~Blossoming Black Rose~ {Kokoro}{Shinigami's Deal Quest Mission}{Manager Interaction}

Kokoro opened her eyes. She felt a cold embrace of nothingness. She sat up in a blank world... a form of a fog that entrapped her. She was fully undressed. She looked down to see a wound; the wound in which her cousin left her that cause her death. A stab through the check. It almost hit her heart, but it seems, he missed, hitting a major vessel instead. Same effect basically.
She looked around, confused and slightly scared. Was this the afterlife? Where was she? Yukimura never mentioned this limbo when he had returned from the dead at all...
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The vast space would soon release a chilling breeze as souls from those that have passed would begin to appear in the form of firey orbs. They would soon apporach the new soul but be stopped as a large being would appear before this soul with violet skin long sharp nails and hair as white as snow. Its eyes would be black with iris of gold and red horns of a demon it smiled having gray teeth and a tanto. It slowly reached over to the soul as though it was going to take it to the other side but soon whispered, "Do you wish to live?"

Kokoro looked at the tragic beast ahead. There was something about it that she found oddly…. Beautiful. She didn’t know if it was the physical aspect of it, or if the idea of her soul finally being at some sort of ease… some sort of end from the pain. She looked down, before looking back up again. This was something she waited for. She looked back, awaiting for a few moments, before turning back to the demon.
“Yes… yes… I would like to return to the world of the Living…” she said, as she looked up into it’s soulless eyes.
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‘Well shit…’ she thought in her mind. She didn’t belong here. And she certainly did not want to think about whether or not her mother ended up here upon her death. But, her face remained solid.
“I’m not…” she said simply. “I’m not special compared to the previous soul or the next. But…” she looked around at the nothingness… “I spent my whole life without making attachments… without actually LOVING. Without bonding. I had an incurable disease that is said to only be cured by Death… I want that… I want that chance to actually LIVE!” she said, looking up.
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Kokoro looked up.
‘Well… we failed…’ she thought to herself. But she looked up in the demon’s eyes. At first she had begun to look worried. But then, she remembered… she knew her chances of returning to life in anyway were very slim. He had given her hope by telling her she was cured, then quickly stripped it away from her by telling her she may not live on in the world of the Living. She then changed her face, looking stern and brave. She simply shook her head to imply no last words, and sat honorably on her knees…
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Kokoro, still with her head down, had her heart skip a beat; or at least an equivalent feeling, as she had to heart. But, she did not let that show on the outside, when he slashed a soul over her. She looked up at the beast.
“Of course… my life had never truly been my own anyway. As I said before, I’ve never lived an actual life… so begging to have a second chance at something I’ve never really had as my own seems futile. I knew since before I could remember that there had been an expiration date on my life; shorter than that of anybody else. So, overall, I died the way I intended; a sacrifice… if anybody that I cared for could’ve benefitted in any way from my death, I would have at least made my life and lack thereof mean something. So; that’s what I did. I threw away my life. I was content in my role as a pawn. One of the few people that I cared for actually returned from the dead… it gave me a small glimmer of hope. But, thinking on it now…” she began to think about her sacrificing her whole life to others.
“I probably don’t deserve another chance.” She paused… then stood up. “However, pawns do become Queens when they reach the otherside…”
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