Alone, Marluxia walked in the world that never was.
The inside of this castle is so boring.
I thought I could escape this boredom if I came to the organisation. But, the truth is, it’s the same everywhere.
Maybe my memories of the time I was human are making me think so, but I still haven’t been a nobody, without a heart, for long, and I don’t really understand what it means.
At the call from behind, Marluxia stopped walking. A woman’s voice—in this castle, there was only one woman. Marluxia turned around.
“What do you want, Larxene,” he directed at the golden-haired, tough-minded looking woman.
Larxene. At this point in time, she’s the only nobody to have joined the organisation later than me.
“I wanna ask you something. How did you come here?”
“Not particularly different to you.”
“Hmph.” Larxene brooded for a while on whether or not that answer satisfied her. “We aren’t doing much, these days. This place is boring, isn’t it?”
Larxene’s words brought an abrupt sense of affinity, for there was a nobody who was thinking the same thing as him.
“Well, one of these days we’ll be able to go out on missions. Now is the time for reserving power.”
“Missions… speaking of that, don’t you find what we’re actually doing pretty unclear?” Larxene asked, and then stood next to Marluxia.
“In order to take back our hearts,” said Marluxia, repeating Xemnas’ exact words.
Larxene cast her eyes down for a moment. “But I don’t really want or need a heart. It’s painful with a heart. Right now I’m pretty comfortable,” she muttered.
“Maybe that’s true,” answered Marluxia, and started walking shoulder-to-shoulder with Larxene.
~excerpt from Kingdom Hearts 2: Short Stories Vol. 2 Axel-Seven Days Chapter 5