Night Time Sky - MCYT Fanfic

Stay Strong...!

"Kowaseru, kowasenai; kurueru, kuruenai.
Anato mitsukete."

[So breakable, unbreakable; I'm shaking but unshakable.
The real you I've found at last.]

- Unravel, TK Ling Toshite Sigure

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What can one do to survive in this world?
The answer: To stay strong, to not break, to never reveal your true intentions until your last moment.

Without quick decision-making and sense of danger, you will never be able to survive the hell installed for you.
This is the truth.
No one can be spared from this hell.
You have nothing to fight against it.
Therefore...

You are left to die in this hell.
The hell named "World".

The fierce competition between each other is also stated everywhere else than this. Darwin's observations are true, and it is a fact that we are all competing against each other constantly. With what you think is the most important value in sight, you constantly compare what you have to others and see if you have won or not.

Most of the time, you never feel that you won.
Because you don't feel satisfied.
In fact, you will never feel satisfied.

Constant dissatisfaction makes people want more.
And where is the 'more'? Gain values of self-worth and self-esteem. That is what the true gain is.

And not a lot of people can get that sense of self-worth, self-esteem and limitations to what is finished and what is not.

So what now?
What now, after all the taking and gaining?
What do you really want?

...

You probably cannot answer the question.
Because your desires flow.
Like a stream, it flows.
If there is a turn, the stream will turn.
If there is a rock in front of it, it will go around.
Your desire is like this, too.

How? You ask.

If you see a hard problem in front of you, you crave for a solution, a more simple solution or an easier question.
If you are trapped in a cage, you would want to escape, craving for an exit, to be free-
You get the point.
Your decisions are made through the situations at hand, as so you hope for something in your favor in front of what you're facing.

And so are the ghoul groups and aggressive youkais.
Ghouls have conscious minds and know what they want: To survive, because, well, humans are too defensive against them. They have to find a way to survive.
Youkais don't remember or don't know what they really wanted as they are not able to be seen by normal people unless they have been through close-to-death situations or they chose to show themselves in front of them, OR the other way around. Aggressive ones, however, can actively harm human beings, whether they are seen or not. They do this often for the reason being 'they just want to kill you for fun' or 'impure', or maybe even you angering them by cursing them-

Whatever you think is the case, it is the case, because you will be no match against them.
Unless you are trained to exorcise them.
Or you're one of them, and you are known to be superior when fighting against them.

It really depends on what you can do.
And if you can't do anything? RUN.
What are you waiting for? R U N!!!!

That's how it's like when you are facing a youkai who wants to hurt you or even kill you for the sake of "I really don't care if you live or not, I just want my fun."
Just run.

Well, if you ate mermaid meat and survived the poison, then...
You're pretty much invincible.
You are literally a game avatar in real life: you can't really die.
Your wounds will heal.
Your lost limbs regenerate, and that includes your heart, your head, and everything else.
You will not grow older nor younger; you will remain in the state of immortality.
And plus, your flesh is poisonous to most of the youkais who are carnivorous.

So... Do you need to worry about something like death? Nope.

Ghouls can also regenerate limbs and heal wounds extremely fast.
So can youkais.

This is what it means to stay strong physically, and to not break physically.

Now, what about the "to never reveal your true intentions until your last moment" part that you suggested at the start of the chapter? You may ask.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you the "Desperation Tacticians"!
People who are desperate but can calm themselves down and think about the clever ways to get what they need are the "Desperation Tacticians". If you are one of those people, then you are amazing.
Because this is needed for speedruns, surviving in real life, and Manhunts, of course.

Well, the troop of ghouls are lead by a "Desperation Tactician". That's why they are strong and are really narcissistic to all themselves "The Blood of God".

So the troop is about to enter Itomori because the ghost youkais reported it to Akira.

And Akira doesn't want people of Itomori to get hurt.
And plus, the people includes the Dream Team and BBH.
They don't know about the crisis about to come.

Just as Akira was preparing for an escape plan for the little group of people still living in Itomori to move out to somewhere else, a ghost youkai who looks like a young girl with two braids on either side and round glasses appears beside her.

"The ghouls are arriving soon. They are on their way."

"Are they coming here?"

"Still unclear, but they are gathering more people to their group. Soon they will probably have an army of them, and they might be capable of spreading out through the entire Japan and-"

"I get it. Everything will become terrible and such. Blood and death. And I will witness them in front of me. Again. Because I can't die. Right. Thanks. I'll try and figure this strategy fast enough before they can get here- Oh, wait. Did you say something about them gathering other ghouls?"

"Yeah..."

"Sh*t."

It isn't the first time Akira has cursed.
And Akira isn't a college girl.
Her age is... WELL, OLD. And she has seen people she cared about wither away before her.
She remembers them looking at her forever young face and asks, "How are you still young?"
She remembers them, as they take their last breath, saying, "Please, live on for me and never forget."
She remembers their face of agony, guilt, sadness, and ever happiness, while they passed on.

And she can't do a thing about it.

She tried.

She really did.

But the hands of time are merciless, as it ticks away, chipping away life forces associated with her.

Chipping away her heart.

So, today, she must stay strong.
She must form this plan that will help delay the ghouls from reaching the innocent people.
That way... She might forgive herself.

As she looks out of her window, she realised something.

The galactic sky, full of shiny stars that lightens the black into a shade of dark blue, with the shaded forest below supporting its vastness is a sight of beauty nothing can compare with.

Oh, it's late now.
I have to go check on the others.

I need to protect them.
For my sins to be forgiven... I must protect them.
I feel like... Only then could I forgive what I did.

I guess... Only then could I live on.