LU 48 - Mira 4

I was getting kind of bored of the coffee from my own place... So I decided to head to Spawn Town. Again. Even despite the last events that occurred there, with that bird guy. Tori, I believe his name was..? Regardless, I just decided to head to Nekane's café, so it was the opposite side of where I had met the bird guy. Surely things would be alright if I had stayed far from the shopping district for a while. However when I had arrived to the coffee place, it was locked... God damn it, Nekane- Never around when I need a good cup of coffee. So obviously that was irritating. However when I backed up from the doors, I saw a person hiding around the corner of the building, in the alleyway- I backed up away from the place to see them fully, and noticed the person's wings immediately. It was *Tori* again, just wearing some kind of black mask. At least I had assumed it was, until the guy stated that he was 'Scavenger'... I didn't get too trusting of him though as I told him exactly what I had been through because of him, though he seemed confused at first. Though upon it seemingly clicking in his head, he had promptly approached closer to me, even grabbing my hands in sheer excitement about the circumstances I was in. Stating I was some sort of 'chosen one', and to him and others, Tori was some sort of supposed 'God'. It- It was ridiculous. Preposterous, even. How could somebody that had sputtered *nonsense* about people coming back after death, and tried to have *killed me*, be a 'God' to people? He claimed I was 'special'... However, I repudiated his words- Tori wasn't a 'God', I wasn't 'special'- But he didn't seem to have it. He wasn't taking it- In fact, he had run off in the same direction of the shopping district. But I felt almost.. *almost* convinced that this was somebody different at this point, so I had just followed him after a few moments of hesitation. I wasn't just going to blindly trust someone *again.* Especially if this guy just so happened to be the *same guy* that tricked me the first time. I wasn't going to have that happen again- Especially not when... Anyways, I followed this Scavenger fellow to wherever he was taking me- However it appeared that we were going literally the same exact direction as where *Tori* took me to his cave. If I was untrusting before this, I was *definitely* not believing what was being said now. When I had pointed it out to 'Scavenger', he simply questioned in what seemed to be disbelief about his 'God' treading these lands, only then furthering his point about us having 'no time to waste' or whatever. I followed after him still of course, though I kept my distance much more. Lo and behold, when we had gotten to our destination, it was the. Exact. Same. *Fucking* cave. As the one that Tori lured me into before. I wasn't going to take any more of this- I got bad vibes from all of this all over again. Though when I had displayed my hesitance to enter the cavern, 'Scavenger' had kept talking about a 'prophecy'... About the fact I was the 'chosen one' because I was 'seen' by his 'God'. It was all ridiculous. I hated *all* of what was happening right now.

So I simply told him that I was going to take my leave. That I hoped he would have a good day despite the bad feeling I kept having from him. However upon me turning away, and hearing his footsteps into the cave, I could have *sworn* I had heard him talking to other people- About coffee. It was almost stupid of me to even stop so I could listen in further, but I heard him apparently talking to the other people further and had called him out of wherever he was so that I could see him once again. I asked him about the beverage that had been mentioned, for him to say that it was just meant for the 'chosen one'... I did just want a cup of coffee. That's all I wanted. So I had followed him into the place, intending to only stay until I got said beverage, only to be taken into the same rooms... the same hallway... as I was taken before. Though the cell appeared to have been remodeled from what I remember. So I mentioned that to 'Scavenger', only for him to lie about it having 'always been this way'. But I know what I went through. I have a fucking scar on my back to prove it. But I wasn't going to just go about talking about it right now- I could just teleport out again if this guy tried anything. He told me to enter the doors on the right, so I did albeit with some hesitance. It lead to more doors than one would ever need in such a small, cramped hallway. However when I reached the last doors, I noticed that the second to last one only had a pressure plate to *enter,* but not one to *exit.* I had mentioned this to the bird guy, only to receive an excuse that the people who had built this place were rather stupid. He had come to my location to place a button inside, and ensured that the last room had a lever... But I couldn't see inside the room without getting trapped, so I couldn't tell for sure. I had placed down an item on the last pressure plate, however I guess I kicked it over since I had to crouch down to even get through the short hallway... And the final door closed behind me. Immediately I felt unnerved. There was no lever in sight unlike what 'Scavenger' had told me, and there was just a single lamp above me- However I did notice a window leading into a room next to the lamp. Lo and behold, 'Scavenger' was in said room, looking down at me through the glass. He claimed one last time that it was for the protection of the 'chosen one', but I was more than tired of all of this as it was. He looked to have left the room with the window, and the light had turned off above me... Leaving me in darkness, however in a fully white room, so I could still see clearly. That also allowed me to see *Tori*, as himself, without any sort of disguise, enter the same room as me. Immediately I was on edge- Well, more-so than I was before he had entered. Even *he* started calling me the 'chosen one', in which I immediately knew, right away, this was all some *game* to him. He was pretending to be 'Scavenger'. He set all of this up. Again. And I fell right into the trap- I fell right for it. I felt pathetic for no more than a second until he started spewing some bullshit about how now *he* was trapped, how he was being 'used' to 'pretend to be a God' for this 'cult'. Now I've had my fair share of cults from my home, but I don't think they rely on *making someone pretend to be a God.* At least to my knowledge. It was stupid. So stupid- And I hated this even more now than I did already. He started punching at the walls... Insulting his own kind about their architecture... All that shit to try and get me to believe him. But I was seriously sick of it. I teleported up to the window to see if I could break it, and failed a few times- Telling him that I couldn't break it myself either. However... I managed to break through after a while of listening to his rambling. He even pretended that his 'family' was alive- He told me *last time* that his partner was *dead.* I was sick of all the lies he was trying to feed me. Sick of this *act* of his.

I was so sick of it- I was so, *so* sick of it. When I had broken open the window, he started asking- *begging*- me to take him with me... And I almost felt bad. Because knowing him, he likely had a way of escaping the place without needing me to get him out. But it just.. *sickened* me how he kept *acting.* Acting as if he was helpless, as if he *needed* me to get him out of a problem he caused for *himself-* It was stupid. So I gave up on playing along with his act. I started telling him the things he did to me, the things he *said* to me. About the whole coming back after death thing. About how his partner was dead. But he kept acting. He *kept acting.* He kept *pretending* that he didn't know! And it was- It was irritating! I was getting pissed about all of this, everything about this situation. He kept lying to me. He kept saying things like "We've never met", "I don't know you", things like that. So I raised my voice, shutting him up as I took out my blade- I was ready to use it if I felt the need to. And that urge was getting eerily close by this point. After all- He was going to stab me again if I kept playing along with his little game. And I was sick of playing along. I wasn't going to fall for any more of his lies. I wasn't going to listen to him try and get out of the mess he caused. He did this to himself! I told him about how, if he had done this at my home-- At *Nol*, he would have been executed for even laying a *finger* on me... And I told him that if he kept pretending, I would be the executioner. However, he sobbed... Pleading for me to not harm him. To not hurt him, that he just wanted to see his 'family' again. He kept *acting.* And, in a small moment of disbelief- Hysteria? I laughed- I laughed for just a moment, at the fact he would be willing to throw away his life just for his little charade. It was almost.. funny at that point. I would have laughed more if it weren't for the fact that I still had to get back home- Because unlike him, I actually *have* a family that's *alive,* that I needed to return to. But I shrugged it off for just a brief moment, teleporting back up to the broken window... Looking down on him. I felt like I had snapped just then. And I opened my mouth, only muttering a few words for him to hear. *"Perhaps... We'll see each other again another day. If your 'delusion' of people being able to 'come back' is true..."* "Then you'll come back from this." Then I leapt down from the ledge... My sword- My blade in hand, digging it into his flesh, hearing his yell of agony from such an action- However I realized it wasn't a *killing* blow... So I did it again.

Tori was slain by Mira using *[Void's Will]*

His blood splattered over a portion of my body- But I left soon after, before the realization sunk in that I had just killed a person. I left, running back to Spawn- But realized the blood probably would not have looked good on me. Especially considering the police were in town. So I couldn't quite head back there any time soon- So I ran back to my own house. A place where I could relax, and just.. clean up the evidence?? Kind of- It took me a while, but my house was in sight once again. A wave of relief washed over me. I was home! Jeremy is probably asleep though, otherwise I would have run into him on the way back from Spawn- No matter. Things are fine now! Things would be *juuust* fine- I immediately regretted that thought though upon opening the doors, to see Chizzy laying against a wall. She seemed to have woken up from the doors being opened, and she saw me- She saw the *blood* as well- *Fuck.* I panicked. I panicked and teleported into my room so she wouldn't see the blood- But she came to my room's door, knocking on them to get me to come out. I was reluctant, but eventually came out, new clothes on so she didn't see the blood any longer than she already did. I reassured her that things were fine though...

... At least I tried to- Until she kept persisting. She kept persisting on me getting to tell her- But things were fine! Tori wasn't dead, so things were fine!! Absolutely *fine-* But she kept asking. About why I had blood over me when I came home. About why I was pacing, and repeating myself, and pacing, and repeating myself, and pacing, and repeating- *But I was fine.* I'd be fine- I caved in soon however. I told her.. I told her about what happened. I told her about what he did to me. I told her about what he said to me. Every time I paused for a little too long though, she kept interrupting- Saying how we needed to get help, that we needed to tell someone about it, until I finally spilled- I spilled that I had killed someone. Tori was a bad person though-! She knew now because I had just told her!! I- I was scared though. I didn't want her to hate me- Our friendship was already strained from the misunderstanding not even that long ago. But- But she listened to me. She didn't run from me. Hell, she even tried comforting me-- Even further, she offered to.. *stage* the death! Set up a situation that made it look like an *accident...* But I told her to leave soon after. She had to go, I didn't want her to be seen with me, lest she suffer the same consequences as I could potentially go through- I didn't want that to happen to her. I didn't expect her to hug me after having said that though. I didn't even expect her to hug me *at all*, ever since our issue the other day. I wanted to hug her back, but I felt I didn't have the right to do such... So when she let go, I told her she should leave again. And she left-... *I'm going to regret having taken someone's life, aren't I..?*