JUST KIND OF ALARMING.]

[oyashiromama]

[...SHE JUST KNEELS THE FUCK DOWN BY HIM, HEART IN HER THROAT--

Did she just. accidentally kill him.] K- Kirei...!

1/2

[blackmass]

[. . .]

[blackmass]

[And after a second, he sits back up coughing and saying some less than pleasant things in Japanese.]

-that is absolutely vile--!

[oyashiromama]

[LANGUAGE YOU ARE IN THE PRESENCE OF A GOD--]

Oh, thank goodness-- aah- you're- did it work?

1/3

[blackmass]

I'm not dead, despite feeling like you just poisoned-

[blackmass]

...poisoned...me...

[He seems to have noticed something or other, give him a second.]

[blackmass]

...I have a pulse.

Why do I have a pulse.

[oyashiromama]

[...]

Because...this was a miracle, Kirei Kotomine.

[blackmass]

It was a revolting piece of candy, not an act of God.

[uh, technically-]

But I-...don't think I've much energy left to argue the point, after everything.

[oyashiromama]

You can go anywhere you want, now. [...] Even though...

[Avenger... What is there to do about it?]

[blackmass]

...I can't just-

[This was what he'd wanted. The culmination of all his struggling and the long list of bodies in his wake.]

[Was he really just going to walk away now?]

[oyashiromama]

You are alive now. I won't force you to come with me, nor...as I said, can I promise a place in my home.

[...no one wants hinamizawa syndrome kirei, THERE'S A VACCINE BUT LIKE--]

But you're not a dead man walking anymore. You have choices, like anyone else.

[foundfate]

We could take him with us, you know. Though I guess we don't have to take our journey anymore, since everyone is alive and all.

[oyashiromama]

[...Come here, you-- Hanyuu gives him a hug.] We certainly don't, as everyone...can return home.

[foundfate]

[Hugs yes]

I've offered up my shop to anyone who wants to visit. If he wants to go there for a while, I wouldn't mind. It's been a few years since I've had a guest stay.

[It's also the place where his powers are the strongest, so he would theoretically be able to stop Kirei from doing dumb shit. So it's not an entirely selfless offer.]

[blackmass]

This is all I ever wanted. I fought for Avenger's awakening, and even now it's...this close to becoming reality. Can I truly just walk away because there might be a different answer elsewhere?

[oyashiromama]

Either way, you'll spend your whole life wondering, what to do? Which one do you think...has more potential?

After all you've seen, can you really deny the possibility of finding your answer out in the world?

[blackmass]

...

. . .

[Well...he'd come this far.]

Let's go.

[tsugomori]

[ ... well okay. Did the guy just die...whatever the case that looked extremely alarming. ]