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[Limbus Company OST - Flore Sicut Rosa]
CL-7 was in his room when the Canine entered without warning, nor invitation. He prepared to bark an insult his way about poor mutt-like manners-
-but something about how Canine peered at him froze CL-7 to his very core.
"I'm here for what is mine."
"For what is yours? What are you even talking about, mutt? If anything you've been embezzling all that I own! =U"
Canine-7
2024-12-28 21:36:37
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"You say that, but I believe it is you who has been destroying yourself, and those around you."
Canine-7
2024-12-28 21:36:45
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"I've given you many openings to fix your life, and you haven't taken a single one. It's a shame. I wouldn't have minded there being two of us."
"But you're just like me before I was pulled away from this universe and thrown into those fake ones. Loyal to O-6 no matter how much he destroys everything you love."
"....Pulled away from this universe...What do you mean you imbecile? Conjuring false stories within your mind now, aren't you. :U"
"Over 40 years ago, I was in O-6's office. Your "Star and Moons" and whatever other poppycock you still call him!"
"He was going to an event with his husband without inviting me. The person who had stood by his side for many lives. In a fit of laughable insubordination I took power in the only way that I felt I could."
"By eating chocolates I was allergic to, just because he placed a note upon them claiming them as his, and reminding me of my allergy."
"Hoo hoo. Imagine how worthless one must feel to engage in such a useless form of disobedience. I could never hurt him, for he was all I had. Even I did not exist to myself, for he within my mind owned each and every piece of me."
"I wanted to break something he owned. Yet everything else was far too valuable. I wonder how many times I've done such a thing. How many deaths of stupidity were akin to the one befalling me. In such a foolish moment, I asked the flow of time itself to take me away from this all and into a better place. Nonsense I know."
Canine-7
2024-12-28 21:38:54
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"I woke up in a prison cell. In some nonsense game show. Forcefully signed up. I was given one simple task, and when I refused I was replaced..."
"By you."
Canine-7
2024-12-28 21:39:23
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"When you awoke in that hospital you had only just been created, to replace a disobedient mutt with one that would cause no alarm. That is what happens to ALL who fail this ludicrous contest."
Canine-7
2024-12-28 21:39:48
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"For all the damage it has done to me, there has been one upside. I have learned my own value. Watching "universe after universe" the same tragedy of a hound tortured by the shell of his friend has been sobering. Knowing that even in these fake realities he will never show the kindness I knew him for in the past."
Canine holds up the arrest warrent. CL-7's name is on it. "So I offer you, the same lesson I was taught." The paper becomes a portal in which many hands erupt from, grabbing CL-7.
"N-No, none of this is true!"
"You may have been friends with Helen for the last 40 years, but I have known her for many more than you."
"Don't fret. In time I and Helen will be joining you. Because I have a goal, and it's a simple one that even a pup like you could understand."
"I'm going to break into, and murder O-6 in every real universe I can find, and hopefully with retraining, you will assist me."
"Helen won't approve of this idiotic poppycock of a plan when she realizes that you're not me!"
"Who says she's going to realize there ever was a switch? After all, she didn't realize it in the first place.....plus..." Canine pushes the doors open to the closet. Identical clothes and backup faces litter it.
"It's not like you've ever had much in fashion sense. :V"
With one quick tug, CL-7 is dragged into the anomalous letter.
Canine quickly folds it and tucks it in his inventory with the other arrest warrants he hopes to use in the future.
For now though, he has a costume to don, and one final target to remove from this universe.
END OF STORY
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