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The Blessed Woodlands

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YOLF:
Lubei Sang
7:15 AM, Nexus Time

While the dawn approached at their back, every step into the hallowed zone painted the sky and ground with blackness. Eternal night and primordial soil stretched around the duo, welcoming the strays while ignorant to their feelings. Luminous dots sprinkled the canopy until it stared down as a torn curtain filtering starlight, and pale, fibrous trees rose on every side like graves of gnarled marble. Life outsider to the rest of creation followed them with empty eyes from the cover of crystals and metallic leaves.

Here was the homeliness of a tomb that was a cradle, teeming with beasts that were not beasts in either cleverness or flesh, painted with the purity of an untouched canvas if the weave was a thousand colors unseen to the naked eye. A garden that shone like a jewel if its facets had been watered in blood and carved of heaven. The one truth it guarded was terror yet to be written.

Lubei mulled on the scene, slowing his steps. Not reverence but a indistinct, even more powerful wariness kept him on edge now. His snowy blade vibrated in its sheath in lieu of its master.

"Where to?"

Umbra of Chaos:
Uria

7:15 AM Nexus Time

"Same old same old," they muttered with some degree of boredom. It looked like it wasn't quite time yet! "Well, he's gonna come down from up there." They pointed up at the sky with a mildly annoyed look on their face. "But the big dumb baby doesn't want to come out yet."

There was an annoyed look on Uria's face as they clambered up onto a tree that seemed to respond to their touch, forming almost a cradle for them to lie in.

Kotomine_Rin:
The Voyager and the Hero

The forest offered only silent prayers, with its alien formation and strange white organisms that merely only stared up at the hole in the sky. There was a certain beauty to it, truthfully. It was calm, peaceful, and thus could not last.

Two great explosions erupted from the left and the right at the same time. One, a blast of spewing flame that licked the skies ferociously with true hunger. The other, a pillar of lightning which whipped accross the heavens like the lash of justice. The shattered trees and animals could not even lament their destruction.

"And it grew both day and night. Till it bore an apple bright. And my foe beheld it shine..." A smooth, mysterious voice was followed by calm steps, and a shadow emerged from the flames. A thin, pallid man with cracks accross his face was smoothly approaching the two with an air of wonder. Was he reading some sort of book? Before such a question could even be asked, he shut it close with a snap.

"And he knew that it was mine." He looked straight at Uria with a small, hesitant smile. As he did so, thinderous steps boomed accross the forest, until the armored behemoth revealed itself, with a glare alike 10 000 war lances aimed straight at the two.

"You madmen. What have you done in the slums? Do you have even less shame than animals?" The knight's eyes were gaping with cold fury, but most of all disbelief. A mere child!? Such madness, with regret and indignation, he slowly approached to deliver justice.

Meanwhile, the man clad in black merely sighed. "I think what he meant to say was... retribution for your shenanigans shall be quite severe. Was there a motive for your villainy? My good friend might show some leniency... if he cares enough to listen." He twirled his cane as a gentleman, drawing an arc before pointing at the hole above the four dramatically.

YOLF:
Lubei

For a single breath the demon king's expression cracked, and he paused like a taut bowstring, mid-step towards the space between Uria and the two arrivals. For ravaging this place before his eyes alone, Lubei didn't know whether to thank them or grow furious, but his hand tightened on the hilt of Three Poisons.

"And who are you?" Around his scowl, scales of frost bloomed and a wave of wintery air blew over the surroundings. Not even his companion was wholly spared. "You want justifications before even presenting yourselves? We have no excuses, and no reason to explain without knowing what it is to you, first."

Kotomine_Rin:
The voyager and the hero

"A man of no consequence. Nothing but a weary traveler, ready to turn ship." The ashen man bowed with a small smile, and a black lion emerged from his shade, while a bird of flame crawled out of his tattoos. He did not break eye contact once. "But unlike you, I merely cowered while the others fell to that child.... you aided her in something quite terrible. Something you knew to be terrible. So please, do spare me the sophistry. Your actions and inaction speak for themselves."

Meanwhile, lightning danced accross the armored man. His eyes glared at the cold man with such intensity, it was almost surreal.

"I am Vanguard. Whatever your reason, you're going to make up for all those lost lives. Run back to the authorities and confess your crimes, or fall here. Either way, it ends right here. Right now."

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