Hanako's regret/Daniels return

Verse 1]

We drew our dreams on chalkboards in our high school days

Of fighting in the portals, in a monster-killing haze

We swore we'd be the heroes, standing side-by-side

With nowhere left to run and nowhere left to hide

Then came our powers, and the paths began to bend

You got the hands of heaven, with the power to transcend

All injury and death, a miracle to see

And I just got a simple boost to the strength inside of me.

A gateway raid, a simple quest, a mission gone all wrong

A horde of level thirty-fives, where we did not belong

My power wasn't enough, I couldn't stem the tide

I fell among the others, with my foolish, broken pride

I watched you heal our team, your hands a holy light

You brought them from the brink of an eternal night

You moved among the fallen, a savior and a friend

And I thought for a second, this wasn't the real end.

You knelt beside me, your healing hands alight

But I saw the final choice you made in one long look that night

You saw the coming monsters, you saw my ragged plea

And you and all our friends turned your backs on me

The portal sealed behind you, a cold and fading gleam

You left me to the mercy of a never-ending scream

I swore I'd kill all monsters and let my hatred reign

For the friend who left me to the horde, to die in screaming pain.

For fifteen years I hunted, a ghost you thought was dead

Then from a portal, I returned, with words I left unsaid

You saw me there, alive, and whispered out my name

And I saw in your faces, the guilt and all the shame

"No thanks to you," I snarled, the words were sharp with rust

A phantom of the friendship I had ground into the dust

I gave one final look, then turned and walked away

There was nothing you could offer, nothing you could say.

Two weeks later, in some town, the sirens start to scream

I move among the monsters, a killer's waking dream

I save them all, a blur of rage and focused, deadly art

The townsfolk cheer, and for a sec, I almost have a heart

A phantom smile appeared, a ghost of someone who could care.

But then I saw you watching, with that same old pleading stare

I let the smile die, and locked the boy back in his cage

And let my face go blank again, a cold, unwritten page

I turned my back and vanished, before you got too near

No second chance for you. Not after fifteen years.