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◙ <span class="mu-s">Angel</span>: <span class="mu-i">Emma, Kyubey is now targeting little girls too. I don’t want to wake up one day and find that one of my little friends at the orphanage became a Magical Girl when I could have done something about it. I’d rather be cold and dead.</span>
The mental image of a dead Angel makes Emma gasp, it makes the air in her lungs feel freezing. Angel takes a step forward toward her.
◙ <span class="mu-s">Angel</span>: <span class="mu-i">You and I are already fucked. We won’t become adults. And I may not even make it past this week.</span>
‘Don’t say it like that’, thinks Emma. But something else comes out of her mouth.
▲ <span class="mu-s">Emma</span>: <span class="mu-i">...what do you mean?</span>
For the first time, Angel seems reluctant to talk. But then she does.
◙ <span class="mu-s">Angel</span>: <span class="mu-i">You were honest with me so, from now on, there won’t be secrets between us. The Order of the End is at war with itself- and I have to be there.</span>
▲ <span class="mu-s">Emma</span>: <span class="mu-i">No. Stay with me.</span>
Angel shakes her nose.
◙ <span class="mu-s">Angel</span>: <span class="mu-i">There’s this thing called the Bird Call and, from day one, they told us to wait for it. When the Bird Call happens, they said, it will be the end of all Magical Girls, which means that all the branches of the Order of the End will attack at the same time.</span>
▲ <span class="mu-s">Emma</span>: <span class="mu-i">At the same... time?</span>
Angel nods, firmly. Emma loses the rest of her breath.
◙ <span class="mu-s">Angel</span>: <span class="mu-i">And so, we heard the Bird Call, right? But then the Grand Matriarch, who is like the pope to us, said that this Bird Call was fake- and now we have people that think that the call to arms was legit and people calling bullshit because the top gun said it wasn’t real.</span>
Yet Emma just grabs Angel’s wrist with a strong grip.
▲ <span class="mu-s">Emma</span>: <span class="mu-i">Angel, I don’t care. Stay with me. Please; please stay with me.</span>
But Angel steps away effortlessly.
◙ <span class="mu-s">Angel</span>: <span class="mu-i">I can’t. The Bird Call is fake. It the Toys aren't stopped there will be needless bloodshed... but the fuckhead Faction Leader of this branch of the Order believes that the call is true, so… I can’t, Emma. I have to go.</span>
At the very least, Angel does look truly apologetic- a very faint silver lining.
