AN: Later, an underlined slanted sentence are the characters speaking in japanese
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People scream at the sudden sound of a weapon being shot in the middle of a gathered area,
Most of them run, and the others stand in shock, looking at a woman dressed like a Huntress.
Mathilde stood shocked the most, witnessing her second shot to be blocked by Fro.
Suddenly, her hands being sliced off by Fro make people go even more insane of the sudden gore in front of them
What was this invisible mass doing to her?
Fro had gained enough experience like a trained dog or a more growing child from being with Mattie.
It had understood that the decision was wrong and decided to put a stop to her Demi-Human...
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"Fro...-!!!" Mathilde was knocked straight out of the city and with the strength of the anomaly to the forest where there is the absence of others.
Mattie coughs out blood and looks at her own IBM in confusion and anger.
"(I can't for some reason control her!) GAHCK-!!" She glares at Fro, who pierced its claws straight to her stomach
It was planning to kill her slowly...
"Get! AWAY!!!" She uses her ajin scream only for it to not work on an IBM that proceeded to throw her to a tree, breaking it.
And killing her.
"AGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!" Mattie is revived but now covering her ears after trying to manually control shared possession with Fro that felt like was screaming her out
They were supposed to be one and the same.
But their emotions just don't mix.
She looks at her hands to see blood from her ears, and she can't hear a thing but see Fro charging in, biting her head clean off.
Mattie is revived again with a new head intact as she watches Fro, which slowly turns to her, with her previous head on its mouth.
She looks straight to her own eyes and sees it getting chewed and her blood spilling around.
"I....will...do....anything....." Fro says, and Mattie felt lifted after being pierced from the back by another Fro
It's now able to cast itself a double!?
"( don't tell me... WHAT HAPPENED BACK AT VALE WILL HAPPEN AGAIN!?)" Mattie dies then returns to see another Fro looming over her
She breathes heavily, looking up the multiple copies of her own IBM, ripping her to shreds
She doesn't understand why Fro is doing this to her...
"Damn it.. YOU'RE BETRAYING ME!? YOU WORTHLESS PIECE OF GARBAGE!" Mattie screams with the mix of her own blood as she dies again
Where had everything gone wrong?!
Once she's done with all of this.
Once Fro gets her fill
"( I will make sure to kill everyone on this fucking world!)" Mattie dies with a grimm smile on her face
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"(I'll kill every fucking one!!)"
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"(Nothing....)"
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She watches getting revived from top to bottom on a new limb at Fro that sees to run at her once more.
"Nothing matters anymore..... AFTER THIS I'LL JUST-!"
Suddenly, she's brought into a cover as someone held her from behind, protectively using their own body to save her.
"SHIT!" She hears a familiar voice filled with fear, but his head leaned to the back of her shoulder and his hold tight of desperation to live...
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"......Cardin...?" Her tone breaks as she begins to shake
They both were...
"..car...din...." Fro repeats it as he turns around to see and hear nothing, but for some reason, he jumped right on time to stop whatever was attacking Mathilde
Fro was there. He just couldn't see an IBM that held no intentions towards him.
"It stopped right... HEY! What the hell was that-!?" He stops himself looking straight at Mattie that was just openly crying looking at him
He didn't know what to do but he couldn't bare to see her cry.
"Y-you...you jerk...." Mattie doesn't know why she said that first but Cardin also didn't care as he wipes her tears with his thumb
But most importantly not looking anywhere else respectfully...
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Because right now Mathilde was killed too much that she got revived without her clothing....
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After a warm bath and some clothes he brought for her, the two went straight to bed no matter if it was too early to be so.
Mathilde hasn't said anything else, and Cardin had to tell her and check up on her if anything went wrong
Even though her actions were slow she was far from relaxed with her mind looking too occupied with thoughts,
Cardin not being a mind reader scares him more of what she is thinking and offered that they would just lay in bed,
No other intent there other than Mathilde really looked like she needed someone to hold her intact or else she could fall apart...
"You don't have to talk... we can stay like this for a while if you want..." He whispers to her as she placed her head down leaned on his arm and her hands to his
Her touch was cold yet soft, but her breathing was scared as if she is forcing herself to relax.
"I had to follow you... you leaving a letter for me left a bad taste on my mouth like you were kidnapped or something... After the things that happened on Beacon, you never really said anything of what you felt but went on..." Cardin says, reminiscing rubbing his warm rough hands on hers too
There was silence then, he thinks of what else to say on why he is here since he knows that she can be occupied with her own head
"The boys came with me though, they can't go anywhere without me and basically forced themselves to tag along... we had a separate room though so you shouldn't worry about them finding us like this..." He smiles looking at her
" Finally, just you and me right?" He tries to lighten things up but notice her habit of holding his hand started being lightly hard on it like shes messaging it.
Just gave Cardin the feeling that he screwed up now that she is lightly taking it out on him in a way that he knows.
He has the questions but he didn't want to push it.
Is she mad that he's deciding to put whatever happened behind them?
Thats something she'd always do but was never his style since he's doing his best to follow through her most of the time.
"...I'm not weak...." she actually says something that Cardin felt relief to but also confused
"Did I say that you were? Get out of your head... when was I the one who underestimated what you and Fro could do?" He answered calmly
"Don't say that traitoes name to me!! don't ever... don't ever bring that up!" She lightly raised her voice but he felt her hands shake
He had never seen her this angry but he knew that it was on the wrong person,
From what he understood about Fro is that they are one and the same.
If that's the case then something had gone wrong in her head to be fighting herself.
"I feel like...my own immune system is going to be attacking me from now on... i...I hate this..." she grips his hand and Cardin looks at her not knowing about what she said
"Are you sick? Have you went to see a doctor?" He asks densely and she gave off the sigh that felt like she was loosing hope for him to understand
She's like being a child right now.
He knew that feeling and at the end what made him felt open to his stupid thoughts
Was that someone listened to where all that anger stemed from.
"What happened that made you explore Mistral alone?" Cardin asks
"I .... I don't know...." she answered and he sided of it being a lie
"Did you already meet the Headmaster? You're mom said you were heading there." He says and there was a long pause again
"No... I didn't meet him yet..." She says and he observed it being another lie
He felt wrongly of interogating her this way but he could never really get through with her.
If he hasn't started before, then he should start having these open conversations with her often where he is the one leading.
" well I'm here now, you me and the guys can go together and see what you needed to do with the Headmaster... " He says looking at her but suddenly she stopped
"...Do you want to meet the Headmaster...?" He asks hesitantly and see her shake her head to no
He furrowed his eyebrows in confusion but felt like he actually got an honest answer,
"Okay... we'll stay here for a while... get things done here and there and head back home... or do you want me to bring you home tomorrow?" He asks her and she still didn't answer
She didn't say anything for a good while until she finally closed the distance between them and put her arms around him.
"(Now what is this supposed to mean? I'm not in the mood to have sex after that, is she sick?)" He sweatdrops but still hugs back, patting her head and the usual gentle hold on her
"(Now that you think about it, she liked doing this a lot whenever she has the chance...)" he thinks as she just lets her sink to him
Right now, he had felt that she calmed down,
"Here... I just want us to be here... kudesai(please)...." she says softly but almost like begging
She had calmed down, but her hold on him still shakes.
Cardin placed his hands on her ears and kissed her head, leaning it back where she heard him breathing and likely been forcing herself to imitate him.
"As long as you want..." he whispers
Mattie feels like her thoughts are all over the place.
Like she'd been standing on this edge for so long and felt many hands push her to fall.
One time, she's okay on the circle she is in, and a problem exists causing the ties to tear.
A life of an Ajin is not the same to the regular person no matter the world they are in.
But again, in her life.
She just wants to push all of those thoughts of being different and embrace that life is more than the things that are complicated.
Someone will always be there to hold her from falling on this cliff, and that is what matters the most.
"...thank you......" she lightly opens her eyes and sees Fro
Mattie lifts her hand, and Fro leaned to it, accepting her apology.
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MAKI'S POV
I opened my eyes and looked around. Other than feeling like I just took a well-rested nap, the feeling of disappointment never left me.
"Dear, she's awake!" I look at my mom and my dad, who hugged me tight
"We were so worried! We thought sato had killed you! After rescue found you on that building, we!" My dad stopped and continued to cry
I really did worry them so much -
"I-I'm sorry..." I mutter out, and my mom looks at me, and then I noticed that I was already crying myself.
I could have just run away, but then I left them with the thought of being dead after kidnapped
"I'm sorry, I'm such a horrible daughter! I could have just kept my mouth shut and listened to you guys! I should have not stepped into things that I couldn't handle!" I cry hugging my mom
"No! Don't say that!... You are! You are our role in life... you keep changing, but you kept going. That is what kind of daughter you are!" Maki looks at her father and notices how he has changed so much
He is more unkept along with her mom like they haven't slept all day...
"We never stopped looking for you... We committed every second of the day looking for you... Thank the gods that you are okay!" mom says happily
"But why..? You-! You guys know that I can protect myself! I'm - " I stop myself and lowered my voice.
"You know I'm not normal..." I say, and yet they still held my hand
"You're still our daughter... this world can turn upside down, and you are still our daughter! You are a blessing to our life. We would do anything to make sure that you are okay!" My dad says
"But what about the two of you!? If I'm not out there, then who else can stop Sato!? Both of you would be in danger if he continues!" I say angrily
"Maki... please... just stop this..." My father begged
"W-we'll find a way... I'm sure someone will help us if that ever happens! Our government may help us move to a different country to evacuate to but please! This has to stop!" My mom says as I grip my sheets
"I... But I don't belong here... I... I shouldn't be even here..." I cry out breaking apart
"It was supposed to be Mattie... Mattie could have stopped Sato if she was here... I should have been the one that -" My dad cuts me off by just letting me cry.
That's right...
If I hadn't accidentally activated my magic at that time...
Then maybe Mattie would have been here, and we could have found a way to defeat Sato...
Mathilde would have known what to do...
I....
She's the only person I trusted in knowing what to do...
Mattie...
What can I do...
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".....mattie....what can I do...."
"Hey, wake up..."
"Mattie... I'm sorry..."
"Mattie, wake up!"
"Huh?" I opened my eyes and couldn't process who was in front of me....
"AGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! WHO ARE YOU!? A STRANGER!? SO CLOSE TO ME!? WHO ARE YOU?!" I scream and accidentally fell off the bed
THIS HAS TO BE A DREAM
"M-Mattie!? What's going on now... what the hell are you saying!?" The guy with brown hair and blue eyes and built???oh my??
Wait, who did he ask who I was
Ah shit....
This is why I should have taken english seriously. I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT HE'S SAYING!
"Hey, mattie... are you calmed down now...?" He asks, and I look at my hands and feel my face
Seeing what I'm wearing, I'm quickly rush to a mirror on the fantasy modern looking room
"WHO THE HELL AM I!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?"