They'd been run ragged by all of the attacks already. They were on what was almost their last legs just keeping up with what was being thrown at them by the ever-changing shadow. Attack after devastating attack, with no rule and no quarter. they couldn't do it. It simply wasn't possible.
But he hadn't felt the fear until now. The real, palpable, lung-rattling dread of death wrapping its cold hands around his throat. He can clear see his body crucified on some telephone pole, a new victim of a closed case, staring up into the screaming eyes of this intangible being.
How could this have been inside Souji? Only so distantly does it remind him of the real thing, when during battle he would look to his side and see the endless potential of his partner that truly made him so dangerous. Now it was all of it trying to burst free at once.
"Stand together!" He hears Naoto scream what sounds like so far away. It was all they had left. He digs his heels in and refuses to give another inch.
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They'd been run ragged by all of the attacks already. They were on what was almost their last legs just keeping up with what was being thrown at them by the ever-changing shadow. Attack after devastating attack, with no rule and no quarter. they couldn't do it. It simply wasn't possible.
But he hadn't felt the fear until now. The real, palpable, lung-rattling dread of death wrapping its cold hands around his throat. He can clear see his body crucified on some telephone pole, a new victim of a closed case, staring up into the screaming eyes of this intangible being.
How could this have been inside Souji? Only so distantly does it remind him of the real thing, when during battle he would look to his side and see the endless potential of his partner that truly made him so dangerous. Now it was all of it trying to burst free at once.
"Stand together!" He hears Naoto scream what sounds like so far away. It was all they had left. He digs his heels in and refuses to give another inch.