restorefromsave | Early heart run.

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!heart run

Early heart run.

As you step through the door a siren goes off, the sound echoing in your ears for several minutes as the world goes completely black and empty.

You’re not falling but you’re not really standing on anything either, and all that you can percieve is the sirens still blaring, loud loud loud in your ears--

There’s an explosion so huge you don’t see or hear it so much as feel it through to your very bones. You feel an impact, strange and unsettling, and you think you might be dead? Because you can’t feel your body anymore.

Slowly the sound begins to fade and light and feeling returns, allowing you to see where you are. You’re also alive, good for you.

You end up here at the end. Unless you're Yuki, who ends up here.

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[ooh idea. goes to type up a variety of paint colors, including yellow, turquoise, and silver]

Each appear!

[PAINTING TIME. taking everything into the closet and painting over the (hopefully now dried) white paint with colorful swirls and faces of people on Turquoise and Heliodor, as well as Kazuki. it's no masterpiece, but he takes his time making sure the room isn't as dark as before. also cute smileys]

You now have a cute mural in this room! The scene recedes a bit more so you can actually see the painting.

[oh also hearts on everything. love love love]

Phew... hope that helps.

I'm afraid the headache isn't any better, but it's a really cute mural.

Jeez... well... it's a start.

[heads back into the bedroom, letting out a deep breath]

I dunno if that helped... I think there's still something in there that needs to be fixed, but I'm not sure how.

The Bishop looks at you.

"Why do you say that?"

Because I get this really bad headache when I go in there.

"That is new. But it's fine isn't it?"

I don't think so. I'm worried. I think... the pictures on the wall have to be stopped somehow, but I can't think of what to do.

"If you don't know, then why do anything?"

Because I care about you, idiot. I was so scared when I saw you lying there with Mira... it felt like my heart stopped. I wanna fix whatever problems she caused, as best I can--but I'm not good at figuring out things like puzzles, so I just... really want to do everything I can to make it better. I love you, you know?

"I know. He loves you as well."

[smiles softly, maybe a little pink]

That means a lot to me... so, if this place is love, then--then I can't just leave without fixing it.

"I cannot help you. This is not my area."

[nods, then reaches over to touch Bishop's cheek]

It's okay. I'll figure something out.

He leans into it, the blood on his cheek turning to ash.

[quietly]

I know Kazuki's your king, and I wouldn't ever take that away from you... it's just, the way you seem so obsessed with him is... it seems like it's hurting. So I wanna help make it better.

"Sometimes things need to be eliminated. But serving Kazuki is why I exist."

Maybe it was, but you have a lot of other things that give you reason to exist now.

"He is still my primary reason for existing. That won't change."

I figured it was something like that... there's something else, too.

"What is that?"

[takes a deep breath]

If you ever find yourself without a King... if, for whatever reason, you can't serve Kazuki anymore... then, just know that, I would have you.

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