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Chapter Nine: A Daydream in the Nightmare (I1B0C9)

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  Chapter Nine: A Daydream in the Nightmare   “Hatasuko, you’ve changed the world! Nothing will ever be the same,” said a familiar voice from the edge of the tempest. The storm of screaming souls had changed since he defeated the Interfectus. Though his body had transformed and received a power of sudden strength, Hatasuko had not shaken his curse. The screams remained, but they were different than before. The lost souls still could not perceive the world itself, but they felt it through his emotions. His sense of hope grew stronger by the hour, so the lost souls grew calmer as a result. “Both the outside world and the tempest have found what it means to feel hope. Even I am optimistic for the first time I can remember. We’ve all known despair for so long, but now there is light at the end of the tunnel,” he replied to the voice. “You are the light at the end of the tunnel,” Adishina said with an upbeat tone. “I don’t want to take credit for something I haven’t ac...
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Chapter Eight: The Legend of the First Astrodeus (I1B0C8)

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  Chapter Eight: The Legend of the First Astrodeus   “I always said this city was doomed from the start.” Lazaro glared at the starlit walls which surrounded the distant city of Sentia. With his sail extended as far as it would go, he drove toward the city walls with every weapon holstered on his body; Lazaro was ready to jump into action. Vaida and Hatasuko sailed along the bumpy land behind him, though every piece of gravel shook their sail-rana. A thin layer of darkness had already flooded the sky above the city, and smoke lifted into the air. They were too far away to hear any shouts, but Hatasuko sensed the anguish through the tempest in his head. He felt new lost souls trickle into the storm of screaming spirits. “There are only four gates in the entire goddamn city. How were they ever supposed to evacuate? This city was a mistake all along. It’s a deathtrap. The Interfectus is attacking, and they’ve all got nowhere to run. You know what that means, don’t you? ...
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Chapter Seven: The Threshold of Destiny (I1B0C7)

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  Chapter Seven: The Threshold of Destiny   “As the demon falls to rest, it warps the fabric of the universe in a way we cannot understand. When the Interfectus sleeps, it ceases to exist in this world for as long as it remains at rest. It is because of this that they are untraceable and also invulnerable.” Though he watched through half-open eyes as he traveled west, Hatasuko sensed that this voice came from the tempest. It sounded ominous and alluring but also familiar. It was not the voice of Sokaido or Adishina, though he had heard it once before. His golden eyes glanced at the narrow space between Vaida’s hair and the bottom of the sail, but his conscious mind waded through the screaming tempest in search of this voice. “Who said that? Who are you?” Hatasuko asked the storm of souls. “I can sense the Interfecti’s movements because that is the privilege of the damned. Every single one of us in here—every lost soul that was claimed by the forces of darkness—we can...
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