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#how everyone is gonna scold gudao and chew him out
hopeled · 2 years
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      it comes so naturally. the way she uses a chunk of the road practically ripped free as something of a springboard, feet pushing off it with all the force she could muster. hands frimly grasp a bent over flagpole, just long enough to give her body the momentum it needed to actually reach the target. battered and ooze-stained legs wrap tightly around the CPN’s neck, Ritsuka’s hands finding a tight grip around its head. she ignores as the ick pulsates and pours, covering her bare legs and gloved hands with the sticky substance. she won’t succumb to it this time, fighting against any pain and weariness with an intensity that matched that of her battle within the Temple.
          she cannot stop until this stops. that is the bottom line.
   with every ounce of strength in the body, she grips tighter and tighter, her legs becoming like that of a unbreakable lock around the creature’s neck. she remembers NULL’s attack, how Aelin refused to give way until the thing was dead on the ground and she will do the same here but with an extra measure of making sure the thing stays dead. in one fluid motion, she grasps the dagger that had been strapped to her right thigh since this begun, pulling it free from its holster with ease. (that quick release function was a godsend.) though she had the strength, Ritsuka could not wait for this thing to choke. there was still a lingering weariness from using the Black Barrel, but these things afforded her no rest. it’d be rude of her not to return the favor.
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 with one hand practically a claw around the CPN’s chin, her thighs holding its head in place, she raises the dagger high before bringing it down directly in the center of its head. the thing lets out a strangled scream that lasts a few seconds, faliling as if trying to throw her off. but eventually, it falls to the ground in a motionless lump.
     huffing loudly, Ritsuka yanks herself free, grimacing as she brushess off the ooze from her legs before looking at what was originally the creature’s target. “ Hey-- you alright?”
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