This is awful. Everything about this is awful and horrifying for the Gameshow Host. Seeing Messie utterly towering over all of them like that, that terrible cat yowling as it was restrained by vines...
...and Mari. Holding onto him. Obviously terrified. His heart aches, feeling her clinging onto him like that... he was scared, too. He wishes that he could have protected her from having to see this, somehow.
Silently, he brings her into a hug. He turns away fully from the sight before them, wrenching his eyes shut. His hands are shaking, but he doesn't let go. A tear quietly falls.
Messie stares intensely. Her breathing gets heavier. Why wasn't it leaving. She TOLD it to get out. She GAVE it a warning. But it wasn't listening. It wasn't listening and it was still here—
Her twisted, disfigured expression still manages to display horror. She can feel that horrid impending sense of doom. It was about to do something awful to her world. It was about to destroy it. No. No. NO. NO. NO. GET OUT. GET OUT. GET OUT. DIE. DIE. DIEDIEDIE—
A massive, globby hand has reached forth, with intent to kill. But... something else has stopped the awful creature from whatever it was going to do. Someone else that she felt an incredibly threatening energy from.
Messie watches silently. Her hand trembles in the air. Eventually, both of them disappear. She stares at nothing for a long time, silently waiting until she could sense that the two had exited her realm.
In an instant, she's back to her normal size. The mess of vines and petals and thorns and torn flowers vanishes. It takes everything that she has to keep herself from falling to her knees. She almost lost her composure. Her world... was almost torn apart. She almost just lost everything.
She turns towards the other two. She ignores the way her whole body is shaking. She continues to smile. She ignores the nausea she feels, seeing both of them so terrified.
"I am... so deeply sorry, about all of that. An awful, awful creature that was..." Messie blinks, pausing to glance down. That terrible miasma that had begun to set in...
"Mari." She interrupts her own thoughts and emotions. "You are called Mari, right? I can sense that you mean no harm. You might not be from this world, but... I think you fit in very well. I have no problems with you coming to visit. But..."
"...I think it would be best if you left, for now. Just for a little while. I... I need some time. But I'll allow you to return later."
A blink. Mari is gone. She turns her attention to the Gameshow Host, whose sense of awe had returned in full now that she was right in front of him.
"I apologize for not protecting you sooner. I am deeply sorry for what happened to you. I will... do a much better job keeping you safe, from now on. I know that it isn't much, but... perhaps you could join us for some tea, sometime...?"
"................Uuuuuuhhuh."
...A weak smile. Suddenly, Messie seems to turn into a puddle that vanishes as quickly as it came. The environment around him fades, replaced by the reality of the studio.
...Yeahhhh he thinks he's gonna take a break from episodes for a while.
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