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Daiki knows his entire damn—
Family
(But no, they’re dead or broken, now, and it’s just him. Just him, alone.)
…Daiki knows most people in his circles can be pretty damn calm about serious injuries because most suits come with some built in healing factor, if the users are even human enough to need it, in the first place.
So, really, it’s his own damn fault. He’s not made to be a hero. DiEnd was stolen to protect a monster it was designed to kill, and Daiki himself is just a thief.
And really, stop an earthquake machine while inside a mountain cave? It was stupid, and he just should have left. But he didn’t.
And of course he failed. Of course . It’s like an unwritten rule of reality. Kaitou Daiki can never be the hero.
If he dies here, it’d be pretty pathetic, but, hey. It’d take Tsukasa with him, and they might even be together again.
…oh who is he kidding? No way are they destined for the same place as Yuusuke and Natsumi.
(Would Tsukasa go anywhere? He claims to have no soul. Would he just… unexist?)
Daiki laughs, knowing he must be delirious from pain, and maybe blood loss. Did he hit his head? He knows his leg is completely crushed, and his henshin fell.
He knows he can’t get himself out of here.
He might die like this, and wouldn’t that be sad? Alone, in a cave, just trying to be a hero.
He tries to fight off the darkness filling his vision, he really does, but he’s just so tired, and so damn alone.
“Tsukasa…” he murmurs, unbidden.
The world goes dark.
Something is wrong. Something is wrong, and Tsukasa can’t place it. He hates this feeling. It goes against his nature.
Usually, after the pain and forced disassociation fades (…Or even before, if it feels serious enough), he can generally track down any disturbance in the multiverse that he needs to actively fix.
But not this time. All he knows is something is wrong.
And yet… nothing feels wrong.
Not with the Worlds.
…oh. Oh no. Is it Daiki? It must be urgent, too, since this sense has not waned in the past 12 hours.
(Tsukasa can’t lose Daiki too. )
Tsukasa rushes through a Veil that just goes “to Daiki” before he can see what’s there.
…Whatever he expected, this is much worse.