“… Limited?” Jhin asked in a rhetoric manner, chuckling slowly as he’d feel her cold touch upon his equally cold, mechanical right hand. “Are you not the spirit of death? A part of what makes the world go around? Surely, even if you are part of this world’s eternal cycle, does it not give you an ounce of freedom? Who would object to your decisions?” he’d rub her shoulder, possibly in an affectionate manner. “Someone as you should not be a tool to fate’s enslaving shackles… my dear little Farya…” speaking one of her “names”, Jhin would brush his metallic hand up along her masked cheek.
“I was crumbled long before you met me, Farya… ever since Shen, Zed and their master found me out… saw through my masterful masquerade, and shattered my old mask… forcing me to don a new one.” he’d now actually look towards her, his hand sliding down to her chin, tipping her head up to look directly into her ghastly, hollow eyes.
“Balance of the world can be put aside… if only for a few fleeting moments, no? The world deserves a bit of chaos~”
“The problem does not lie within the lack of objections.” The calm voice shifted to a melancholic tone, sounding not unlike a whisper, but as clearly audible as it could be.
“If we were to break the cycle, others would merely take our place. This universe... always finds a way.” Strangely, the spectre felt a shiver upon the virtuoso’s touch, slightly recoiling in response.
A spirit’s body should have no reactions, as it is barely corporeal, and mainly used as a tool. Though, not even the hunters understood their own true nature, at times.
“With a purpose, we are forced to exist. If it is lost, so are we, Our freedom begins and ends with the hunt.” The mask felt as if it was not even real, Jhin’s artificial hand almost completely brushing through the smoke-like substance that covered the wooden surface.
“We shackled ourselves when we first stopped being one.”
“You talk of masks and masquerades. However-”
Whatever train of thought that still remained inside the huntress’ mind quickly disappeared, her head unwillingly being tilted towards the other’s. But she could not complain. Even if the sight was of a broken man, it did not feel... wrong.
“...”
A realization suddenly hit. The Lamb turned still, almost like a finely-made statue. However, her gaze never strayed from the gunman’s own eyes.
“I... think I understand now. What I failed to realize all this time.”
“You broke our cycle, yet... you remain.”
“Balance... and chaos.”
“One always seeks to end the other, yet one cannot exist by itself.”
“The trapped hunters who seek balance... and the artisan who seeks the beauty in chaos.”