Spoilers for most recent chapters of X/1999 manga. Warnings for character death.
For RubyD. Based on her picture and inspired by her comments.
Progression
Spoilers for most recent chapters of X/1999 manga. Warnings for character
death.
For RubyD. Based on her
picture and
inspired by her comments.
“Don’t.” Smoke coiled around Subaru, the cigarette lax in his blood-slick fingers. Every day, it seemed that he needed one more. Ten, eleven, twelve...it was a spiraling progression.
“Hey, Subaru-san.” Behind him, Sora-no, the dragon of heaven was on his last legs. There was no point in continuing the fight; the boy was bleeding out his lifeblood as the seconds slid by. He exhaled slowly, smoke rolling out from between his lips. He could imagine that it was like that for the dragon too, except that the breaths he was losing belonged to his life.
Subaru said nothing, feeling the expected pressure of a heavy hand on his shoulder. He could imagine it staining his clothes, blood soaking into his long white coat, the mark of five fingers branding him…
But he was forgetting that he didn’t wear that anymore. He wore black today; it was appropriate for funerals. The clothes wouldn’t have stained so obviously, not like before. The stain would have been imperceptible after it dried, until he looked closer. Until it stuck to his skin, trying to come off.
“Kamui says...” A choked cough. Subaru had pierced a lung with an easy lunge of his hand and the boy was drowning in his own blood.
It almost made him hesitate.
But then Subaru took a step forward, and the hand fell away. There was a thump, as the body hit the ground. A crack as bones ground against concrete. But the boy wasn’t dead yet. He just couldn’t stand anymore by himself.
“I have to tell-”
Subaru left before he could hear another word.