damedana | [UMINEKO SPOILERS] Heart (Scored)

[Actually the worst thing about this might be the way it makes her want to look after Battler and comfort him so badly - but that she knows he very much does not want that from her. She really hates feeling so helpless.

But she moves on with just a breath to look at the bathroom.]

Nothing seems out of place here... well. Unless one looks into the tub where there's a spot of red near the drain along with the set of pinchers.

And, of course, the memory that follows.

Battler sits in the tub. It's empty. There's no point putting on the water because he hasn't made his decision yet. He's actually not thinking at all, really, numb and staring at the porcelain of the tub. There's the memory of the witches and their laughter, their "generosity"--they didn't make it completely hopeless for him, being stuck in this hell. They left him one way out if he couldn't figure out anything else on is own.

He's tried everything. He can't think of anything else. He doesn't... want to think anymore. He's tired, lonely, scared of this continuing to be how it is day after day again and again. Lambdadelta tried to warn him. She told him how it would be like and he still thought he could handle it because... there was a reason for it... right?

His eyes drift to the drain and the pinchers. Hand reaches for the tool--but then he freezes, breath catching in his throat. He trembles, and the tears well up along with the bitter despair. The room likes to put itself back into order, clean and unbroken even though he's torn it down to studs again and again--the bathroom is the same. But... but still...

Why is there already flesh and blood on the mouth of those pinchers?

The answer's immediate and obvious and he can't he can't there's absolutely no memory of it--how many times has it been, then?! The question has him curling in on himself, hands going to his head, over his ears, fingers pulling at his hair as he grits his teeth and cries, sobs, tries not to scream but what's the point in holding those back, there's no one here there's no one here.

The witches' laughter echoes in the bathroom, mocking words and sadistic grins egging him on. See, seeeee? Just turn on the water, start pinch, pinching away! Little by little! And maybe, we'll retrieve your hand when you're done! They laugh and their laughter distorts, start to sound like cries--or that's him, laying in the tub, screaming and crying and pleading to no one to anyone. He doesn't want to he doesn't want to so someone ANYONE, PLEASE, PLEASE, WHAT HAS HE DONE? WHAT CRIME DID HE COMMIT? HASN'T HE SERVED HIS TIME, THEN? JUST HOW BAD WAS IT? IS IT SO WRONG?

ALL HE WANTED... ALL HE WANTED WAS...!

The thought stops there. There's no more thinking.

There's also just you in the bathroom. The sound of dripping faucet and the water going down into the deep, dark drain.

[You know how when you have a torture basement growing up and your family loves using it as a threat you end up really, really not wanting your own children to ever come in contact with anything like that? No, that's just a Kyrie thing? Well she absolutely hates this. No matter how you look at it, it's just the worst and she feels so awful that it's crushing.

It's time to turn on the tap, take a hand towel, and start scrubbing at the red though. While quietly addressing the room.]

Ushiromiya Battler put up with all this torment and still figured out the solution in the end. That shows just how strong he is.

Ushiromiya Battler did not figure out the solution in the end.
Ushiromiya Battler could not escape this room on his own.

[Oh..... Oh no.]

Even so, needing help to escape doesn't detract from his strength for having endured this.

Assuming he is not still enduring this, or that he has escaped that room at all.

I'm sure there are many ways he is still suffering from this, these things don't just go away and trying to erase them is not only pointless but a disservice.

But he can interact with other things just fine, so he isn't trapped. It's just a foot in the door. If he needs help not slipping back in, then all of us will help.

... well, at least there's no additional colored text argument against that?

[Fuck off coloured text, she's had it up to here with you.]

What do I need to do, break the whole room?

[Y'know what, maybe just for good measure even. Fuck this room, it hurt her son? She picks up the lid of the toilet tank and throws it against the tub as hard as she can. Because she can.]

Now you're just making a mess. But the tub is pretty sturdy so the lid does nothing except maybe put a chip in it.

The lid, though... well. Good luck getting that back on the toilet.

But also, it's something Battler's done probably more than once, too. Hard to keep track of the room destruction, y'know.

[This tub sucks. At least she feels just a little better. It would be easy to just waste time kicking at the spout and breaking the sink too, but. Guess she'll actually try to be productive instead.

Is the wardrobe still in the room?]

It is, but it is in a similar state of definitely got torn up a bit. Still sturdy enough to provide that entrance earlier, though. So there's that.

[Then last is to take a better look at the door and decide whether to just...go ahead and leave.]

Inspecting the door does show that the chain is unlocked, of course, but also that there has been tape used to ensure that any breaking of the chain would have been impossible. Residue on the door shows that there had been tape sealing the outside of it, as well.

Interacting with these things... show that this was just one layer of the torment.

The rest was just as bad, if not worse. Remember that one time Battler said he didn't want to go into it? Remember that?

Edited 2023-02-12 02:23 (UTC)

[YEAH SHE REMEMBERS THAT. Holy shit she hates this. Where the fuck is Garfield, when can she kill this little nonexistent bitch??

And why did Battler come up with that!

She just stared in horror for that memory until it's finally over.]

Ushiromiya Battler is married to Beatrice. That girl lost in the end and Battler is free to leave this room.

[AHAHA.WAV]

But there's no rebuttal. That truth's acceptable.

Also, the door is open.

[SHE JUST WANTS TO MAKE SURE HE KNOWS THESE THINGS OKAY. Maybe it won't change anything but! Just to be sure!

But yes she'll leave this godforsaken room. Would wait for Ange and Rika but she'll just get more murderous the longer she stays here.]

Onward without the others!

[UMINEKO SPOILERS] Heart (Scored) - Kyrie, Rika, Ange

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