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A month , at least a month had already passed since it was forsaken , month since , for the last time , the lyricist spoke with the woman that it used to consider its mother . Voids surname was now nothing more than a legal formality . It hopped from house to house as a street cat surviving on the kindness of others would... Kindness or pity? Perhaps neither , perhaps they simply felt obligated to help a poor creature in need due to their bond providing something it needed but didn't deserve — kindness .
New clothes , binders , food , shelter , it took everything given , as a leech on its friends' neck . All of that was taking a toll , an immense toll on Mafuyu's already damaged mind , Tsukasa had noticed , so on that day that void was supposed to leave the Tenma household for a week or two once again he locked it in its room saying that "for your own good you need to stay, Mafuyu, I won't let you keep doing this. You're staying with us permanently now" The only reason for locking void being that it would certainly have protested , and yet ... Leaving it alone with its thoughts was by far not the best idea . Loud , so loud . The room was deathly quite yet voids mind was as loud as an angry mob .
It had been a month , it had already been a month , why did it have no progress ... Why couldn't it get better ? Where were all of those notions planted by the Asahina matriarch located in its brain ? Was void already a lost case ? Did it make a mistake by running ? … Useless , useless , useless . A useless lifeless marionette that can't save itself from its puppet master , that was all Mafuyu was . 'you threw away your future, must be so proud of yourself' 'what a grown adult Mafuyu is, making all of the wrong decisions by itself'
'What fun. Now you can fall and wither and decay knowing you will be nothing in your life.' — The vicious mockery of the voices inside its head knew no end . It fell to the floor , palm on its forehead , voids head felt like it could explode any second . What good was it being there if void wasn't getting any better , it was stuck , it couldn't progress , it could only struggle without hiding it now . 'You are just a burden on everyone's lives' 'you are a weight tied to their ankles dragging them down.'
'You are nothing more than a waste of their time and a parasite in their existences, why are you even here still?' — They were right , why was it there ? It didn't deserve any of that , any of what was being given to void … Eyes as empty as could be , unfortunately Tsukasa's good intentions only kick-started an episode , getting up to from the floor Mafuyu took a running start and suddenly there was glass on the floor , the window of that first floor room was broken — Mafuyu nowhere to be seen , now somewhere else , limping without a direction , maybe it was looking for its final destination .