Re: Chapter 113 SPOILERS IN POST AND COMMENTS

[new_order]

I know you're of mixed emotions, mun. You're happy for a happy ending and seeing us move on to the next stages in our lives but at the same time you're sad to see that you won't be waiting for updates anymore. (I also know that you facepalmed when you read about the "Madness of Boobs". To be honest, I don't blame you. Hopefully that will lessen with time.)

Still, Father told me once that life isn't like reading a story. For you, the story's ended, but for me, my friends, and the rest of both humanity and the witches? There's still a lot of work to be done to make sure the happy ending we have now lasts long past the next several generations. Hopefully when it's my time to pass the torch, the world will be in better shape than when I received it. Then when it's my successor's time to pass on, it will be in even better shape than the way I left it, and so on.

I know you're worried about those dissenters that were mentioned with my...I suppose "coronation" is the only word to describe it. The new order I'm bringing to our world is going to need some adjustment. There are those on both sides who don't want to let go of past grudges. There may even be those who seek to worship and follow my...brother...and even try to release him. Full acceptance of it all is going to take a while, but humanity has an advantage over witches and even gods: Your lives are very brief so you're capable of changing so much faster than those of us with infinitely longer life spans and fresher memories of the mistakes of the past. I'm honored that Father made me in your kind's image.

Perhaps one day, this "Okubo" of yours will think to update you on how this new journey of mine and my friends' is working out. But in the meantime, be assured we'll be all right.

After all, we will not submit to fear.

Comments

[strongestcoward]

What's with that pause, little brother? Still ashamed of our relation?

[new_order]

I still find it hard to swallow that you came from Father.

[Give him a few decades to accept it. Because he'd had to force back the thought so he could focus on fighting you before.]

[strongestcoward]

Even when he's less than dust you blindly follow Father... You've flown the nest, but you're still not mature.

[new_order]

I don't blindly follow him. I know he made mistakes, terrible ones which are going to take decades if not centuries to fix. [You being one of them, dear brother.]

However, knowing his flaws and the full extent of his mistakes doesn't make me love him any less.

[crushing_weapon]

There are always people who don't want peace. After all, even after hundreds of years, there are still people who refuse to accept weapons as people.

The most we can do is keep working at it.

[terrified]

For a little while, at least, you'll be all right.

[strongestcoward]

Hah. You're talking about me, aren't you? But do you mean my existence or how he dealt with it? [That sure is a loaded question.]

[new_order]

How you were created. [If Death hadn't decided to try his little experiment, Kid doubts you would've turned out the way you had since your whole existence wouldn't have been defined by fear. 'Course Kid likely wouldn't have existed then.] Sealing what you became away, I can't argue with.

[new_order]

[Marie! And look, there's that little wavelength in your belly. Humans are amazing. They can create new souls from nothing!]

You're right, of course. But hopefully the influence of the dissidents will be less pronounced as time goes on much like those people who think Weapons are subhuman.

How're you doing?

[new_order]

[Kid bows a bit.] Yes, and we have you to thank for that.

[terrified]

No. It's all because of Maka. She was always doing impossible things.

[strongestcoward]

Oh? So you're saying I'm a completely hopeless case, are you? What if Father had pretended to be a loving parent like he did with you?

[Yeah, why not ask these things? He likes trying that whole uncertainty thing.]

[crushing_weapon]

I certainly hope so! We're never going to make progress if people just assume things about others without actually getting to know them!

I'm doing just fine. How about you?

[new_order]

Maka didn't force or ask you to be Asura's jailer. That was your own decision, and I personally think you deserve to be thanked for that sacrifice.

[terrified]

We both know I did a lot of things, Death, Death, Death the Death.

[new_order]

One day at a time is all we can do for now.

Doing very well. Already very busy. Even busier than before, to be honest. With no more Deathscythes, I'll be the one going to the worst of the hot spots personally. [At least they have a death god who can do that now.]

[If he didn't know Stein, he'd ask if the man had started babying her yet. As it is, Kid's probably going to do it enough for the both of them.]

[new_order]

[Screw you, big bro.]

You're saying there's an actual chance of you accepting humans and living among them? Given that last fight, I find that difficult to believe.

[new_order]

True. [Perhaps one day Crona will accept gratitude for what he decided to do to atone. Kid knows that being sealed in one place wears on someone. His own bubbly father had had moments where he'd stare beyond the invisible barrier, and Kid could feel his soul longing to step beyond it.]

And just "Kid" will do. I may have my father's title, but I don't see a reason to force my friends to use it.

[In a hundred years or so, no one will remember him as "Kid", after all.]

[terrified]

['Friends.']

The world looks small from up on the moon. But there sure are a lot of people on it, huh? There sure are... I never realized before.

[crushing_weapon]

Well, it's not like we just stopped existing. You still have all us Deathscythes to help you out for a while.

[So yes, Marie's planning on being on active duty for a while longer. Even if Kid is going to insist on coddling her.]

[new_order]

There certainly are. I didn't get a very good look at the Earth from the moon, but the glimpses I saw were humbling.

[Their world is so tiny in comparison to the rest of the huge universe. You never really notice until you see it from above.]

[strongestcoward]

Eight hundred years ago, Father didn't care about humans either, did he?

[Back in them Grim Times, and all that.]

I did my brotherly duty and helped you grow up a bit, but you're happy to leave me stuck as the current me, is that it?

[new_order]

Until things calm down, I'm going to be calling on you all's help quite frequently for the big jobs. As much as I'd like to, I can't do it all by myself.

You specifically, on the other hand, are not going to be out in the worst of it once you start showing.

[He's putting his foot down because isn't that when the baby's really starting to be vulnerable? Much bigger target than when they're a bunch of cells.]

[new_order]

[Okay. Ow. He doesn't like that you have a point.]

You ate human souls. You know that twists a soul to Madness.

...If there ever was discovered a way to fix that, would you even consider changing?

[Because as much as he hates you, you and he are the only ones of your kind now. There's a connection there that's more to do than just having the same source.]

[crushing_weapon]

You can't limit me like that! I'm one of the most powerful Deathscythes you have!