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■-■ <span class="mu-s">Erika</span>: <span class="mu-i">I can teach you how to locate Kyubey in exchange for a cease-fire.</span>
◙ <span class="mu-s">Hush</span>: <span class="mu-i">I know. You will do that once I use my magic. There will be no cease-fire though.</span>
■-■ <span class="mu-s">Erika</span>: <span class="mu-i">I want to establish an alliance with the Order of the End. We can help you from inside the Violet Tower. If you use your peace magic on us, we won’t be allowed in it.</span>
◙ <span class="mu-s">Hush</span>: <span class="mu-i">So you kinda want to join the Order of the End, I get it.</span>
Hush closes her eyes and sighs, perhaps because of the latte.
◙ <span class="mu-s">Hush</span>: <span class="mu-i">Nope, no can do. Too smart. You know everything, you can do anything. Why take the risk? I’ll just check up on my spies. Keep you here with me.</span>
■-■ <span class="mu-s">Erika</span>: <span class="mu-i">You think you can get away with sabotaging a diplomatic meeting. You think that there will not be consequences. That I- that we don’t already know about your family and friends. That your loved ones aren't on the line.</span>
Hush is bouncing up and down on her seat like a birthday kid on too much sugar.
◙ <span class="mu-s">Hush</span>: <span class="mu-i">See, that is exactly what I’m so curious about! What’s your plan? You two are alone, in the middle of nowhere, surrounded from every side by our Magical Girls and constructs, and you can’t even move properly now, because of my magic. And I’m fairly sure that at this point you already were aware that we planned to turn Magical Girls to our side and that we have the means to do so, so- </span>
Hush shrugs again like it was her only emote, giddy like a little girl saying ‘cock’.
◙ <span class="mu-s">Hush</span>: <span class="mu-i">What now?</span>
Erika went straight from ‘afraid’ to ‘ready to chew eyes out’ in one second flat.
■-■ <span class="mu-s">Erika</span>: <span class="mu-i">Wanna find out?</span>
◙ <span class="mu-s">Hush</span>: <span class="mu-i">Are you going to kill me?</span>
■-■ <span class="mu-s">Erika</span>: <span class="mu-i">Am I?</span>
The pink-haired girl simply continues to look into Erika's trembling eyes, keeping that tiny smile up. Having peeked into the story of her life, aware of the loads of shit this girl had to wade through, Erika can't stop herself from feeling, amidst her fear and rage, a bizarre measure of mercy and contempt.
◙ <span class="mu-s">Hush</span>: <span class="mu-i">I-think-you-kinda-lost me, because… we are the Order of the End, you know.</span>
She winks. The totem-like black figures on Hush's wool tunic suddenly feel very real.
◙ <span class="mu-s">Hush</span>: <span class="mu-i">We, um, actually want to die.</span>
Having never seen Jimena so quiet, Erika feels herself turn to stone. She’s just so tired of meeting Faction Leaders.
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