Puppet

Chapter 3

Gods are like children.
Children need to grow up, and leave their old toys be.
But the memories of childhood could never be forgotten.
And even the newest toys sometimes become useless.

Now he had the power.
Two toys left behind, perfectly functioning, now together to stand against their old owner.

He felt the power in his hands.
He needed it.
So he tried again, after many years.
He pushed that chess piece in his chest.
But the sensation was still the same.

It was a quiet place.
A domain close to Tsurumi island.
Far from the civilization, far from the rest of Inazuma...
Far from Ei, and the other Fatui.
Where nobody could hear him.

He felt the roots of knowledge deep into his chest, pushing his heart, and squeezing it.
He couldn't breathe.
He laid down, strengthless, and tried to maintain control.
He didn't remember this.
Tears falling out of his eyes, and a look of absolute despair on his face.

'Why
Why does it hurt so much?'
He thought
"Am I not strong enough for this? Am I not perfect enough for this??"
He said
"ARE YOU HAPPY, EI? ARE YOU HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU'VE DONE??"
He shouted

He seemed to have lost consciousness for good three hours, maybe more, when he woke up in another side of the domain.
And the pain had stopped.

Close to him, sitting on a box, the same lady who gave him the Gnosis, was the same one who was keeping it in her hand, making it floating around.
"Who would have thought that you would have needed my help so soon?"

"Shut... Up..." he breathed out

"If you want me to shut up, then make me. Get up, and make me shut this beautiful mouth of mine."

Who was him to refuse a challenge from the one and only Yae Miko?
He began to get up, slowly, feeling that his strength was once again abandoning him, but he couldn't give up now.

The more he managed to get up, the heavier his body got, and it wasn't long before, when he stood up on his feet, that he collapsed once again, in the arms of Yae Miko.

She rolled her eyes.
'Of course.' she thought 'What would I expect from a Fatui?'