The Meaning of Words
Disclaimer: Saiyuki belongs to Kazuya Minekura and associates.
Shuei’s POV
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When I said I would kill you; it was a lie.
When I said that you looked like something other than a demon; it was truth.
And when I said that I would consume you...
It was as easy as tearing off a bird’s wings.
I wanted you to taste my nightmare, the pain of my fate.
I wanted… When so much of my hatred wasn’t really hate.
If only you had never existed... Can you tell that I’m lying?
I might never have fallen. That would have been the truth.
I wanted us to suffer together. And what did that mean?
In life and death and death again. What, indeed...
To me you looked like...
Wait, Kouryuu. I’ll tell you in the next life.
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125 words.