Chapter 7: Chapter 7: *Evening, Tuesday, 12th of April 2011; Resistental Districts; Mitakihara, Japan.*

*Evening, Tuesday, 12th of April 2011; Resistental Districts; Mitakihara, Japan.*

Sayaka felt tired, exhausted even, and even though her fatigue was entirely mental and not even remotely close to physical, she still couldn’t make herself do anything anymore and just shambled back home. Like the zombie she was, she thought. No one tried to stop her. No one cared what she felt and what she did, she repeated that to herself many times. Kyousuke didn’t know what she had to sacrifice for him, she told herself. He doesn’t care either, her treacherous mind offered. Sayaka wanted to talk to someone and ended up talking to no one.

She arrived burdened with thoughts darker than clouds on now seemingly permanently overcast skies, and went straight to her room and laid down in her bed. Sayaka stared blankly into the ceiling, ruminating about her fate.

Her parents weren’t there to complain about her skipping school, they were always busy, away, tired from the long work hours. But they would worry about the bad academic performance, she considered. No, a traitorous idea nesting inside her head opposed, they don’t care either.

She reflected on how terrible her life suddenly became the moment she took that contract, about the wish twisted and turned against her, about the seemingly benevolent act brought up by suffering.

Sayaka raised her hand, holding her Soul Gem against the light coming through the window, energies inside swirled, fading darker and darker from once-bright colors. A mere glimpse of this cursed object made her furious, she jumped on her feet and was about to throw this cursed piece of jewelry away, shattering this damned thing to a million pieces - she stopped herself at the last moment realizing what separation between the jewel and the body does to her. She uttered a stream of swear words. And her sadness overtook her, and she burst into tears instead. Soul Gem fell from her hands to the floor.

Then her mind drifted to something else. With her eyes wet, she looked up. To the dagger given to her by the strange girl in white - weapon laid abandoned on the desk where Sayaka tossed it when she got home. Atop of it, almost like a guardian, not-raven sat. Neither a lizard nor a bird, a small but twisted creature. It felt like someone looked at laws of nature and laughed, and laughed. And still, somehow, paradoxically it felt more sympathetic than the alien mind behind Kyubey - something Sayaka, nor any other magical girl, paid attention to. Small monstrosity watched the depressed Magical Girl with its ruby eyes, it croaked in acknowledgment.

Sayaka wanted to say something but paused mid-word realizing that she would never get any answer. Instead hesitantly reached for the weapon. Not-raven moved aside.

It was a long, curved dagger, surprisingly light despite both it and its scabbard being made of metal, and heavily decorated with engravings depicting a swirling mass of horrible monsters. The handle was fashioned in the style of the snake, or similar creature, with its maw opened. It radiated malevolence.

She unsheathed it. A blade from another world reflected no light. Runes smoothly carved into it were in the script Sayaka couldn’t recognize, it certainly wasn’t Japanese, but she was somehow certain it promised pain and death to everyone who crossed her path. Treacherous whispers of her depressed mind changed as she gazed into the alien letters shifting before her eyes, no longer speaking of her worthlessness, now promising her revenge, power, the world cast down in flames.

Sayaka sheathed the blade once more, and depressing thoughts crept back in almost like they were no longer scared by the curved edge.

The Magical Girl curled on the bed and closed her eyes. Soon, she fell asleep, a weapon still clutched in her arm. A not-raven watched over her as she dreamed about the terrible storm of ages sweeping away petty white critters.

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