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You don’t know why you’re here.
All you know is you woke up on the beach alongside a drenched body, wearing the opposite of what you have, holding a small child.
You saw the child and felt as though you had failed.
You saw the child and knew you had failed.
You were made to protect.
You don’t know how you know that, you just do.
You know you’re not human, your skin made that clear.
Your skin is lightless with darkless dots, your cloak darkless.
You don’t know what your face looks like but you doubt it’s like that of the face you woke up next to.
You stand, looking around you everything is lightless, nothing moving.
You begin walking.
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“Isabeau!” You yell as the burly man is struck by the paper type sadness, sending him into a tree and knocking him out.
You cast Slow IV on the beast, its strange mountain-like body falling to the ground as the three large arm-like legs fail from the many injuries it’s already sustained.
It opens its mouths on the strange multi-faced head that sits atop its strange body and roars, it reaches an arm towards you but suddenly something else bursts out of the forest.
Another sadness appears, a human body with a darkless cloak and hat but four lightless tentacles come from its lightless back.
It stands on two of its tentacles, placing itself between you and the paper type as it roars back and its tentacles split like a snake's tongue. It raises a dagger and sends a powerful scissors attack towards the other sadness, cutting through its hand.
You use this opportunity to dash to the side and start digging in your team's bag for the salty broth you have as Mirabelle has already used her healing skill.
Suddenly you’re grabbed by a cold tentacle and moved towards the new sadness.
Gems-
A paper attack lands just where you were and when it does the mysterious sadness puts you down back next to your bag before staggering as it's struck in the back.
It turns and launches an attack slicing off the other sadnesses head.
You open your book and quickly examine the sadness in front of you.
???
Threat level: 6
It has a human body with lightless skin that looks like it was taken from the night sky. It has a hat, cloak, and dagger that seem to be human made and it seems to gather craft through four lightless tentacles that come from its back.
Note: It seems to hide its craft type as it only showed while attacking, or there is a chance that it can change its craft type.
You see it turn to you, its face a look of worry, tears not falling from its eight spider-like eyes.
It turns to your party, it sees Isabeau unconscious and its hat falls over its face, but you can see a brief look of dismay beforehand.
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What?
Mirabelle launches an attack towards the sadness which it doesn’t even try to dodge, but simply just takes.
It then lowers itself to the ground, tentacles retracting as it turns and flees.
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What in the shattering gems just happened?