The Final Day

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[Friday comes with the usual morning announcement. There's no blood or anything anywhere, and nothing visibly disturbed.

>Investigate...?]

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[le_mat]

Yeah. I'm all in.

[lovecolored]

You know you're gonna die, right? Like, you know that, right?

[ just making sure ]

[le_mat]

Heh, yep. Probably.

[lovecolored]

Then you're gonna need a lot more than a few knives. Know how to make homemade bombs?

[le_mat]

[He licks his lips, excited]

I know a few basics.

[Hours spent making tools and tricks with Morgana at his desk have to pay off somehow. Not like an Elemental Set would work here, but a few vanish balls might be handy]

Think we got time?

[lovecolored]

I'm the Champion of Explosions, remember? You give me materials and a flat surface and I can give you enough firepower to level the entire ship in an couple of hours. But based on our timescale right now, I think I can make do.

[ there's a pause ]

If if comes down to a trial, I'm not votin' for Penny. So ya got my bullets and my bombs for whatever crazy plan you're goin' down with, you sheep-haired shit.

[le_mat]

Plan, you think I have a plan? Don't give me that much credit.

...thank you, Marisa.

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[lovecolored]

We're just eyeballin' it all, then? Good, I was never great at stickin' to plans.

[lovecolored]

[ and then her smile falls again ]

'Kay, I'm gonna admit somethin' to ya, and you'd better not laugh.

[le_mat]

...'course not.

[lovecolored]

...er, two somethin's, actually. Just makin' sure! I'm not good with this--mushy shit.

[ .... ]

...my parents never liked that I was so into magic. I think it was because of reasons like this, I'd get myself killed one day. But if we keep stayin' here and hold a trial, I think I'm gonna lose my goddamn mind. I'd rather die fightin' than wait until someone I thought was my friend sticks a knife in my back. So...I'm with you guys until the end. Blood pact, to the death, et cetera.

But I've seen people die with regrets! There's too many ghosts back home who don't move on because they didn't do this or that, and the last thing I want is to be stuck in this shithole for the rest of eternity. So.

Penny's the kinda person I just wanna put in my pocket and keep safe, and I sorta wanna punch Kaiba in the face sometimes, but he's a good dude. And Jamie and Bolton are like, our collective dads, or whatever. You're different, though. I feel like I'm stupid and thirteen again sayin' this, but I kinda dig you. Just a little. I kinda dig some of my friends back home, so that's probably just the sorta person I am, I'm the "Witch of Love". [ said exaggeratedly with airquotes, with more than a little self-deprecation. 2poly2function. ]

...Miki can slap me if she wants, when we see her in the Netherworld. One free hit. Just puttin' that out there.

[le_mat]

[Of all the things he expected her to say, this was not it. Sure, he remembered making her blush when he was high, but this..

... it makes him smile, something warm in his belly. It's a good feeling.]

The Witch of Love, huh?

[He fully expects her to hit him, but hey, no regrets right? So he leans down a little and gives her the lightest of kisses on the corner of the mouth]

For luck.

[lovecolored]

I give out love advice! I like seein' people happy! I always say love's how I power my favorite spell, anyway...

[ ...which is true, actually, and she's surprisingly good at it in the rare moments when she gets customers? like that's literally on the sign of her shop. "services provided: romantic counseling."

But oh, she didn't expect that. She's definitely blushing. She does not hit him, because she's still Marisa, and she has negative 10 shame and just admitted that her (un)finished business was telling someone she had a giddy teenage crush on them. ]

Jeez. If they saw me like this back home, I'd never hear the end of it.