🌃ꏍAquinoꏍ🌃

What would have happened if... Instead of Aquino arriving at the Overworld alone... He had arrived in the other dimension where Duxo did manage to survive?

Aquino, this young sorcerer, was walking. The place felt so unfamiliar and yet familiar, as if he had already passed through these same forests, but at the same time everything was so different.... I was about to use my magic when I saw him... Duxo? I asked, my voice a little intrigued. Was it really Duxo? But... He doesn't look like the Duxo I know... What if I arrived at a different time than him and left him alone? Several questions swirled in my mind, threatening to swallow me whole, but that didn't matter now. Duxo... What happened? I asked with intrigue, but... As I got closer... He wasn't my Duxo... He wasn't the Duxo I knew... I... Did I move to another universe? How was that even possible? And even more intriguing... Where is this Duxo's Aquino? I was full of unanswered questions. I had to return to my universal timeline somehow, and maybe it would be better not to get attached to this universe's Duxo; it could be dangerous... And also... I had so many things on my mind, I couldn't think normally anymore.

I was with Duxo again... Finally... After so long... We would be together again, after so long we would be happy... In our perfect world... Right...?

The flames appeared, that demon arrived to whom I promised my loyalty in exchange for bringing back my Duxo... Not again... Why do I always lose what I love most in the moments when I feel at peace...?

I didn't want this, this wasn't the way... I wanted to cry, to shout to the four winds that I wouldn't go, that I wouldn't let them take the only thing I fought for again, but his voice... It made me stop for a moment to appreciate it. The sound of my name, "Aquino," coming from his lips felt like a blanket wrapping my aching heart.

• Did something happen, Duxo? What happened?

I look at my beloved Duxo, that boy with the bright purple eyes and hair as black as obsidian.

• What happened, Duxo? What's going on?

Ask more insistently out of fear, did something bad happen? Why are you calling me right now? I don't want to lose you, not again after all this...