『 Dying of Asphyxiation was seriously not my goal in life. 』
Neither was meeting a Governor of the Afterlife and getting sent to another world for a second chance at life.
Drew was assaulted by a group of men for reasons she didn't understand. Drown...
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37. Stand
Drew Cite
"What the-" a girl, M.M, opened the door to the room, "Mukuro-sama, the guy's awake!" she called for someone on the other side of the room.
When Mukuro followed into the room, he eyes me amusedly.
"Did you enjoy that dream?" he mocks, a taunting smile on his face.
I eyed him. And instantly-- I flipped. My hands in support, I swung my feet into the air. I brought the heel of my foot towards Mukuro's face--
Mukuro's eyes widened for a moment, but he stepped back just enough to dodge it.
Tutting, I swerved back into a crouching position. Mukuro's smile grew slightly. He was getting increasingly excited now.
"What a surprise," he muses, "You still have the ability to move?" he wonders. He contemplates and he observes, but can't seem to put a finger on how I did it.
I stood up calmly.
"How did you escape the illusion?" Mukuro decided to ask.
I groaned. He was acting careless because he did not feel any bloodlust and hostility from me. However, he was actually on full guard, and would react immediately if I did anything else suspicious. That was the correct and wiser choice.
And so, I returned the smile like Ninomiya Rei would.
"Thinking about it realistically. Hell's just a place where you experience the pain of death over and over again." My answer came our surprisingly fluid and honest. "That does sound scary, actually."
Who was speaking? Drew? Rei?
What am I saying? We're one, and at the same time, we're not. When paradoxes like that occur-- it's fine to just leave it alone, no?
"But it's probably.. Convenient, I could say." I grinned, happily. "I've gotten a greater view of who exactly you are, and let's just say I've probably grown to like you."
Mukuro eyed me weirdly.
I chuckled in response. "I haven't been to hell either, so I'm sorry to say that I still can't sympathize with you." My smile drooped a little sadly, "but if we're talking about experiencing the pain of death,"
Black flames enveloped me.
Then I grinned. I could almost feel the temperature in the room drop a little. I grin a closed-eyed grin, wide and toothy; a Cheshire grin that almost wanted to eat everyone up rather than say hello.
Mukuro's eyes went wide, taken aback by the change in the male before him.
