I can't believe my eyes. Mana, my darling friend and love. He's dead. We've only known each other for a year, but it feels like a lifetime since we met. We raised little red together. Mana taught him how to be a clown, and I taught him basic manners. He's a quick learner. Within a few months Red- no ALLEN knew basic table manners. I had just been performing my last show of the day(video above ignore any modern tech) when I heard the news.

Mana had died. Causes unknown, presumed to have been a heart attack or something. We burried him under the old willow tree and I made some flowers with my grimoire. Lunar tears. Our favorite. I put his grave in the shade so the flower could bloom there as well. Allen could not stop crying. I reached for my handkerchief to wipe his eyes but it wasn't there. I must have left it in my tent. I told him I'd be right back and went to grab it for him along with our present for him. It was allens birthday tommorow and we saved to get him something in advance. oh mana...

Why did you have to leave us? I wiped my tears and grabbed the items. With a heavy heart I rushed back to mana's grave only for a horrific sight to meet my eyes.

A fat grotesque man resembling the boogieman laughing, a horrified screaming Allen getting his eye scratched by a metal skeleton with mana's name on it. "ALLEN!" I screeched. I ran faster than I knew possible and used my body to prevent the skeletal monster from harming him further.

The fat man had a look of surprise and something else I couldn't describe. "Don't you dare lay a finger on my charge!" I shouted as I punched the fat man and kicked the skeleton. "A l Y s S." The skeleton spoke in mana's voice catching me off guard. "Mana?" I said right as it's claws raked across my eyes making me drop the present meant for Allen as blood poured out of my damaged eyes.

"D o N t L o O k A t M e!" The monster said as I screamed. It hurt so much. It burned like I had stared into the sun I heard shouting and tearing of flesh as the monotone voice of KAI echoed in my mind. "Severe physical and psychological damage to the host detected. Activating emergency escape and treatment protocol in 3, 2... 1."

I knew only oblivion after that.