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let-them-eat-rakes · 5 years ago

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RED REALITY (part 2)

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[Dr. Scranton's voice is noticeably distorted now. Hypothesized to a combination of both him and the control panel finally showing signs of reality breakdown.]

Robert… cold. I can't… I can't feel my legs anymore. I think… I'm beginning to… Hitting that point I… talked about… Low Hume Field… Diffusion… Equilibrium… bunch of… stupid… garbage…

I don't know what's real in here any more. Hell, I'm not sure I'm real. Or… something… something close to it… If… If I really am going out like this, I… I… I don't want to die yet. I don't want to die yet. Oh, god I don't wanna die yet…

I ran up in one straight diagonal line, for six months. I went down in one… no I just went down again… for… eight. There's still no bottom, red, there's still no bottom.

What have you been up to, Red? Have you been listening for me all this time? You're a stubborn little guy, Red…

Lucy.

Huh, Red? Sorry, I must have fell asleep. What did you want? Oh… sorry, I-I'll try to remember…

Lucy. That's what we wanted to call our kid if we had one. Lucy Scranton, Lucy Lang, Anna and I both thought it would have a nice ring. I-I- No, Red, I… I don't remember picking out a boy's name…

"Good morning… good morni-i-ing. We've talked… the whole… through…"

Man, I really suck at tap-dancing. Can't feel my feet at all. Okay, you try then, Red.

Kejel's Law states that Hume Fields diffuse, Kejel's Law states that my balls will eventually fall off if this keeps up.

"Anna… Anna bo banna…" Heh, she hated that song, and I loved to tease her with it. "Anna… Anna bo banna banana… banana, banana canna…" It actually became a joke between us, did you know? We made it the words that turn you on. [Pause.] Come on, red, act your age, don't be immature. [Sighs.] Fine, guess you have a sense of humor after all, maybe!

Heheheh, we're gonna have to fuck with so much science when we get out, this place breaks apart rules like my hand is breaking right now.

Spiderwebs. My left hands. Spiderwebs.

There was a reality-bending spider at Site-120 once. I should crush it. Red, would you crush it for me when we get out?

Average ten, fifteen kilometers a day, plus a few breaks. Thirty, two, thirty, ten, no, eleven, no, no ten, I think. At least, three hundred left, and… and… shit no, was faster going down… Fuck it, I'm saying about six hundred kilometers down. Took a hell of a lot longer coming up.

Far down. Bottomless? Infinite? And beyond. Shut up, Robert, you're not funny.

Hume Field, boom field… breaking down at a rate of… shit, what's the constant of Modified Prommel Relations? Ten to the fourth? No, no… fifth… fifth, I think…

One year. Maybe add a few more months.

Red, how does David sound? David. You know, you asked about… yeah, yeah, that. Sorry I woke you…

My… my hands. I… my hands are going through each other… Red. Red! RED! Red, help, help, please, my hands, I can't feel my hands, they're going through each other like… like… they're like ice water, Red, I can't, oh god, oh god…

Huh… huh… huh… Red… You know… you know that… that stupid magic trick your uncle would show you where he'd pull his thumb off, but it was really just his other one tucked under?

I just did that. With my real thumb. It didn't even hurt, it just came off. I think… Oh, god I'm gonna be sick. I-I- [Sounds of retching.] I think… I think it's just floating right now, and I can't even pick it up, my hand just passes through it, oh god, oh god, I-I-

My left pinky feels like… an onion.

Yeah, it's separated.

NICE TRY HELL, ring's on the RIGHT hand, nice try left.

I can… go… right through myself… I can… feel inside me.

It feels… warm.

But also cold.

When I sleep… my hands go in my head. I'm sleeping on my back now.

Static. I'm like static on a TV.

Chhhk. Chhhhk. Chhhk.

Ha. Hahahaha. Hahahahahahaha. Well, I-I-I only need one kidney, right? RIGHT? RED, RED LOOK AT THIS! Haha. Hahahahahaha…

Let me keep my heart, just my heart, that's all I want.

Lucy. David. Are you there? I want to see you.

Lucy. David. That's not fair. Come on, hey, quit messing around, I was joking when I said that, I was joking. COME ON, THAT'S FUCKED UP, I WAS JOKING.

I'm a man, be a man, Robert, you're a man, WHAT THE FUCK.

Anna… Annaaaa…

Four years, six months, eighteen days.

I'm not… I'm not even doing it myself anymore. I can… feel it happening on its own… Finally. Finally, I can… I still can't say it… I'm… I'm still scared…

I… definitely won't eat anymore now…

Still really hungry.

That is fucking disgusting, Robert, and you know it. NO. SEE, RED THINKS SO TOO. NO.

This little piggie went to market.

This little piggie went… somewhere.

This little… foot. Foot… RED?!

Five years, 13 days.

Haha.

Hahahahahahaha

Hahahahahahahahahaha.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Five years, 14 days.

Five years, 15 days.

Stop it, you're hurting me.

Five years, 19 days.

I'm feeling better now, red, sorry.

How do you do it, red? Keep it together? Spill it out, I need some help here… I need some help…

Red. Come on. Don't do that. Don't go. I know it's hard. I know it's dark. But-but- it's dark and we're together still. Come on. Red. No. No. You-you can't. RED! Come on, buddy, stay with me, Red! Come on! I can still touch you! I CAN STILL TOUCH YOU LOOK AT ME RED YOU ARE NOT DYING YET NO RED NO!

[No audio is recorded for the next 9 months.]

Five years, nine months, two days.

…

Red?

Five years, nine months, three days.

[Automated message repeats 97 more times.]

You little shit, I thought you left me… [Dr. Scranton's voice is barely audible/coherent, as if through a heavily distorted, muted radio.]

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Sorry to say, red, but… there's not much left here… I… it's been hard. I've… 184. I've tried to kill myself 184 times. It didn't work. …None of them worked. I'm… I don't even know how much there is of me anymore. At least one foot, because I can move. Probably a few leg muscles too, but I'm wobbly. Insides are… insides are shit. Still a heart, maybe a lung. This place… really won't let me stop… Tired…

I… did die, red. Come on red, don't look at me like, I don't want your pity and I don't want shock, or anger, or fear, or, or… I can't… When… 224, I miscounted…

One, two, three, four… [Dr. Scranton counts from one to 220-245 several times over for the next 13 hours.]

I died. I died, a lot. I tried to suffocate, I tried to snap my neck, I tried to bite myself apart. And… and… This place. It's not real. I left, I saw myself, on the ground and I couldn't— I couldn't— I couldn't go anywhere. I couldn't leave. There's no way to leave, I just floated back down, and each, damn, time, there was less and less of me. I-I- oh, god, how much more can I take away and still live?

So why are… why are you back now? What do you want to tell me?

Five years, nine months, twelve days.

Heh…

This place is getting smaller. Red, did you somehow do this? I… there's an end here for sure now. It's gone from… god knows how long to… There's like a veil further out and when I touched it hurt like hell. Red, what's going on?

It's… it's not dark. That border or whatever is getting brighter and, I mean, it's still fucking dark but… oh god, I can actually see something now. I…I… oh, god, what the fuck is this? I… oh, god, I didn't know I was this bad. Oh, god, oh god, oh god, there's so much gone—

Five years, ten months, ten days.

Red, you're solid. Like, no, you're really fucking solid. You're… you're real. And… and… I'm real too when… only when I touch you. But… Red, it… it really hurts when I do. I… I think that if I touch you I might fall apart…

You — really fucking hurt, Red, Jesus Christ, you hurt, what the fuck is going on?

About three kilometer in radius, and closing. Is this… is this something like Kejel's Fourth Law? But… but… what the hell is taking it? Hey! HEY! I'm in here still stop! You're causing a collapse! HEY! HEY!

Two kilometers. Oh god, what's gonna happen when it closes? DAMMIT, RED YOU HURT!

Not collapsing. Waves. They're… waves… What?

Robert, you are a goddamn genius. Not walls, windows. Open windows.

Five years, ten months, twenty-eight days.

Anna, Anna can you hear me? These waves… this place… Okay, imagine, two realities as two pieces of paper stuck together. This place is the space squished between. There should be only two realities, parallel, but this place is a tiny, but infinite third… third… in-between, like what would happen if you fell into a hole crossing a bridge from Point A to Point B! Remember Class-C Wormholes? Those theories about a wormhole that was full of goddamn holes. I think… I think this is where one of those holes leads. It doesn't lead to a different universe, it leads to nothing. A dead end. This place is a dead end. Class-C "Broken Entry".

These waves. Wherever they're coming from, they're from some parallel reality interacting with this place, displacing this in-between place every so slightly. And they're all… pushing on me and red, because since we still have some level of reality, they're pushing, or… or sucking us towards them, gradually creating a new wormhole towards… towards… home.

…

What's going to happen to me when I go back? When the window closes?

Think, dammit, Robert, think. You've got to think! Think harder! THINK HARDER!

Red, I'm gonna, ah, I'm gonna have to, Jesus- gah, I'm gonna have to move away from you, you, I don't know, you're sick or something, you're really messed up right now. Call me when you're feeling better.

…I can't… I can't think… right… Blood. Blood. There's… way… too much… ha…

Drip, drip, drip, where does it allllllll…. gooooooooooooo… [Retching noises.]

I haven't… [Retching noises.] tasted barf in forever. Not even when I threw up after my… my… you're a man, Robert.

Oh, god. Oh god not again, not again, not again— [Retching.]

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[Voice breaks.] How…? How…? How can I be throwing up this much, red, tell me… I don't… [Retching.] I don't even have a stomach to hold it in anymore… And the bleeding never… stops… [Dr. Scranton breaks down into crying for the next two hours.]

Be- [Retching.] better… now. Thinking.. straight…

Red, I… I don't know if I'm ready to go back anywhere yet…

Five years, eleven months, three days.

No, red, I'm not being selfish, it wasn't you, it was these goddamn waves coming in. I can't be near them. Red, look, look at me. See this? Red, look at me. LOOK. I can't be near them, they'll kill me. I passed the three years quite a while back, remember?

Because, even… even after all this time… I don't want to die, red. I'm still scared. [Voice breaks.] Red, I am scared, okay? You wouldn't understand, you're not… you're not human, red.

Oh I'm sorry for offending you, red. No, red, come on, I didn't mean it like that. Red, look at me. You're my friend, do you get that? You are, my best friend. But… let's face it, you've got a much better chance of getting out of here a—…. Just leave me alone, please, red? Just for a bit… I'm sorry, okay? I really am…

Can you… hear the waves coming in, red? That little hum and shake as it hits your ears? I can. And it's getting louder every time, and it hurts so bad. [Begins to sob quietly.] It hurts so bad.(4)

No… No, no, no, no, no… NO. NO. NO. Why? Why?! Just let me go, let me go… LET ME GO DAMMIT, oh god… [Sobbing.]

[Sobbing groan.] Another five years. Five more years. If this keeps up, I'm getting re-stabilized for another FIVE FUCKING GODDAMN YEARS, RED WHAT DO I DO?!

[Over the next five days, the control panel does begin to pick up a low frequency hum that comes in pulses. The volume increases steadily, and as it does, Dr. Scranton can be heard screaming, crying, and speaking incoherently in the background.]

[Voice is noticeably shaky.] Red.

[At this point the background humming noise is picked up at a rate of 20 pulses/min.]

Five years, eleven months, nine days.

Help. [Loud splattering noise heard as something strikes what is assumed to be the control panel.]

[Complete silence for five days. Pulses increase in volume, as well as frequency to 30 per minute.]

[Loud splattering noise.]

Red. [Dr. Scranton's voice is extremely slurred, almost incomprehensible.]

Red.

Red, give me your leg, I need support.

Red, give me your lever, arm. HAND!

Red, I need to see better, give me your light, no sorry, no, no light needed, got it, sorry, something else.

Anna.

I want pretty eyes. Anna, Anna, give me your eye, I only have one.

Anna, Anna, give me your lips, I want to kiss you again.

#scp #scp 3001 #red reality #scp fandom #scp foundation #part 2 #posted from a pile of leaves #let them eat rakes

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sadgayfish · 8 years ago

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So here’s my argument that Keith and his dad are Japanese

Been seeing some people say that Keith and his dad don’t look or “seem” Asian, so here’s my rebuttal.

This is Keiths dad. This is the only scene we’ve seen him in so far, and because of the lighting of this scene his hair appears to be brown. But do you know who else has brown hair in this scene?

Keith, as we know full well, has black hair. Here’s some colour dropper comparisons i did in MS Paint.

EXACT SAME SHADES.

So it reasons that if they have the same coloured hair in warm light, they have the same coloured hair in natural light. Keith’s dad has black hair. Not that him having brown hair would automatically make him white, since plenty of Asians have brown hair too, especially mixed race ones, I’m just pointing out that Keith didn’t get his hair colour from his presumably purple furred mother.

On to the next topic, his and Keith being from Texas as a reason that he’s white. According to the 2010 census, Texas has the 3rd highest Asian population in the US. Japanese Americans are especially prominent, with the biggest population centred in Houston.

Continuing on the topic of Keith’s dad, there are his facial features, which are not traditionally Asian. He has a high nose ridge and a square jaw. And so does this dreamboat:

His "broodingly handsome" good looks and typecasting as a sexually dominant villain made him a heartthrob among American women during a time of racial discrimination, and he became one of the first male sex symbols of Hollywood

Sessue Hayakawa, classic American Hollywood actor before WW2 started up and he basically got kicked out of America. A quick google search will no doubt find plenty of other modern day examples.

We also have an example of a Japanese dude with those features right within the show.

At this time I should also point out that Voltron’s art is anime style. Anime style often uses Mukokuseki in its character designs for a number of reasons, and it can make it difficult to say for certain which character is which ethnicity. In anime, characters can have naturally blond hair and blue eyes with the whitest facial features imaginable and they’d still be Japanese.

Also, please no one take this comparison to mean that I’m saying Shiro and Keith/Keith’s dad are related just because they both have square jaws. The canon has made it very clear that they are not brothers, or cousins, or whatever. I’m saying this right now because I don’t want any asshole antis hijacking my post to use it as proof of their brogane delusion.

Back to focus on Keith, you probably know Voltron is based on a classic 80′s anime called GoLion, which eventually got dubbed and rewritten in English to become the original Voltron. Characters called Takashi and Isamu became white guys called Sven and Lance, and the hero, Akira, became Keith.

Keith is different from the others however, in that while his first name was changed his family name, Kogane, remained the same, and Akira became his middle name instead. His last name, pronounced Ko-gah-nay in the original, was now pronounced a more American sounding Ko-Gain, but he was still canonically considered ethnically Japanese with multiple sources such as magazines and tie-in comics confirming it. He continued to be considered Japanese in several other adaptations after this one even as the other characters races switched back and fourth, including the most recent adaption, Voltron Force.

Voltron: Legendary Defender is a show somewhat focused on racial diversity, at least in how the characters were designed. Shiro was Japanese again and even got his original name, Hunk is Samoan, Lance is mix-raced Cuban, and while Allura is an alien and thus not of African descent, she’s still very dark skinned and young black girls will grow up with her as a role model like white girls did with the blonde light-skinned Allura from previous series. It doesn’t make sense, to me, that the show that changed the races of the characters to be more diverse, would take pre-existing diversity away by making the only consistently Japanese character white.

As a final note, here’s an official comic panel of Lance possibly referring to Keith being Japanese in a slightly jerky Lance kind of way.

#keith kogane #keiths dad #voltron: legendary defender #japanese keith

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gynoidgearhead · 2 years ago

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[Image caption: four-panel cartoon. First panel has a person chasing a pink cat and saying “Gah! I can’t catch any of these things!!” Second panel has the person throwing up their arms angrily and saying “Hell with it! I’m going to bed!” as the pink cat and an orange cat say “hee hee!” and laugh with each other. Third panel has the person sleeping in bed as three silhouettes of cats with glowing eyes look upon them. Fourth panel has three glowing cats - pink, orange, and green - lying on the person’s body as the person rouses from sleep and says “Are you kidding me?” End caption.]

Unreasonable Ideas

#chewedcorn #art #mental health #self care #coping mechanisms #productivity #adhd #neurodivergence #neurodiversity #herding cats #executive dysfunction

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fire-dwelling · 7 years ago

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Fire Force, Chapter 94: “Souichirou Arg”

Translated from Japanese to Portuguese to English

Page 2

Narration: “Shinra met the Commander of the Special Fire Force Company 4, Souichirou Arg, looking for clues on how to return an Infernal to normal! But he feels intimidated when Arg asks to be burned by Shinra!”

The caption on an image of Iris reads, “Does the Sister’s facial expression also look off?”

Page 3

A word is heard repeated around Souichirou Arg, as he moves his hands closers to Shinra Kusakabe…

???: “Come on…!!!”

Shinra: “ ‘Burn me’?”

The words continue to repeat around Shinra…

???: “Come on...Burn me...Burn me all over!”

Page 4

Lines of white appear behind Shinra, creating a room of white--and flames. The voice continues…

???: “Yes...Burn him like he wants…”

Shinra starts to smile madly. The words repeat again.

???: “Burn. Kill him with fire...You're going to cook him, aren’t you? Stop holding back…”

Page 5

An image of the Flame Demon--Shinra’s mother--appears.

???: “Kill that ugly demon. You're going to end it.”

The mad smile fades from Shinra’s face.

Shinra: “That demon was my mother. I can’t kill her.”

???: “So who have you wanted to kill these past 12 years? She wouldn’t have simply disappeared, right?”

Images of Shinra’s classmates appear.

Student #1: “Demon.”

Student #2: “Mother killer.”

Student #3: “Disgusting.”

The voice is heard again over the flames.

???: “Those people are trash...But even if you are what they said you are...still you came here, just wanting to feel better by ending that demon.”

A face appears--the woman in Shinra’s dream the night before he went into the Nether, the woman who looks like Iris.

Woman: “It's over. You want to bring an end to all that rage you’ve stored up? Then leave it completely burnt: let your anger explode! Say it: 'Yes, I am the Demon you all said I was.'”

Page 6

Shinra listens to the voice, as flames and an image of Burns appears.

Woman: “Reluctant? Oh, you so wanted to be the hero. But it doesn’t matter now: this world is full of lies anyway. There is no right or wrong. In this world, a hero is nothing more than trash.”

The flames appear around Shinra again.

Woman: “You want to end up with that demon, right? You hid everything, you decided alone...It drove you crazy…”

The flames whip up in front of Shinra, assuming the form of the Woman…

Woman: “Let's burn it. We can burn it whole. Everything...You are free now...Release all of your anger…”

Shinra looks at the Woman, and she looks like--

Shinra: “Iris?”

Page 7

The Woman smiles madly, leaning up to Shinra. Surrounding them are skeletal remains.

Woman: “Let’s destroy it all with fire…”

Shinra smiles nervously.

Shinra: “No...You’re not Iris...Who are you?”

Page 8

The voice keeps speaking to Shinra…

Voice: “Let’s go…”

Shinra now stands in front of Souichirou again.

Souichirou: “Burn me. It may be only a tiny bit...Kusakabe-kun!”

Shinra wakes up.

Shinra: “I’m back...It was the Adora Link!” (thinking: “Who was that woman? I could feel her intense anger…”)

Souichirou: “!!! Adora Link…”

Shinra: “...”

Page 9

Souichirou pulls up the blinds, letting sunlight into the office. He turns to Shinra.

Souichirou: “Did our contact trigger this? It seems that the connection with the Divine World has strengthened. So, you saw a mysterious girl who looked like a friend. You met an angel…”

Then Souichirou says something that surprises Shinra…

Souichirou: “Now I want you to burn me even more.”

Shinra: “What?! ...I came here today to ask about the Adora Link. Did you also make one?”

Souichirou: “So, that's what you wanted to discuss....It was an incredible experience.”

Page 10

Shinra: “The price paid by Commander Burns was his burnt eye. Is that facial wound yours?”

Souichirou turns around to stare out the window. Shinra sits down on a couch.

Souichirou: “Up to this point, I've worked hard to protect people's lives and property. But two years ago, that day...my thinking changed.”

Images appear of what Souichirou describes.

Souichirou: “A devastating fire swallowed the city, creating countless victims. I thought about how many people I've saved. But what about the people I didn’t? And at that time of the incident…”

Page 11

Souichirou is surrounded by light. He looks to see a four-digit hand lift up--and then we see three claw marks bleeding from his face, behind his undamaged glasses.

Page 12

Blood splatters the panel. Shinra listens to Souichirou.

Souichirou: “At that moment, what looked like despair actually felt like hope. A sense of freedom...I felt like I had saved everyone. The Adora Link...It is a baptism...It was amazing...Something I want to see again. What I saw was different from the light that the Church of the Sun proclaims...What I saw was God’s Light...Going to that Divine World is our salvation.”

Page 13

Souichirou puts on a creepy smile, as he leans towards Shinra.

Souichirou: “This mark on my face is a stigma--a sacred wound, scratched onto me to make me open my eyes. Hey, Kusakabe-kun...Will not you burn me with your sacred flames? So maybe I can see the Divine World again…”

Shinra backs up, falling to the floor.

Shinra: “You think that other world, that Hell, is Heaven?”

Souichirou: “I don’t care whether it’s Paradise or Hell.”

Shinra: “What do you think that world really is?”

Souichirou: “What humans think is God or the Devil is just an imitation of Adora...”

Page 14

Souichirou: “Paradise or Hell, I saw it...And I want to tell everyone that it's the Truth.”

Shinra: “So you're going to form a new religion around that?”

Souichirou: “Possibly.”

Shinra: “I didn’t feel any salvation when I experienced the Adora Link. I just saw some mixed-up world, a connection to something…”

Souichirou: “It may have felt trivial to someone like you, who possesses the Adora Burst...I’m only human...”

Shinra looks down.

Shinra: “So am I.”

Page 15

Outside, Asako Arg can be heard...

Asako: “Huh?! What are these things?!”

Souichirou: “That voice...Is that Asako?”

Shinra looks back over the couch.

Shinra: “Captain Asako?!”

Banging is heard against the door.

Shinra stands between Souichirou and the door.

Shinra: “Get back!”

The doors burst open with fire.

Page 16

The flames and smoke pour into the room, three shadows appearing in it--namely, 119, including the old man-face Mamoru.

Page 17

Shinra: “Mamoru-kun...? Here at the Fourth?”

Souichirou: “What is 119 doing here?!”

Mamoru pulls back their arm--ready to stab at Souichirou.

Shinra: “!!! Gah! He’s coming right at us!”

Souichirou pulls back his arm, knocking off Mamoru’s mascot head to reveal--

Page 18

--that Karim is in the mascot suit.

Shinra: “Why, Karim?”

Souichirou blocks Shinra, as he reprimands Karim.

Souichirou: “You know there are only so many times you may provoke your classmates, right?!”

Karim tilts his head.

Karim: “Kill Shinra Kusakabe…”

Shinra: “What, you’re still upset because I flipped you?”

But the Woman speaks to Shinra again.

Woman: “Perfect...If he wants to kill you, then kill him…”

Page 19

More smoke enters, as the other mascots look at Karim.

Souichirou: “What do you want, strangers?!”

Shinra, however, hears the voice…

Woman: “Kill…”

Flames surround Shinra again.

Woman: “You finally found a target...Kill. Release...all of you fury.”

Shinra’s eyes lose focus.

Shinra: “Burn it all…”

Page 20

Souichirou turns back.

Souichirou: “Kusakabe-kun?”

The Woman smiles madly.

Woman: “Yes, let’s end them…”

Jagged flames surround Shinra, who also smiles madly.

Shinra: “Let’s burn it all…”

Narration: “Has Shinra gone mad?! This mysterious girl has worsened the confusion with 119! To be continued in Chapter 95: ‘Flames of Fury’!”

#fire force #enen no shouboutai #fire brigade of flames #enen no shobotai #en en no shobotai #long post

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