❛ Haha … Y o u c a u g h t m e. ❜
The screen distorts as it flickers to life. Her laughter skews with it, spliced through with STATIC, a ghostly echo of something that was once girlish, something that used to be HUMAN ; Junko Enoshima, the girl, the ghost, the martyr.
❛ Y’know, senpai, there’s this small little thing about being omnipresent… it’s BORING. Even when I’m dead, I’m bored, bored, bored out of my mind ! IT REALLY IS HOPELESS. ❜
Her smile is still the same ; it blooms across her features pixel by MISERABLE PIXEL
❛ Can I count on you to keep me on my toes ? You know how much I HATE IT when everything goes exactly as planned. ❜
AND ALL AT ONCE, heaven opens its gaping maw. there she was she, who was more ravishing than anyone else ; she, who was more repulsive than anyone else there she was, there she was, there she was, th— - . . . he places his right palm to his chest, scouring his jutting ribs for... there. erratic, like a bird BLUDGEONING itself against the bars of its cage: a heartbeat. he's almost surprised.
❛ you're relying on me? ❜ the corners of his mouth, sallow as the rest of his thinning skin, curl upward. lovingly, tenderly, as if she could truly touch her, he traces the pixelated outline of her jaw. ❛ ah . . . if that's the case, if you truly want this miserable RAT to entertain you . . . then i shall. for you, and only you, i will spread despair upon despair, enough so that a mighty hope, capable of ending this world, will shine. ❜
HIS SMILE DROPS within an instant. he leans closer to the screen, to her, and its dim light accents just how gaunt he's become. if he were only to sit still, one would think him dead. but that was just it, wasn't it?
❛ hey. i didn't call to make idle talk. there was something i wanted to ask you. ❜
