Ahh, memories... The air seemed to grow colder the closer we got to the armory somehow despite the relatively comfortable temperature from earlier.. Still, maybe that's my shitty body trying to adapt to the sudden increase in exertion that I was putting it up with. In a weird way, I'm feeling my true age as I struggled to not shiver at the chills running across my spine. Kind of like how I used to curl up into my sheets whenever December rolled around despite my own body being capable of shrugging off the cold better than most girls. Heh... Damn... now I'm starting to miss that strange nostalgic air that Christmas lights scattered across the city gave off. In a sense, I really was still a fucking city girl despite having lived practically longer here than back in the old world. Well, if all of this was over, maybe I can start trying to make this world shine just as bright as the old one. Without all the stress and pollution and the c

There. That should at least come across as condescending and mocking. At the very least, they'll see it as me looking at them like they're kids wasting their time arguing over something ridiculous and stupid. 'As if your general state is something they can easily ignore.' Well, I think I'm an insignificant speck in the grand scheme of things. They're the ones overestimating my actual worth in terms of intelligence and tactical acumen. 'And once again, you're underselling yourself.' No, I'm not. You all just think I'm better than I actually am. The world stopped making sense as everybody of note just kept looking at me with a dumbfounded look on their faces. Lace and Anne at least looked like they already got what I was saying and just lowered their heads respectively. Ruby constantly stole g

TESLA ⬛⬛⬛ The world around her moved in slow motion. Tesla felt her heart pumping at speeds that she intrinsically knew were far from healthy as she let her Essence wreak havoc on her own body. Her nerves lit ablaze as she settled into a trance; thoughts pushing themselves further despite her already loaded mind having to juggle her defensive tactics around her. "Hooooh....? YoOuu'Re aCtuAlly kILlinG yoUrSelF?" The lightning Num felt her mind churn for a single instance as a garbled mess of words reached her ears. His words came out to her slow and distorted, but it was easy enough to tell that the Prime was commenting on her current state. In the span of a single second, Tesla felt a trace of Essence travel the air within her immediate range. A foreign presence seeped into the ground below her once more, shards of meta