EPILOGUE

[faentasy]

Epilogue

After all is said and done, in the wake of the void and sprinting through one final door.

You come out into light. Sunlight actually, a backyard in what appears to be a typical suburban town, if you're familiar with those. The sun shines cheerfully overheard, blissfully unaware of what everyone has went through. And this is everyone, as faces you haven't seen in weeks tumble out in one pile from a basement door.

Happy Saturday, everyone.

There's plenty of reunions and catching up to do, but you've utterly left Aira Niluc behind you after seven long weeks. And through the window of the house which looks like it has seen a better seen better days is one wall mural that reads "And they all lived Happily Ever After".

[[ Happy Golden End everyone, you've earned it! There's still the matter of sorting out where to next, but everyone is whole and alive and without button eyes. Using the knowledge from the object Phil had and the beldam's magic, they can also now world hop only one side effect...the portal that opens to everyone else's worlds here? Is made entirely of pixie dust. Everyone's powers will also restore fully over the course of the next few hours. ]]

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[ideismo]

[...Hi, Yeager.

He seems a bit awkward when he approaches, but if nothing else the past seven weeks have likely made it clear that he's just sort of an awkward guy. That said...]

We should have burned the bar on the last night.

[scythegun]

[We've all got to start somewhere. Maybe someday Alexei won't be awkward!!

For now, though...]

The bar! We can't go back, can we...?

[Yes, he is seriously considering just to go burn down that bar. But after a moment he sighs and lifts his shoulders.]

I suppose we can't, it did seem like the whole place was collapsing... I can't believe we didn't think to burn it down last night!

[ideismo]

I can; we were a bit preoccupied.

[...That said, he is joining you on the ground, jesus christ.]

I will say that was a better fight than I've had in quite some time.

[scythegun]

[Forgot the most important thing besides the skull lantern smh... Anyway, yeah, come join him, he's not getting up.]

It was quite fun! I usually don't get to face very strong monsters anymore.

[Some of the machines on the Heracles were kind of interesting to fight? But none of them were even bosses so what's the point.]

Brilliant Cataclysm is just unfair, but I can't complain too much since you're on our side~

[ideismo]

[...yeager why were you fighting anything on the heracles... ah well, it hardly matters now.]

I fail to see how it's unfair, you know. Perhaps rude. But not unfair.

[scythegun]

[well it's not like your stupid machines recognized him and shut themselves off?????]

Oh, it's entirely unfair. I needed to get two hits in before I could use my Mystic Arte and she moved.

[Like he's not too salty because that would have greatly weakened him, but still!!]

[ideismo]

[...you know what

you've been trying to get him to crack all game

that actually gets him to laugh, a bit.]

Clearly, a tragedy.

[scythegun]

[FUCKING FINALLY]

It was! But I'll take that laugh as a win, I finally managed to get you to crack~

[At his pain and suffering of course, but a win's a win!!]

[ideismo]

You really shouldn't have been trying so hard; it's not like it's any sort of reward.

[scythegun]

Getting the ever-serious, humorless Commandant of the Imperial Knights to laugh isn't it's own reward? Come now, surely you know me better than that by now.

[ideismo]

I know you well enough. That still doesn't change that it's an utterly useless goal, even by your standards.

[scythegun]

I also set things on fire for no reason, so I think you're overestimating me a bit~

[He's the very definition of useless, thanks!!!]

[ideismo]

Trust me, I know.

[God.]

It's going to be tempting to just take that little object lesson with me into the nobles' quarter. I couldn't get away with it, of course, but...

[scythegun]

Good news for you, then! Starting today, Leviathan's Claw will now also take on arson contracts! We'll set anything you want on fire, for a price, of course~

[Is this a joke or is he serious...........]

[ideismo]

...You're ridiculous, you know.

[scythegun]

Ja, I certainly am. You wouldn't want me to be anything else, admit it~

[ideismo]

I'll admit no such thing.

[You tried, though!]

That said, I'm not ruling out the possibility of doing business. It depends on how willing the Council is to behave for me.

[He's definitely not asking Schwann to deal with them.]

[scythegun]

[wink!!]

Leviathan's Claw will always be willing to accept contracts from the Commandant himself, for the usual price of course~

[He runs a business and he's not going to make money if he gives discounts on assassinations!!!]

Should you ever have need of my services, you know where to find me~

[And if you don't because he's in hiding from the Don, you can easily track down one of his dudes. They're very distinctive!!]

[ideismo]

Oh, don't worry about that. The Council still tightly oversees my budget and contracts; in the end, they pay for themselves. The most I do about that is make sure they don't realize it.

[Jesus Christ, Alexei.]

[scythegun]

Using the Council to fund their own murders, how devious... Though I wouldn't expect anything less, at this point.

[ideismo]

Said as though they might not deserve it...?

[scythegun]

Oh no, I have no doubts they deserve it.

[He doesn't know the whole story, but he doesn't need to. He's seen enough that he doesn't feel the need to ask.]

After all, you wouldn't have reached out to me in the first place if you didn't believe that - and that's good enough for me.

[ideismo]

Of course.

[...]

Thank you. For everything that happened in there.

[scythegun]

I'm sure you aren't thanking me for the arson. [Probably.] I only ever did exactly what I wanted, so I don't think there's much to thank me for.

[ideismo]

[........]

It may be at least partially for the arson, actually.