Alchemised

by SenLinYu

All she knew was that as long as those manacles remained locked in place, she wasn’t an alchemist at all.

She looked up at him. “You’re a monster.” He raised an eyebrow. “Noticed that, have you?”

Both vivimancy and necromancy were regarded as a corruption of resonance caused by a “poisonous womb.” Hence the long-standing obsession with creating homunculi even among the Faith, to erase women’s defective hold on humanity.

She burned them in the fireplace and buried the ashes in the garden. Spent all her time out there with them.”

How devastating.

“Do you think they’ll still hire me after I murdered someone in the lobby?”

“You think you’re better than us because you’re immortal, but you’re dead inside already.”

“There are far worse fates than dying, Marino.” She nodded. “I know. But that one you don’t come back from.” He gave a bitter laugh. “All right, then, but only because you asked.”

“You don’t get to lie to me and then get angry when I make the mistake of believing you,” Helena said.

“I’ve spent a year working on the logistics of replacing you…I must admit, you are the most exceptional asset the Eternal Flame possesses. And I am sorry for that.”

“You are not expendable. You don’t get to push everyone away so that they’ll feel comfortable using you and letting you die.”

“You are not replaceable,” he said, his hands trembling against her shoulders. “You are not required to make your death convenient. You are allowed to be important to people. The reason I’m here—the reason I’m doing any of this—is to keep you alive. To keep you safe. That was the deal.” He searched her face. “They didn’t tell you.”

“Use the ring, call me, if you ever need anything.”

“Being alive is not the same as living. I hope someday you’ll have a chance to realise the difference.”

If you die, I will kill every single one of them. Given that the risk to their lives is the only way to make you value your own.”

“Studying human anatomy for my future career as a healer,” he said in a dry voice.

“I have a better healer.”

someday I am going to love him in a moment that isn’t stolen.

you force me to leave without speaking to Shiseo, the last thing you will ever do is betray me and everyone I love. A traitor is all you’ll be to me, but if you let me do this, maybe—someday I’ll be able to forgive you.”

You're one of the dumbest characters EVER writtesn.

“Get up and put on something thin enough that your stomach will show.”

How about you get wrecked.

“We have to stop hurting ourselves for each other,”

Because you were right, and no one listened to you; you stayed with us despite knowing the whole time. You didn’t deserve any of this. You shouldn’t have to spend the rest of your life trapped by all the promises that people forced you to make.”

She was a non-active member of the Order of the Eternal Flame and did not fight.

I BEG YOUR FINEST FUXKING PARDON?!