"Less sure how to get out of that," Nico said, frowning. Giant robots didn't strike her as particularly myth-related. "We definitely need to... Huh?"
She glanced from Raph back down to the Staff. "No, it's always looked like this."
"Why are you acting like this, Mom? This isn't you! You...you take me to church every Sunday!"
"Faith's a complicated thing, sweetie. But if you believe anything, believe that this is going to hurt me much more than it hurts you."
Nico shook her head vigorously to dismiss the memory before it fully reared up around them. The lines of the Steins' backyard lab around them blurred away instead of growing more detailed, washing away the sight of Nico's mother retreating from her daughter in confusion as Nico's body absorbed the Staff of One for the first time. Except...why would he have thought it looked different?
She looked down at the Staff again and dropped it with a surprised yelp when it began to change in her hand, transforming into something more like what Raph recognized. It hovered in the air, glowing an icy blue instead of Nico's usual magenta, and whirled around until it leveled at Nico.
"...No. NO!"
Blue flames exploded from the Staff, slamming into and through Nico and dragging her back through a ragged black hole in the shifting remains of the shack and workshop. The Staff of One followed.
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She glanced from Raph back down to the Staff. "No, it's always looked like this."
"Why are you acting like this, Mom? This isn't you! You...you take me to church every Sunday!"
"Faith's a complicated thing, sweetie. But if you believe anything, believe that this is going to hurt me much more than it hurts you."
Nico shook her head vigorously to dismiss the memory before it fully reared up around them. The lines of the Steins' backyard lab around them blurred away instead of growing more detailed, washing away the sight of Nico's mother retreating from her daughter in confusion as Nico's body absorbed the Staff of One for the first time. Except...why would he have thought it looked different?
She looked down at the Staff again and dropped it with a surprised yelp when it began to change in her hand, transforming into something more like what Raph recognized. It hovered in the air, glowing an icy blue instead of Nico's usual magenta, and whirled around until it leveled at Nico.
"...No. NO!"
Blue flames exploded from the Staff, slamming into and through Nico and dragging her back through a ragged black hole in the shifting remains of the shack and workshop. The Staff of One followed.