onceuponacomm | EPILOGUE

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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Ah-

[ His eyes go wide for a second, but then they just start tearing up.

He's still got his bracelet on. ]

I'm sorry... for not keeping you safe, and... for misunderstanding.

[ sniff!! ]

But I'm glad you're here now.

I was mad about it for like an hour when I heard And then I got over it It's OK I'm just glad we're all safe now

[Easily forgiven.]

Y-yes... so am I.

[ Wiping his tears away and trying to pull himself together... ]

What was happening on your side during all of this?

[ CLEARLY HE HAS NO CLUE ABOUT THE MAGNITUDE OF THIS QUESTION ]

Ferry turned into a giant caterpillar and tried to kill all of us We blew her up with explosives

A-ah, I see...

[ He should probably seem more shocked by the giant caterpillar concept, but, you know, JRPG... ]

Those really have been popular lately.

[ The explosives, probably not the caterpillars. Not like one of the fountain bombers has any room to judge on that front though. ]

Honestly, I'm sort of surprised she let you have access to things like that... but, well, it sounds like you all made an impressive showing yourself, then. Well done.

We didn't get our powers back like you did It'd have been a lot easier if we had Dealing with angry spirits is my specialty

[Not that doing an arson wasn't fun and impressive in its own way, but it definitely would have been simpler just to have his power back.]

I can imagine... everyone's quite aware of how little I'm capable of without mine.

[ He's just glad he got his back so he could finally be useful to everyone after all that time. ]

We were only able to get ours back because Hamelin was on our side, so he gets some credit for that... thankfully we were able to figure out how to free him from the Beldam's power to make that possible.

[ So most of the credit is still theirs, actually. ]

We got to see a little of that fight You guys were really cool

Oh, well, thank you.

[ There's a beat and then a slight smile at that. ]

...This is petty, but I'll admit it sort of makes me happy that everyone saw it. As much of a relief as it was being ruled out on the suspect lists each time, the fact that it was always on the basis of my being too weak to pull anything off had gotten a little old.

I can relate to that I don't like being treated like I'm helpless either

[...glances in C-ta's direction.]

Hopefully we've both proven ourselves in at least one respect now.

If anyone calls you helpless I suggest stepping on their foot Even if it's Marcus-nii

Haha... I'll keep that in mind.

[ He probably won't do it, but he respects the suggestion. ]

You're going home to your own world from here?

Yes C-ta and Pericles are coming with me You should visit sometime

[He won't try to cook for you, promise.]

[ ...He expected C-ta, but Pericles is a surprise. Huh. ]

I'd like to sometime, if circumstances allow.

You're welcome to visit Tir Na Nog as well, but things are... a bit of a mess right now, so I'm not sure I could really recommend it.

I can't really leave My responsibilities at home haven't changed I'm only hoping nothing too bad has happened while I'm gone

[Please, please tell him nobody died.]

Likewise, actually... I don't recall how much we told most here about our world's situation, but we're currently up against an empire that's trying to destroy the entire thing. I'd just been speaking with the god who created the world in hopes of learning how we could save it before I ended up here.

[ There is... a lot going on.

Also I guess his old dead friend who was actually a foreign spy and who got murdered by his evil clone probably exists again by now, so that will be a fun surprise to go home too. ]

...That aside, if one of the others doesn't take care of it before then, I can see if I can figure out something to do about that evil spirit of yours.

That would be nice I'm really not powerful enough to do anything about her permanently

[And he, also, would like to be able to go visit people without worrying about horrible consequences at home?]

I don't really do purification artes or anything myself, but with all the allies we have at this point, I'm sure someone would be able to do something.

[ Come on, Sorey, work your Shepherd magic ]

Anything you can do would be appreciated I can't offer much, but I can pay you?

[ ......................he honestly considers that for a moment because christ their finances ]

—No, no need for that. I'd just be happy to help, and I'm sure most of those we know would feel the same.

[ His world only takes gald anyway... ]

OK I'll give you some glowstone charms instead then Maybe they'll protect you from some things on your world Or murder caterpillars

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