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Manager bud are you okay?
MANAGER ESQUIRE
M-M-MANGER
*the muffled voices of the sinners was all i could hear in the fog and ringing of my ears*
*it was just a regular pit stop to stretch our legs and get some food i hadn’t even been off the bus for a minute when suddenly my vision went black and it felt like my head had been bashed open*
*i slowly open my eyes as my vision clears and realize I’m back on the bus layed across floor with everyone standing over me with varying degrees of worry on there face*
W-what happened…why Does everything hurt
meursault: you collapsed manager and your head exploded
*meursault said with his deadpan voice as usual however I could sense an ever so slight sense of surprise on his face*
W-wait so if my head exploded how am I- *i suddenly realized that rather than the ticking of a clock that I and the other sinners had grown accustomed to words were instead coming out*
Wha-…what happened to my head-
Faust: you’re head exploded
W-what?
Yi sang: I remember seeing it directly, you had just stepped off when your head suddenly exploded and shattered into a million pieces but instead of being dead you just…became normal
Heathcliff: yeah, scared the living daylights out of the poor lad Sinclair
*yi sang then handed me the mirror and i could finally see what had replaced my clock head, as i gazed into the mirror a pale skinned blonde man with one yellow and one red eye, with the red eye resembling a clock gazed back*
W-wait so how am I supposed to revive you guys now
Faust: Faust suspects your new eye to be the solution
Well how can you be sure-
*right as i finish that sentence I hear the loud splashing of blood come from the back of the circle in, standing there was ishmale next to her was heathcliffs corpse his head reduced to a puddle*
Ishmael…okay look HE started it
*and almost like instinct i could feel the excruciating pain coming from my eye as the time rewind began to happen feeling all that pain in a single concentrated area made it hurt even worse, and just like that heathcliff was back on his legs*
Heathcliff: OI WHAT THE BLOODY HELL WAS THAT FOR
ishmale: YOU STARTED IT
C-can you too not right now w-we have bigger issues at hand
*Ishmael and heathcliff looked at me before angrily turning away from each other*
Hong Lu: so what do we do now
Vergilus: we’ll continue as usual
*most of the sinners and me suddenly jolt backwards, startled as Vergilus suddenly made his presence known*
Vergilus: don’t think that just because you have a new eye it would change your job danteh, you’re still going to have to collect the golden boughs
R-right
*after a few more hours of discussion and coming to terms with the changes it’s time for the sinners to retire for the night and as I dismiss everyone I realize that outis had been in the corner the entire time seemingly staring into space*
Outis, you can go to…hey outis hey you there?
*I walk over to her, she doesn’t flinch, not once does she move her eyes almost sad looking as they stare right through me*
Hey outis *snap snap* you there
*outis snaps back to reality yelping and stumbling over luckily I’m able to catch her*
Outis: i-I apologize executive manager I-i had not realized that you had dismissed everyone
Are you okay, how long have you been standing here? What were you even doing
Outis: i-i was simply preparing myself for that should you not wake up we would…we-
*outis began to trail off unable to keep eye contact and starting to blush which was highly unusual for her*
Well as long as your okay, nothing gonna change just because I’m not a clock head anymore *i tried smiling to reassure her but all it did was deepen her blush and make her freeze up*
Whenever your ready head to bed okay
*as I go to open the door I feel a tug on my sleeve and I turn to see outis tugging on my jacket and covering her mouth with her hand*
Outis: m-manger I-i have a proposal