Yukiko Amagi - Part I

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Yukiko was wandering in the palace of her shadow self in the same kimono she tended to wear while working in the inn, completely lost and disoriented. She thought that by looking through the window, she could at least guess where in Inaba she was, but all she could see outside was endless darkness. She had been trapped in that palace for days now, having not encountered anyone or anything within its vast halls. She was so exhausted she could barely stand, and so sleep-deprived that her senses was growing more muddled by the second, which was why when she saw a woman in a kimono in the middle of the hall, she thought she was imagining it.

" M—mom ?!! " Yukiko rubbed her own eyes in disbelief, but when she looked at the hallway again, she saw that the hallway was empty. At that moment she collapsed on her knees and sobbed " mom... Are you really here? Or ... Or am I going insane ... ?! "

Yukiko cupped her face in her hands and cried, lamenting the worsening situation that she continued to find herself in. Her life had been a downward spiral of grief since her mother's death, all of a sudden she found herself in that confusing world. Nothing around her made any sense, she was haunted by images of her mother and hallucinations of monsters with every step she took. She wanted to believe it was all a nightmare and that she had to wake up somehow, but though the place was twisted enough to look like something out of her darkest dreams, she could not wake up from it. When her nerves calmed enough for her to stop crying, she looked forward as she tried to stand, and it was when she saw her own self descending down the stairs, dressed in an extravagant blue dress, with two armored knights behind her, that she believed she had lost her mind.

" finally ... " the Yukiko in the blue dress said in contempt to the Yukiko in the kimono " I have finally found you ... "

" who ... who are you... ? " Yukiko felt a chill down her spine " why do you ... why do you look like ... me ... ? "

" guards ! " she didn't respond, instead she exclaimed furiously, the two guards around her tensed up " kill this imposter!!! "

" wh—what ... ? "

Yukiko cried, seeing the two guards preparing to attack her, she tried to escape, but her kimono was so difficult to move in that she tripped and fell on the ground. At that moment she could only scream as she anticipated her death, but only the sudden clash of weapons reached her ears, she looked back to see a girl standing between her and the girl in the blue dress, her blond hair was tied in a ponytail, and even though she had her back to her, Yukiko still recognized her school's uniform, but what she didn't recognize was the creature towering over that girl, which used a red string to fend off the guards. However, the girl in the blue dress wasn't easily thwarted, as with one wave from her hand, the blond girl was struck by a volley of icicles that knocked her down. Yukiko frantically rushed to her side to check up on her.

" are you okay... ?! " she cried

" what are you doing?! " the girl pushed her aside " I can only hold them back temporarily, so run ! "

" b—but ... "

" I'll catch up to you later, okay?! I promise, just hurry ... ! "

" o—okay ... " very reluctantly, Yukiko turned her back to her savior and ran away as fast as she could ...

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