My Endless Love

𝘍𝘰𝘶𝘳. 𝘏𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘥

        HE SWUNG THE DAGGER. Multiple chirps filled the air, to the point that it was like the room was merely a bird's cage as chains manifested from thin air and wrapped around the man's wrists, legs, torso, and neck. Prying him away from Yue and tightening as the chain's metal heated up.

"W-What?!" The metal began to burn through his skin and he screamed in anguish. "AAHHH!"

NO!

"Wait!" Yue sat on her knees and reached forward only to have more of the chains to manifest around her. But to only form a sort of barricade, the rest gently moved to her waist and pulled her back. The chain's around him continued to glow violently bright and the doors to her bedroom shot open.

"Yue!" There stood all of her brother's, including Kougyoku.

"MAKE IT STOP!" The man cried out, the metal's continuing their relentless punishment. Yue clutched the chain's in panic as she hyperventilated at his screams.

"Stop it... "

Please stop his pain.

"He didn't do anything.. "

He doesn't deserve this!

"Did you not hear me?.. "

Make it stop!

"Stop.."

The chain's tightened on the man and blood dripped from them, burning through his flesh.

"Someone! Get a sword!" Kouen order as Koumei ran out the door and into the hallways.

Kougyoku covered her lips in horror. "He's going to die!"

Tears fell from Yue's eyes like dew off a leaf.

Yue, my dear..

"STOP IT!"

With her scream, the chain's immediately stopped their movements and their shine dispersed. They loosened their grip on the man until he dropped forward into a heap of his own blood. Yue scrambled forward, pushing at the chain's that once held her back as they dissipated. "Mister! M-Mister!" She placed a hand on his back and froze at the blood that painted her hand a wrenching red.

She clasped her hand around his own. His blood seeping into the white fabric of her night gown. "Yue, let us handle this!" Kouha assured the girl and grasped at her shoulders, tugging her back insistently.

"N-No!" She shut her eyes. A vision of flower filled fields with golden rukh coaxed her mind to ease as she felt a hand ruffle her hair. The siblings held their breath, worry for their sister rising to an unhealthy amount. "Yue—" Kouen started, but paused when he saw her expression.

Kouha moved away in amazement when chirps sounded and several rukh appeared in her presence. They flew to rest onto the bloody man as his flesh molded back together. His skin was next as it stitched itself to normal and the burns that should have left scars on his person vanished. The rukh then disappeared as the man gasped for air like a fish out of water. "He's alive."

Yue leaned back into Kouha in exhaustion. His arms immediately found solace around her small frame as she gave deep and exhausted breathes. A headache began to form around the back of her mind and tears of blood fell from her closed eyelids.

"Yue?!"

"Yu—!"

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Drip! Drop!