Twenty-Second Keychain-[Action]

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[After about 11 days, the Malnosso finally decided to return Roxas back to the village. He's walking pretty slowly with an almost-limp, the usual cuts and bruises from kidnapping on him and few feathers missing from his wings, but the most noticeable mark is the bleeding gash on the left side of his chest soaking through his shirt. He gets about as far as outside building two before he has to stop moving and hits the ground]

Comments

[flaring]

Right.

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...I'm sorry.

[flaring]

And just what are you sorry for?

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I wasn't paying attention. And if I was, they wouldn't have got to me.

[flaring]

Don't think you could've stopped 'em, Roxas.

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I had the Keyblades though.

[flaring]

Just—don't worry about that right now.

[perplexme]

But they got away with it.

[flaring]

They always do.

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I could have stopped them.

[flaring]

Roxas.

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...Sora could have. Sora would have, I bet.

[flaring]

Sora was here too wasn't he? Which means he's just as powerless against them as the rest of us.

[perplexme]

Yeah, maybe. I'll get back at them though.

[flaring]

No you won't.

[perplexme]

Why not?

[flaring]

Because. No more research, no more trying to figure Luceti out, no more. Got it memorized?

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But Axel...I can't just stop. People depend on me to find answers.

[flaring]

You have to.

[perplexme]

Why?

[flaring]

[jabs his finger against the blood stain on Roxas' shirt] This was just your warning.

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[watches as Axel's fingertip disappears inside his chest cavity but says nothing]

[flaring]

I'm going to burn all your work.

[perplexme]

Don't.

[flaring]

Going to stop me?