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Kotomine_Rin:
Zeke
He shrugged. Heh. That's entirely up to you. Graces adapt to their host, their desires, and the bonds they cultivate. They're just a pen, the potential depends on how you use it.
But what is necessary to wield them is a strong heart, a compatible body... and an irreplaceable bond. Anything can do, really. The most common is obviosly the tie between God and its soldiers, but that's just one way to go about it. So what would she draw with that pen?
Why waste my breath telling you...
That same darkness erupted once more, and his hand reached out for Aruna's head- as the demon was pulled in closer. His bod- his vessel pulsated and throbbed with forbidden energy. His eye glowed. ...when I can show you!?
yinsukin:
Aruna
So then that thing... what she did in Meal's world. That is what she chose to do.. Bonds?
Denizen's of the dark thrive off the bonds of others, exploring them, stealing from them, doing everything in their power to make them fall apart. The light... those in the light strengthen themselves with those bonds, good or bad. I suppose it makes sense he would know, considering what he is. But what was the value of learning from someone who treated bonds like that?
Wait! I-
And it was too late. She was already swallowed.
Kotomine_Rin:
Within Aruna's Mind
In the beginning, there was Time [時間 Jikan]
Then came Life [生活 Seikatsu]
To test it, let this life brave the Storm「竜巻 Tatsumaki」
To temper it, let them endure the Flood「大海 Taikai」
Those who fight, let them yearn to reach the Sun「太陽 Taiyō」
There is but one future for those who fail. The End [死 Shi]
Fear us! Worship us! We are the seven Archangels! Let no soul endure without our grace! For we are the greatest! We are the almighty! Even the lord of demons, ______ , is no match for our ilk! For we march behind the back of the greatest Archangel! The wielder of Purity! Fear his name! Love his name, second only to our Lord! His name is ______!
The Seven Archangels. YHWH. The Void. Forbidden memories recorded by the grace slammed straight into Aruna. It was like if Zeke hit a pressure point, and was forcing her to sync with it even harder than before.
But it was wrong.
The memories throbbing and flowing from the grace into Aruna were an illusion. A poisoned knowledge. Incomplete. Why wouldn't it be? That thing was nothing more than a shard to begin with, it had no right to know. Let alone the right to be. What Aruna saw was even more terrible than the devastation of these archangels. It was their sarcophagus. An ominous tower within the stars, and seven coffins where they rested. A chamber where the life forces of humans and their prayers were drawn to.
Soldiers of the new world, forgotten by time, but not by prayer! They found solace and purpose in the prayers of man! This was their bond.
A network of PATHS, linking them back to their own planet, the one where they originally landed. Yet one of these branches had strayed from its network. Now, these roots mingled and crossed. Now, one of them had torn its way into this world. It split into a beastkin, a soldier of God, a demon and a forest. Because of her actions, this network of control was spreading. It was different from Zeke's assimilation in every way possible, yet there was an unshakeable feeling that it was similar in more ways than one.
Because the void came before everything else. Fakers should just die, you know?
Do you understand now? What you inherited isn't something as lofty as a divine gift. That thing in your arm is a weapon of mass destruction. A familiar voice floated around her head. No, inside her head.
yinsukin:
Aruna's Mind
Aruna could feel it, the light on her arm calling out to her whispering to her. This wasn't Zeke alone, it was whatever connection he had to this... grace. The light occasionally called out to her, asked her to give into her will to dominate, to conquer. To think that that night it had a mind of its own, its poison spreading this far. Grace... the demon had already seen it before. The squirrel girl, she had the power. The light was spreading like a disease clinging onto anything it could touch. Its like long ago with the humans.
But this time, its my fault, even though I was trying to save him....
The light on her arm shined like the brightest sun, blinding her to everything before her. For a moment that seemed to stretch on for ages, Aruna became engulfed in the light of her arm, the thing she stole. In the wake of that light, her body was reduced to nothing but shadow, a simple silhouette, something to be manipulated and controlled by the light like a marionette.
FINE! Then come down here, teach me! I refuse to be a puppet of the light any longer!
Once upon a time, humans were gifted with the power of light in the form of fire. This fire spread into the pleague known as humanity. However, like her, they were merely gifted with the light. So was she seeking the power of a human?
You hear me false demon! Come down here!
Kotomine_Rin:
Inside Aruna's Mind - Zeke
I am already here... Are you ignoring it? Or have you closed your eyes for so long you can't even tell...
Darkness. Neither evil, nor good, sprouted from within her. It grew, it consumed, and surrounded everybody in equal measure. People ascribed their own meaning to it, and from that meaning, darkness changed. But was it wrong to consume? To follow its nature?
What stared right in front of Aruna was none other than the abyss. It was herself. It was himself. It was everything yet it was nothing. She... he... the darkness... Zeke smiled at the demon.
That dark mirror slowly walked towards Aruna, with a playful sway of its hips. And when it was so close they could feel eachothers breaths-
Zeke hugged Aruna.
It wasn't your fault. You followed your path, as I followed mine. Why do you hesitate?
Love yourself.
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