User blog:Baluar/God Eater: Fall of the Heavens, chapter 9: Alone?

Since I've no idea who should I introduce as the next cameo, a minor interlude returning to the place where everything starts.

Ideas on who should I introduce next, alongside a possible situation, are more than welcome.

It hadn't even been an entire day before the symptoms of despair began to seriously affect Lina. She was paranoid, she constantly turned over to see what happened behind her back. While she was clearly sane - mostly -, she knew she was lucky that she didn't end up completely crazy.

To see everything she had ever loved crumble to pieces right before her eyes...

It was something not even the strongest men and women on Earth could go through and come out of unscathed.

And yet, she wouldn't give up. She knew it was her responsibility to protect those who still lived and who relied on her to keep doing it.

...

... but could she keep on? She saw Aragami in impossible places. Ouroboros followed her everywhere. Ogretails were in what little food she consumed.

All she could be certain of is that that paranoia was entirely justified. That monster she had seen... Lina tried her best not to think about it, but things as disgusting and unnatural as that being aren't quite easy to forget.

....

That call the previous day... That voice...

She hoped it was real, but what hopes were there? How could she possibly be certain that it wasn't a product of her already bruised mind?

Besides, who could possibly be better than the Cleanup squads from the central? Lina had heard, like everyone had, the stories about the greatest God Eaters, such as Baluar, a man who could survive being stomped by an Ouroboros and even throw the beast off its balance. Or Nanako, a woman who could wield two God Arcs at the same time with expertise enough to crush whatever stood in her way. Or maybe Beoblade, a man who supposedly died over and over and over and yet was alive to tell the tale.

There were countless like them. There was also a woman of unknown name (who also happened to be a God Eater), who, for a ridiculously high amount of credits, could tell you the answer to anything and everything you asked her. A man who could supposedly hit seven targets with only one bullet...

Lina could go on all day. She knew the stories, like everyone did. She only hoped they were real. After all, was there anything but hope that she could grasp to?

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