Blossoms of the Dark

CLXVIII Selene: Annihilation

Trigger Warning:

- slight mutilation

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Liberosis.

An obscure name for the desire to care infinitely less about things.

It is a sentiment I enjoy from time to time.

I really wish I could experience it now.

Because the situation I am in is an amalgamation of all the emotions that shout, "I cannot afford to ignore this crisis because if I do, I will literally die!"

It's not my fault; it's the League's fault.

I hiss at Shigaraki, "When I said surprise me, this was not what I had in mind. You better have a bloody brilliant explanation as to how things have descended into chaos."

It had been a month since I last saw the League and told them to execute my worthless swines of brothers. Since then - and even before then! - they have been operating behind my back. I count each significant event on the segments of my fingers as every member narrates the tale from his or her perspective.

1. The League had to evacuate from the hideout by the river because some idiot caught a whiff of activity going on. They managed to clean up all traces before fleeing.

2. After that, they were homeless. Even better, low on funds. They resorted to small-time stealing to pay expenses. In the process, they found a shabby, run-down shelter for the time being.

3. Shigaraki decided to contact the "Doctor." All for One's personal physician and the creator of the noumu. Since he and Shigaraki only ever communicated through that monitor, no one recognizes his face.

4. Then Spinner lost his temper understandably and demanded an explanation as to why they were in such a mess. After all, the reason he joined was to carry out Hero Killer Stain's will. Just then a behemoth arrived, surprising everyone, smashing the shelter to rubble. This behemoth was the 'power' that Kurogiri had set out to seek to assist Shigaraki after All for One's capture. However, he was arrested in the process.

5. The behemoth posed a challenge: prove to him that Shigaraki was worthy of becoming All for One's successor, therefore worthy of the behemoth's unwavering loyalty.

6. Since then, the League has been trying to do just that. Every morning they wake up to subdue the titan, every evening they retire unsuccessfully. The area that once was a lush, green cliff is now nothing more than a crater or debris. The titan lamented that Shigaraki was too weak and howled his disappointment by crying out All for One's name every battle.

7. The leviathan - I just have such an extensive inventory of synonyms for the word monster - had a portable radio. Miniature compared to his stature, but he protected that radio as one would protect a diamond necklace. One day, a voice spoke from the radio: the Doctor's voice. The Doctor explained that the leviathan's name was Gigantomachia, All for One's most faithful bodyguard. All for One hid Gigantomachia so that Shigaraki could carry out his wishes even after his capture. When Dabi expressed that this power carried more problems than solutions, the Doctor acknowledged it and played a recording of All for One's voice murmuring Giganotmachia's name. He calmed down like water on fire after that.

8. Shigaraki complained that he did not want such an ally on his team. The Doctor scolded him for thinking that after all this time, he believed he could obtain anything simply by wishing for it; Kurogiri's loss should have taught him better than that. With that, the Doctor teleported the League to his lair. From what the League is telling me, chambers of noumu filled this dark lair. High-end noumu. I make note of that detail for later.