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AND THE NEXT THING he’d felt, was the cold. Having his head finally crumble away into nothingness, everything from then on, became a blur. His head waits, in the darkness ––– saying no words, thinking no thoughts.
He’d remembered talking to Shinobu, and he remembered her smiling –––– but soon, he was here again, alone, waiting to fade away like a forgotten memory. The spark to his eyes was dull; disappearing as he feels himself begin to disappear. Where is he going? Is he sinking into the pits of hell?
Perhaps it would be fitting, to end up there with no one besides him –––– a proper fate, for a monster. His head sits in the darkness – not even his parents waited for him – he was entirely alone. What remained of his consciousness fading, he begins to think.
And tears roll down his cheeks, when he thinks of the pain he’d caused. Shinobu seemed so full of life, when she talked to him –––– he wishes he could have said sorry, before she’d ran off to a place he could never follow.
Douma doesn’t ask for someone to save him, he doesn’t beg for hell to cease swallowing him whole –––– his head merely waits for whatever is coming, because in his heart, he knew he deserved it. He’d killed countless people, and now, this is what was coming for him ––––
–––– loneliness.
Quietly, he finds himself sobbing ––– holding no hands to wipe away his tears. Death was merciless, and he doesn’t fight it – but even then, the tears refuse to stop. He feels, and he feels with everything he’s had –––– for the first time in his fruitless existence, he feels emotion –
––– and it doesn’t stop. It can’t. This is his punishment.













