Chinami's Thoughts on Saga Division
It had been a while since Chinami had done one of her divinations. Due to her work, plus preparing her sisters for the D.R.B., it had not left a lot of time to see what her competition was like. Hopefully, with her schedule now free, she would have more time to do so. And today, she thought she would delve into the history of a recent time, Saga Division, a.k.a. the Bloody Divas.
The crystal ball, reacting to the name, begins by displaying a picture of a girl, no more than five, dressed up in a frilly dress. She is standing with her hands down in front of her, on a stage in front of hundreds of people. She can feel everyone's eyes on her, and it makes her shy and scared. She doesn't like doing this, but she does it because she has to. Because she knows it will make her mother happy. Because... because she knows she will be punished if she doesn't do well. The scene ends as her name is called and she stands under the spotlight.
The scene shows the young girl sitting in her room in the dark on her bed. She tries to ignore the aching feeling in her stomach as it growls and rumbles constantly. She is so weak, so tired, so... hungry. So very, very hungry. She'd kill for just a scrap of something to eat. Even if it was just garbage from a dumpster! ...But no, her mother wouldn't allow it. This was all to make her beautiful. And models didn't need to eat, after all. The skinner they were, the more beautiful they were. That was the way of the world, right? If you're skinny, you're beautiful. If you're not skinny, you're ugly. And she wasn't beautiful. No, she was ugly. Ugly as ugly could be...
The scene changes to show the young girl being bound on what looks like a hospital bed. But this wasn't a hospital, no... this... place, if it had a name, it could be called the Devil's Workshop, because only mad and cruel things happened here. And the young girl was the unfortunate subject in this experiment. But who was it that was experimenting on her? Who would subject a girl not even in her teens to this sort of depraved and inhumane torture? Who else, but her dear old mother. 'This is for your sake', she would say. 'This is all to make you pretty.' Yes, she would be pretty. Pretty... as a doll...
In the new scene, the girl, who is now a teenager, struggles to walk, as she has to be helped by another girl, and a cane. Her torture at the hands of her mother was finally at its end. But the cost was great. Too great. The bones in her body were all chipped or broken. Her limbs which normally should bend, were now straight and firm as if they were made out of wood. Though her mother was gone now (not that the girl cared at all), her "experiment" proved to be a success. She had created a living, breathing "doll"...
The last scene plays out as the girl is now a lot happier than she has ever been. Though adjusting to her new body has proved difficult, with the help of her older sister and her friends, she has slowly, but steadily been improving. ...But the question is, does she still view herself as a person? Though her mother is long gone, she can still feel her presence whenever she is crying or her joints start to ache. It always brings her back to that horrid time in her life. The time her mother made her into her own version of what she pictured her to be. Will she ever be free to be her own person? Only time will tell...
The scene opens showing a young girl with glasses living in a dirty, impoverished hovel. Her hair is dirty and her clothes are rags. She is sitting in her room, or what could be called a room, as she listens to her mother complain in the other room about the number of bills she has to pay. She hates this life. Why was she born into it? Did she do something wrong in a previous life or something? Ha, who was she asking these questions to? It's not like anyone could answer her. The scene ends as she lies on her bed, wondering when things will get better.
The scene changes, showing the girl much older. She is standing outside, along with a bunch of other people as she looks lifelessly and solemnly at her parents. Normally, she'd be happy to see them, but not now. Maybe not ever again. After all, how can you be happy to see someone when you will never see them again? How can you be happy for people who decided to kill themselves and leave you alone? How can you be happy for two parents who were supposed to put their own child first, but didn't? It was wrong, it was unfair. It was just... it just wasn't right. But what could be done about it? They were dead, she wasn't. As the scene ends, the girl only has one thought: she hopes that two of them killing themselves was worth it.
The scene shows the city of Saga at night. A young man is walking down the sidewalk, cautiously watching everything around him. He jumps at the slightest noise, seeing enemies and shadows all around him. It is obvious he is scared of something... or perhaps, someone. He continues looking all around him, but finally breathes a sigh of relief as he reaches his home. He walks up the steps of his patio and reaches the front door, fiddling with the lock. Suddenly, he hears someone whistle behind him. He instinctively turns around and comes face-to-face with a gun in his face. The man's breath catches in his throat as his life flashes before his eye. The scene ends as the two continue to stand there in a standoff.
The last scene plays out showing the bespectacled girl in a bedroom on a computer, smiling as she is answering questions from her viewers. Her life, though still not exactly perfect, is far better than it has been before. She has friends, a good-paying job, and a better place to live. ...But she still feels the threat of her parents' sins hanging above her head. The sins of the parents must be passed onto the child, unfortunately. Will she meet the same end as the ones who gave birth to her, afraid and left with little other choice than to put an end to it all before someone else does? Only time will tell...
The scene opens up showing a young girl sitting in a chair in front of a mirror as a woman far older than her applies numerous amounts of make-up on her face, trying to make her look older and prettier than she already is. The girl tries to keep still as the woman will lecture her again if she moves again, messing up her work. The girl doesn't know why she always has to do this. She is constantly forced to endure this treatment just because her mother enters her into these stupid beauty pageants. She hates them, and she hates this. But her mother wouldn't understand. She never understands. The scene ends as the girl continues staring in the mirror, wondering just who it is that is staring back at her.
The scene changes to show the young girl sneaking into the kitchen of her home. She is careful to not make a sound less she wakes up that monster wearing a human skin called her mother. She carefully grabs a loaf of French bread from the top of the fridge and quickly, but quietly races back to her destination: her younger sister's room. Ever since her sister had been coming in last place in the beauty pageants, her mother decided to punish her by telling her she wasn't allowed to eat anything, which was just stupid. Why should her sister be punished for something she had no control over? And it wasn't like she wanted to enter the stupid pageants anyway!
Knocking on the door quietly, she enters and looks as her sister is asleep. Gently shaking her awake, she shows her the bread, which prompts the girl to quickly take it and start eating, not caring. The girl sits down beside her sister, smiling sadly at the thought that they were both prisoners in their home.
The scene changes to show a dark street in Saga. A young familiar girl wearing a hood walks down a street until she turns and heads into a dark alley. Normally she wouldn't be in this seedy part of town, but she had a purpose for coming here. She looks as there is someone else in the alley with her: an older man also wearing a hooded jacket. She says not a word as she walks up to him. She opens her palm, revealing a large stack of bills. The man quickly takes it and counts it. He nods his head, pockets the cash, and reaches into his other coat pocket, pulling something out. The girl looks as it is a small black loaded gun. He holds it out for her to take it, which she does. Their business concluded, the two walk out of the alleyway together, and turn in opposite directions, going their separate ways.
Just why was this young girl buying a firearm you ask? For revenge. Revenge against what those monsters she calls her parents had done to her sister. She could have forgiven them for many things: entering the two of them in those damn beauty pageants, starving them, locking them in closets, and even joining the damnable government. But when they started experimenting on her, starting turning her into something other than a human being, that's where they crossed the line. And she was going to make them both pay for it. Oh yes, punishment was coming...
The final scene plays out showing the girl in her current form as she is sitting in the student council room in her school, going through a bunch of reports. She is helped by a bunch of other students who smile and are friendly with her. Though she may have had to do some heinous things to set her and her sister free, she has no regrets. ...But how long can she hold tight onto this secret? What will happen to her and her sister if someone finds out? Can the horrible truth about her parents' murder remain a mystery? Only time will tell...
With 78 cards in front of her, Chinami takes a deep breath and quickly, but efficiently flips over three of them, as if already knowing by heart which ones to choose. The first card featured a warrior standing inside a carriage that was upside down (The Chariot - Reversed). The second card featured two men walking in the snow in front of a church (The Five of Pentacles). And the last card features a familiar woman holding a sword in one hand and a set of scales in the other, upside down (The Justice - Reversed).
The crystal ball begins to play out important memories in the life of these three women. The moment Ayaka was told her parents wouldn't bother her anymore, the day Mizuki began her streaming channel, and the day Kagawa and Mizuki became a couple. All three have endured hard times, but have become stronger for it. But will that strength be enough to defend them when Chuohku's evil machinations come into play? Only time will tell...
