Gematrail — Echo Observer — Lævateinn Chapter 11: Echo09 – The Primordial Lightning

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↓↓↓ Click here ↓↓↓ 📀 the soundtrack and theme songs 💿 🎶🎧 Spotify 🎧🎶 track Num : 15 / 16 The rain had turned vicious — no longer falling so much as driving, needling through cloth and skin alike, stripping warmth one degree at a time. Every exhaled breath came out white. His fingertips had passed through numb and arrived somewhere beyond it. “Boring,” the creature muttered. Through the tendril’s contact, she could feel it: Tsujino Ayaka’s vital energy had run completely dry. A well with nothing left at the bottom. “But the main course is still coming~” She tightened her grip on him, the tendrils wrapping with slow, adhesive deliberateness — a coiling that took its time, that enjoyed taking its time. “Now then. Let me take that lovely life energy of yours—” A blade of light tore across her retinas. The tendril went slack. From the clean cut, a rush of viscous, heated blood burst free with a sound that was almost biological in its intimacy. (Being caught off guard— me —) “Who’s there—?!” “Forgive the delayed introduction.” The figure descended from the sky with the unhurried grace of something that had never needed to hurry. One wing black as a starless night. The other — white as a verdict. “My name is Totsuka Subaru.” “Oh, interesting —!” The grin that spread across her face was the grin of something that had just been given a reason to play. The tendrils thickened and lashed the earth with a subsonic percussion that traveled up through the ground and into the chest. “You should not let your attention wander.” “ Excuse me—?!” A blade raked across another tendril — a clean arc that threw sparks and sent fragments spiraling in every direction. “Who — where —?!” She spun, eyes wide for the first time. Two ambushes. Two she hadn’t seen coming. Her calculations had failed her entirely. “You insolent —badly trained maid—!!” The tendrils drove into the earth and erupted outward in a shockwave. Concrete fragmented and scattered at velocity, raking cheeks and arms — but no one went down. “How — how —?!” “I regret to inform you,” Subaru said, her expression clinical and her eyes cold, “that what you just attacked—” “—was an afterimage.” “AH — AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA——!!!!” The laughter fractured against the rubble in waves of dissonance, an orchestra playing its own destruction. “A decent appetizer!! I’ll devour the two of you first, and save him for dessert!!” She launched toward Subaru— —and silver lightning filled the sky from edge to edge. Every bolt targeted. Every bolt precise. “By this Crystal Skull, I bring your death.” “DIVIDE — Dgelugsp——!!!!” The rain that fell next was warm and red. The ground drank it in shades of rust and char. The scream that tore free of the creature had no musicality left in it — just volume and extremity, the sound of something being unmade against its will. Then silence. The mass dissolved. Nothing remained. “Target eliminated. Confirmed.” “Sister — you were incredible—” “Hm.” Subaru exhaled — one slow breath. “I wasn’t certain we’d make it in time. But we did.” She and Haruhi gathered the weight of Yuki and Ayaka across their backs and took a step forward. crack Small. Dry. Final. The sound moved through the silent battlefield like a crack through glass. “ ——Watch out——!! ” Subaru threw herself in front of Haruhi, but there was no angle that made it clean. The impact hit her arm like a hammer. Blood, thinned by the rain, spread across the ground in a dark, spreading stain. “Sister— sister — because you shielded me, you—” “Stay alert. It’s not done.” The scattered pieces of flesh were moving. Cohering. The wet, rhythmic pulse of them resumed — patient, organic, deeply wrong. “Elimination failed. Mission parameters updated: neutralize SCP-E739.” From the reformed mass, eyes opened. Dozens. Hundreds. Each one settling on a different square centimeter of exposed skin. The quality of attention they projected was visceral — a physical weight. Haruhi’s knees locked. Her feet became part of the ground. “H