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凸 <span class="mu-s">Rita</span>: <span class="mu-i">What are you?</span>
No answer. The Black Knight slams its chain into Rita’s chest plate only to find out it can’t get away; the girl is grabbing it. Shaking frantically, it soon finds itself slammed into a wall, then very still. Rita, the second Rita, the one that doesn’t cry, patiently lets the Black Toy squirm around as its magical signature drains. When it does, it doesn’t try to spin anymore, slam into her, or fly away; it doesn’t do a thing. When Rita relaxes her grip, the Black Knight slides the wall down like a flower vase pushed by a cat but made of wood.
It wasn’t the wish, in the end. It wasn’t because she asked for an aquatic park. The secret to her magical power, all this time, laid in how it was granted. Out of nowhere, Rita appeared in multiple testaments, won many raffles she didn’t know of, and got gifted money by strangers on the street- which creeped her out, at the time. People that had to give something to someone else gave it to her instead, and people that wanted to hurt her ended up hurting someone else. And it also seems to happen automatically.
It’s the ability to decide the targets. All this time, her power was ‘Target Redirection’.
>Rita has learned ‘Target Redirection’. She can now use it consciously.
Rita shakes her transformation away. She’s Dante, again, combo-ing the shit out of the bad guys and walking through ruins. But when she tries to spit a one-liner the words get stuck in her mouth. SEAnanigans is a graveyard. The silence squeezes her chest and Rita finds herself gasping in panic, over and over, not daring to look at her Soul Gem. The morning sun finds her alone and surrounded by chunks of wood and tiny papers, but a voice inside reminds Rita that she’s not alone, and that calms her down.
Yet Rita feels the dire need to look at it. She musters up the courage and lifts her chin. The damage done to her park, which was left to rust to begin with, seems even deeper than it looks. The faint chatter of people outside doesn’t pass her by, either, and Rita finds herself crying at full strength, wailing like a baby asking to be lifted.
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