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ight flicker out into the night breeze. Ashes drift where Er

with adrenaline, weapon still drawn. Milo, b

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spreading green gas. It billows

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Milo stumbles. Sounds

thing Dam

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tretched out, metal cuffs locked to a c

her side of the room, a

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his b

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long trench coat, calm posture, and on t

of the mask's eyes s

ng in behi

bin

cked porcelain mask

light above swings slightly, casting distorted shadows across the floor. He st

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t like it's a holy relic, his gloved finge

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ed through fire, de

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him off,

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head still low,

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nick off a dead priest, you had

reak eye contact

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nk you're open

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Da

a

slowly turns, walking toward a table full of

ound in blood and ash. The bag is placed at the center, glowi

candles or twisted relics. The entire room pulses with a dark hum. A

t

old wall, wrists bloodied fro

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ly, t

ually go

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ce w

is is

o open a goddamn door we d

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nly-C

etal, flying bolts, and plasma sparks fills the ro

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you two would

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st cloud. A shadow creeps along the

rward-SLASH! His body drops,

ut of the

ng subtly. Her eyes? No pupils-just silver, ancient orbs.

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e got to be

MI

unn

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psycho that tr

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ol

talk t

ts off a pillar and severs Damian's chains.

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ng her

s a trail-like

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ing, swirling, splitting the air above it w

ding in the center of the sigil. But his voic

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eth

is it? The bag-w

e floor where he yanked it back with the chain-blade.

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cki

kin' for t

s voice turns to a scream-rage-filled

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derworld! You do not under

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s cr

he memo. Bag b

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spe

... the gate re

collapsing into sparks and smoke. Harbinger takes a step back, the

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ol

it's

MI

te

's just

into the bag. Harbinger's porcelain smile mask

MI

, def

't answe

lowly, eyes locked

MI

h we

answer

One of Damian's weapons subtly clicks into view for half a sec

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orged in the fire of the void...

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inn

graded its

eneath his feet crumbles into ash. His voice crac

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, Cross. But you will... and when the ti

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ol

the bag... I'l

Bunny"-lunges forward, impossibly fast. Damian barely dodg

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ing a

e're doing

nny mid-air, steel-on-steel, acrobatics and brutality colliding. Damian rushes Harbinger, who conjures jagge

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ight,

gh of you got

g a sigil like a blade-i

I

rea

ke a dartboard to

ough the smoke, weapon drawn. He and Happy Bunny engage in a brutal, grounded fig

ark markings react violently, pulling at him like a rejected offering. Harbinger

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Da

this

ain. A new weapon forms-a glowing, ancient axe pulsing

ck, stabbing at his mask. Nanon tackles Harbinge

MI

, summoning a glowi

te stay

blade crashes into his side, knocking him clean across the chamber into th

fallen partner. His head tilts, just a little-almost lik

oke pellet at the ground. The flash blinds eve

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nti

ves me the

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g the sm

see hi

ess body, breathing hard, the bag now

MI

to

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er, bruised but alive, casually munching on a half-eaten chocolate bar. Damian paces, arms folded, his eye

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ing

p us now? And why let us go the first tim

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s, mou

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ugs, bare

A

, then

ay... I have

MI

had us dead to rights the

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pici

and dipped like you forgot to

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o Milo,

s just in

doesn't

MI

to

A

out to open something tha

at the

ings on the other side even worse than Kogron

oward Harbinger-unconscious, r

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w? You gon

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kes

go to the underw

l slowly forms

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here. But not t

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guess..

A

mi

oesn't move... and yo

al begins pulling them both in. Before vanish

A

ss. But for now... we

a flash of otherworldly ligh

n exh

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ll of su

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