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Arr, me maties! It be me, Spotto, n' today er tomorrow be talk like a pirate day! n' since it be tomorrow and not be's todays, avast I be speakin' like a normal ol' landlubber! But 'morrow I be hoppin' 'round like a pirate n' speak t'you all grandly aye!

Here be a rant:

Buses.
First, I got sick of them. Now I don't.
So I was on the bus today. The bus to school was fine. Nothing much happened, listened to music on the back of the bus like usual...
On the way back, I was walking towards the bus loop of my college and I noticed that the bus I usually take #28 was not parked by the bay where it should've been. It was near the main bay where most students go on. (The bus I take is the ASIAN bus, lol) No one was in the bus, not even the driver. I knew they took breaks at the end of routes and at loops but they would be around the bus at least, this time the driver was nowhere in sight. I headed to the bus stop to wait there and a few people were there.

Finally, the bus driver hopped back onto the bus. We got in, I sat at the very back corner like usual and started up my music. The bus IMMEDIATELY drove off and he left behind some students who were at the stop. The bus wasn't even full, not NEARLY full. There was only like five people on board. Suddenly, at the intersection he turned and I SLID OFF THE seat, my book slammed onto the floor and slid down and I had to fetch it back. He kept driving incredibly fast and stopping to a screech at the last possible moment at stops, 'causing everybody to be thrown around the bus. We finally reached the next bus loop where some of us got off the bus, and the driver got off and disappeared again, taking a break. He never opened the door to let people in first so there was this HUGE lineup just waiting for him to return.

When he finally did, everybody got on and the bus was pretty full, but then he took the wrong route and everybody on the bus was like: "WTF!?" and some people went to the front to tell the bus driver, who eventually went back onto the right route. I just got kidnapped for two minutes! Lol. The annoying driving continued and all was swell after that I believe, but that driver needs to be fired or something. I also saw this woman holding a million grocery bags chase for the bus. She wasn't that far from it and it was a reasonable pace for the bus to wait for her, but it took off. Then, she tried to get the attention of the driver who she thought didn't see her by going across the street (the bus has to turn the other way towards that side) but it just passed her. That made me sad.

Yesterday, on my way home there was this big asian kid. He got on the bus at the second loop and stared at people oddly. When some people got off, he sat down and took up TWO seats, not one. He was big yes, but not fat. He could have just sat on one seat, but spread his legs and body across two. It was very rude. He also poked out his gigantic legs way out, so when people sitting behind him had to get off the bus, they had to navigate themselves around his annoying legs. (He did not move them out of the way) He tried to sleep with his neck twisted behind him, so he looked completely retarded, and kept playing with his coke bottle.

We were finally at the end of the route and he kept yelling at the driver to move despite the car crash that was in front of us, and when we got to the station he yelled at the driver, pushed some people, and took off.

Add the drunks and prositutes and homeless people on the skytrain. I can say that Vancouver transit sucks. Oh well, it was just three days, maybe it'll be better later. This is the first time I complained about transit. It had been fine before this week.

And now, for YET ANOTHER WALL OF TEXT (of plot, hopefully) brought to you by

PART TWELVE

The sun was shining as brightly has it ever had that day, cooking the concrete floors of the yard at the penitentiary. Ako walked towards the fourth gate, where everybody she knew somewhat had usually stayed around, but the area was oddly empty. She put her hand onto the fence, noticing the mountains and trees that surrounded this crowded place. It looked like a wave of nature that looked mockingly beautiful. Ako saw a squirrel run down from a tree and rush off deeper into the flurry of trees. Her grasp on the fence grew tighter as she sighed, watching the animal run around in its essence of freedom.

 “Looks like I’m the zoo animal this time around…” Ako heard footsteps behind her, and she immediately turned around, “Makie! You came!”

Makie grinned, “Of course! Why wouldn’t I?” She stuck her tongue out, teasing her childhood friend.

 “Well, you took your time then! I was beginning to think you bailed on me.”

She replied, still smiling as bright as the heated sun, “I had some things to do…hehe. So, where’s Yuuna?”

 “…I actually have no idea…”

Makie shrugged, “Oh well! Let me show you my faaaaavourite place here!” She grabbed Ako’s arm and started to drag her off, only to notice something up high, “Oooh! Look Ako! Look!” She pointed.

 “What? What are we looking at?” Ako asked, zipping her pupils all over the place.

 “It’s Tatsumiya-chan up at that tower! Let’s wave! HI TATSUMIYA-CHAAAAAN!” Makie waved wildly, while Ako simply raised her hand, slightly reluctant.

Ako asked, “Aren’t you afraid of Captain Tatsumiya?”

 “No! Tatsumiya-chan is my friend of course!” Makie smiled some more, seemingly achieving the impossible, “Who would be afraid of cute cuddly Tatsumiya-chan!?”

Ako was not listening however, too busy noticing the gun that Captain Tatsumiya was pointing at her, “Uhhh, Makie…”

 “Oh don’t mind that! That’s her way of showing us HER LOVE!” Makie responded to the rather irritated captain with a peace sign.

BANG!

Minutes later, Ako was walking with her friend Makie up towards the corner of a building Ako had never noticed before. Makie also had a new wonderful bruise on her shoulder, which she sustained when Captain Tatsumiya decided to shoot her minutes earlier. Makie sat down after brushing away some dirt with her foot, “Sit, Ako-chan!”

 “Uh, okay,” Ako sat down beside her friend, “What are we doing here?”

 “This is my special place! I’ve only ever showed you before, Ako!” Makie stretched out her arms, yawning, “Never even told Yuuna, ‘cause she’d probably wreck it. Stupid Yuuna.”

Ako watched as her companion put her hands behind her head, looking oddly relaxed, “Why would Yuuna wreck it?”

 “I dunno. She wrecks things outside of here; maybe she’ll wreck my special spot! I can’t take that risk!” Makie started panicking, “Oh no! What if she finds us here and wrecks this place!? WE BETTER LEAVE!”

A familiar voice popped up from behind them, “I would think you’d have a better reason for leaving that area, but that’d be expecting far too much from your limited mind.”

 “Oh hello Eva-chan!” Makie perked up, “Nice day isn’t it!?”

Evangeline smirked, “Not really, but I am amused that you two apparently don’t realize what building that is you’re leaning on.”

 “Doesn’t seem like a lot of people go in and out of it,” Ako said.

 “No, not really, and much more go in then come out,” Evangeline started, “Rather, they go in and come out dead.”

 Ako gulped, “Uhh…what does that m-mean?”

 “It’s death row, you idiot. I was in there three times.”

 “T-Then how come you’re not dead…?” Ako asked, knees shaking.

Evangeline raised an eyebrow, “Who says I’m not dead?” She grinned as she walked off, but turned one last time with an eerie warning, “Knowing the people who run this place…one day you might be staring the inside walls…” She walked off, with a tall green-haired partner who didn’t seem to move as smoothly as a human would.

Makie laughed as she watched the two walk off, “They’re so weird! Teehee!”

 “Yeah…teehee…” Ako tried to repeat but obviously had a nervous streak in her voice.

Makie sighed, “Life has been good to me so far!”

 “…are you serious?”

The pink-haired girl grinned as she stood up, pointing at a different direction. She breathed in the clean fresh air and skipped her way towards the direction she had pointed to. Ako followed, though in a normal walking manner, and got there several seconds after Makie had. Ako felt a bonk on her head from her friend, who scolded her playfully for taking too long. Ako smiled, feeling as if she somehow belonged because there was someone she knew here. Makie sat down by the concrete wall, which was adjacent from a large electric fence. She was surprisingly careful not to touch the fence, or she was incredibly lucky, and Ako was compelled to believe the latter. She sat next to Makie, further from the fence, and looked out at the outside world with her.

 “Ahhh…it’s such a pretty day today Ako-chan! It feels so nice that someone is here to enjoy it with me!” She smiled as she noticed a bird’s nest up on a tree, “Look Ako-chan! Look!”

Ako stared at the one bird sitting on three eggs. She noticed that one of the eggs was starting to crack.

 “Oh no! That egg is broken! The poor baby birdie!” Makie thought for a moment, “Well…if it’s broken maybe I can take it and eat it then!” She inched closer to the fence.

Ako widened her eyes, “Uhm, I think it’s hatching Makie, and I don’t think climbing the fence is a very wise thing to do…”

 “Nonsense! Just watch!”

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZT!

Ako watched her pitch black friend step back from the fence slowly. Her hair was sizzling and her eyes were the size of dinner plates. The inmate heard the cocking of a gun and turned her head, noticing Captain Tatsumiya aiming her gun at them, “Eeeeeep!”

 “WERE YOU TRYING TO ESCAPE?” They heard the Captain speak to them through a megaphone.

 “No!” Ako yelled back.

BANG!

Minutes later, Ako had a brand new bruise on her shoulder, and now Makie had two bruises, one for each shoulder! They continued walking through the yard, and Makie pointed at some playground-looking bars in the centre. Some of the bigger inmates were doing chinups on it. Makie jumped onto one. She started showing off some random complicated gymnastics maneuvers. Ako clapped, and the other inmates started to awe at her.

 “Looks like your talent hasn’t faltered a bit, Makie!” Ako praised.

Makie grinned, “Heehee! I also have a new move! I learned it from that freaky girl with the teardrop and scar tattoo! Here, hold on to my hands Ako!”

 “Uhm, are you sure about this?”

 “Very!” Makie said, “Ready? THREE! TWO! ONE!”

She swung around the bar four times, giving definite motion sickness to Ako, and then leapt off the bars and was in midair. She started to fall back down but caught the bars again after doing some fancy flips in the air. Everybody clapped.

 “See, Ako! Wasn’t that fun!” Makie said, “…Ako?”

She stared at her hand that was supposed to be holding Ako’s hand. Ako was not there.

 “Ako?”

 “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Makie turned her head and saw Ako still in midair, but heading straight towards the tower where the officers were walking around in with loaded guns. Makie waved at Ako, “Oh Ako! You’re flying! That’s sooooo cool!!!! Hmmm, but I suppose I shouldn’t have let go of your hand, hm!?”

CRASH!

Ako luckily broke her landing by crashing on top of Captain Tatsumiya. Yes indeed, according to Makie today was a very good day. Would Ako agree?

 “WERE YOU TRYING TO ESCAPE?” Captain Tatsumiya once again used the megaphone, but it wasn’t very necessary as Ako was right on top of the officer.

 “Saying no isn’t going to help me anyway, is it?” Ako sighed. She awaited the…

BANG!

Minutes later, Ako stepped out of the tower at the bottom floor back onto the yard. She was escorted by Officer Oukouchi since Captain Tatsumiya decided to end her shift early. Ako had a nice bruise on her other shoulder this time. The Captain certainly liked to abuse the shoulders. She was greeted by a rather unsurprisingly cheerful Makie.

 “See! Wasn’t that fun, Ako!?” Makie grinned.

 “Yes…fun…”

Officer Oukouchi chuckled, “Stay out of trouble okay? I got to go do some important paperwork.”

 “Huh? I thought from that incident I’d be sent to the hole or something…” Ako said.

The officer shook her head, “Makie always does that. If we sent everybody to the hole for something Makie did, no one would be here at general population.” She walked back into the tower, which had five long flights of stairs waiting for her. She sighed. This will take a while.

Makie took Ako to yet another corner, yet this time the corner looked like a very normal corner, “Well, I’m all tired out! I’m going to nap right here, Ako! You be on lookout!”

 “Lookout?”

 “Aw c’mon Ako! You gotta have imagination! We’re sailors travelling the seven seas! I’M TRAVELLING THE SEA! I’M TRAVELLING THE SEA! ARRR! I arr the awesome captain! You can be my grumpy sidekick, Ako! We will travel the sea and fight evil pirates!”

Ako laughed, “Why am I the grumpy sidekick, hmm?”

 “Because Yuuna’s always the captain when I play this, and she says the real sailor travelling the seven seas had the same name as her, so that’s why she got to be captain all the time!” Makie explained, “Stoopid Yuuna!”

The inmate giggled back, “Sounds like Yuuna alright!” She suddenly remembered the argument she had with her in the cell, “Huh…Makie…how long have you known Yuuna?”

 “Ever since I got here, of course!”

 “So Yuuna’s been here longer than you?” Ako asked.

Makie nodded, “But just by a week though! She was very strange back then.”

 “Strange?”

 “Yeah! Then she went stabby on Papa! I don’t know what was wrong with her but she’s awesome now!” Makie laughed, “Anymore questions before I go to dreamland and dream of bunnies and stuffs!?”

Ako watched the clouds of the sky, and asked, “Why did you do what you did to come here, Makie?”

Makie’s smile disappeared as quickly as it always popped up. She sat back onto the corner and stretched a little before a soft but somewhat sad smile came upon her, “When I moved away from you I was very sad. I had no friends in my new school.”

 “That must’ve been hard,” Ako commented, “So then what?”

 “There was this group of girls who were all very nice. They were very popular and everybody loved them, even me!” Makie gleamed at such promising memories, “I tried to become friends with them, and I somehow did! Then everybody started to love me too because I was with them! It was very nice, but it seemed very empty…”

Ako exclaimed, “Empty?”

 “I was only loved and popular because I was with the popular girls, so it didn’t feel…like true happiness, y’know?” Makie explained, “One day we were all hanging around kind of drunk at midnight. I’m too young to drink but my friends were all with fake IDs and everything, so I got one too!”

Ako tried to imagine a drunken Makie. Her mind created something so disasterious that Ako would choose to be in this prison rather than with an intoxicated hyperactive airhead. She chuckled and at the same time feared at such a thought, and then let Makie continue.

 “We were near this convenience store and we were going to go in to get slushies and stuff! Then we realized we wasted all our money on booze, eheh! That was my fault because I was in charge of the money!”

Ako allowed her face to meet her palm. That was an extremely stupid thing to let Makie take care of the money.

Makie continued, “So we took some guns and went inside the store, stole the money and stole some slushies! It was really thrilling, but at the same time it was wrong.” Makie made a big frown with her face with the help of her index fingers.

 “Where’d you get the guns from?”

 “…I don’t know…I was drunk.” Makie sighed, “That was a bad mistake in my life, but that’s okay! It doesn’t matter! After I’m out of here I will promise myself to be good forever!” She grinned, and grabbed Ako’s head, “SO! Now that is MY story! WHY ARE YOU IN HERE AKO!?”

Ako chuckled, “Uhm…yeah, that…”

Suddenly, two inmates came rushing at them; it was Paru, who was with a rather short looking inmate with hair the volume of the Pacific Ocean. Paru puffed as she reached them, she looked eager to tell them something, “There’s a fight in the yard!”

 “Sooooooooooo?” Makie said playfully, tapping her foot as if time was very important to the pink-haired dimwit.

The other inmate was stern, “It’s between Asakura and Yuuna-san.”

Ako immediately jolted up, jumping ahead past the rest of them towards a certain direction. Paru called out to Ako, “Hey! You don’t even know where it’s taking place!”

 “But she’s going the right way, Haruna,” the small inmate explained.

 “…soooooooooooo?”

It felt like the time it took to reach the fight was astronomical. Ako turned a corner and saw a group of inmates crowding around what was probably the fight. Ako could hear the dialogue spuring out from the center of the crowd. She slowly edged closer, feeling more cautious along the way and her mind could not conceive what her ears were spurning into her head…

 “This is stupid, Akashi…we could settle our differences another way. You’re not going to solve anything trying to start up a fight, you know…”

 “There is no other way, you son of a…”

 “I do enjoy your dirty mouth and your violent method to solve problems, but I’m not sure that’s the wisest decision right now. Then again, you’re not one to make wise decisions in the first place…”

 “I’m used to your dumb insults already, Asakura! You will not take words for an answer, that’s why I gotta do this with brute force!”

 “I must admit, in terms of sheer strength alone, you do surpass me in that aspect. I guess it is smart to work with what you know best, after all. But let me ask you this…would your beloved Ako like it very much? I don’t think she’s the violent type, hmmm?”

 “What she thinks is not the point!”

 “That’s rather selfish of you. You go so far to protect someone you barely even know and then you base all your actions on what you want to do. I feel that I’ve expected too much from you.”

 “What do you care what I do, anyway!? Why don’t you keep your goddamned schemes to yourself, huh!?”

 “That’s not very efficient, if I were to do that. And I care because you’re in this gang, and I just happen to be its leader. I can’t be a good leader if I just let you all run along stupidly without no thought into anything, you know?”

 “Ako is not in this gang.”

 “Exactly! You request my help to protect some random newcomer who I’ve never even met before, and yet once I complete the deal you are angered at me for continuing along in my own business? This doesn’t sound very fair, you know.”

 “Your own business!? Ha! Ako has nothing to do with this gang, so stop involving her! You should especially not be threatening her!”

 “That is how I work, Kiddo. I’m not making any exceptions even with the most delicate flower of a person ever. You got a problem with that? You come here and interrupt me at a time I specifically told you not to, and all you’re angry about is because I knocked someone’s jaw around? Are you serious?”

 “All you were doing was leaning here staring out the fence and smoking! What’s so private about that!? And you’re making no bloody exceptions!? WHAT ABOUT SAYO!?”

 “…”

Ako tried to shuffle through the crowd, trying to reach the centre, but it seemed hopeless as every person around them was big, strong, and very good covers. She sighed, attempting to leap into the air to take a look, but could not see anything. She growled as she persistently tried to snake through the crowd, but was knocked down by a woman’s large waving hand as the group surrounding the fight started to get excited.

 “Hmm? Speechless now huh? Looks like you can’t win in the talking department either!”

 “Do you even know where we are?”

 “We’re in a fucking prison. What’s your point?”

 “No. Here, in this specific spot you dimwit.”

 “What about it? It’s just a mindless grey block to sit on looking outside through the fence! Who cares!”

 “This is where Sayo died.”

 “…”

Ako managed to see a cigarette still burning drop to the floor. She recognized the generic shoe every inmate wore in the institution stomp on it, as if the owner was enraged. Ako crawled closer, noticing the standstill the crowd was in. The tension was obviously rising within the radius of the circle. Ako gulped as she dug further into something she would soon realize was the wrong decision…

 “You barely even know this girl and yet you’re so stubbornly set on the fact that she is innocent. You can’t open your view up for anything else. You’re just judging on the fact that she seems ‘pure’ and too ‘angelic’ to harm a fly. Even she isn’t sure if she’s freakin’ innocent or not! What makes you so sure!?”

Ako did not hear Yuuna speak further. She could understand Asakura’s viewpoint in a way, but the support Yuuna always gave her made her feel…secure, in some way, and Ako could not call it a flaw of Yuuna. It was something that made Yuuna genuine. The silence finally broke.

 “But that’s what you did…with Sayo.”

 “Indeed. That was my mistake. She knew she was guilty. She told me she had done it so many times, and yet I idiotically refused to believe the mouth of someone who seemed too gentle to ever do anything wrong. I was blinded with that mindset. I could not even consider the fact that she was a human and thus made human mistakes. I was at a point where I could never turn back. That was my greatest weakness, and it was through this weakness that led to her death.”

 “Oh…”

 “I’m not letting that mistake happen again, even if it’s not my business. If that girl is to survive here or anywhere for that matter…she’s going to have to change her innocent and pure exterior of hers. That is why I offered her a position in this gang. She is what we need to rebuild our fragile reputation. Not just for me, but for everybody here, and for Sayo. Now, will you drop your stupid stubborn ways and listen for once!?”

 “…no.”

 “What!? Weren’t you listening to me at ALL!?”

 “I was, but there’s a difference between your experience and Ako.”

 “Now, what could that be?”

 “Ako is innocent.”

Ako heard the all-familiar sound of a palm to the face.

 “Your head is harder than mine, now is it?”

 “Sayo was guilty. She knew that. I knew that. Everybody knew that…except for you. You were an idiot. Ako, on the other hand, is not telling me that she is ‘definitely, absolutely, and completely’ guilty. No. She doesn’t know. She doesn’t remember.”

 “I would rather not risk her life just because I believe she’s innocent with no basis whatsoever.”

 “And I would rather not turn Ako into something she isn’t. If she survives this place under your ideals, she would be just like the rest of us. We don’t need anymore of us! We need more good people in this world. Her potential is so great that to corrupt her just for the sake of survival would be a complete waste!”

Ako finally managed to poke her head through the crowd between some legs shuffling around. She could now see them both standing opposite for each other. They were glaring at each other in such insane focus that it looked as if their eyes could pop out at anytime. Ako remained silent, extremely curious at the conversation.

Asakura sighed, nodding her head, “You make me want to laugh, Kid…You don’t get it, do you? Don’t you believe in redemption? I thought everybody here did…otherwise they’d have to be pretty screwed up. Though, I think that’s quite possible of you…”

 “What the hell are you talking about!?” Yuuna snapped as her hands started to shake.

 “You’re just automatically assuming that once someone becomes…say…bad; they won’t ever become good again. Hmm? We’re just a bunch of evil people hopelessly lost in our own cycle of destruction. That if someone were to become tainted, they cannot be cured? Is that it?” Asakura raised her eyebrow, slowly smiling.

Yuuna nodded nervously, “No, that’s not what I meant! I…”

 “I know why you have such an extreme opinion, Yuuna. It’s because you are one of those people who have no hope of redemption. Isn’t it? Not just because of you…but because no one will give you a chance. You have no more chances. You are here forever because of what you have done, and no one will ever help you. Let’s face it. You’re going to die here.”

Ako widened her eyes. She did not like where this was going, and she already knew of Yuuna’s lie, but there looked to be even more. Something that Yuuna had never surfaced before. Something that she never wanted to reveal to the purest and most untainted person she knew. She uneasily continued to listen in, hoping no one would see her, as the tension was blowing through the roof.

Yuuna stepped backwards slowly. She was trapped in some sick and cruel torture of her mind. She gritted her teeth as she felt her back hit the fence. Dead end.

 “When I saw her die…the angel of my life, I could see the face of the one who had done that to her. It scared me at first, and then it caused me to implode in frustration and anger. This person was a killer. Someone with a black heart; someone who had no chance of being touched by the light ever again because she was completely evil, she radiated a sense of fear and devastation. She was just like…you.”

An anger resurfaced that Ako had never seen before in Yuuna as the inmate leapt into Asakura, and there the physical fight had begun. Never was Ako ever frightened before from the face of which she once trusted the most in this neverending pit of burning resistance. Ako slowly crawled backwards, feeling the fit of hatred deviating outwards from the fight. She didn’t know what to do as the eager crowd cheered on like they were sitting in the colosseum and watching an epic gladiator duel. Her heart was pumping insanely, but Ako felt helpless, watching the two destroy each other pointlessly. She didn’t know why the guards were taking so long to take notice of such violence, but ultimately, as the young girl watched on. She couldn’t take anymore of the brutality continuing in front of her. A spurge of adrenaline hit Ako like never before…

 “STOP IT!”

A blue and orange blur leapt into the ensuring carnage, and what happened next surprised many. The three unravelled all over onto the floor, and in the middle was Ako, looking extremely upset. Yuuna rubbed her head as she managed to clear her vision of what exactly happened, while Asakura tended to a rather nasty injury that had hit her eye. She knew she wasn’t going to come out of a scrum with Yuuna in it intact.

”A-A-A-Ako!?” Yuuna barely managed to say as she sat up from the ground. She would not be sitting up for very long.

The inmate found herself painfully slammed back onto the hard cement floor by the ‘pure’ and ‘innocent’ cellmate she so stubbornly thought she was. Ako’s face was extremely and uncomfortably close to Yuuna’s, and would have looked like they were about to kiss had the mood enabled such, but it was quite the opposite.

 “You lie to me…hide everything you really were from me, and then you throw all that blame and anger at Asakura!?” Ako whispered harshly into Yuuna’s ear.

Asakura chuckled, “Heh. Your wife’s a bi—”

 “SHUT UP! YOU’RE NO BETTER!”

 “…uh, okay.”

Yuuna cringed to speak, “Ako…w-w-wait, I can explain—”

 “Don’t dare trying…” Ako started. Her demeanor was slowly starting to calm, “It’s very admirable that you believe in me so much Yuuna…I can’t show enough gratitude for that…b-but…”

 “…A-Ako?” Yuuna managed to puff out. Her chest was holding up quite a lot of weight with how much power Ako had pinning the girl down.

 “How c-can I even t-trust you…your words…anything…if everything you’ve ever shown to me about yourself was f-fake?” Yuuna felt tears fall from her cellmate, dropping onto her own cheeks.

Ako’s arms starting shaking, and her grip on Yuuna eased, “W-who are you…? W-why do you believe with such…i-intensity that I am c-completely innocent? Why w-would you even c-care when you have s-so many problems of your o-own? How c-can I even believe in you if…if you can’t even trust me with…y-yourself…?”

 “That m-monster just now…t-that I saw…that w-wasn’t you…That w-wasn’t the Y-Yuuna I k-know…” Ako struggled to speak on, as she looked to be weakening, “The Y-Yuuna I know w-wouldn’t d-do that…s-she wouldn’t…k-kill…”

With that, Ako collapsed onto Yuuna’s chest, completely unconscious from that fury of adrenaline. The last thing she could hear was a laughable late siren of the alarm, and the struttering of Yuuna:

 “…I-I did it a-again…”

END OF PART TWELVE

I call it a change of mood. A rapid change of mood indeed.