Quietly almost. Along with her additional help as the navigator who only ever spoke when spoken to or when she needed to warn the team for a new upcoming torrent of what it's like to be subjected to the deep abyss of a human soul. A hell that never really seemed to end no matter who stood next to you or the sheer complications of what it was like...to live.
As she did once. As a human.
Wolf's words hurt. They hurt and permeate within her like barbed wires clawing through her flesh if she possessed any. In a life where she wasn't reborn as code.
"WOLF!"
Her voice booms through, her jewel form permeating in and out as she floats and rushes through the cognitive space- swimming in the air with no limitations of sweat or fatigue as she rushed past Rookmon and stops right before Wolf. "Wait! Just—listen to me!"
Her form flickers as the jewel shifts. Shards collapse as they enlarge, collapse and manifest together in a matter of few seconds right as they make it past the door and she suddenly drops before him- hands stopped as Wolf would see her in the same form as she was earlier when she first awakened. The same black mask, a simple top hat leading down to a black coat over her usual digital form that wore a grey top vest and black trousers. She’s breathing heavy—not because she has to, but because that’s how she remembers being human. It's instinct. It's a simulation. It's... comforting.
Her voice, however, is all real. "With Ubukata...back in the Okinsawa jail, when you went back there after everything- I ran into some files. I didn't mean to dig that far in but Wolf- the people who exploited you, who chained you down- they are the monsters."
"I was a human- Akane Hasegawa. I remember that. My soul was bound and exploited under the Kirijo group's thumb. Our unit was exploited to kill shadows, my father killed shadows to free them from their jails. I was his navigator. I saw people shut down."
"And we were lied to. My existence was lied to me. It's why you went back to the lab, didn't you? You think you’re some one-of-a-kind monster, some tragic glitch in the system? Sorry, buddy—hate to break it to you, it feels like I am looking at a damn mirror. You are hurt. You are terrified of what's going to come next. You went looking for answers, and all you found was a bunch of locked doors and people who used you up and threw away the key.”
"But what safety will you find in the beast? You hope for freedom- what freedom? The freedom where you play right into the hands of those who truly abandoned their humanity like Masayoshi Shido? Like Ubukata? They can all go to hell-! You are better than them!"
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Quietly almost. Along with her additional help as the navigator who only ever spoke when spoken to or when she needed to warn the team for a new upcoming torrent of what it's like to be subjected to the deep abyss of a human soul. A hell that never really seemed to end no matter who stood next to you or the sheer complications of what it was like...to live.
As she did once. As a human.
Wolf's words hurt. They hurt and permeate within her like barbed wires clawing through her flesh if she possessed any. In a life where she wasn't reborn as code.
Her voice booms through, her jewel form permeating in and out as she floats and rushes through the cognitive space- swimming in the air with no limitations of sweat or fatigue as she rushed past Rookmon and stops right before Wolf. "Wait! Just—listen to me!"
Her form flickers as the jewel shifts. Shards collapse as they enlarge, collapse and manifest together in a matter of few seconds right as they make it past the door and she suddenly drops before him- hands stopped as Wolf would see her in the same form as she was earlier when she first awakened. The same black mask, a simple top hat leading down to a black coat over her usual digital form that wore a grey top vest and black trousers. She’s breathing heavy—not because she has to, but because that’s how she remembers being human. It's instinct. It's a simulation. It's... comforting.
Her voice, however, is all real. "With Ubukata...back in the Okinsawa jail, when you went back there after everything- I ran into some files. I didn't mean to dig that far in but Wolf- the people who exploited you, who chained you down- they are the monsters."
"I was a human- Akane Hasegawa. I remember that. My soul was bound and exploited under the Kirijo group's thumb. Our unit was exploited to kill shadows, my father killed shadows to free them from their jails. I was his navigator. I saw people shut down."
"And we were lied to. My existence was lied to me. It's why you went back to the lab, didn't you? You think you’re some one-of-a-kind monster, some tragic glitch in the system? Sorry, buddy—hate to break it to you, it feels like I am looking at a damn mirror. You are hurt. You are terrified of what's going to come next. You went looking for answers, and all you found was a bunch of locked doors and people who used you up and threw away the key.”
"But what safety will you find in the beast? You hope for freedom- what freedom? The freedom where you play right into the hands of those who truly abandoned their humanity like Masayoshi Shido? Like Ubukata? They can all go to hell-! You are better than them!"