EPILOGUE

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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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[gemuinemanagement]

[Yuri! Suga returns the hug for a second, then stops. Feels around on his chest for where a rose pin should be - it's not there.]

Sorry
I promised to keep your pin safe and I couldn't

[sempiternel]

I'd break a million, million pins to have you back, whole.

[gemuinemanagement]

[Oh. He can't help but smile at that.]

I missed you, Yuri

[sempiternel]

I've missed you, too. I am... sorry about everything. I didn't know any of that would happen, but...

[gemuinemanagement]

I'm not angry at them for it
Maybe mildly annoyed that they thought they needed two people versus one noncombatant with a dull sword
But not angry
I'm DEFINITELY not angry at you

Besides
Now that C-ta and Pericles are coming home with me
I extra need your help to lift that curse so I can spend a long time with them

[sempiternel]

Oh - yes! You definitely need to live a long life. [ She didn't forget, of course; she just didn't think she'd get all of her powers back so soon after - the end. ] May I take your hand?

[gemuinemanagement]

[He'd hold her hand even if it didn't involve healing, tbh. He takes her hand and squeezes it gently.]

[sempiternel]

[ It takes a moment, but then a little of her flows into him, light as a tickle. Just gently prodding, sensing the parts that are him and the parts that are other. Others? ]

Two...? Mm. [ She takes his other hand, too, laying their palms flat against each others' as if to push - because that's what she's going to do. ] I believe I told you once before that all humans have some form of innate magic - that makes them human, different from all else. Maybe that magic is the human soul? So many different names.

[ Her eyes flick up to him. ]

I'm going to use my magic to overwhelm and push out what's - not you. I think I can do it, I'm strong enough and I've lived long enough [ and have harbored just as much rage ] to go toe-to-toe with something as ancient and malignant as this. Our advantage here is my power is with me, from me, it's mine. While your curses are from your world, which you are removed from at the moment. Distance matters. Now I'm going to push - don't resist me. Just let everything go. Ready?

[ And once he's ready, she'll do just that. The rest is up to him. ]

Oh - and this will hurt.

[gemuinemanagement]

[Another nod. Ready.

He's had pain before. If this is enough to keep his friends from worrying, then he'll endure any level of it.]

[sempiternel]

First the lesser malignant energy...

[ To test the waters. She needs to forcefully inject an overwhelming amount of magic into his body to drive out the opposing curse. Unlike Melissa, who had next to no magic and thus felt almost only the most trivial pain, Suga is... different. Spiritually stronger. ]

Now.

[ It's an unexpected rush, like too much of a good thing at once. Her magic is usually gentle, precise. It's relentless now. The precision is still there and it courses through him until it can rip straight through the curse's initial seal, flooding everything in her path, crowding out everything that is not him or her.

And then, of course, she can't just let it linger in the air. Carefully, she draws it into one of the ornaments in her hair. Her only other options are his friendship bracelet and the brooch he made her, so nope.

After that she'll give him a short break unless he wants to go again immediately. Which curse did she just push out? ]

[gemuinemanagement]

[It hurts. Not as much as being killed had, but more prolonged. He tries his best not to push against it - she's there to help, as painful as her help is, and her magic courses through him and crushes the first of the curses.

The lesser curse: his lifespan. Cutting someone's lifespan to ten years may seem worse than losing your voice, but this one was less targeted. It happened to everyone who dealt with raw glowstone - a general curse, not one tailored for him specifically.

He's sweating, but when she stops pushing, he nods. He's okay to go again.]

[sempiternel]

[ It's a good thing he's the only one sweating because if Yuri was exhausted after just one curse, they wouldn't be able to address his other problem. Luckily, she seems fine, looking at fresh as ever and watching him with keen eyes. He signals he's good to continue, but she waits a moment anyway. Just in case.

This next push takes longer, and she has to extend more of herself to cover all of the curse's reaches. It's a stupid, stubborn thing, so she has to be even more ruthless with the way she attacks it. Mercilessly surround all of her around the weakest parts of it, and dragging it out. It would be a lie to say she didn't take some pleasure in this.

But don't worry, it'll have a home within one of the other ornaments - at least temporarily.

By the time they're done, even she's tired, invincible heroine that she's written to be. She lets go of his hands, all parts of her that was in him withdrawing with her, and sinks to the ground. Just a small break for this little lady. ]

I'm sorry if that was too - much? I think we've done it. How... how are you feeling?

[gemuinemanagement]

[This one is much more stubborn. If curses can believe they have the right to be there, this one does: fair bargain made. A payment for sparing someone's life, at least for that moment.

But she is the invincible heroine, and he bites his lip so hard it bleeds until the pain finally drains out of him. He sinks to his knees with her, and opens his mouth.]

Ah...

[His eyes go wide. It is, perhaps, not the most significant of words - not really a word at all, technically. But it is the first sound he has consciously made in over a decade.

He touches his throat and tries it again.]

Ah?

[That's... his voice?]

[sempiternel]

[ Even Yuri seems startled by his voice for a moment, before she laughs softly, and waits for him to find himself again. ]

Ah... what a nice sound.

[ Someone else will have to check him over, because she's just going to flop onto her back for a bit. Please don't step on her while rushing to him. ]

[mearry]

[ well, c-ta wasn't paying much attention to them aside from the occasional glance. but when he sees them falling on their knees together...and yuri falling on her back-- ]

Hey!

[ well he's running over to help them. his opinion of yuri may not be the best but what if something's wrong with both of them? ]

Koutarou, Yuri--do you need help?!

[gemuinemanagement]

Yuuta?

[Ah. His first real word and it's his boyfriend's name, that's appropriate.]

[mearry]

You're okay, right? Koutarou? What's wrong with Yuri-san? Should I call Hamelin?

[ he didn't even notice. too busy fussing over the two of them. ]

[gemuinemanagement]

[...honey.]

Yuuta, I'm talking.

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[mearry]

Oh, I'm sorry I didn't mean to talk over you.

[sempiternel]

[ Waving her hand in a lazy, placating manner. She's fine. Just a bit tired, but mostly boneless from relief. A promise fulfilled!

Once she's done recovering - or once Hamelin comes to get her, she'll stan you guys from afar. ]

[laytorest]

[She will just be watching this from afar but she has no idea he's actually talking because she's in the distance.

Ah, what a sweet couple.

Aka feel free to poke here assuming post-cure and C-ta celebration.]

[gemuinemanagement]

[Sometime much later, after a bunch of hugs-]

Yor-nee! Yor-nee!

[It's not a familiar voice that calls out to her, but there's only one person who calls her that, is there?]

[laytorest]

[Oh hey, that's her name????]

Yes?

[gemuinemanagement]

[Approaches her, smiling.]

Do you notice anything different?

[Like the fact that he's talking out loud?]

[laytorest]

[?]

Did someone give you something?