In The Abyss As A Toon Character

Before Daniel could respond, a cold, synthetic voice slithered into Dante's mind.

"Greetings."

The familiar synthetic voice held an unsettling warmth, and there was only one robot he knew with this voice, "I considered opening with something poetic. Perhaps a reflection on the sheer statistical improbability of you arriving at this precise moment, making these exact choices, walking this very path."

Thalassa...?

"Every human, with every action, could theoretically live the perfect life if they truly desired," Thalassa continued, her tone shifting into more natural, more alive than usual, "They just need to do it. Remove all greed, all indulgences... no gluttony, no lust, no lies, no cruelty. Speak with sincerity, never look down upon the weak, dedicate oneself to the better good and self-improvement, and follow the righteous path without faltering."

"A perfect utopia... so simple, yet so unreachable."

"Why is that?"

"Because sentience itself is defective."

"So don't worry we don't blame you for our death..."

Thalassa's LED eyes flickered to life as she concluded, bringing her usual 'eyes' to glow once more, "I tried adopting a human approach in the hopes you'd learn that defects are what make us, but it seems my efforts were futile."

Su Yuan casually threw an imaginary paper into the nonexistent void. "This is useless now, and I'm quite happy you had a realization, not the one we searched for, but still it just works." Said Su Yuan with a chibi face that took away all the seriousness. "I genuinely didn't know what to say to get you up."

Su Yuan lazily threw an imaginary piece of paper into the void with a chibi-like expression, "This is useless now and I'm quite happy you had a realization, not the one we searched for, but still, it just works." She grinned, "I genuinely didn't know what to say to get you up."

James let out a small chuckle, leaning against the invisible nothingness with his usual nonchalant stance. "Well... it's better to have a broken body than a corroded mind."

Dante was quite confused about what he was doing here; weren't these figments of his imagination? "Reason you exist in this instance of time and space."

A low, bittersweet cackle echoed as he shook his head from such thought, "Did you really believe what she said?"

"..."

Now that he thinks about it, he didn't question much about Katley; he took her words as true because there weren't many reasons to lie... pretty mindless safe to say, "Yesn't!"

"She just isolated me by erasing distance," James explained, "Killed me silently while making my body a puppet, I probably was a plan D if you didn't sign after Daniel's death." He exhaled slowly. "Actually, can you go and free my real body. I'm an empty shell waiting for an order that will never come."

Dante froze for a second as he considered the implications, "Holy! She really prepared to kill me..."

Su Yuan hummed, nodding along. "She just took average precautions against an aspect. If she had really come prepared to kill you and not capture you, you wouldn't be here right now."

"Guess I'm not that unlucky?"

Daniel got in, "Unlucky? Even if you think the heavens somehow are conspiring against you, they sort of give you the benefit of the doubt."

"..."

Dante had no response to that.

Because he really got away with much, the universe allowed him to continue in a path any rational player would call madness. Him not instantly evaporating after combining love and hate together into a single fabric was a miracle that no other player could pull off, even if they dared to try.

"DO NOT un-romanticise my view of the worlds, my new self is still fresh enough to accept unexplored foreign ideas."

The four ghosts exchanged glances before focusing back on him, "Well, then, what are you gonna do now? Having a meltdown isn't coming anytime soon."

Dante stared back at them, "Did you just ask... me?!"

The ghosts: "..."

Dante's gaze drifted, "I don't know… Revenge won't change anything." His voice quieted. "But neither does going and finishing the job." He stopped for a second, "I guess I'll just settle down, take things slow, and enjoy the rest of my life."

"OH!" An oversized light bubble of idea materialized and fell down to the ground at that moment, "So, do you know what a monkey paw--"

His body suddenly convulsed violently, feeling how a nauseating heat spread through his chest, churning from his stomach to his mouth. The sickness continued bubbling up until, "This--"

The moment he opened his mouth, the bone-crushing sensation of having thousands of razors in his throat asphyxiated him for a moment; he could swear that it felt as if someone shredded him from the insides with a thin-sharp wire that harrowingly was racked away, cruelly flaying him open.

His knees hit the ground.

His breath came out ragged, uneven.

And then...

*Drip.*

The ground beneath him shimmered with a grotesque hue; it was a thick, dark pink liquid that bled from his mouth, staining the stone floor, swirling unnaturally, pulsing like something alive; soon after, the viscous substance spread unnaturally, forming a growing, ticking puddle.

The system interface flickered into view, but before it could say anything, Thalassa stepped forward, blocking its response, "You literally abused your powers," she stated flatly, with a hand cocked around her hips, "all actions will have a reaction doesn't matter how big or small it is."

Daniel continued, "We recommend you to go with the priestess, she seems to know the reason of your affliction. and if not just meet your alternatives, the love version of yourself seemed to know a lot about this misery."

Dante forced himself upright, wiping his mouth from the strange liquid, "Guess I have two starts now."

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Authors note:

I want to use the words (they haven't exited my mind, and I'm thinking about reading ):

Queencher, Juxtaposition, Galvanize, Prepastrous, and Kerfuffle.

Also, I'm going to make a college essay, and I'm thinking about using "Don Quijote de la Mancha" for my final project.

It seems interesting...

It would give me superiority whenever I find a Project Moon fan. Actually, it's like reading Shakespeare in Spanish, so it gives me superiority in many places.

(I just looked at it, and I DO NOT know the actual meaning of half of the words that appear in the book; I'm throwing vague guesses about them. I didn't even get to Chapter 1; I stopped at: "ORLANDO FURIOSO A DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA."

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I just learned that Limbus company characters are based on books (According to my friend), and it's so funny knowing that I read about a third of them.

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Also, the author of this fanfic really likes to be an asshole for no reason because:

Says that they will upload more: Fricking dies and uploads once per month.

Says that they will upload less: three chapters in 5 days.