>>96160381
And then I'm there.

DROWN IN YOUR SORROWS AND FEARS
CHOKE ON YOUR BLOOD AND YOUR TEARS
SCREAM AS YOU RUN OUT OF YEARS
WE
MUST
DO WHAT IT TAKES TO SURVIVE

And I'm generating a gravitational warp between it and the sun.

GIVE UP YOUR FALSE TAKEN FAITH
END NOW YOUR LIFE AS A WRAITH
DIE WITH THE SUN AS YOUR GRAVE
WE
WILL
DO WHAT IT TAKES TO SURVIVE

YOU SEEK THE TAKEN THRONE? WHY, HERE IT IS. STILL OCCUPIED IN DEATH, I tell it, giant Resonance Oryx manifested, planet-carving Resonance sword in hand.

Saturn is "thrown" towards a localised singularity that exerts gravity on it and only it, screaming in panic. It's petty ambitions, it's prideful malignity, all cast aside in knowledge it's own hubris has brought it here. All it can see is itself split in two, as both halves burn and die, and splatter upon it's sibling's mantle. I am deaf to it's cries. As IX, the Sun|would-be mediator, recoils in horror as it realises this is also my opinion on what I think about it's attempts to mediate the Nine's conflict.

Then the Traveller speaks. A flash of light || show this fearful child mercy, as I have shown so many others || leaves behind a mother's touch on my cheek.

"You need only ask" I reply softly. Saturn's motion is arrested-but not ended. But the agony of incineration, of obliteration, of a Resonance-carved Final Shape designed to prolong it's agony infinitely, that ends as I defy fate. It won't stop crying.

What an earsore it is, even in defeat.

YOU LIVE, I tell VI, ONLY BY THE TRAVELLER'S MERCY. DISRESPECT THAT MERCY, AND BE SUBLIMED FOR YOUR SINS

The Vanguard spend the next day patiently explaining to the rest of humanity that yes, Saturn is now sandwiched between Earth and Venus' orbits, and yes, it's still crying.

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>>96117179
[God-Slaying Blade Works]

The familiar ebb and flow of a dimensional resonance greeted me as I peered into the new reality. "Oh look Elodie, it appears we're returning to the Campione universe. Quite a mess I had to set right last time" I said thoughtfully. "Huh! Yeah, guess we're gonna have to knock some heads together while Godou's off being aggressively normal. Maybe we're going to one of those 'historical background of a certain pivotal moment' parts of space-time? Or, or maybe we're going to a different continent!" said Elodie eagerly, already taking out her multiversal scrapbook and preparing to record what happy memories she could. "Or maybe it's one of those weird realities that seems to merge with another one, such as-"

Drawbacks: Tis a Silly Place, Extended Adventures, Multi-Dimensional Intersection, Scheming Wizards, Warrior's Whetstone, Secondary Protagonist, King Who Manifests At The World's End (2900)

Drop-In

Sacred Visage (Free)
Privilege of Power (2800)
A Hero's Faded Spirit: "Fujimaru Ritsuka" (2500)
Legend of Divinity: "Archetype Man" (1900)
Drama is a Free Action (Free)
Will of Steel (Free)
Overcoming Impairment (1800)
Loosened Rituals (1700)
Critical World Transposition (1500)
Stealing Opportunities (1300)
Link to the Hero's Throne (1000)
Second Helping (800)
Natural Enemy of Women (600)
Jumperwank (0)
Lavish Mansion (Free)
Tsundere Huntress (+200, 0)

In a single attosecond, Elodie's blood ran cold. "Oh no. Dear merciful no" she whispered.

I didn't even flinch.
Time and space simply froze into lattices of immaculate intent as I strode forth to where a young lady and her man were tumbling out of THE WORLD I EXTERMINATED.

SHIROU EMIYA, I said. My voice cold and final as the grave.

"H-huh? Time control...uh, who are you?"

Shirou squinted at the inferno of power surrounding an ordinary sihouette.

"...do I know you from somewhere?" he asked, finally.

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