Chains (Servant Nagito X Reader)

Chapter 30: Love is War

A.N: Warning! this chapter contains some violence and gore along with guns and knives! people who are triggered, beware!

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Nagito almost dropped his phone and lost balance. He stumbled backwards and supported himself against the wall, gagging horribly.

"Is this lost lady?"

He gasped and coughed, his breathing getting worse. He rushed out to get a deeper breath of cleaner oxygen hoping some of the overpowering nausea would be pumped out.

"I...don't know..."

"Was she wearing white dress?"

"Y-Yes..." Itadori supported his body by putting the albino's arm around his huge tatooed neck.

"I lost...I couldn't protect her this time...it's lost...it's gone now..."

"Stop talking depression!" The thug barked.
"You look at body again. Think. Is body really hers?"

Nagito focused his swirling grey orbs on the tattered corpse, then at Itadori.
"You think it's not hers?"

"Nagito know best! Sometimes when Itadori want something more than anything, Itadori believe hard. Itadori believe in hope more than any Buddha. That's why Itadori strong."

"...hope-?"

That word seemed empty to him now. Was there really an point to...entrusting any of his energy to that word? His conscience was getting so strong it had now developed a voice-
But for you, I'll-

Nagito forced himself to look at the body again. His eyes wavered from the severed stump to the rest of the body. It was her body...no doubt-
Only-

"Manly," Itadori remarked in sync with his thoughts.

"Body too manly, right? Woman no have apple."

"What...apple?" Nagito felt some of the strength return to his knees. He was able to stand up erect, even if his head and chest squirmed with uneasiness.

For you, I'll do anything- making the impossible will be possible now that I've crossed over death to meet you-

"Apple! You have apple, me have apple! On our necks!"

"Do you mean- Adam's apple?"

"Yes, yes. A dam's apple."

"Wait... you're right! The body has an Adam's apple! I didn't notice it myself because it's lying on its stomach..but if it's a man, why is it dressed as a woman?"

"Decoy!" Itadori exclaimed merrily.
"They kill a man and put on lady's clothes to fool us into believing lady dead!
"So good news for you," he turned to a very shaky Nagito- who was stunned into silence.
"They need her alive, so they capture her alive!"

Never in his life had Nagito resisted the urge to embrace a thug. The empty twisting feeling in his stomach disappeared.

"Right. We'll find her."

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Nagito called Hajime as soon as he was able to get signal after getting out of the underground hideout. He narrated everything to his closest friend and could hear the breathy relief in his voice. He said he would report everything to the police so they could have more information to go on.