ABYSS┇Epilogue 1
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Season: Winter
Scenario writer: Akira
Characters (in order of appearance): Kanata, Madara
(Present day. Right after Madara retrieved the urn (?) from the marine biology club clubroom.)

Kanata: puka, puka
haa~…… it feels like it’s been a while since i’ve been able to do some “bathing”
Madara: Heeeeey Kanata-san♪
Thanks for waiting! The mission was successfully completed ♪ The problem goods have been properly retrieved, seeee?
Kanata: is that so~ fufufu, you've also become a child who can do it if he tries.
Madara: Anyone can successfully pull off something as easy as child’s play. And wow, I can reaaally feel just how much your opinion of me has fallen!
Even though you used to be so adorable and dependent on me, going around saying “mikejima, mikejima ♪”.
Kanata: wrong~ it was the opposite~ you were the one taking “care” of me to protect your “self-esteem,” weren’t you?
which means, mikejima—you were the one who was dependent on me.
Madara: You suuure have gotten better at talking! How annoying.
…I guess this just means we’re no longer children.
Kanata: yes. it’s because we’ve grown a little more “mature” that there are now things we’ve come to understand.
—like how “abyss” didn’t exist in “reality” in the first place.
Madara: Mhm. I sat on my mind since then and I did look into it, so I do understand the circumstances to a certain degree.
It’s become confidential, but that religious group has since been disbanded.
The preservation of these documents have also become pretty sloppy in its own way, and if there’s no real need to remain faithful to God, the people involved start babbling away. Well, to a certain extent.
Which means the year-long questions have finally been answered.
Kanata: yes. everything was a “scheme” devised by the “adults”.
—first and foremost, god has died.
in other words, my mother.
but even that was a lie, wasn’t it?
Madara: Yeah, probably. Your mother faked her own death and hid herself. And I really can’t track her down, so I really have no clue where or what she’s doing now.
Honestly, it’s not even clear whether or not she’s alive.
Kanata: she’s alive. probably. i can feel it.
when i’m touched by the “sea” like this, i feel mother.
Madara: That sure is unusually god-like of you to say.
Kanata: please don’t make fun of me. that’s a bad habit you have there, mikejima.
at the time, i was almost kidnapped.
i was tied up and unable to move, and i also had my “eye cover” on, so i barely understood what was happening.
i was scared so i closed my “eyes,” and during the time in which i had nearly “fainted”—it felt as if someone was “holding” me in their arms the entire time.
maybe that was mother. that warmth i felt.
Madara: Wellll, it’s certainly not impossible… Your mother officially retired from her role as God when she faked her death. I have no idea what her reason was, and I honestly don’t care.
Maybe she grew exhausted from having to reign as a god in the form of a human or something.
Or maybe there was some other nonsensical reason to it that others wouldn’t be able to sympathize with.
But still, it doesn’t have anything to do with us anymore. Your mother selfishly abandoned her believers who worshipped her as a god, her religion, and even her own child, to flee elsewhere.
She’s a failure of a mother.
Scum like that probably don’t even deserve the right to be called “Mother”.

Kanata: it was inevitable i think. after all, mother had served as “god” a lot longer than i had.
there’s nothing we can do if she didn’t have enough “experience” as a human.
though i admit, it is still a bit lonely, even now.
but i am no longer a “child” who wishes for his mother. I’m surrounded by lots of warm people now.
there is no “need” to be lonely anymore—not even a little bit.
besides, i’m sure mother didn’t abandon me because she wanted to. at first, she kidnapped me to try to take me with her.
but she changed her mind and gave up on that.
why do you think that is, mikejima?
Season: Winter
Scenario writer: Akira
Characters (in order of appearance): Kanata, Madara
(Present day. Right after Madara retrieved the urn (?) from the marine biology club clubroom.)

Kanata: puka, puka
haa~…… it feels like it’s been a while since i’ve been able to do some “bathing”
Madara: Heeeeey Kanata-san♪
Thanks for waiting! The mission was successfully completed ♪ The problem goods have been properly retrieved, seeee?
Kanata: is that so~ fufufu, you've also become a child who can do it if he tries.
Madara: Anyone can successfully pull off something as easy as child’s play. And wow, I can reaaally feel just how much your opinion of me has fallen!
Even though you used to be so adorable and dependent on me, going around saying “mikejima, mikejima ♪”.
Kanata: wrong~ it was the opposite~ you were the one taking “care” of me to protect your “self-esteem,” weren’t you?
which means, mikejima—you were the one who was dependent on me.
Madara: You suuure have gotten better at talking! How annoying.
…I guess this just means we’re no longer children.
Kanata: yes. it’s because we’ve grown a little more “mature” that there are now things we’ve come to understand.
—like how “abyss” didn’t exist in “reality” in the first place.
Madara: Mhm. I sat on my mind since then and I did look into it, so I do understand the circumstances to a certain degree.
It’s become confidential, but that religious group has since been disbanded.
The preservation of these documents have also become pretty sloppy in its own way, and if there’s no real need to remain faithful to God, the people involved start babbling away. Well, to a certain extent.
Which means the year-long questions have finally been answered.
Kanata: yes. everything was a “scheme” devised by the “adults”.
—first and foremost, god has died.
in other words, my mother.
but even that was a lie, wasn’t it?
Madara: Yeah, probably. Your mother faked her own death and hid herself. And I really can’t track her down, so I really have no clue where or what she’s doing now.
Honestly, it’s not even clear whether or not she’s alive.
Kanata: she’s alive. probably. i can feel it.
when i’m touched by the “sea” like this, i feel mother.
Madara: That sure is unusually god-like of you to say.
Kanata: please don’t make fun of me. that’s a bad habit you have there, mikejima.
at the time, i was almost kidnapped.
i was tied up and unable to move, and i also had my “eye cover” on, so i barely understood what was happening.
i was scared so i closed my “eyes,” and during the time in which i had nearly “fainted”—it felt as if someone was “holding” me in their arms the entire time.
maybe that was mother. that warmth i felt.
Madara: Wellll, it’s certainly not impossible… Your mother officially retired from her role as God when she faked her death. I have no idea what her reason was, and I honestly don’t care.
Maybe she grew exhausted from having to reign as a god in the form of a human or something.
Or maybe there was some other nonsensical reason to it that others wouldn’t be able to sympathize with.
But still, it doesn’t have anything to do with us anymore. Your mother selfishly abandoned her believers who worshipped her as a god, her religion, and even her own child, to flee elsewhere.
She’s a failure of a mother.
Scum like that probably don’t even deserve the right to be called “Mother”.

Kanata: it was inevitable i think. after all, mother had served as “god” a lot longer than i had.
there’s nothing we can do if she didn’t have enough “experience” as a human.
though i admit, it is still a bit lonely, even now.
but i am no longer a “child” who wishes for his mother. I’m surrounded by lots of warm people now.
there is no “need” to be lonely anymore—not even a little bit.
besides, i’m sure mother didn’t abandon me because she wanted to. at first, she kidnapped me to try to take me with her.
but she changed her mind and gave up on that.
why do you think that is, mikejima?