Gate of Memoirs/A Memory of Regret

The first and only mistake Aoife would ever make was to love a human.
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Music: "Roaring Soul"	Music: "Roaring Soul"
 	
*Aoife is a lot more vicious than you'd anticipated.
*You are forced backwards with every clash, and realize you understand Hakuzo's plight.
*Any less of a footing and you'd almost certainly fall, too.
 	
*Being this close to pure fury makes you wonder if your life will soon flash before your eyes.
 	
*Aoife: ?!
 	
*A scattering of talismans, each burning with barely visible fire, forms a border around the seal maiden.
 	
*Aoife snarls and struggles, but her limbs are held fast.
 	
*Hakuzo: It's not going to keep her down for long!
*Hakuzo: , go!
 	
*That little trick bought you valuable time.
*You lunge up, a prayer in the back of your throat, and with an outstretched hand
*tear the necklace from Aoife's throat.
*Severed from its illusion, it quickly dissipates into dust.
*That final, damning revelation.
 	
*Aoife's eyes go wide.
*For an eerie, quiet moment she only stares with those azure eyes—
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*The memory of a pact buried under the sea.
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Music: "Cordelica"	Music: "Cordelica"
 	
*The impact of water.
*The choking sound of a life struggling against the maws of death.
 	
*All familiar sounds to a denizen of the deep.
*Aoife: (Well. I'm not opposed to scraps, I suppose...)
 	
*Aoife: Oh. You're still alive.
 	
*・・・・・・: I am?
 	
*Aoife: Barely.
*Aoife: So. Which sorry fool did you cross?
 	
*・・・・・・: No one.
*・・・・・・: I... I jumped.
 	
*Aoife: ...I see.
 	
*・・・・・・: Wait, you're that...seal maiden everyone talks about...
*・・・・・・: (Ugh... Am I seeing things?)
 	
*Aoife: It'd be a lot easier if we had the time to talk.
 	
*Aoife: You poor thing. Was it love? Unrequited I'll guess?
 	
*・・・・・・: I'm tired of this jest called life. That's all.
*・・・・・・: Brought into this world against my will and forced to survive...
*・・・・・・: Even now I... My body fights and struggles!
*・・・・・・: What else can I do?!...
 	
*Aoife: ... ...
*Aoife: (Such a waste.)
 	
*Aoife: I'll let you in on a little secret...
*Aoife: The ones that disappear into my lake aren't *all* gone.
*Aoife: I'll listen to your story if you let me.
 	
*Aoife: How about it, my dear? You've nothing more to lose, after all.
*Aoife: Come with me and I'll make all your suffering go away.
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*"Your soul will be absolutely delectable when I'm through with you."
*That's... What I thought I would do.
*Despair is ambrosia; you would be the feast of a lifetime.
*And... You were.
*Because I fell in love with you.
*My first and only mistake.
*Did I think I could singlehandedly defy my own instincts?...
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Music: "Nothingness"	Music: "Nothingness"
 	
*The pain again, but tenfold.
*Your very flesh twisting inside out; a ravenous, powerful hunger clouding your every sense.
 	
*You gasp, and in your blurring vision you see the silhouette of a familiar figure.
*Aoife: No... Don't come any closer.
 	
*・・・・・・: I know what you are, Aoife.
*・・・・・・: I've known for some time.
 	
*Aoife: Then why didn't you...?
 	
*・・・・・・: Leave?
*・・・・・・: Aoife... Do you think so little of me?
 	
*Aoife: All I cared was to devour you when you'd fallen so deeply in this false pretense of "love".
*Aoife: But look. Look at what you've done... To me.
 	
*Aoife: I... Cannot.
*Aoife: Not when you've changed me so.
*Aoife: So even if I starve to my death, I die with dignity...
 	
*Aoife: I will die knowing I kept my promise to you. As I always have.
*Aoife: ...This is your last warning. Consider our pact dissolved.
*Aoife: Now RUN, human, lest I change my mind!
 	
*A line of crimson from wrist to arm.
 	
*Aoife: ?!
 	
*・・・・・・: It's all right, Aoife.
*・・・・・・: I... Wanted this.
 	
*Aoife: ...!
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*I...
*I killed...
*It was me...
*I was always the demon...
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*When the vision clears, immense spires pierce the air from every corner.
*Before you is a barely recognizable, shifting husk of a woman—
*Tormented by her own failings, swallowed by her own regret.
*An entire island woven from delusion and desolation,
*filled with the echoing lament of a revelation too late.
 	
*Hakuzo: Wh—
 	
*Hakuzo: —?!
*Hakuzo's grasps his arm in pain, and you see—to your horror—his foxfire flicker and leave him.
*Hakuzo: That witch...! She's gone berserk!