Tag:Io (Code Vein)
I won’t live with regret today part 3
Erich pauses at the base of the stairs leading up to the ruin and takes a deep breath, letting his bayonet fade away as he prepares to ascend; it’s only been a few days since he was last here, but even now he can tell that there still aren’t any Lost in the area. And …
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raise your life a new dawn chapter 2
Erich jolts awake as a loud shout echoes through their little enclosed space, accompanied by the rhythmic clanking of a ladder dropping into place. “That’s our cue,” Io murmurs as she slowly straightens up, hands flexing and shoulders rolling as she tries to work the stiffness out of her body. Erich grunts in agreement and …
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raise your life a new dawn chapter 1
Pain. Pain-fear-rage-hate-hunger— “Don’t worry, I won’t let you suffer in vain—” A voice. Familiar. Known. Cared for— (Take them.) (Take them, take them, take them!) (Make them belong to us!) No— no, they wouldn’t want that, wouldn’t want to be— to be— (To be what? Ours? They’re already ours and they know it!) (And if …
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Not a Person Part 3
Erich jolts awake, his heart hammering and a dream lurking just out of reach, and immediately rolls onto his side to curl into a ball. He can’t— he doesn’t understand, doesn’t know what he was dreaming but it still— it still— (It burned, it burned and burned and burned and his teeth ached and he …
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The pulse itself remains, even if it’s destroyed Part 8
Erich drifts awake, exhausted but far too hot to stay asleep, and tries to twist onto his back, tries to throw off the blanket— Only to blink, groggy and confused, at the way he can’t move. There’s an arm around his chest, pulling him tight to a broad, warm chest, and a leg slung over …
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The pulse itself remains, even if it’s destroyed Part 7
“Rerugen-san? Is something wrong?” Kisuke asks in concern, wondering why Rerugen is standing in front of the Shoten at almost four in the morning. He waits a moment, worry growing deeper, as Rerugen just stares blankly at him, mouth slightly open and eyes wide, then frowns and steps back to gesture the man inside. “Maa, …
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The pulse itself remains, even if it’s destroyed Part 6
Erich wakes with a gasp and twists free of his tangled blankets, heart beating a frantic pace in his chest and mouth sour with the taste of blood— (He drank— he drank blood!) (He drank Yhwach’s blood!) His body is trembling, cold and hot and restless with the memory of— of Yhwach laughing at him. …
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The pulse itself remains, even if it’s destroyed Part 1
“It’s a shame we never found you sooner. An Echt of your strength… you’d have been a credit to the Wandenreich,” Yhwach declares as he stalks closer, gaze fixed on Erich. “I wonder what sort of Schrift you would have manifested.” Erich grits his teeth and ignores Yhwach’s words, straining against the foreign presence threaded …
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