Argenti's Palace

[beautifulknight]

The stage is set they say;
They don their masks and shields,
Shadows creep and cover their minds;
Now, what beautiful role shall they play?

𝓜𝓮𝓵𝓾𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓷 𝓒𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓵𝓮


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[destage]

[Everything about this feels wrong.

Sayaka isn't blind to it all. She remembers seeing those bloodstained people. The stories he must have told to the boy. The vision of Idrila, pretty as THEY were. Everything about all of this...is this what their blythe, rose painted knight has kept hidden for so long?

Sayaka's got her knife and the one that Yi Sang stabbed her with, dual wielded in hand, and when she looks at Argenti's shadow, she can't help but feel...sad, really. Is this what he's had underneath this entire time?]

...I don't want it to be our last gaze. Argenti-kun...you've fought so long and hard to be the person you are, haven't you?

[beautifulknight]

[ Argenti watches her, voice reaching out to her gently with ease and grace, and he spreads his hands, though there are no petals to encircle him just yet. ]

Yes...and it has been for naught.

You must see that it is.

Therefore, if you wish for it to not be your last gaze, then turn around and leave.

[ That, he considers another warning. Though he figured his own words before this were exactly that. ]

[destage]

[...]

No. If I gave up on my friend--that would go against everything I've been working for. For myself, and for the sake of others.

And that includes you. I'm not giving up on you.

I promised someone important to me that I wouldn't run, and that includes from others problems. I've promised so many other people too that I'd keep trying for others, because I'm the one who wants to.

[Sayaka's grip tightens on the knives, and her gaze is more determined than ever. Atropos conjures a flame, at the ready.]

...I don't want to have to fight you, Argenti-kun. You're one of the reasons I've been able to face myself. I don't want this to come to blows, but...I will if I have to.

If it takes a fight to help you face yourself, then so be it!

[beautifulknight]

[ Sayaka's fierce determination radiates like the brilliant sun that dares peek through clouds with their dire attempts to obscure or hide away from it.

Like this, Argenti cannot hide, and it makes him feel...frustrated and unworthy.

All the same, Sayaka will not step away - she will not stop her pursuit. Impassioned, inspired, non-deterred.

And as for him, he will have to meet her halfway. But, he doubts that it will be in the way that she likes. The Knight of Beauty - or rather, his shadow - steps back, and spreads his hands. ]

You shall meet me in battle and learn the folly of your drive.

[ And with that, the battle begins. ]