374. Changing something, 9

(Rose)

Bleue listened to our explanations and arguments without smiling even once.

Our friend would like to change the world in a way that would re-establish humanity's supremacy on the long run.

And I'm refusing to help as a witch, saying the deads should remain buried.

It its atrociously hypocritical from me to say that, to Bleue's face even. I'm selfish alright. But I also think I'm right.

Unfortunately I'm not the best in rhetoric and struggle to find the convincing arguments.

R - Making room for new humans will mean war against daiûas. We've already lost that competition.

My instincts tell me, they are screaming at me, that it would be a deadly mistake to try a biological altering spell on a global scale. That would backfire in ways I cannot imagine.

Creating some kind of cure or vaccine would also have serious consequences I can just barely fathom and fear. My intuition from both sides of reality are telling me it would end up counterproductive in sinister ways.

If humanity were to bounce back in the world, it would become different from what it were before. That's a definitive given. And I can't say if it could become utopic or not. I'm scared.

Humanity is ambitious like any other species. But it is far more powerful.

I'm scared of all powerful gods trying to dominate us.

What would prevent humans to become exactly as gods in our world? Only them.

They would fight us for domination over everything.

There is another form of humanity on the globe now. They filled the voids we left, a little.

If humanity were to rise again, the only future I can see ahead of us is a terrifying war. We would use everything they are, and they would replicate as much.

If we try to change the world to fit us, to our advantage, they will know and they will react with equivalent violence.

We will create our own worst enemy...

An enemy our friend has never truly met. He cannot imagine it.

All he sees are empty lands. He doesn't know what they can be.

Bleue sees that I struggle to articulate any intelligent reply. I'm just pitiful, and maybe I'm wrong even.

On the other hand, our friend has the most powerful argument available in the situation.

All he's asking is that we would be looking into a way to insure humans can reproduce safely again.

A way to insure women do not die anymore in pregnancy.

So it's hitting me and Bleue directly. As Mushio presents it, he wants to insure her survival, while I'm risking her life for my belief.

I'm feeling awful. I don't know what to say.

Bleue is one thing. Humanity is another. And daiûas spores are something else.

Bleue however has a better aptitude than I to imagine and envision what the future could be.

And Mushio could calculate it if he had the right data.

So Bleue thinks seriously about all of it.

I'm terribly worried.

B - You think that if Mushio met one of them, he would understand the real threat of the situation, right?

R - I think so yes.

Mushio has never met a real demon, a true daiûa.

Bleue picks up her ring. I have a cold shiver and bad feeling. Her idea is dangerous.

B - Let's have him meet Judge then, shall we? He will be able to experience what the world really has become out there, when there are no more humans around.

R - I...

My heartbeat is rising.

It could be the best way to convince our friend he has a dangerously optimistic and biased understanding of the world. But it also is very dangerous in many other ways, even for us.

B - Get ready to fight Rose.

I gasp at first.

I then have a creepy smile.

~

Bleue looked more like a witch on that day than she ever could have before.

We were on a wide empty field just outside the power plant where our friends live.

And this angelic looking figure begun to summon a dark god out of earth.

A piece of the unicorn horn as she calls it, and the ring itself, melted between her hands within her wish.

A storm of ridiculously small size rose around her.

In bursts, the body took shape, and there rose from the earth that thing without a face again. Extracting his partial knowledge of reality from the people around him at birth again. We felt it.

Like a plant spread roots to extract nutrients, its invisible filaments and links reached all of us and copied some information.

And from the power Bleue had sacrificed over it her wish became true, and the judge appeared once more before us.

I was standing behind everyone else. I was trying to breathe in as calmly as I could while they all discussed.

Obviously surprised at first, Mushio still went to talk with the ominous looking judge. I could hear their voice but not understand what they were saying. I was shaking slightly, nervously.

At one point, Bleue silently looked at me, in a way that terrified me.

She didn't lip a word. I knew I would likely need to jump on Judge to destroy him sooner or later, and was waiting for her signal to strike.

But what her gaze told me was far worse.

I don't know how she came to that conclusion, nor why she tried to convey that idea to me silently.

What she told me in silence so urgently, was that to avoid the worst to come, I might have to kill our friend.

I swallowed painfully. I very slowly made a few step closer to Mushio and Judge.

The talks suddenly broke down in front of me.

Mushio was thrown to the ground and Bleue caught hostage in a spark.

Electricity sparkled in the air as Judge then spoke to me, holding Bleue by the neck.

J - I told you I would judge you Rose! Now comes the time to face it!

R - Piece of shit!

Judge seemed to inhale as I rushed ahead, and there was a sudden deflagration pushing me away and Mushio further on the ground.

Bleue lost a lot of feathers in the burst, now scattered and flying around.

That shockwave, I know what it was.

It was a call.

Judge sent a message to others beings-like-him around the world.

R - What did you send! What have you said!

We've just done one of the worst mistakes in our lives, trying our best to convince a friend he was mistaken...

J - You must die... All of you!

He was beginning to strangle Bleue to kill her. I snapped.

I forgot the sword I had been holding and left my body behind.

I created toxic light all around me and ahead of me mostly.

I jumped on them instantly. I seriously hurt Bleue along my way, but disintegrated Judge onto the ground in a bright flash.

The grass was burning all around us. I was already cooling down.

I looked back at Mushio, filled with hatred. Our mistake, because of him!

Bleue stopped me before I made another mistake.

I returned to my now bleached body and self.

It hurts atrociously. I feel like I've ran a marathon and rubbed spices all over me. A migraine is pounding in me.

I pass out from the amount of painful sensations.

When I woke up, Mushio was gone.

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