Crater

Based on the section of the city in daylight where kisaragi was begging to stop, lets make an expansion to that section, giving it more detail and nuance, with a bit more introspection, and still including the precures reacting, with sora wanting to save that Nanami Kisaragi. make sure to reread the story, and be aware of which characters are watching theses scenes unfold, what they would say, how would they react. First, before the city explodes, Nanami manages to be besides the people in the shelter, they see her, she tries reaching for them, they try to reach for her, The last thing she sees before the explosion is their scared faces, wanting to be saved. Second, expand the section where nanami is begging for someone to save her before she hallucinates, Include her remember words of her parents to come back safely, people who counted on her, and in her injured state she talks to herself "it hurts...I couldnt...I dont want...to keep that promise...it hurts...I can stop here...right?", "None would...blame me...if it ended here....right...people dont...survive...this", She thinks of the people that would be sad for her...but also the many she letdown...like everyone in this city, ghostly visions of them still wanting to be saved...demanding more of her, demanding she succeed, "It hurts...I...I cant...I cant...save.....ah..." Third, when she sees the image of daiyusha, asking if she did her best with her brother's voice, her fist still tightens, but she spends way more time in her mind reaching her conclusion about herself, admists all of her constant cries of pain, of thinking that it hurts, her mind has few moments of coherence, "...I never....wanted to be a hero...so...that why...I cant be one...", It hurts, let me stop, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, someone save me, save me..save me, I give up, it hurts, "That right...Someone with your selfish motivations could never become a hero...your motivation was shallow...and false", admits the words of hurt, she thinks...all those times...all those beautiful words in songs she loves, she really liked them but...she thought it was beautiful someone could believe in what they said... but she never wanted that "...I dont want to see others suffering...It was never...because i cared about everyone...I just...didnt want sad things near me...". She remembers a few song verses: Taisetsu na hito tachi wo mamoritai sore dake Sore dake de tatakaeru.... Dare no tame ni ikiru Dare no tame no chikara Dare no tame ni tatakau Kono te de ima wo mamorinuku yo... She thinks about those...they are beautiful but...Nanami Kisaragi could never live like that, she doesnt wan to live like that, "...that right....I wanted...someone...anyone else...to be like that...", Her mindset was never going to let her be a hero, not the one she invisioned, not someone who could truly protect everyone...and most importantly...never one who deserved a proper reward for being a hero, the hallucination in front of her daiyusha in front of her proves that to her, as if to judge her, to scorn her, It hurts, i give up, it hurts, it hurts"...Someone like me...never deserved it in the first place....", She cries, normal tears in her good eye, and a streak of green tears coming down the other. Then, when she hears those words "Did You try your best?", she once again remembers the people she failed, the world that is dying because of her, her body screaming in pain, pain, hurt, pain, hurt...yet she knows she is somehow still alive...meaning..."No...", admits the words of pain, she thinks, she wanted...she wants a hero to save her....that ideal hero, the one she believes could always protect the smile of everyone, the hallucination mocks and encourages her again "Is that not just a fantasy?", more words of pain and hurt, but she grits her teeth, "Everyone...who tries their best....deserves that dream...", she thinks of all the people who are still alive, her family, all the people she failed to save...its not fair...Its not fair they...they dont have an ideal hero to save them. More songs enter her mind, Yuuki nara (yuuki nara)... Koko ni aru (tomo ni aru)... Kono mune ni (sono mune ni)... Wakiagaru (tsukamu dake)... Kawari tsuzukeru yo Tada tsuyoku Koko ni tachiagaru tame And more: Kikoeru ze heiwa o negau hitobito no koe ga ore o saikyou ni suru no sa Green fire starts surging in her body, "...I...I dont want to be...nor deserve to be a hero...But...But I wont let that ideal hero...be just a fantasy...not when...everyone wants that" She selfishly believe her ideal hero should be real, that everyone would want it to be real, her body still hurts, she wants to stop...but.. "I still....havent...tried my best!", what she was right now was something beyond human limits...her life was still not over. Pain surges all over her, the pretty and encouraging words from the people and the songs seem more like curses, Discard your weakness and stand your ground, Live for someone else, Save us, I dont want to die. Just as Nanami wanted to rest and give up everything, the thoughts that would make her regret not giving her all until he very end haunt her and pull her back. "The flame in my heart...Still...Burns!" she remembers more and more lyrics as EXCEED reforms her body. Namida o furikire!!... Kono inochi ga hai ni naru made!!... Kizudarake no mama de!!... Ikiro!! Saigo no saigo made!! Ore wa!! Mada owacchainai!!!! These are not her words, these are not things she would say...still...she wanted someone to say them, someone who believed in them until the very end...That someone would be Daiyusha right?...Then its fine...she doesnt have to be herself if she wears the Mask of Daiyusha. Armored clawed gauntlets from in her damaged arms, energy surges from her damaged eye and mouth as she roars into the heavens while standing up, a beam of light cuts the dust, her roar is not a sound a girl should make "RAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!" Discarding pain, pride, vanity, wants...desires... Not caring if she is not human, not caring if she a monster or a weapon, none of that matters, Focus everything into saving everyone, into being the person her songs speak about, into making daiyusha act like someone who can say those words truthfully. "It hurts...I failed...too many times....everyone was trying their best and I still...failed them...even now" She forms the helmet in her hands, "Its not fair...nothing was fair..." Still crying, she puts on the helmet, as she entrusts herself with the masks of her ideals, she doesnt allow her "Self" as nanami Kisaragi to hinder how the ideal hero should act, with a different demeanor "Daiyusha" says "For Those who were robbed of a tommorow, for those who still wish for a tommorow, for all the people who cherished one another, Daiyusha will ALWAYS RISE UP, NO MATTER WHAT, EVEN IF THIS VERY SOUL IS BURNED TO ASH, DAIYUSHA WILL NEVER GIVE UP!!!" and no longer looking like a girl, she flies into the sky, to fight. To all the cures who are watching this, the question remains, as if to haunt them, if they were in that situation...if they were in that much pain...would they too..have stood up?