[CoolNard]

"Swift, if you have anything to say, now is your chance...."

I turn to Suzette.

"Su, I don't specialize in summons and dividing my power, as Tatsu is," I start. "But within me, Yogensha has helped me discover my inner dimensions. You were there when I woke up from the ordeal."

She nods.

"I can now free and manipulate seven aspects of myself. I want Tatsu to understand this as well. I've been through so much in life that my body doesn't know how to react anymore; my lifestyle has always been some underlying form of defense mechanism, except... It's been reconfigured to become a literal warfare system."

"Is that what you used in our skirmish earlier?" Tatsu shrewdly asks.

"Perceptive, Tatsu. You had a face-off with Fiery, one of my seven dimensions. I've named this warfare system, Seven Sins. I guess you could call them split personalities, or rather, split characters. We're all part of the same personality - Swiftant, but we exist for different functions and situations. Because my characteristics vary drastically to suit those functions, I'm split. Nonetheless, we only pursue the same goal...

... Freedom."

"It's strange for me to refer to myself as 'we', isn't it?" I sigh.

"Nah-uh." Suzette shakes her head. "It's totally understandable. All of us were born with a reservoir of feelings. You're you because of what you've been through. Your reservoir has so many features that wouldn't have been if they didn't happen. I think you're refreshing and beautiful, Guntros." I blink.

"H-how did you find out my real name?" I ask.

"We're together, you'd think I'd know by now." She winks. "Swiftant is a reservoir born from Guntros; the present you that I'm in love with."

I lean over and kiss her, just as how I remember Aisha had done.

"Come forth, Kamikaze," I whisper into the wind. At once I feel my body clenching in profound, bottomless depression. I can't tell up from down. It doesn't matter if I die, I can't die anyway; no one cares if I'm hurt, only I care about demolishing my enemies. Then I'll resurrect, and no one shall stand in my way.

"Urghh... Kamikaze, dissimilate..!" I rasp. A clone of me stands in our midst. He's semi-transparent, a being one could see through, but undeniably there. The frequency of his existence, the wavelength of his particles seem ethereal; an astral apparition of Swiftant glares at us.

"You guys... should have seen... this," I pant, still stressed out by the extremity of my other self."

"So, that wasn't just my imagination or blurred vision." Tatsu rubs his eyes before perusing Kamikaze.

"Well, I thought it was a reflection in the window pane, or an afterimage of your high speed, at best," Suzette says, unable to maintain her poker face.

"He's a different dimension than the other one. Meet Kamikaze," I introduce.

"But Swift, you had a really unusual facial expression before Kamikaze appeared, as if you were in great pain or something," Suzette worriedly says.

"Yes, this aspect has suicidal tendencies," I clarify, though after seeing Tatsu's and Suzette's face, I add, "But he is almost immortal, he can't die unless I command him to. That's the main reason why I'm having him escort Su. The chance that he will sustain a fight, in any event, is a hundred percent."

"Wait a minute, wouldn't it be rather pointless if Kamikaze attempts suicide or tries to take down anyone indiscriminately?" Tatsu asks.

"Don't worry, he can't do anything without my orders. Like I said, he's a third eye to me. For the most part, he'll just be a mindless companion. But if I see any threat, I can unleash his willpower from wherever I am. He will attack the entity that poses the most danger. As for his tendencies, he might be a little bit different, but in essence, he's still me, so he'll listen to you, as well, Su."

I close my eyes and telepathize my plans to Kamikaze's now submissive body.

"There you go, he's all yours now." Kamikaze mounts Flearin and stretches his hand out to Suzette. She accepts it and with a skip, settles herself on the saddle, in front of Kamikaze.

"Treat him as you'd treat me, Su. Somehow I'll always be by your side, watching over. Cherish him and soothe his wail for him, and for me, please."

Suzette lowers her head and our lips meet again, soon to part.

"If loving him is loving you, then for now, I'll love him more than anything else in the world."

"And he'll love you, too, in my place... So, don't die before I win that place back."

I can hear the soldiers' coarse, contemptuous shouts behind. That heavy, controlled marching is unmistakable. They're fast approaching.

"Alright, Swift, time to send her away," Tatsu says.

"Giddy up," I say, my eyes refusing to let her go.

"Be off, Flearin," Tatsu commands. And the mythical summon, carrying Suzette and Kamikaze, gallops off into Aegis... I see Suzette's cherubic face, hair, body and hand almost splaying backward, then, in a single warped ripple, they vanish into the horizon.

"Hey Tat," I suddenly say.

"What?"

"I can't let Aisha... I can't let Mother live in a corrupted, pretentious, dung-infested town like this. They're after us. They live by dragon laws. One way or another, we will make this a one-sided battle and crush them!" I smile, from ear to ear. Blood escapes from my mouth and I stop biting my tongue. My bottom jaw is drenched with blood, perhaps I needed an appetizer for this.

"Since when, Swift?" Tatsu inquires, almost too stoically and knowingly, as we whirl around to preview the city's raving military - rake and torch-wielding villagers, warriors, mages, assassins and all.

"Since you asked if I had anything to say. I had to grit my teeth in-between talking, but my tongue kept getting in the way." Red spews everywhere in my vision; the houses and sky and ground are bleeding. I will judge Shinkirou, now!