It's not enough. The rest of me is trapped. Those tendrils are made from pure fear.
Destati can't invert them.
So I just have to-.
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They melt away. Like ice cream under the summer sun, the darkness falls apart wherever it is touching my body.
"Wha-?"
I can't do something like that.
While I'm paralyzed in confusion, darkness descends upon me once more, and-.
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It is sliced in two by a jet of water from below, sharp enough to cut through diamond.
What's going on? Where did - is it Hisa? Did she break through the other side?
No. It can't be her, because-.
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A mighty fist that cannot be blocked or parried blasts open a path.
Pure strength and speed. But I know this movement. It isn't my fist that did this. Not Hisa's, nor Pyry's, nor Ahti's.
It's you, isn't it?
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Right. Of course.
We're in Ahti's world. So you're just visiting, aren't you? From mine.
I can't see you, but it looks like...
I can't hear you, but it sounds like...
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"..."
Of course, Snow. I'll beat him up real good for you, too.
I pick myself up off the frozen surface of the lake.
Through my mind's-eye, the memories of twenty six children stare at fear itself.
We are together. There is nothing here to be afraid of.
Striding calmly towards the darkness, I gather my Odic fury.
Feelings will surely open a path. No matter how he concentrates, no matter what he throws at us, there is no way it will reach.
If the opponent is just an old sentiment, then my own memories, leaking out through
Destati, will be more than enough.
"Pay attention, doctor."
There is only one thing left to do.
"We animals of the Turnside have something to tell you."
A weak girl, who could never accomplish anything on her own, forms a fist once more.
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