Category: Chapter 15
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EX — Promessa
Within the Dreamscape, a forest begins to converge around one of its newest permanent residents. Mei, unfazed, walks deeper into the woods. A thick fog begins to converge and settle on the forest floor as the foliage becomes increasingly dense. After a while of wandering, seemingly with a purpose yet equally in a trance, she…
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18 — Apocalypse (pt. 2)
Stepping out of her portal onto the rubble of the large square where the battle with Punisher had started, she takes in the deafening silence as she gazes up at the full moon. The unconscious bodies of Kiwako and Hanako are gone. Sniffing in barely contained fury, she reaches out her hand at the celestial…
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17 — Apocalypse (pt. 1)
Mitakihara was borderline unrecognizable. No different than some far off, war torn country one might see on the news. But no bombs had been dropped, no enemy declaring war. This was the scene of a town marked for erasure by an extraterrestrial entity, bound on erasing a relatively small group of people. And this erasure,…
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16 — The Great Escape
Night is beginning to fall over Mitakihara, including over the shipyard of its once prosperous port, now a mostly abandoned no man’s land, often tinted quite a few shades darker than the rest of town due to the complete lack of functioning lighting. From within the warehouse that has been serving as her makeshift prison…
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15 — The Pale Wardens (pt. 3)
The heavy mahogany doors to the courtroom swing wide open, cutting off any ongoing conversations as the countless figures in the theater seats surrounding the pulpit in the middle of the massive hall turn their masked faces towards the entrance. Accompanied by the loud clack-clack-clack of her footsteps on the marble floor, Niko storms in,…
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14 — Inquisition
At the gym, a group of girls are anxiously gathered in front of a lone television screen in an improvised lounge area, watching helicopter camera footage of burning buildings and roving rioters as a frightened commentator’s voice frantically tries to make sense of what is going on. After a while, the live footage cuts to…
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EX — Ardeat
Diana: (speaking entirely in American English, pulling her silver cigarette case from her jacket pocket and staring at a building as it crumbles into dust) …Everything in the world’s come down to a coin toss again. You’d think that somewhere, sometime there would’ve been something to change it… That someone would’ve found some kinda way…
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13 — The Pale Wardens (pt. 2)
???: Now then, my pupil. Take in the splendor around you. Cast your gaze along the horizon, tracing every spire and every wall. Cross it with that of the passers-by. Look beyond their masks, beyond these walls and spires, beyond the horizon. Beyond the sun in the sky. What do you feel? A kind and…
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12 — Evacuation
A convoy of delivery trucks file in and out along the lone entrance of Mitakihara City, flanked overhead by a few helicopters piloted by various members of the JSDF. This time, goods are exchanged for panicked survivors, and brought outside the city. If there had been a mechanism for enforcing Shiori Nakae’s demands, it no…
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11 — Imbalance
Dawn breaks above Mitakihara, though only a few rays of sunshine manage to make their way through the grim smoke rising up from the city. From atop the commercial district’s largest building, Punisher gazes down at the eight-way intersection below, the city’s busiest traffic hub, now swarming with rioters running to and fro, smashing whatever…
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