[Through the emotional link shared through Communion, Ryunosuke gives off what feels like a mental shudder of discomfort, recalling what they'd all gone through.]
...Physically, in addition to mentally. The specifics of the symptoms aren't terribly important.
[Read: he really doesn't have it in him to get into relaying any horror stories right now. He could just show them, but that would require recalling the imagery himself and he'd... Really rather not.]
What you mostly need to know is that people started... Hardening. Turning into statues, more or less. And the transformations came with hallucinations that brought on an unnatural sense of peace. Even stranger was the fact that experiencing pain seemed to cause the disease to regress, almost like the disease couldn't bear to exist in the same body as the suffering it was trying to stamp out.
...For a few days, we went on in spite of that; fighting the infection within ourselves and trying to investigate to find the source, I mean. But it didn't reveal itself, until one of the Kenoma committed the ultimate violence.
A self-described demon named 'M'... [Ryunosuke shares a brief image of his face.] He was the one who did it. I... Saw it happen, with my own eyes. [He's been hesitant to admit that before, but there's no sense in hiding it here.] Estinien was his victim, and the moment he was quelled, that's when the Innocence made itself known for the very first time.
It appeared in the skies above us, screaming... I suppose it must have been drawn out by its distress at having allowed such an atrocity to be committed upon someone who, at the time, was very close to succumbing to complete petrification. And it was immediately obvious that this was the thing that was the source of the plague; there was no doubting that.
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...Physically, in addition to mentally. The specifics of the symptoms aren't terribly important.
[Read: he really doesn't have it in him to get into relaying any horror stories right now. He could just show them, but that would require recalling the imagery himself and he'd... Really rather not.]
What you mostly need to know is that people started... Hardening. Turning into statues, more or less. And the transformations came with hallucinations that brought on an unnatural sense of peace. Even stranger was the fact that experiencing pain seemed to cause the disease to regress, almost like the disease couldn't bear to exist in the same body as the suffering it was trying to stamp out.
...For a few days, we went on in spite of that; fighting the infection within ourselves and trying to investigate to find the source, I mean. But it didn't reveal itself, until one of the Kenoma committed the ultimate violence.
A self-described demon named 'M'... [Ryunosuke shares a brief image of his face.] He was the one who did it. I... Saw it happen, with my own eyes. [He's been hesitant to admit that before, but there's no sense in hiding it here.] Estinien was his victim, and the moment he was quelled, that's when the Innocence made itself known for the very first time.
It appeared in the skies above us, screaming... I suppose it must have been drawn out by its distress at having allowed such an atrocity to be committed upon someone who, at the time, was very close to succumbing to complete petrification. And it was immediately obvious that this was the thing that was the source of the plague; there was no doubting that.