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[sacredpath]

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[sacredpath]

Were all of you able to get out?

[clockpunk]

Yes. We made it out. We won. [ ... ] Shion and Ibuki were in hospital for a long time, though. It was a really close thing. And I...

[ rubs at his chest. ugh ]

It hurt my actual soul, as well as my body.

[sacredpath]

That's awful. How do you recover from something like that? Does it heal with time, or...?

[clockpunk]

I'm not sure. Seemed like it, at first - felt like being electrocuted. But sometimes I wonder, y'know?

[ a vague, contemplative hum. ]

The man who made this used an energy called Stride Force. Everyone has it, but just a little, usually. It's what's made when you visualise something. To use it the way he did - to force those images into reality - it cut his lifespan. It's not supposed to be used like that. [ ... ] The damage done to me might be similar, since this whole stupid place is pure Stride Force, and I'd used it the same way before even coming here.