the last thing maki remembers, before waking up in such a humiliating place, was being in the bowels of that damned curse.

her, the two children, and you. damnable, rookie, inexperienced- YOU.

it was a simple mission. a school, somewhere that commonly accrued curses due to the negative associations people had formed. and yet she had failed, losing her cursed tool and fainting when you were swallowed by the curse.

the idea of her being asleep while lives were on the line made her gag.

she couldn’t put her finger on why she loathed your help. maybe it was because you were stronger than her, with a fraction of the effort. maybe it was because you didn’t lord it over her, which she couldn’t understand.

being in hospital means she’ll have plenty of alone time to mull it over. the walls, a beige and cold white, the blue light coming in from the windows…it all reminded her of what a failure she was.