User blog:Seieireppa/God Eater: Reverie for a Dying Star, chapter 4: Loss


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I… I just…

It was a massacre. An absolute massacre.

We thought we were ready. There were four God Eaters among us—me, Ron, and two others. We thought we were ready… I mean, it was only three Vajra, but… oh, god…

The other two were killed instantly. I don’t know how it happened, but when the Vajra came into view and two of our own went out to face them… all we heard were screams, and then silence. The only sounds in the air were the footsteps of the Vajra and the crackling of their electricity  It was just…

Ugh. I think I’m going to be sick.

Ron and I fought them off, but we lost five… no, seven of our civilians. I lost an arm and a leg, myself. I thought I’d never fight again, but Ron had an idea. He had an idea on how to fix me, and I had to keep on fighting no matter what… so, together, we did the unthinkable.

We salvaged the God Arcs of our fallen comrades, reworked the materials… and grafted them onto my severed limbs as replacements.

God Arc prosthetics… I doubt anyone in the old era would ever have thought that possible. It’s normally not something I’d ever have even considered, but I had to keep going. I just had to.

One day, these things will likely consume me. They are still God Arcs, after all.

But until that day comes… all I can do is just keep fighting.

For a tomorrow I don’t even know will come.


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