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    Summary

    ⚠️ SPOILERS for Multiple Eitos, Endings 009 and 010 ⚠️

    There is no possible scenario where Takumi would survive this.

    Not like this. Worn down over weeks of being stretched thin, struggling to adapt, pressured and battered on all sides. This weak, frantic, exhausted Takumi, holding the blade in between his trembling hands. Driven not by hatred, but something quieter. Smaller. Something so, so scared, so tired, so desperate for everything to go away.

     

    Cheer up, Takumi. You never have to be alone now.

     

    Eito was never wrong about that. But a sickening feeling settles in his stomach, sour like bile. A terrible realization, unfolding its petals to reveal an awful truth. When - not if, but when - Takumi breaks himself into pieces, collapsing in on himself like the core of a star that's run out of fuel...

    ... Eito will be the one left here, alone.

    They'll be together forever - but that forever lasts as long as Eito can keep him alive.

    A reprisal of an endurance match, set in a different key. (Or: Eito tries to protect Takumi from himself.)

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