I Was Arrogant. I Never Imagined I Would Become Like You.
A character confronts their disturbing similarity to someone they despise, ultimately turning their hatred inward in a tragic act of self-destruction.
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Somewhere along the way, my eyes had come to resemble yours.
When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back into you—a saying I knew well.
When I looked at you, I could not see myself within that gaze.
The shattered mirror fragments were only sharp and painful. Were we truly different from the start?
But perhaps we were the same from the very beginning. The only difference was one thing.
It was merely a matter of who fell into the abyss faster.
I had much I wanted to say, but in the end I swallowed it all. I hate your very existence. Who was even speaking to whom.
To erase you, whom I hated so deeply, I too had to cease to exist.
I finally drew my blade toward myself. More precisely, toward you standing beyond me.
My shattered mirror fragment—one from which I could no longer discern my own reflection no matter how I looked—became my blade.
My blade was terribly weak, but it was enough to destroy me.
Bit by bit, ever so slightly, the sharp surface dug into that creature's neck.
Ah… my glorious past, farewell. My wretched future, farewell.
-Fin🥀-
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