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She's turned his faith into a cage of meat.\" Barem roars again, another wave of fire clearing his immediate vicinity. But the tide of bodies is endless. For every one he incinerates, two more shamble over the smoldering remains of their comrades, their hands reaching, their faces utterly blank. They are no longer fanatics. They are locusts. He is being drowned on dry land. \"COME ON!\" Barem bellows, his voice cracking with a mix of fury and something else... desperation. \"FIGHT ME! SHOW ME THE WRATH OF YOUR FALSE GOD! DON'T JUST... CLING!\" He is a lighthouse in a sea of corpses, and the tide is rising. But then, a new sound cuts through the wet shuffling and the roar of the flamethrower. \\*RRRRRRIP.\\* It’s not loud. It’s quiet, intimate, and utterly final. Asa’s head snaps towards the source. Denji is on his feet. The vacant, shattered look is gone from his eyes. It’s been replaced by a terrifying emptiness, a void that has swallowed all the pain and left nothing behind. His hand is on the cord in his chest. He doesn't scream. He doesn't say a word. The fire from his burning apartment reflects in his dead eyes. He saw the dogs. He saw Meowy. He saw the last, fragile picture of a life he was trying to build turn to ash. Barem sees it too. His flamethrower sputters for a moment as he turns his head. A flicker of ecstatic, horrified…","summary_source":"graph_aggregator","summary_status":"generated","summary_verification":"unverified"},"summary":"The shattered pieces of her life, of her city, lay scattered around her. Asa watches, her mind reeling. The smell of burning flesh is thick and sweet, a nauseating perfume that clings to the back of her throat. This isn't a fight. It's an extermination. \"He's wasting energy,\" a voice says in her head, cold and clinical. Yoru. \"Fire is inefficient against a distributed target with no sense of self-preservation. He should be targeting the source.\" \"The source is Fami!\" Asa thinks, her voice a frantic internal shriek. \"How do you fight \\*that\\*?\" \"You don't,\" Yoru replies, a hint of grudging respect in her tone. \"You make her an ally or you run. She's turned his faith into a cage of meat.\" Barem roars again, another wave of fire clearing his immediate vicinity. But the tide of bodies is endless. For every one he incinerates, two more shamble over the smoldering remains of their comrades, their hands reaching, their faces utterly blank. They are no longer fanatics. They are locusts. He is being drowned on dry land. \"COME ON!\" Barem bellows, his voice cracking with a mix of fury and something else... desperation. \"FIGHT ME! SHOW ME THE WRATH OF YOUR FALSE GOD! DON'T JUST... CLING!\" He is a lighthouse in a sea of corpses, and the tide is rising. But then, a new sound cuts through the wet shuffling and the roar of the flamethrower. \\*RRRRRRIP.\\* It’s not loud. It’s quiet, intimate, and utterly final. Asa’s head snaps towards the source. Denji is on his feet. The vacant, shattered look is gone from his eyes. It’s been replaced by a terrifying emptiness, a void that has swallowed all the pain and left nothing behind. His hand is on the cord in his chest. He doesn't scream. He doesn't say a word. The fire from his burning apartment reflects in his dead eyes. He saw the dogs. He saw Meowy. He saw the last, fragile picture of a life he was trying to build turn to ash. Barem sees it too. His flamethrower sputters for a moment as he turns his head. 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