[center][b][color=6ecff6]MARY BETH[/color][/b] [/center] There was little that had to be said. However, precisely because this was the case, much will be said regardless. -The rampant denial of the [color=6ecff6]「Curse-Woven Impostor」[/color], a fool who had become locked into repetition. A cockroach in a glass, seeing its fate but unable to hasten the pace. -The mediation attempts of the sidekick. A poor sidekick, then, if they would aim to restrain the action of the protagonist. The sort of sidekick who would be swayed by worldly desires, rather than one who had escaped the cycle of that [color=6ecff6]「Six-Twain Wheel」[/color]. -The audacity of a child. A fool who does not understand that they are but a speck in the hand of the Bodhisattva, that the [color=6ecff6]「World」[/color] they hold so dear is merely a forgotten veil. Simulation, falsehood, dream, illusion, craft of a demon, prized domain of a narcissist pariah, altar of a corrupted god, plaything of an incomprehensible is-not. Pathetic. Impermissible. Disgusting. How dare she state that the visage of the [color=6ecff6]「Curse-Woven Impostor」[/color] is superior to that of the original? ...the declaration had already been made. Ah yes, there's no possible means it could not be known. Declaration. Sentence. The world starts, the world ends. As the warning had been given and ignored with reckless abandon, there was no reason to hesitate. Fall into nothingness. Condense into nothingness. Shatter amidst nothingness. Become naught under nothingness. [color=6ecff6]"All candy received by the 「Curse-Woven Impostor」 shall henceforth be made with inferior quality control standards and shall be given a mark-up of approximately four hundred percent additionally!"[/color] The announcement that called for the end of Being pierced the world. Like an army of insects, innumerable points cut through space, cut through time, cut through the foundation of reality's hastily-made "logic" as though it had never existed. [color=6ecff6]"Furthermore, all allies of the 「Curse-Woven Impostor」 shall incur the same detriments! Verbal abuse will be meted out as time permits! When total verbal abuse is infeasible due to temporal constraints, an overly terse and upset demeanor will be adopted! The soul will be broken apart and reduced into the dust from where it arose before it can enter the cycle of reincarnation! All applications as prospective sidekicks will be denied on face!"[/color] So it goes.