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morningdewsvalley2024-03-17 12:17 pm
mayorityvote) wrote in morningdewsvalley2024-03-17 12:17 pm
Second Execution
EXECUTION
Another trial, another execution to follow, a terrible routine but routine nonetheless. Come mid morning, the ducks will be out passing out flyers for the sentencing of Beelzebub, to take place in front of the Wizard's Tower. Attendance isn't required, but strongly encouraged.
After how the picnic blankets went over last time they don't make a reappearance, replaced instead by long tables stacked with what appears to be a take on comfort food: various onigiri (tuna, umeboshi, tenmusu, omurice) coupled with an absolutely giant stack of pancakes. Regular pancakes, chocolate chip, blueberry, there's even a funfetti variety, with syrup and butter included, naturally. The beverages this time are coffee, tea, and fruit juices.
At exactly five minutes to noon, the doggy daycare wagon pulls up with several occupants inside: your town representatives of course, the convicted, and the executioner.
(( OOC: Welcome to your second execution! Attendance is not IC'ly mandatory, but there will be a surprise for all characters at its conclusion, regardless of whether they're present or not. ))
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He rushes in, thrusting a hand out to strike. No less precise than Beelzebub, he takes aim for the target in Mio's chest.
No, not her heart - he learnt the hard way that doesn't work here. It's that glowing crystal in her chest that draws his attention, and that's what he lunges for.]
this might be a little gory idk just a warning jic
The circumstances of their birth on Aionios are in most ways unfortunate, but the crystal on her chest has always just been a part of her. Under different circumstances, maybe it would be worse to have Satan go to try and tear it out.
It still hurts like hell, especially when the stone cracks under his hand, when the skin around it begins to tear and smear with Beelzebub's blood and her own. Continuing to lift herself up with all that she has left in her, Mio straightens the sword and drives it up at a horrible, askew angle, in through the lower right part of his abdomen and driving diagonally upwards, through all the innards in between, until it emerges from his upper left. Straight through, in the ugliest way possible.
It means she sacrifices being within his reach long enough to finish this, to make an end of it, but just like that, Mio is back to killing to live once more.
She starts to sag again, and if he goes down she'll end up on the ground with him.]
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With the last vestiges of his strength, Beelzebub opens them again to find himself on the floor, covered in blood.
But this time, he knows, through the reassuring, searing pain coursing through him, that it's his own.]
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How terrifying to see something she didn't know in the face and body of someone she did. His heavy weight drops to the ground, and Mio's right there with them, front now soaked red fully through. She puts her spare hand on the flute but doesn't draw it. Maybe not her job, right now.]
... I was all right to have the love you did, for however long you had it. The rest of it... [Words are hard. She's tired. She doesn't know if she can understand or forgive the rest of it. So she doesn't say it.] Despite the rest of it, you deserved to be loved. Each one of you.
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Ahh, what sweet words Mio has for him - despite that, despite everything. He allows himself, for the first and last time, to believe that she might be right - that love was something he deserved.
It's just for a brief moment, as he exhales his last breaths, but he has to wonder...what if he could've felt like this, all that time?]
...Mio... [It's barely a whisper, it's about as much he can muster.] You...really are lucky, huh?
[His face falls into a smile that fades with the light of his eyes.
Beelzebub is dead.]
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