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Unleashing the Homu-Rage
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Originally Posted by ronelm2000
D: I find that.... (Sachi's onii-chan turning vigilante) veerrrry disturbing to say the least.
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Then you probably won't like the dream he has where a somewhat out of character (due to it being a dream, and really reflecting his desire for revenge as well as his memories of Sachi) Sachi (real name Sachiko Matsuoka) sends him a mixed message about revenge...
Spoiler for Excerpt from upcoming chapter:
That night, I was haunted by nightmares, horrible images passed through my mind. Sachiko backed into a corner, terror in her eyes, as some dark figure raised a sword over her. The blade swung forward in a flash of cold steel and flying blood.
The image changed immediately, to a ward in a hospital in Tokyo, where Sachiko lay on a bed, connected to life support systems. Suddenly, a humming sound came from the Nerve Gear console over her head. Sachiko writhed in pain for a few seconds as the microwave generator mounted in the device literally cooked her brain alive. Sachiko fell still, as the heart rate monitor letting out a loud bleeping sound as Sachiko expired.
The images changed again… the dark figure revealed his face, to be that of Kayaba Akihiko, exactly as like the photo circulated throughout the media since September. I tried to walk towards him, I would kill him with my bare hands, crush his neck until he breathed no more.
But something was holding me in place, like I was paralyzed. As I struggled to move, Akihiko stood there, waving a broadsword stained in Sachiko’s blood in my face and laughed sadistically, clearly enjoying my suffering and my inability to do anything about it.
After several seconds Akihiko and his maniacal laughter faded, replaced by a second figure, who turned out to be none other than Sachiko herself, dressed in dark blue vest and a lighter blue dress with a dark blue skirt matching her vest. I knew at once this had to be Sachiko’s game avatar.
“Sachi-chan?”, I asked.
“Onii-chan”, Sachiko softly said, “I’m sorry I couldn’t see you again. I… I just want to tell you I love you… and don’t lose yourself in grief… Don’t blame yourself…”
Don’t blame yourself, onii-chan”, Sachiko continued, “Because there is someone who is very much to blame… That man is Kayaba Akihiko. I… do not wish you to burden you with this… but… if you ever find out anything about Akihiko, make sure he is brought to justice…”
With her next sentence, Sachiko’s voice changed, a coldness and vindictiveness I had never heard before. “And after Akihiko ends up on the other side…”, Sachiko said darkly as, she produced a large spiked mace out of nowhere, “I’ll see that he gets what he deserves….”.
As she finished her sentence, Sachiko swung her mace for dramatic effect. As soon as the mace hit the ground, Sachiko picked it up and put it behind her back, causing it to seemingly disappear. As Sachiko did so, returned to her usual self.
“Send my parents my love…”, Sachiko said, “Until I see you on the other side… Sayonara, onii-chan.”
As Sachiko started to fade away, I felt tears well up in my eyes. “Wait!, Don’t leave me!”, I said, hoping she would return, but it was to no avail. She was gone in seconds.
“SACHIKO!!!”, I yelled as I woke up, realizing I had actually shouted. The tears in the dream were also quite real, having soaked into my pillow.
Thankfully, no one was woken by my shout, as no one entered the room as I whispered “Sachiko-chan… I will kill Kayaba Akihiko for you… or die trying…”
Also, I am, now that I think about it, somewhat conflicted over whether I should include the reference to the infamous scene in the light novel, whether it would just not fit in the more serious tone of the story, but, I have nonetheless revamped it, making it more obvious, now in a scene where he sneaks up on a location he suspects may be housing Kayaba Akihiko. Reference to the infamous scene marked in bold.
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