25: This Isn't Goodbye

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A/N: Wow! It's a chapter! Don't expect frequent chapters again, I just wanted to update since this has been sitting in my docs for a while. Thank you for your continued support and patience!

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Your heart thumps painfully in your ribs, and a heavy weight settles on your chest.

It hurts to breathe.

“Wh-I-I don’t understand,” You lower our head to hide your watering eyes, “You don’t-You don’t mean it like that, right? You’re not getting rid of me, are you?”

“No, no, no! I don’t mean it like that!” Sekido widens his eyes and shakes his head frantically, “But, I just.. I mean, [Y/n], come on. You don’t really wanna come back here, do you? Dude, it’s fucking horrible here. You’ll literally live a better life there in Hell, than to come back to this hell.”

“Sekido, I can’t just abandon everyone! I still have to see Tanjiro, a-and Kyojuro! I have to talk to him about what happened with Akaza-”

Lucifer frowns, recognizing that name to be the one you gave to the Little D you adopted.

“We-I still have to help-”

“-[Y/n].”

You didn’t even realize you started to cry in desperation. You clear your throat and wipe your eyes with the back of your hands. You feel Lucifer gently put a hand on your upper back, rubbing up and down.

“I honestly don’t give a shit about anyone else, [Y/n].” Sekido says bluntly, shocking you a bit, “You are my priority, not Tanjiro, not Kyojuro, not Muzan. You.”

You gnaw at your bottom lip before doing something you have never done in your life. Stepping up close to Sekido, you lower yourself on your knees and move your head down so your forehead touches the ground.

“[Y/n]!!”

“Please don’t abandon me, Sekido,” You beg quietly, “If I can’t go back… then what was it all for? Akira protecting me, Gerik dying because of me, Aimi trying to save me.. And Akaza…”

Sekido was stunned, an expression mixed with guilt and frustration coloring his face.

Of course he cares about the Kamaboko Squad, a selective handful of PIllars, and obviously, you. They’re all precious to him, and he’d give his life up for them. But in a situation where giving up his life for them meant that he wouldn’t be around anymore to protect you, then he wouldn’t do it. If he had to choose saving someone like Himejima and you, he’d choose you in a heartbeat. Sekido understands that might be harsh, but he doesn’t care.

“[Y/n], please get up-”

“-Everything would’ve been for nothing… I wouldn’t be able to live with myself knowing that I’m just here carefree while my friends are risking their lives and fucking dying. I love all of you, I can’t leave you guys…” You sniff, your tears pooling at the ground beneath you, “Sekido, don’t do this to me.”

Sekido rubs his closed eyes with the balls of his palms, “[Y/n]... I-”

“-Still have three weeks to decide,” Lucifer interrupts, kneeling down next to you and putting a hand on your back while keeping his eyes on you, “Maybe at the end of the month, you’ll have a change of heart an mind, and maybe at the end of the month, Sekido will have a change of heart and mind, too.”

It doesn’t fly past Sekido that Lucifer isn’t talking to him.

“While you may be not from this world, [Y/n], you are still a student of RAD, and still are staying under my roof: my rules. And for the sake of all appearances, you have to finish the school program we had set up for you.”

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