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"save your breath, asshole! they're g to get " sanzo snarled

goku uld hardly beg to nta his excitent "brg e' on!"

they hissed the doors and s burned their hands as they touched like anials fro the wild put to a circ cage, they went ragg about the plex, overturng tables, rippg curtas, and cg at the walls locked to the library, hakkai ntepted the situation

absently, he ignited tenpou's lighter over and over aga, lookg to the fs as if the answer to all his troubles resided that ty piece of fire

chances were fair that he'd get out alive despite the fact that he was now deprived of his powers there was also the chance that he ight not he cked anger- and it was anger that drove hi to kill those one thoand for kanan but this ti it wasn't really for anybody it was for an "entity" whose goodness he was already begng to estion

perhaps he would live and with several days ti, perhaps less, the proble wouldn't be his anyore it would be tenpou's hakkai uld jt iage ittenpou wakg up and fdg hiself arrested for breakg the highest sacred w heaven: he had shed the blood of his own kd

however evitable, it seed rather cruel of hi to leave his predecessor with such a ss on his hands

"have i taken thgs too far?" hakkai asked the air front of hi "yes i thk i did"

oh well

"like i said, heaven deserves its share of heat" he ignited the lighter once ore and brought the dancg f to touch the ver of a sgle book "i' sorry, tenpou you t have treasured this little heaven of yours" dry and dty, the pages ickly fd up and spread to the other books of the shelf 'the art of war' turned to a heap of cders, as did 'the seven steps of revotion'

hundreds and hundreds of years of war crackled a gold-orange brilliance, beautiful their stillness fally beg un-still; the life ntaed with the pages realizg itselfas if a spell on the brk of pletion had fally heard its agician utter the fal chant burn burn burn with satisfaction, hakkai phed over the shelf, cag ash to jup and the fire to diffe fro its source

hakkai grabbed the oil p that stood on his desk and hurled it over tenpou's bed, liid fire like olten va creepg rivulets over the soft vers at st he re-lit the lighter and locked it he opened a desk drawer and dropped the livg f side