[Copy Sayaka noticed what Homura was doing, and almost started to complain, but then, she shrugged. She'd let the Transfer Student go first, if that's what she wanted to do.]
[Homura took a deep breath, and pulled the trigger - And then, she almost groaned, as two Familiars came out of the Witch's hair, and deflected the bullets at the very last moment!]
...Ha ha ha! Nice try, Akemi-san - So now it's my turn, eh?
[Copy Sayaka said with a grin as the Witch howled. And then, she charged in with a yell, her sword held up high!]
[Inside Sayaka's Mini World]
[Kyoko sighed a bit, then, as she ate the ice cream.]
...Everything's going so well, though, it's almost scary! I have friends, real friends, not people you just hang out with sometimes, and school is even fun every once in a while! And the church is doing OK, too, right? Father even really smiles, sometimes, not those fake smiles he used to paste on his face when he was trying to talk to what was left of his congregation...
[Kyoko stopped talking then, and paused. Wait, what?]
[And that was when Shadow Momo sighed.]
...Papa always loved us. He really did. It wasn't just lip service, and he wasn't just pretending.
[Kyoko looked at her, her eyebrows raising.]
- Yeah, I know. So?
[Shadow Momo sighed again, and licked at her ice cream.]
...He loved Mama, even though he'd had to give up becoming a priest of the Chatholic Church because she got pregnant and he couldn't bear to just run away from her. He loved us, too, even if getting married and having a family had never been part of the original plans for his life. And then, he became a Minister of this really tiny Protestant sect - Do you remember our old church, Big Sis?
[Kyoko stared at her, and put her hand to her head.]
- Yeah, of course. The church with all the doggies, right? I never could figure out the real reason we had to quit, anyway. Papa and Mama used to be pretty happy back then, I think...
[Shadow Momo nodded at that.]
...Yeah, I'm not sure either, but I'm pretty sure it had something to do with church politics. And Papa was starting to get all sick and depressed, too, which didn't help matters at all.
[Kyoko stared at Shadow Momo, her eyes wide.]
......Yeah, he was, wasn't he? I...I...
[Shadow Momo looked up at Kyoko, then, her eyes sad.]
- And then, he tried to make his own religious organization, and tried to make it on his own, but that didn't work out very well, either.
[Shadow Momo leaned up, and patted Kyoko's head, then.]
...What I was trying to say, Big Sis, was that Papa - Our real Papa - loved us, and would never have hurt us.
- That was all his Witch's doing, OK?
[Kyoko stared at her, as her vision began to swim.]
...But he...wasn't a Magical...
- Yeah, yeah, he wasn't a Puella Magi or a Puer Magi, and his Witch wasn't this big obvious thing, but still, it was there. And that was what killed us all.
[And then, Shadow Momo leaned over, and gave Kyoko a hug.]
...It wasn't all your fault, OK? And that - that thing wasn't really Papa, either, even if it started out as part of him. The Papa who loved us, that was our real Papa! Not the other one!
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Re: The continuation of Path 3
Date: 2016-01-23 07:45 am (UTC)[Copy Sayaka noticed what Homura was doing, and almost started to complain, but then, she shrugged. She'd let the Transfer Student go first, if that's what she wanted to do.]
[Homura took a deep breath, and pulled the trigger - And then, she almost groaned, as two Familiars came out of the Witch's hair, and deflected the bullets at the very last moment!]
...Ha ha ha! Nice try, Akemi-san - So now it's my turn, eh?
[Copy Sayaka said with a grin as the Witch howled. And then, she charged in with a yell, her sword held up high!]
[Inside Sayaka's Mini World]
[Kyoko sighed a bit, then, as she ate the ice cream.]
...Everything's going so well, though, it's almost scary! I have friends, real friends, not people you just hang out with sometimes, and school is even fun every once in a while! And the church is doing OK, too, right? Father even really smiles, sometimes, not those fake smiles he used to paste on his face when he was trying to talk to what was left of his congregation...
[Kyoko stopped talking then, and paused. Wait, what?]
[And that was when Shadow Momo sighed.]
...Papa always loved us. He really did. It wasn't just lip service, and he wasn't just pretending.
[Kyoko looked at her, her eyebrows raising.]
- Yeah, I know. So?
[Shadow Momo sighed again, and licked at her ice cream.]
...He loved Mama, even though he'd had to give up becoming a priest of the Chatholic Church because she got pregnant and he couldn't bear to just run away from her. He loved us, too, even if getting married and having a family had never been part of the original plans for his life. And then, he became a Minister of this really tiny Protestant sect - Do you remember our old church, Big Sis?
[Kyoko stared at her, and put her hand to her head.]
- Yeah, of course. The church with all the doggies, right? I never could figure out the real reason we had to quit, anyway. Papa and Mama used to be pretty happy back then, I think...
[Shadow Momo nodded at that.]
...Yeah, I'm not sure either, but I'm pretty sure it had something to do with church politics. And Papa was starting to get all sick and depressed, too, which didn't help matters at all.
[Kyoko stared at Shadow Momo, her eyes wide.]
......Yeah, he was, wasn't he? I...I...
[Shadow Momo looked up at Kyoko, then, her eyes sad.]
- And then, he tried to make his own religious organization, and tried to make it on his own, but that didn't work out very well, either.
[Shadow Momo leaned up, and patted Kyoko's head, then.]
...What I was trying to say, Big Sis, was that Papa - Our real Papa - loved us, and would never have hurt us.
- That was all his Witch's doing, OK?
[Kyoko stared at her, as her vision began to swim.]
...But he...wasn't a Magical...
- Yeah, yeah, he wasn't a Puella Magi or a Puer Magi, and his Witch wasn't this big obvious thing, but still, it was there. And that was what killed us all.
[And then, Shadow Momo leaned over, and gave Kyoko a hug.]
...It wasn't all your fault, OK? And that - that thing wasn't really Papa, either, even if it started out as part of him. The Papa who loved us, that was our real Papa! Not the other one!