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scallioncreamcheesebagelFandom: Higurashi
Ship: Satoko/Rika
Setting: Bad end AU of Sotsu episode 14 - God-Entertaining Chapter Part 3
CW: Major character death, violence, suicidal ideation
Words: 275
"If you are someone who lives in loops... then I know what can kill you."
Rika swung her blade with all her might. It wasn't much, condemned back into her body from when she was a young girl again, but she was more used to this body than any other after so long. The fragment of Onigari-no-ryuuou sliced across Satoko's throat, blood spewing out onto her hands.
Satoko couldn't respond, her vocal cords hemorrhaging. After one hundred years spent wearing Rika down, molding her back into her dearest friend who would never leave Hinamizawa, she hadn't expected this. Hadn't expected Rika to fight back, at least not so hard.
She had died hundreds of times, but this was different. This was Onigari-no-ryuuou: she wasn't going to come back from this one.
Rika stepped away and watched as her best friend bled out by her own hand, the life leaving her eyes for a final time. It was over. Satoko couldn't control her infinite lives like a cruel god any longer.
What would happen now? Would Satoko come back the next loop like she'd been before, her ability to loop taken away? Would Rika have to act as her best friend again, like nothing had happened? Live with her? Or would Satoko not come back at all? Would people notice her disappearance, or would it be like she'd never existed? Was it even possible to break out of the loops without Satoko?
The worst part was that she still loved her.
Rika gripped the bloody fragment tighter, her own blood mixing with Satoko's. She had a way out now, if it turned out unfixable.