Verse 1)
A single text from Umiko, a ghost on my screen,
"help I"—then nothing. The most awful cliffhanger I've seen.
I flew back home on adrenaline and dread.
The nervous cabbie turned his head and said,
"Don't fall asleep, whatever else you do."
He dropped me on a curb beneath a sky of gray-blue.
The town was dead, a wound that wouldn't heal,
Where hollow silence felt much too real.
An old man cackled, bent and lost to glee,
Then I walked to the square, and finally saw thee.
(Verse 2)
Umiko, but your soul had been replaced,
A vacant vessel, beautifully disgraced.
Your eyes burned red, two holes into the night,
Your voice a layered chorus, wrong and right.
"You're just in time, her perfect vessel's here,"
"For Levia-sama, who will banish fear."
"Her coming is a mercy, you should see."
I didn't wait for her to focus on me.
I turned and bolted, ran with all my might,
A two-hour marathon of pure, raw fright.
(Verse 3)
I hid inside a bush, my lungs on fire,
Escaping from that unholy, waiting pyre.
A rustle near my feet, a tiny face,
A girl of eight, lost in this awful place.
Disheveled, starving, shaking from the cold,
A tragic story waiting to be told.
We found a cafe, a single light still on,
And she ate like she hadn't since the dawn.
My dummy, Buttons—your old gift to me—
He sat with her, and he helped set words free.
Her name was Umi, she'd fled in the dark,
When her parents received Levia-sama's mark.
They tried to give her to the thing below,
A sacrifice to make its power grow.
(Verse 4)
The townsfolk entered, a relentless, shuffling tide,
With matching crimson emptiness inside.
The waitress shoved us through a door in back,
"Go! I'll hold them off their cursed track!"
Out in the alley's chill, I held her tight,
"Umi, trust me, run now with all your might."
I teach her to survive now, day by day,
And when she calls me 'dad,' the horrors fade away.
We're a family forged from ash and from the fall,
And we will rest until we hear the call.
This isn't over. We are coming back.
To take our lives from off the bloody rack.
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