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[Endgame: rise or DROWN]
[How long have you been exploring Nessa's palace now? You've met her family, viewed her memories, learned how to fight as a witch and tried to find the source of her power and the Treasure of her palace: the Voidheart. And along the way, you've tired your best, with mixed success, to avoid the incarnation of her eldest cousin and the representation of her trauma and fear, the Nightmare of Esmau.]
[Wherever you are in the Palace right now, you feel the ground briefly shake under your feet. Little shakes here and there haven't been out of the ordinary - Esmau is trying to blow the place down to the studs, after all. But that felt different. That felt....worse.]
[Your phone beeps as you receive a message.]
[Wherever you are in the Palace right now, you feel the ground briefly shake under your feet. Little shakes here and there haven't been out of the ordinary - Esmau is trying to blow the place down to the studs, after all. But that felt different. That felt....worse.]
[Your phone beeps as you receive a message.]
ROUND 10
[Esmau is incredibly unsteady on her feet by this point. For as much ferocity as she's dealt out, she just keeps taking more punishment back in return. She's bruised, bleeding, burnt. She wavers on her feet for a second....then....she stops. She lets out...
A low chuckle.]
You know what I just saw?
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Right in this place.
And all of you were here.
It was just a few minutes from now.
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And I could see Lilith standing over me.
She was looking down at me.
And I knew we were thinking the same thing.
'I'm alone, now.'
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Just so you can save that worthless traitor, Nessa?!
[DROWN]
I'M THE ONE THAT'S GONNA LIVE!
YOU'RE THE ONES THAT ARE GONNA DIE!
[
Esmau holds her glaive up to the sky and roars bloody murder. Her own blood shed in this fight starts seeping off of her into her blade as she casts a Void From Blood of her own. And with the Spark she gathered in her blade from casting it...
Nightmare of Esmau, Disciple of Lilith is Invoking the power of her Heart!
Nightmare of Esmau, Disciple of Lilith casts DROWNDROWNDROWNDROWN
You feel an unbelievable amount of pressure suddenly crash down on you all at once. It's like when you were in the bubbles. The attacks. The fire. The falling rocks. They're all coming back. But more - Nessa's memories. Memories of Esmau tormenting her. Memories of Esmau killing her. Unbelievable mental pain wracks your body with each step and the physical pressure makes it painful just to raise your arms.
All actions you take will inflict damage to you.
And Esmau isn't done. She's lunging all over the place with Final Rush and Savage Strike, trying to knock down anything that moves until you all stop moving.]
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[he doesn't have any witty lines. he doesn't have any heartening battle cries. but he does have invisibility via Stylish Phantom, and he is immediately slipping into that invisibility before he lunges forward and swings his dagger at her in another Paradise Lost assault]
[and, if that does manage to crit. . . he is following up with the Show's Over, as he did before. because fuck Esmau, fuck this fight, fuck this Palace, and fuck this noise!1]
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[speaking as Tsumugi suddenly]
I think I've gone through the entire myriad of canon weapons Junko uses by now.
--Ah, except one.
The worst...
[Junko creeps back into her voice]
Most awful... terrible... despair inducing weapon that she has in her entire arsenal.
[she creeps closer]
It might hurt me! But, it's worth it if it hurts you. I call that a win-win.
Upupupu...
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...a completely normal spoon...
...aimed to dig at Esmau's eyeball.]
As if~!
[a wicked grin creeps on her face]
Die by something totally plain and ordinary!!
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instead, the part of her that could bring her this far at all chafes under Esmau's yoke. now, it says. now. fingers grasping at the air, she makes a sound of painful, immense effort and tears a hole between dimensions. Void Fissure. ]
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He knows it. It's familiar to him.
He flicks his Evoker to his temple and calls on Satan and Helel, for Armageddon.
He's only used it once before even back home--but if ever there's a time for it? He thinks now is it. ]
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Explosion after explosion after explosion wreaks her body until she lunges at the one who started the All-Out Attack, Akira, delivering a second Final Rush that strikes him in the shoulder this time. When she rears her glaive back to thrust again - Tsumugi jumps on her - and jams a spoon into her face. Esmau screams a mix of frustration and bloody murder and just punches Tsumugi in the head as hard as she can to knock her off. She then gives her a Savage Strike for good measure, kicking her in the side to knock her away.
She looks around.
She sees Minato. She sees his Evoker pointed to his head.
She lunges at him with one more Final Rush.
The impact doesn't knock him away this time - she stabs him through the chest with her glaive. The same way she did Nessa. The pain is indescribable.
It's also not enough to stop him from pulling the trigger.
Esmau's eyes widen as a fault opens up between her and a truly cataclysmic amount of Void energy pours out of it directly onto her. Her screams are muted by the way the temple rumbles and practically shakes itself apart.]
LILITH.....
FORGIVE ME!
[And a massive explosion as the fault finishes releasing its Void energy....]
[rise]
The pressure is gone. You can move again, unbidden.
The Disciple is on the ground, unmoving. Defeated. The ground crumbles beneath her....and she falls into the abyss below.
Your fight is over.
You have risen above the Void.]
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[the only reaction Akira has to this is to spam WELL OF LIFE WELL OF LIFE WELL OF LIFE on Minato]
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Honestly, undoubtedly it helps, and eventually Minato just reaches for Akira with a hand exhaustedly, from the ground. ]
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[crouching next to Minato, Akira reaches for that hand, clasping it tightly in his own]
[. . .]
. . . I think that's enough being stabbed for a lifetime. . .
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[ Minato just kind of... flops back to the ground. He knows he needs to get up and see what's going on now, but...
in a minute. ]
I'm... pretty tired.
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Y. . . yeah. Haaaah. . .
[drawing that hand up to press a kiss against the back of Minato's knuckles]
. . . let's see the end of this, and then go home.
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[ They have to see this through to the end. They have to.
So, exhaustedly--he pushes himself up a little bit, leaning heavily on Akira, so he can talk to Shadow Nessa. ]
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[he's got you, boyfriend]
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Worth it!
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He crumples to the ground, Evoker clattering to the ground next to him as it falls from nerveless fingers.
But hey, he's still alive! Hooray! ]
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