[video]

[forgivethemtheirpain]

*Lucia knows better than to turn on her phone during an event like this. Unless, of course, she puts it on top of the dorm washing machine and it falls off and hits the video button. For about thirty seconds, all you see is Lucia sorting colours from whites. The inevitable memory video that cuts in is a much more interesting change of pace.*

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*The leaves have fallen and there's a bit of frost on the lampposts in the square. Lucia is standing with a guy her age, blushing and smiling. She draws out a wrapped parcel and holds it out.*

K-Kaito, um, here. It's your Christmas present...

For me? *Looking stunned, he takes it and opens the wrapping paper, drawing out the green scarf you see in the picture.* Did you knit this yourself?

*Lucia doesn't answer; she just looks up, blushing. Kaito smiles and steps over, standing behind her. He puts the scarf around his neck and wraps it and his arms around Lucia's shoulders.*

Thank you!

Kaito...?

*He takes her hands and slips a sparkling ring with two hearts on it onto her finger before stepping back. Lucia's face is now as red as a stop light.*

--

*Back in the real world, Lucia is still doing her laundry. Apparently, this is still too boring, so the phone broadcasts another memory instead.*

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*This area doesn't look like anything natural. The sky is all weird colours, there are all sorts of animals with wings flying about, and yellow and pink double helixes rise up out of the ground. An assortment of people -- seven girls varying in age from apparently six to early twenties wearing frilly colour-coded dresses, the boy from the previous video wearing princely robes and now with a glowing cross on his forehead, and a guy in a plaid shirt who honestly looks way out of place -- stand badly beaten in the middle of the strange landscape, facing down a pale-haired six-winged angel with blank, possessed eyes. Oh, and there's some bird thing with a human head to the side, but you don't want to look at that, it's terrifying.*

Now that the Michel fossil is broken, he's using Michel directly to carry out his purpose...!

*The angel, glowing and mindless, sends a gust of wind to knock Plaid Shirt Guy off to the side. The little bird creature laughs.*

*Plaid Shirt Guy falls down and tries to pull himself up.* Michal... You're still in there, aren't you?

*The angel looks up, blank. For a second, the image of a girl flickers behind him, similarly empty-eyed.*

S i l e n c e .

*The bird-thing laughs in an incredibly obnoxious manner.* Take them all out together! Fukufukufuku!

*The angel obliges, sending out some kind of electrified vines from nowhere. Though most dodge, he takes down Plaid Shirt Guy and two of the idol singers -- one in light blue, one in green.*

Uaaaagh!

Ngh! Using Michel after what he's gone through... That's gone too far!

I know, but what can we do?

*One of the idol singers, a little girl in orange, looks over to a teenage blonde in pink.*

Lucia. Michel is actually a good person, just like Michal-chan.

*Wait. Lucia? Well, it certainly doesn't look like Lucia, but when she opens her mouth, it sure sounds like her.*

Yeah, I know. I'm done fighting. I'm done hating. Not with Michel. Not with Michal-chan.

*She turns up to the scene before them and grabs her microphone.*

Besides, nothing good ever came out of hatred!

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*Back to reality again. Lucia is hanging clothes on the line. She still doesn't know the phone's on.*

(Font colours: Lucia, Kaito, Licht,Michel/Michal, Fuku-chan, Hanon, Rina, Seira... wow, that's a lot of people.)