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Velvet Pov(time after ch26)
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‘To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life’
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Running, running, without an aim.
Remembering the last moment in the fire, I heard the scream.
Hands there waiting for a rescue, waiting for a pull.
Hence I go to rescue, like a fool.
Have withstood pain after created uncounted affliction.
Have never been understood and never sought for realization.
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To be, or not to be: that is the question.
To be, hell is more worthy of me; not to be, Death is too cheap for me.
Known to my unatoned sin, yet I stained with blood again.
Known a should of atonement, yet those hand will never hold anything.
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For my regret, I set the fire and then set out a rescue.
Forgiveness is never prayed, and yet I am also looking for an excuse.
To retrieve, I ran into the fire.
To atone, I play the role of savior.
I have no regret, this is the only path.
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Yet, I should have known a scourage save nothing.
A familiar face of an old lady exposed from the rubble, staring at me.
My hand bloody stained, my vision redden, everything is covered by a red light mist.
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Running, running, without an aim.
I pretended to hear none of the voices, see none of the faces, to those who used to familiar to me.
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The thickets hide the way of the path with branches hide the sun.
Unaware of the way, I escaped from the burning wood.
Straying, walk astray in wood.
Lost the true direction, see a tilted compress half-buried in lifeless earth.
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Compass….I think of Laphicet or creed of one. Not like I care about the creed, I walked away.
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I am stumbled by likely exposed tree roots on my way, but when I looked back, I found no woods or roots.
Then, I feel a constraint on my leg.
My leg is grabbed by an emaciated hand, it is lifeless like it is a hand of a rotten dead body.
It is climbing from its nature earth grave.
The resentment displayed from the single red light in its orbit, the light glows and scan through me.
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“Why.Why...alive??” winds blow loud around my ears as if someone curse.
I crawled forward to resist the day of the dead.
Suddenly, the whole surface stratum crumbled and I barely grab the edge of the cliff.
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I looked into the abyss created from the collapse.
No more grab by the hand or root but empty.
No constraint, free from a firm base. Only darkness in the abyss under the cliff, the abyss can not be seen at the bottom.
If I fall, it likely to cost my life.
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As if the caress off breeze is the embrace of the reaper, horror spread throughout my body as the coldness transmits from the air into my backbone.
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At that moment, I heard the sound of silence, neither the sound of collapse or the wind howling, only the pure silence, it is the sound of death. The death is that near, attained by only releasing my hand. I never fear death like this. From every moment I pass by death, every moment I don’t care to kill, to the recent days I don't care to die, but now I am afraid to die, not until my aim is achieved, not until my beloved friends saved.
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I try to look up to the sky, covered in bloody red, the moonlight is what turned everything covered by light red mist. All things blurred but a clearly defined shaded figure.
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‘SNAP’
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Someone steps approach me.
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How could I forget this night? One person is standing above, the person I shouldn't forget, staring at me. He may pull me up, but I know he won't. He just cut off my arm and let me fall.
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The end is fixed, I will fall down the cliff, by his cut to my arm.
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Watching my mechanical prosthesis dismembered in the air, I am pulled into the abyss by death.
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To nothing I belong.
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“Why did you kill me, why did you kill us?!”
“Why don’t you die?!”
“It is all your fault.”
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The wind created brushing past my ear with the gravity acting on me, noise creating and echoing inside my head when I fall, like the murmuring of someone. I wonder if I am dying because of the ghost’s curse….no….it is just what I deserved a long time ago.
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“Why did I live?” I asked myself and only the echo answered me.
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I try to remember all my unatoned sins.
Too much to count, the memory faded with the departed spirit in the past, with all the people I killed, with all my family killed, how they die.
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In this silence, I see them gone, just like I have seen before.
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Memory slowly fading away, now I can't even remember the time and faces of my friends.
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In this fall my dreams are gone, forgot my everything.
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“Who …..am I?” The blank in my memory became larger, my memory is slowly broken apart. Forgetting the sad affair maybe a better way to live, but not for me, I know I should not forget.
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As if someone is asking me: ‘Do you love the cruel truth more than the sweet dream?’
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I should remember those sin unatoned for all my lifetime.
I still remember I must do something.
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“...vet, promise….no matter…..forgive….life……..live on…………” A fragmental sentence I remember just now is told by someone, a boy has tender green eyes with brown hair.
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“Don’t bear all the things alone!” I remembered someone blamed me once not for my sin, someone once an enemy, possessing the same bright tender green eyes as the boy.
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My body finally lands on the cold earth, surprisingly no fatal wound.
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It’s a nightmare, I realized.
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The moonlight can’t even shine through the broad gap between cliffs, the surrounding area is all dark. Now I am in the bottom of the abyss I looked over, only darkness here, no sound, no warmth, no light, it is in absolute darkness as if it is isolated from the ground surface. The abyss is just like my mind, there is no dawn in my heart, always be in darkness.
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Walking forward again, it seems that I am trapped in endless darkness as if the world is empty and there is only one person in the world. The sound of my breath and steps can be easily captured and are amplified in this quiet darkness.
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I continue walking forward from one side to another side, greet with warm light lighten up and drives away the deep and thick darkness. I see a line of lantern lightens up one by one continuously as if they are trying to lead me a path.
The lights in the dark give me light, warmth, spirit, to illuminate the way of my journey.
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I follow the light to find out what they lead to.
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In the darkness with little light sparks in the air, I saw a black shadow standing there, waiting quietly.
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“Hey…... Velvet.” When I heard a female voice, I move forward faster, I find a female there where lantern light is dim, with the voice trembling, and it is familiar. The female with half of her face hidden in the darkness is so similar to someone in my broken memory.
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Crybaby exorcist.
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“-----------” I felt that I knew her since she feels so familiar and reliable, but I forget about her. So sad that I can’t call out her name at the moment.
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The next moment, she throws herself at me and I watch the band I that bind my hair flew in the air with my hair also flying.
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“.........It’s has been a very long time.” She deeply hugs me, unaware of my reaction to her, as if she wants to push out all my oxygen. She holds me so tightly as if she afraid to lose me again.
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Am I an important person to her?
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And my chest is wet as I just noticed after a blanked moment.
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“.......Why are you crying?” I asked.
“Because you never cry it out,” she answered while sobbing.
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“.........”I have a feeling that I must remember her, I should not forget her name.
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‘Crybaby exorcist’ however be the only words I sought, because she is crying.---- One willing to cry for others' sadness.
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Her hands full of warmth, like the fire in winter, very kind and warm, keep the coldness of abyss away from me. She grabbed my hand with a worrying face, the warmth flow along with blood with the sincerity held in her palm.
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“......Sorry that I can't help much.” Before I realized her words, something light up the surrounding, a silver flame ignited in her hand. I immediately want to take my hand but she grabbed tightly and it seems the flame is not hot and hurting me. The darkness came over and enveloped the flame but the flame continues to burn and shine, illuminates the darkness. The silver flame gradually spread throughout the area and everything turns into a prairie underneath the blue sky.
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I found my memory recovered slowly, it may be the effect of the silver flame.
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The person in front of me, I must remember. The person who was crying in the first time I saw her. The person who always wants to help others, just like someone. The person who is my friend…….
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“.....Eh….Ele...Eleanor……..?!......Am I dreaming?” I tried hard to find out her name again in my memory while it is still recovering.
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“Yes.” What a disappointing answer.
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“Didn’t you died? Why…..”
“Yes, I died and reincarnated into a seraph….. I am the seraph working with you in the burning town business.”
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“........Sorry.” I feel sorry to make my friend suffer again. She shall not be the Victimizer, she should be a savior.
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“Are you really the Eleanor I know?” I doubt about the person in front of me even when she just cried for me, this dream ought to be a nightmare. I once asked a similar question to Seres in my dream too, to ask her that can I call Celica and her the same person, but she denied that they are the same, they just possessed the same memory.
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“It is hard to explain, but I believe I am the same one and always be the same one.” That’s the answer from the seraph.
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“.................” I didn’t continue to ask her about anything, like how long has she lived, what did she do, how did she end up being the seraph working with me. I want to know but I can’t ask, it must be a hard time. It is hard to respond, whether should I be glad or not, have a friend back. Somehow I feel guilty too but I can’t let this occupy me. If I am occupied by my feeling, I can’t use her for my aim now, so I can’t let myself continue to notice my guilty of being the one left out everyone. I have to use her to rescue Sorey and Edna.
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“....May I know what happened?” Her eyes told me that she will believe me until the end.
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I told the story after I awake from the slumber. I told her the days I live with a family in Tewks village, the day I got to know Sorey was a Shepherd and Laphicet became an Empyrean. I told her how I traveled with the boy and we met seraphim and people on our way, how are we captured by the man and how I end up with the burning town business.
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Her face turned complicated as I spoke, not like that she has trouble with this, or say half.
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“Do You treat the boy called Sorey as a family?”
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“I don’t know, some of his features do like my Laphi and Arthur and I can’t leave him in this situation.”
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“Although I want to ask more about the Ex-Shepherd called Sorey, your priority is to rescue him and Edna,” Eleanor stated after understanding the situation.
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“Yes. I have to find a way to rescue them.” I stated.
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“But you should just take some rest first.” After understanding the case, seems that she disagreed with my action.
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“.......I must go to rescue them as soon as possible.” I insisted as I don’t know when will the mysterious man break his ‘promise’.
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“I understand you care about them, but you should care about yourself too.” Eleanor is not going to change her mind.
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“There is no time, I must go.” Why won’t she understand?
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“........I am afraid I can’t let you continue, not in such a state.” Eleanor sees there is no way to persuade me so she chooses the tough way. She placed her lance in front of herself, preparing to fight. She is going to fight me, but I can see the sadness in her eyes -- just like the sadness, I saw in the old woman’s eyes. I hate those eyes.
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“What do you mean such a state? If you are going to stop me, I will fight you.” I don’t understand what is she talking about, but there is a thing I must achieve.
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“You never change, always use your everything to achieve your aim. This time I should let you notice yourself!” Eleanor held her lance, rushing towards me to give a strike.
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“Yes, I will cost everything to achieve my aim. I see you are obstinate to stop me. Let’s have a deal like the past. If I defeat you, you'll follow my orders.” After dodged her strike, I jumped back and suggested, like how we had the deal in the past.
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“I accept. But conversely, should you lose...You will hear me out!” Eleanor answered and started another attack on me.
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I dodge again, although I am the one who starts the challenge, I only keep dodging her attacks.
Strike, slash, thrust, she fights like without flaw in the move, like a veteran of a hundred battles. Maybe she was fighting in the past thousand years that she has more battle experience than me already. Still, I need to win.
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“What’s the matter? Only knowing to dodge is not your style.” She teased.
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Well, I have to get used to the body balance without my left arm here and I should find out the trend of her attack.
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“How about you? You are not all out.”
Know your foes, and strike where they're weak. If she continues showing no flaw, then my stamina may be burnt out first. I have to trigger her to show flaws to me.
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“I just want to stop you, and you are only a human now,” Eleanor said while spinning the spear, enveloping me to the front and trying to cut me.
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you are only a human.
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“So what?! Rising Falcon!” She is the last one I expect to hear this sentence.
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.....I kick on her spear, conjuring a small burst of water, launching myself a distance away from Eleanor’s spear. Jump into the air with the kick then dive down on Eleanor like a raptor, her overhead area is the only area that defenseless.
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“Useless. Vanguard!” Eleanor shouted as she noticed my position and modulate her move to spin her spear in a straight line before her and attack her overhead area.
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Two strikes clashed together making my attacking trace staggered and rebounded, so I take the reaction force from the clash to jump back and launch myself a distance away from her again.
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Eleanor doesn’t leave me a break, immediately impale her spear into the ground, using it to perform a front-flip into the air, largely shorten her distance from me, strike me with her heel and spear.
“Crushing Drop!”
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I start to stun but I managed to defend myself immediately. Her high battle experience is making me hard to take her down, but no matter what kind of foes will have weak points.
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Eleanor keeps slashing and striking and I keep defending, yet every attack are not attacking my important body part to lead fatal results.
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That is it, she said that she just wants to stop me, so she doesn’t want to kill me, so her weak point is me.
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At the moment I am not paying attention, I get cut from her but I feel no pain.
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Right, here is my dream, although I sense other senses, it ought to feel no physical pain like I didn’t feel pain when I fell down the abyss. Knowing those two points that I will feel no pain wherever she attacks and she will not perform a fatal attack to me, I smiled. Not knowing if she is confused by my reason for the smile, she hesitated for a short moment and shew a flaw that I can’t miss. I will just reverse the situation with this flaw.
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At the moment she shows a flaw, I moved to her back area with high speed that she can’t see and strike at her shoulder. In a few seconds, the instinct of the seraph tells her that something is behind her. She widens her eyes, the sudden movement of eyeballs with high velocity capturing my dynamic caused blood congestion to her eyeballs temporary. From the result, she still successfully dodged my strike, at the moment she sees me she bends her body backward and my Gauntlet Blade only strike air.
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“Tch!” Perhaps that the Eyes of the mind she has got after constantly accumulating a lot of combat experience, stills, she can’t move quickly to respond to my second attack after just bending her body backward.
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“I will defeat you, as a human!” At the moment she dodged my strike, I follow a kick by my left leg immediately and hit her in the mid-air.
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“.........Flame Beast!” Never thought that she will cast seraphic in the air, she fired a large fireball at me, urging me to change my move while rushing to her.
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Only meters above the earth, I perform a series of upward clockwise spins, emit stroke of fire while leading Eleanor’s burst of fire following my fire, together to strike on her with my right boot blade.
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I need to keep her in the air, or it is unlikely to win. Just when one spin over, I perform another front-flip kick that trails with a purple streak. “Rising Moon!”
However, Eleanor manages to thrust her spear into the ground, enable herself to move and spin around the spear then deliver a powerful kick to encounter my attack.
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Without a gap, she then steps to the right and performs a wide clockwise spin attack with her scorching spear. “Burning Moon!” Possible that she cuts me but I don’t care, now I feel no pain.
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It is still not enough.
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“Heaven’s Wrath.”
Bottom right, Top right, upward….
I try to slash Eleanor with rapid combinations of kicks from right counterclockwise spin 2 circles followed by another 2 counterclockwise spin kick. Hoping that at least one kick hit her but she defends with her spear spinning.
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I need to be faster.
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Eleanor waved her spear from the side, relying on the conditional reflection, I blocked the spear that was waving toward my cheek with the sword attached to my right arm. The collision and friction between the weapons gave a sharp ironing sound, and a hot spark flashes at the point of friction occurred. Her spear slightly deviated from the original trajectory, but her spear still perfectly draws a beautiful arc.
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“Ha!” I don’t rest or think much and immediately followed by another strike to here, but the attack is blocked with another arc of the spear in the opposite direction. Repeatedly I attack her from all directions, but I use only my gauntlet blade, dancing with my sword around her while she stays in her original position easily deal my slashes. What sparked in her eyes was the unwavering look, she is fighting for what she thinks is right and so am I.
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Faster, messier--
Not only using my Gauntlet Blade, I start to use my boots blades, strike a sudden kick upward. The blade in the air drew a trajectory like the moonlight, bounced off her tip of the spear which like lightning.
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CLASH!
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Weapons clash another sound that heavier than steel, this time Eleanor starts to step back a bit.
Good, it works, keep up to attack her like this!
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From top right to bottom left, immediately follows another kick slash by my boot from the bottom right to top left. Horizontal slash, slant slash, I attack as if I want to leave no gap to the seraph in front of me. Moving all my muscles, controlling 3 blades and continuously slash her like lightning, the surrounding area seems to be pulled strong wind by my mad strike on Eleanor. Not to care if it is blocked, I leave no time for myself to think but slash and attack. She is now slowly stepping backward, it seems that the way is effective.
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“Ha!”
Stepping backward to a certain extent, Eleanor suddenly waves her spear from bottom right to top left and follows a large sweep to the front, successfully lengthen the distance from me.
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“Lightning, rain down! Shock Drum!” Quickly cast the spell, she summoned a series of lightning bolts around me. The electric current flow through the metal on me towards my body, I lose my sight for a moment and have the paralysis in limbs with heat and pain. That’s a pain I never felt before in here, since here is a dream, is that mean the electrical attack is effective in the dream? Anyway, I will notice it.
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Eleanor starts to use more seraphic artes apart from her martial artes, maybe she starts to consider that martial artes are not enough to tackle me. After all, she is a seraph now, she should be good at casting seraphic artes, then I may assume that she is being serious now.
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“Blade, pierce true! Maelstrom!”
Another seraphic arte! Eleanor launches a whirlwind from the spear and it is trying to engulf me.
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“Cerberus Wave!” I quickly jump back and slash my ejected Gauntlet Blade conjuring a swirling wave of heat to dissipate her casted storm. However, the wind still cut through my body, surly harder to handle the seraphic artes without my therion claw.
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Talking about this, here is my dream, it is strange that I can’t control it. I think of it while trying to change the view in the dream but it doesn’t succeed.
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“--------!”
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Just an instinct without any reason, I bent backward and twisted my body to avoid the strike from the front. It is not enough, the track of the spear points to my head straightly, well, guess she is really in serious mode.
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I support myself to perform a kick from the earth in a gesture that nearly lying on the earth but actually still centimeters from the ground. The ejected blade from the boot conflicted with the spear, sparkle sparks at the point.
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At last, the spear deviated from its track, cut out some of my hair before my eyes, there are only centimeters between my forehead and the spear. I guess Eleanor won’t stop my a single strike failing to hurt me, I am afraid that the one before my eyes holds the determination that to stop me even to cut off my limbs. Even if here is a dream, it is uncertain that I am still complete without any damaging when back in reality.
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How she enter my dream? How to wake up from the dream? If I die in my dream, what will it do? All are the unsolved question in my head, but one thing for sure. It is because here is my dream, I can’t allow myself to lose!
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As estimated, after the failed strike, she changes the attacking track, planning to change the strike into slash. If I get the attack on the front side, I am afraid that either the body is cut in two halves or it is severely injured. Even if I don't feel pain, I still can't fight because of loss in stamina and physical limitations.
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By now, neither the boot blades will not be able to block the slash on time, nor using the gauntlet blade on my right hand, which just supports me from the ground to perform the kick just now, can stop it, it is just a physically impossible move.
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It is my dream, why the hell that teleporting, flying and other illogical things are not able to perform here? Damn that I am a realist that lack of imagination. Hell that even in my slumber with the Innominat there is no dream unrestrained but all bounded by reality. All the things in the dream are construct by my understanding.
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There is only one thing to block the fatal slash from Eleanor, that is my long lost therion arm.
I have enough cognition to the claw, too enough that it can’t be more detail, the cognition to the curse that accompanied me in countless battles for 3 years---- no, I shall say, a fine partner.
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If it is lost, then re-create. I order you once again be my left arm in name of Velvet Crowe.
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Following the momentum of my previous action that my right hand still supporting my body twisting in the air to dodge the attack, my empty left arm is now directly confronting the place that the fatal slash shall hit. In the mid-air, strong light gleams right in the spot of my lost arm, slowly forming the thing I can’t be more familiar---the great giant claw with red and black in color.
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No hesitation, I slash my claw to block and staggered her spear, excessive red mana as if flame remaining on the trace the claw passed. Eleanor is shocked and quickly dodged with herself disappear in front of me.
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“Thermal Skewer.” When I noticed, she is behind, impaling the spear into the ground, conjuring a wide, horizontal crack in the earth in front of her violently burst with yellow, brown light.
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There is no time for me to think.
“.....Nightmare Claw!” I run forward Eleanor, assault the area in front of me with frenzied sweeps from my claw.
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There is no escape for you and me.
“You won’t get away.”
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Once my claw catches her, I send a large sphere of gravity to her, the sphere then shrinks and explode. Instantly followed with a wide horizontal slash to the right, leaving a blue streak upon the seraph and throws away her spear.
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“Thunder Blitz!”
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Left no time, I press my left claw on her throat.
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“Checkmate, my victory.”
I guess she has no way to reverse the situation this time and I won’t let my guard down, even when victorious.
“.......Right, I lose.” Eleanor silently sighed.
“If you are all out in the very beginning, maybe I will lose. The second thing is that here is my dream.” I taunted when sitting next to her. Even just now, I won’t believe that she is all out as she hasn’t shown her mystic artes.
“A duel is a duel, I lose this time and I will remember this well.” She answered.
“Sound scary. I can’t win if not in the dream anyway. Just by luck.”
“Luck and will are part of the strength. And I will help you.”
“eh?” I am surprised that she change her attitude this fast, not to insist on stopping me.
“I see you really want to save those two from the way you fight, the flame in your eyes. I'll keep my word. I will follow your orders, let's form a contract first.” Eleanor stated.
“Contract? Like an exorcist, we encountered back then?” I wondered if she means that I will be her vessel then.
“Yes, but there is a little change in the contract. Seraphim will have their free will and the human may gain strength by the contract. Now may we form the pact?” The seraph explained.
“Before that, I would like to ask if there is a way to cut off the contract on one side?”
“Why would you ask about such things?”
“.......That’s for safety.”
“.........Yes. There is.” Then Eleanor told me about the method to cut off the contract on one side.
“Got it. Now we can form the pact.”
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“O ye born resolute soul of fondness and freedom.
Here let our pact be forged, that my unquavering incandescence will maybe thy purification! Shouldst thou accepts this burden.”
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A glowing magic circle be created and float in the air with an unknown pattern, it is verifiable that it is like a circle with eight swords extending from the center. The circle grows size from a point to a circle big enough to cover my body exhibited overhead. Then the circle extended and divided into two layers of circles, with the silver flame burning alongside with me, whirling in the air while slowly decreasing in height from my overhead until it reaches the ground.
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Meanwhile, it feels like something inside my body switched on and something is entering my body hot as fire. Filling up from my head, flowing through my heart and pumping towards my limbs to the fingertips. The concentrated mana of energy is flowing into this body and the heat keeps no raising as if the body is burning. The energy eventually fulls upon the whole body without any gap.
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“I bear my true name ‘Liwyeamesv Umuabiw(Eleanor the cordiality)’. Now, recite aloud my true name.” when she ‘said' the words, I feel some of the directly voiced in my head.
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“Eleanor Hume?”
“Not that, said the one I just told you.”
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“Liwyeamesv Umuabiw,” I spoke out the name engraved in my mind.
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“Henceforth, you hold my lance in your hands, and I hold your fate in mine. Our contract is thus formed.” She stated each word firmly, ensure me that she is always on my side.
“........Good to have you back. Now what we need is a plan, right?”
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“Yes, have you any idea?”
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“Before I state the plan, I wonder if the man can hear it via the metal collar, it can record voice in my surrounding area….Uh?!” I said while touching my neck to confirm the metal collar is here but I find it is disappeared.”
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“As I say, here is your dream, in other words, the world of your mind, definitely won’t be heard, and we may discuss the plan.”
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“First of all, the town burning business need to be continued and let the man not to break his promise. This time, I will do it, you are the one go on rescue the two.” I stated.
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“Wait, you don’t have to---”
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“Isn’t that you said to follow my order?” I interrogated.
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“………...Right, just don’t bear all on yourself and push yourself too hard. At least, you may try destroying town after evacuated people in the town.” Eleanor sighed and stated with worry.
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“ I will take your suggestion.” Once I said, Eleanor smiled and relieved.
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“The problem is that I don’t know where Sorey and Edna are trapped.” I started analyzing the situation.
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“I know, the map somehow records in my brain. Once I enter the facility, I may send the information to you by seraphic arte.” Now Eleanor just said something suspicious, why would the map is already inside her head? It is a bit risky to believe the information, but let’s just use it first.
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“Then you will rescue Edna first and send the map with the routine to Sorey’s cell to me.”
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“Are you planning to rescue Sorey yourself? Why don’t just let me bring both of them together?”
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“No, I will let the other do it, my job is to destroy after all. Back when I first saw you, you are like a vessel without a soul. This makes me wonder if the man has technologies that harmful to seraphim or he may have a way to suppress free will like Innominat. In that case, Edna is in a more dangerous situation than Sorey.” I analyzed the case with things I know. I hate relying on people but now I am only a human, and humans relying on each other to achieve things.
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“....Right, then I will rescue Edna first. I am worried about her too. Who will you seek help from though?” Eleanor sounds worried to Edna too if I remember correctly, they knew each other somehow.
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“ I think of the dark guild I got to know in this age.”
“....Why would you know such groups of people again?!” She makes it sounds strange that my life is related to such a group again.
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“Hmm...it was totally by accident, but it is run by Zavied, we can trust them.”
“..Excuse me?!...err...just explain it after we get all the things done.” I think that quite a large amount of information to her so she can't help to ask more.
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“Thank you that you will ask it later. Alright, that’s all I guess.”
“Right, we will talk to each other in mind channel in reality.”
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As I wake up from the dream, I find Eleanor’s face is extremely near and her forehead contract with mine. She slowly wakes up later and finds out I am staring her.
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“...Umm, that is the requirement of the arte. Sorry.” I wonder what artes is that, is it the arte to invade in someone's dream?
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“Why would you apologize? I should thank you.”
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“Indeed, you are almost at a stage of hellionize,” Eleanor stated a shocking fact to me.
“........Are you fine ?”
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“What do you mean?”
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“You will turn into a dragon if you touch me when I am releasing excessive malevolence.”
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“Even then, I can’t leave you alone, we are friends, right?”
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“..............Right, thank you.”
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“You are welcome.”
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Do you think this is very literary in the beginning? Well, I just pretend to write in a literary tone... I didn’t totally follow the rules of verses, but borrow a few lines from “unlimited blade works” and “To be, or not to be”. Also, merge some lyrics in the middle. (lyrics from TetraCalyx--untold)
I found myself using the nightmare again……..I can’t think of another way to express how Velvet feeling guilty and confused in the situation….
I always want to write Eleanor and Velvet meets each other again but not when Eleanor still a human, cause I think that’s a too short period after Velvet decided to seal Innominat.....and too happy story tone. I also like to see Velvet form pact with Seraphim, so I wrote it that way.
Originally, there is no fighting part but I find it is more interesting to add a fight in, and of course, Eleanor must try to stop Velvet when she understands that Velvet’s mental state is not in a good state, so I decide to add a fight in.
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1.Velvet and Eleanor Artes exhibition and Aselia19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIaQnzxN0pn
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3.Velvet vs Oscar(TOZX)19Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWX8heAiGZX
4. Fate stay night visual novel
p.s. Eleanor’s pact forming chant is referred from Lailah when she formed the pact with Mikleo
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