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Chapter 1
Six, now older and called The Lady, remains as the leader of The Maw. Mono, well on as the tall man, serves as the Pale City’s enforcer maintaining the broadcast. They are the very person that hurt them once and that is not lost on them but for once the loop is broken.
Six saw the door with the eye on the front and while withstanding the effects of the realm she is in; she opened the door. She is stunned as she saw a familiar person sitting on a chair with walls of pulsating flesh.
“I don’t know, personally the yellow raincoat is more nostalgic but it seems like you outgrew it, SIX.”
The boy she once knew is in a loop too just as her and now he is the Tall Man.
Mono almost didn’t recognize her through her kimono and mask but the shadow that surrounded her was all too familiar. The mix of emotion filled his senses until he is blinded in rage. He lunged to choke Six. They fought but neither of them is a push over and in the end, they were badly hurt. With rage cleared off of him, they talked. Mono with his thick sarcasm and Six with the intimidating presence even with her face behind a mask.
“I came through a television to find you and I get choked before I even speak!” In the tone she usually used in The Maw, condescending and compose.
“How can I blame myself when you ditched me off to the abyss?”
“You kidnapped me and broke my MUSIC BOX!”
“You’re still mad about that? Did you forget that I saved you time and time again and what I get in kind is a betrayal?”, the sarcastic tone faltered as his voice portrayed the hurt, he felt and brewed in.
Six herself was willing to depend her life on Mono at one point. She was also hurt as months went on after Mono’s death. The longing for anyone sunk in deep and to see him again only to be so mad at her was painful.
Mono spew words that he knew stabbed Six’ heart. He spoke harshly only to want to apologize after. Unlike Six, he wasn’t wearing a mask.
“It hurts that we talk like this, I know. I missed you just as much as I hate you. You were my friend Six. I liked you. I liked the time spent together. I see you again and I don’t know what to do.”
Six stood up looming over the Tall Man sitting down leaning on a wall. Mono could swear he was ready for any pain but none came. Warmth wrapped around him. It was a gesture that he thought Six, a hug. No one knows who cried first, but their cold tears evaporated in their embrace.
They left the world of static, holding hand like back then. Mono basked at the sensations he didn’t know he missed. He stayed at The Maw for a week.
It was amusing to Six, seeing her old friend so wide eyed at the small world that if he didn’t grow, she might have thought nothing changed. But something changed, he is more in tune to his abilities. He is more ‘capable’. The days where she saw Mono staring at the stars when he thought she was asleep, mumbling about the wrongs he did are long gone. She never understood wrong back then and why it bothered Mono so much. They had to kill the hunter and the-
Mono entered the room after a knock.
“Hi Six, I know your servants call you Lady but can I call you Six still?”
She was snapped out of her trance. He still sounds so concerned even in this form.
“Sure, Mono.”
“That’s nice to hear. You really are respected and revered here huh? “, silence grew in Mono’s sudden stop. “It has been nice Six but I got to go.”, a slight ping of pain in his voice.
“Why? You need to sit in a chair more?”
“Haha, no. It sounds weird but I have been maintaining things in pale city. The walls of flesh whisper my tasks and it goes like that.”
“Can you stay…”, she knows there are many things to say still.
“I will come back. On my own accord, I will visit you. We will talk even more”, A smile filled with hope was on his face.
Six removed her mask. Mono never asked her to remove it out of respect but she was removing it right now. She returned the gesture with a smile and tearing eyes.
“See you later, Six”
Mono turned on the television and the static that once shook both of them in pain only hurts them emotionally now. Mono stepped his foot in and tipped his hat to Six one last time as he vanished in a haze of static. The room only lost one body but it felt ever so empty.