[Baiken's health has gone downhill pretty rapidly in the past couple days. She's dangerously pale, her eye bloodshot and tired. Strong shivers are running throughout her body.
Overall, she looks annoyed about it. Those who know her well enough would be able to spot her usual cover-up act, though her weak voice is a dead giveaway anyway.]Oi, d-d-
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It's been 24 hours...
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[cough] F-f-figures I'd... c-catch what you g-got.
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...Zan..nen desu..
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Anj-ji... you b-better not... be th-thinking this's... your f-f-fault.
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DAMNIT!
He sunk his head into his hands.]
...Iie.. No.
No I can't.. I.. shouldn't.
Yagokoro-sensei.. she said it.. was an infection.
Caused by the incision..
But I...
[She would not have asked for it to be taken out so soon.. had he not been so foolish as to go and die the way he did. To feed into her lust for revenge, and then do nothing to stop her.]
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"But" n-n-nothing, Mito! I d-d-decided to get the thing t-taken out on my own, I c-c-can deal with the c-consequences!
[Agitation has lead to another coughing fit. Scowling, she forces herself to calm back down.]
It's a g-g-goddamn infection... n-not like we c-can do anything about it.
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There was nothing they could do. But there should have been.. there could have been.. Something.. anything..! It had been too easy for him to accept it for himself.
But not for her!]
I should have stopped you.
[He rested his chin between his clasped hands, slightly covering his mouth that was already so quiet as he spoke. He couldn't raise it any higher if he tried. Strength was fading and grating at his will.]
I've placed myself between yourself and the grave so many times.
And the one time I do not... Heh.
[He blinked back the glassiness in his eyes, a weak and pained laugh leaving him in half a breath.]
It cost you to follow in my foolishness.
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L-like I w-w-would've... let you st-stop me. I b-b-beat your damn earth-bind sp-spell before... like hell I'd've let you s-slow me d-d-down this time.
[She sighs, followed by a cough. It's probably pointless to sit here and yell at him. She knows full well the toll the infection will take on her, and being angry at the one person she gets along best with during what time she has left is probably not the best way to spend that time. Shaking her head, she continues, avoiding his eyes.]
F-foolish or not... I'd d-d-do it again. N-nobody fucks with you and g-gets away with it... on m-m-my watch.
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...So that's how it is..
[The sound of sheets shifting and the bed creaking followed two shaken footsteps. It was agony to move. It was agony to breathe.
Life... was agony.
Yet he bid his body to drop to her side. A hand rested upon her knee, giving it an affectionate pat as he laid his head down near the side of her hip. The place where he felt he belonged.]
I would.. have preferred it.. but..
Perhaps it's best..
[The both of them had spent so much time living only for themselves. Facing the world, life and death on their own. They were two brazenly independent individuals, who relied on no one. The change. It seemed almost pleasant to him. Just this ( ... )
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Besides, he was the only person she had ever trusted with her life. Somehow, it seemed appropriate to trust him with her death as well.]
Oi... you'd b-better be there... when I w-w-wake up.
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