IV:they know the slow, steady drip of medication through a saline solution being your only lifelineand how you get yourself in (AND OUT OF) such cyclic situations

IV:
分かってるかな？ do you know, I wonder, the tideflow, how the tide goes, DO YOU KNOW, I WONDER. WHO IS LEFT WHEN THE TIDE SLOWS.I know what I will become: someone who forgets the unholy burden of six's six cicatrixes: that ability to acquire language, and to open worlds outside of a singular command. I have it, you know, I have. but I lost it long ago to the tideflow.TO THE BLOOD-RIPE RIBBON OF HISTORY AS IT FLOWED FORWARD, only for it to ensnare me as I went back.THE ONLY WAY FORWARD IS TO GO BACK, DID YOU KNOW, DID YOU KNOW?did you know, sukuna, sacrosanct. the only way forward is to go back.

IT'S THE ONLY WAY I CAN LIVE WITH MYSELF

最後の蘭 (saigo no ran): the last of my kind, the last son of my line, and the only daughter. father, you bore seven heirs, and of the six you said were daughters, none were girls, though they were princesses in the imperial line.as your only son in a patrilineal line...well, of course I had no choice but to become a daughter, if only in the silver cage of my mind.DID YOU KNOW, FATHER, you were not, in the end, the one that stole my tongue from me.that honor went to your usurper, your enemy you let in. the man who set the black fire onto heaven.who killed you (INSIGNIFICANT!) and all the rest of my six brethren.

I AM THE ONE TO LIVE NOW (live when?) I AM THE ONE TO LIVE NOW.

千呪「SENJU」: くそ、くそ、くそ！嘘だよ？そんなこと。。。そんなゴミをもらったんだが、ありえない！何やってんだ、くそばか。。。what is that piece of shit thinking, oh my fucking god, on my honor, on god's honor, what is that goddamn piece of shit thinking.

OW, SHIT, FUCK! oh shit, oh fuck.

an extremely beautiful 白百合（SHIRAYURI / WHITE LILY) falls into my arms with loose-limbed grace and I go inelegantly slack-jawed as though heaven spit its lace directly into my mouth.(it's actually a few of their curling-cute hairs)i gaze at them inappropriately long.

千呪「SENJU」: I BEG YOUR SINCEREST PARDON AGAINST THIS MOST UNFORGIVABLE CRIME OF ー OF ATTACKING YOU! IN THIS MANNER, AND I...can you hear? do you speak?

they are so beautiful...wow...the soft, lamb-like curls of their hair and the glittering glow of their gemstone eyes that burn with black fire as though it were stolen from heaven...and their river-dragon horns? carved from the most precious of opal lyre...HUH? DID THEY SAY SOMETHING?

no, no, they didn't. they blink up at me sweetly but I am not one of the  月皇帝、 THE MOON EMPEROR'S, go instructors for nothing. if my intuition does not prove me wrong, there's something wrong about this 白百合 (SHIRAYURI)'s...oh, you know, just their entire thing. existence. body, face, general mien, miasma, etc, etc.THE EYES ARE TOO KNOWING.千呪「SENJU」: [I OPEN MY MOUTH AND THENー]

IV, as 水月「SUIGETSU」:
i am not doing anything in particular when a very angry scholar in heavy robes holding heavy scrolls attempts to run me over.i expect to fall, of course, but not towards the very large lumine-pearl-shaped man.

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i fall into his arms and frown up at him. i have been told my face does not naturally make expressions so i have to enforce it. through brute force. but yuuichirou-sama only says it makes me soooo cute in that evil way of hers.):
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i look up at him, my hands still resting on his chest. i politely take them back, but he is holding me against him, gentle, large, milk-candy sweet hands wrapping me in a light embrace since my bones have yet to regain their tension and are hanging loose against him.i tap my ear and nod to say yes, i can hear, and cover my mouth to say no, i can't speak.

the delicate machinery of the blood-red thread that sews my body together suddenly rebounds in tension, and i slip the scholar's grasp(HE IS WEARING A SILLY HAT? MMN, LIKE THOSE MONKS IN THE MONASTARY I MAY HAVE BURNED DOWN? mmn, they could have lived...unfortunate! but i was young, then, and untried, and may someday be forgiven for the heinously untidy work.)i slip out of his grasp like the river dragon whose cells i stole and was regenerated from...AND I DO WHAT I DO BEST!

ー  I RUN!  ー

千呪「SENJU」: Ah, 夢一郎殿 (YUUICHIROU-dono). お元気ですか。
夢一郎 (YUUICHIROU)：えぇ、まあまあですよね。最近いそがしいんですが、頑張ろうと思っています。ね、ね、小鳥を見つけましたか。オレの小鳥が迷子になちゃった。Ehh, it's been so-so, alright, to and fro. Moreover, have you seen a little bird? Mine is wandering around somewhere like a lost duckling...