The sky and sea morph into the screaming shapes of faces. The charms that Chiyome gave you have helped stop the evil from trying anything to your physical form, but even they can't protect you from...

HATE. KILL. RAPE. SUFFER. CRUSH. END. DOMINATE. DESTROY. OBLITERATE. FAILURE. DEATH. DEFEAT. LOSS. HATRED. MURDER. GENOCIDE. DECIMATE. BLOOD. MATRICIDE. INCINERATION. CURSE. HELL. HURT. AGONY. PAIN. SLAUGHTER. MISERY. CONTROL. WAR. PLAGUE. FAMINE. PUNISH. TYRANNY. FAILURE. FAILURE. FAILURE. FAILURE. FAILURE. FAILURE. FAILURE. FAILURE.

The voice goes through many things before it seems to settle on that which it believes is your greatest fear, and it's right. You are afraid of failure, because if you were to fail here, then everything would've been for nothing. You don't want to lose anything, you don't want to lose anyone. You don't want to fail.

So you won't.

"Shut the hell up! You yell an order out to the endless curses attempting to get inside your head, and at the moment you do, realize that your ability to manipulate Truth is still actually active here. The order you yell out to the curses given form is followed by them, and you turn about to see that the area you were standing on wasn't an island in a sea of blood at all, but the peak of a hill.

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