"Just a worm."
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Do you see it yet? The power of worms?
It all blends together. I don't know how many times I do it. How many times I give myself and take thousands of souls for Yin's sake.
My sanity is slipping. I don't know how much longer I can keep this up.
But every time I come back, I see her face and I know I can't stop.
It never ends.
Then...something strange happens. One time on the roof, I'm already dead. Tatsuya has killed me again. Now I just need to wait for him to finish off my zombie before it bites Yin.
Hurry up. Finish me again. Restart the cycle.
But instead of saying the same line I'm used to; he deviates from the pattern. Just the like the random rainstorm that one time, he doesn't stick to the plan in my memories.
"Oh you, are interesting, aren't you? But a...wait, what the hell am I saying?" The System God's voice changes. Surprise fills his face.
No...it's shock.
He's not supposed to say this. I know because I've heard him say it hundreds of times. Maybe thousands.
This isn't how it's supposed to go.
"I...I've been here before." Tatsuya says to my zombie. "You...you little...you've done something! What the hell have you done! How many times have we...DIE!"
*Crack*
"D-Don't go...I love you!"
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"No-!"
I wake up again.
Play it all through.
Vomit my brains out.
Pretend I don't see right through Tatsuya's fake laughter.
But this time, everything changes when the boss dies. Before I can even hunt down the other Hunters, time freezes.
It just stops.
A white-robed priest appears in front of Yin and I. The rest of the world is frozen, no one else can move. Yin's mouth is open, but she isn't saying anything. Up on the rooftop of Tiendas Tower, Tatsuya stares at me with suspicion.
"I don't believe it. But I know it to be true. You...you really are different." He sniffs me, though I cannot move. His power is too great. "What are you? How are you manipulating fate?"
"Beats me." I shrug, or rather try to. Suspended in the air, frozen in place, I'm forced to listen to the System God rant. "Why don't you just kill me and get on with it. Face it. You can make us do this as many times as you want. But you will never win."
"Insolence! Damnit, I can't kill you! Whatever is tampering with fate will just keep forcing us back here over and over again. How arrogant! To think dirty a worm like you dares to struggle against a god. Well, if that's the case...then we'll have to do it this way! Just remember, you asked for this!"
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