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  1. Public Bookmark 26

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    "Do you want to try feeling inside me again?" Hikaru asks, eyes bright.

    "Would I learn anything new, doing it again?" Yoshiki asks a little skeptically. He has tried it twice already, and if anything, he understands Hikaru less.

    "Probably not," Hikaru says, but he hasn't moved, and his eyes remain fixed on Yoshiki.

    Yoshiki knows that it would be colossally stupid. He's messing with things he doesn't understand, and he doesn't really need Kurebayashi's warnings to know it's dangerous for himself and those around him. He worries that with each brush against whatever lies beneath Hikaru's skin, he loses more of his humanity, that someday he'll be corrupted beyond recognition.

    And yet, a part of him wants.

    In which Yoshiki takes a break from research to try touching Hikaru again.

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    10 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 17

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    In response, Hikaru merely laughed, bright and cheery and airy as ever. But Asako couldn't stop hearing that echo. Like someone shouting through a chasm. A sound only she could hear.

    Or... Asako confronts her fears and bonds with the monster :)

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    24 Nov 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 17

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    Hikaru bites off more than he can chew...

    WARNING: Spoilers for after season 1 of the anime.

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    06 Nov 2025

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    The corpse, the boy who loved it, and the thing it became.

    Everything changes, nothing perishes. In other words, what if the dead aren’t really gone?

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    13 Sep 2025

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    It was weird. She could feel the figure wiggling against either side, but not the bottom. Like whatever was stuck inside it was floating. And it was warm against her scales, almost hot. Through the cracks she’d made in the paper mâché, she kept spotting flickers of red, like blood.

    ...Maybe it really WAS a severed hand.

    Susie raised an eyebrow, then grinned. What if she took a quick peek before Noelle got back? Just so she’d know how to keep a hold on it. (And not at all because the curiosity was driving her nuts.)

    She tipped the figure back, yawning it open against her palm like a clam shell. Warm red light washed over the lines on her skin, brighter than ever, and the steady thumping got louder. And louder. And brighter. And louder. And brighter. And...

    And then, all at once, a bright red SOUL toppled out and started floating in Susie’s hand.

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    20 Jun 2025