Patches looked at Syko and thought " Because the lollipop at the candy mountain will last forever " Patches imagined putting the lollipop in its mouth and a clock going on and on .
Syko thought of it " I don't like that , breaking the lollipop at the end is even more fun than letting it melt forever in my mouth " Lever nods sharing the same habit as Syko " He's right , plus you don't even know where the lollipop is . "
Patches started feeling down " But I just have to collect enough candy coins . " " Then where is the traveling merchant ? " " He was " then a picture came to its mind " He was the guy who appeared at the sugarcane island .
" You will get wet " Syko looked at Patches " Wait you can swim there " Syko looked at it " I can't swim " Patches thought for long " How about we sail ! " Lever looks at Patches " Do we have a boat ? "
Patches thought of the mall " We can bring one from outside " " Oh so you wanna go out ? " the two nodded eagerly with Patches having the intention of grabbing the lollipop and Lever satisfying its sweet tooth .
Syko opened up a portal out of the story " Okay then let's go grab our ship " ... the three looked at the rotten boat that was broken to no end at the mall .
" So are we swimming ? " Lever asked Patches who was on the ground depressed . Syko looked at the boat and was about to use his reality distortion ability ' Don't use it too much Syko , It isn't fun if everything is finished so quickly you gotta have some quality time . '
" Patches we can make a boat " Syko took some wood " But I don't know how " Lever smirks even though it couldn't show it because it was a lever or a mechanical toy " How about I teach you ? " " Never mind I found a book that teaches woodcraft . "
Lever dropped its head down in dissatisfaction " Oh " Syko took a wooden plank but realized a few things " Hey we don't have a saw to cut . " Like a light Lever could grab it went forward announcing " I know hardware where I make my body and tools . "
Syko looked at it and took a flashlight " Let's go then " but the flashlight ran out of battery " Um I think we need a lantern . " Patches came in and went to the spa " Or we can get a candle instead . "
Patches took them to the spa " Smells good in here " Syko felt relaxed as the scent of a cold candle flew to his nose " Got it " Patches found a candlestick and attached a candle to it " And now for fire . "
It stopped leading the other two to follow " Um I forgot how to make a fire " Syko looked at it " Then we go back to the bookstore " the three friends ran back to the bookstore to see some plushies reading .
" Are they alive ? " Lever asked Patches " Yeah Syko kinda bought them to life with soul fragments laying around " Lever looked at the plushies and could feel their emotions changing " What are they listening to? "
Syko replied to Lever " A sad song " Patches felt the emotions of sadness just like what it felt when Syko read the book about a weak man . Lever couldn't understand sadness because it had forgotten about it for a long time " Want to hear it ? "
Syko took out a disk and selected a song " A broken heart is all that's left " Syko sat down listening to the song " I'm still fixing all the cracks " Patches pulled Lever to listen to the song " Lost a couple of pieces when "
The rest of the stuffies gathered to listen to the song " I carried it , carried it , carried it home "
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Some books around started to turn as the pages followed the song . Then Syko's powers start to affect them as the thoughts of the authors began to form into images taking the sad moments of the story .
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Fragments of images spread out as they described the characters through audio and imagery " I love you my children " a king told his children , " You will ... never take what I ... loved " a prince gets his head snapped and dropped to his death .
More and more fragments of sad moments appeared as Syko felt even sad listening to the song and the sad moments of the story appeared as a projection .
" She was my love and you took her away from me " an adventurer told the noble who took the life of his love and abused her to death .
" If my kingdom is going to fall then I shall fall with it " the king brought out his sword and watched as the dragon came to burn his kingdom to the ground .
" He was the only one who treated me like a man would treat his lover " the female knight teared up looking at the grave in front of her .
" I couldn't save her and I don't want to lose you too " a princess held the hands of her little sister .
Syko tears slightly as he watches the scenes crying as he reverted to reality to show more sadness of the stories inside . Lever and Patches started crying as they saw and heard the song fitting the images in the book and the voices they heard .
" Oh I'm crying " Lever cried with tears made out from its soul " Yah sniff ... me too ... " the rest of the plushies also teared up from their souls seeing the images , hearing the song and soaking it with their cotton .
" Oh I hate this ... " Patches stared at lever who was still crying " Okay but not entirely ... it is great to feel sad ... sniff ... again " Lever took an unanimated plushie and wiped its tears and then realize that the stuffies were staring right at it .
" Umm Syko ? " Syko was too deep in tears to be called out " Syko what is wrong with the stuffies !? " Patches shouted after Lever called out " Okay let's call him " shing TING ... a wind blew as it followed the strong throw of a sharp needle conjured with a soul .
Lever and Patches saw the stuffies holding thread and needles made using the souls they have " Oh no " Patches blocked an incoming needle using its needle with a longer length " RUN " Patches and Lever kept running as they were chased by a horde of stuffies with the buttons on their eyes glowing red .
" What are those things ? " " I already told you , they're the ones I and Syko made I made the body together with him and then he collected the soul fragments to fit them " the Stuffies behind had some of their stitches lengthened by animation and were used to stretch to grab Lever .
" They are like us , They animate themselves with their souls and used it ... I think they are strengthened by Syko that's why they are so strong " Patches threw a needle temporarily pinning them to the walls as it got further from the needle pinning a stuffie onto the wall letting the needle disappear .
" Why is our friend so strong and can't hear us " Lever changed its feet to wheels and took Patches to the top of its head " He's just into the moment listening to the sad song ... " they had circled back to the bookstore and shouted at Syko but the song was still playing .
" Syko wake up !!! " Syko was still crying as the song continued to play " Oh what do we do ? " Patches threw needle pushing back the Stuffies attacks and attempt to grab Lever " Just what do they want ? "
" I don't know I was just crying and all of a sudden they started attacking " " He doesn't look like getting up until that song stops playing " Patches held on to Lever using threads on its body and defending Lever from the stuffies' needles , scissors , stretched arms and threads .
" Syko wake up " " Wait ! Lever how did you wipe your tears " Lever was a lever toy made with hard parts so trying to clean its tears was very hard Patches didn't find Lever able to create material out of its soul to wipe its tears " Umm this plushie " Patches looked at the inanimate plushie and remembered the time Syko got mad at Lever .
" Oh my god Lever they're mad at you for using that plushie " Patches told Lever and pinned needles to the grounds forcing Lever to stop its wheel as Patches got off " Lever you have to apologize " the stuffies threw needles attached with threads to Lever and it slammed its hard head on the ground .
" I'm sorry ! " the needles froze in the air and dissipated as a thread was stretched and took the plushies beside Lever " Ugh I'm tired " Patches was also very tired and got up to walk to the book store .
" Syko ? " Patches saw darkness spreading in a timid manner , unlike the time Syko got angry this one was calming as the song kept playing and the glowing scenes of sad moments coming from the imagination Syko extracted from the books lighted the surroundings " LIGHT !? "
Syko snapped out of tears as the scenes and images above the books broke leaving soul fragments and the darkness was closed as light occupied it " Ah Patches " Syko looked around seeing the fragments " What happened ? "
Syko wiped his tears and calmly asked Patches " Umm do you need some alone time ? " " Nono I just wanted to remember what feeling sad was like so I listened to the song " " We got chased by the stuffies "
Patches dropped to the floor but its body cushioned too much force on its body " Really ? " " Yes and I'm tired from it " Syko looked at the map by the bookstore ' Maybe I can see it '
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Lever was putting its body parts back since it quickly turned the leg to the wheels it had to turn it back like a bone " I need to ask for any does and don't if I want to get some candies to eat and avoid dying "
Lever imagined the marshmallows it ate inside the books and wished it could eat more " Mmh but that's hard I don't even know how sweets are made " Lever wanted some tasty sweets and then heard an insane laugh .
" What is that ? " Lever could recognize the voice as Syko's " Oh my god why is he laughing like an insane maniac ? "
He is not , Due to this world having a lot of reincarnations killing each other their nature has attached itself to the world leading to the nature of the stuffies it was only a good thing that Syko directed the malice into the hatred of their own kind being attacked .
" Syko what are you laughing at " Lever couldn't care if there might be a corpse around as long as Syko wasn't laughing at anything directed at it " Ahaha Lever you look so ugly and very funny here " Syko showed a high-quality camera to see Lever twitching from the switching between wheels and feet .
Lever was embarrassed and wanted to stop the video from playing but it was very tired " Please stop laughing at that video " Lever lightly punched at a locker and then a loose cabinet door moved a little dropping a data storage that was on top of the whole locker and using the door as to avoid falling .
" Ow " Lever got hit by the data storage as it hits the floor dropping the hard drives " Wow what are these ? " Syko took a few of them and looked at the label categorizing the whole data storage as "Mechanical toy"
" A toy with hard parts ? " Syko connected the hard drive to the computer and codes were displayed on the screen " Wow look we can make new toys " Syko looked at the codes and Lever .
" Wait no I don't think I want to change my body " Syko smiled " Don't worry it doesn't hurt that much " Syko's shadow felt like it was growing bigger as he went closer to Lever " No please I'm your friend " " It doesn't hurt at all " Syko's voice echoed through the walls making it even more frightening .
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" What are they even doing right now ... I can hear Syko going laughing at the security cameras ... is he laughing at the video of Lever ? " Patches remembers the scene of Lever twitching and laughed a little " It was scared like last time ... but only to the genocidal plushies "
Patches looked at the stuffies who were putting the plushie back inside after dusting off the dirt on it ' Are they just like Syko ? ... at one side they kill and at the other they care ... though it's probably because he cared for them ... '
Patches turned to the soul fragments and remembered they broke out after Syko snapped out of the song " Why can I see them already ? I swear I couldn't see them back then " Patches picked up a shard that look like it broke from flat glass .
" I feel more alive now after hearing that song " Patches smiled as the stitched mouth stretched to form one " Maybe Light wants to gather the fragments together " Patches found a broom and sweep the shards to one place .
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" Ugh, why didn't you say so " Lever was tired and put back its body parts after Syko studied it and partly modified it " Thank you Lever now . I can make robot toys " Syko looked at the codes and extracted the soul fragments which were created from a weak imagination of the programmer .
" I got it " Syko looked at the soul that is capable of animating the toy he made using Lever as a base " Here it is " Syko placed the soul on the toy and it magically animated despite not having any wires or batteries .
The toy moved around and joined the stuffies " I'm gonna give them a group name just like the stuffies " Lever looked at the remaining mechanical toys that have yet to receive a soul " I need more souls "
Syko extracted the programs' command which attracted the soul fragments Patches were sweeping as they passed through matter and gathered to the drive as it shot out souls animating the toys Syko made .
" Wow " Syko could see the souls spreading as they attached themselves to the toys " How about we call them Mecevers " Syko watched as they joined the stuffies " This is fun " Lever still wanted candies .
" I want sweets " Lever looked at the marshmallow poster beside the cameras " Here I always have food with me " Syko showed Lever a marshmallow " Wha ? " Syko stuffed it into Lever's mouth which is like a space between two hard blocks .
But because of its soul, it could taste the sweet " Tasty " Lever savored and valued the marshmallow as it never had one in a long time ... except for that one at candy land which as Syko told Patches in their previous adventure into a person's imagination portrayed as a painting the things they ate would not be accurate but will feel real .
The mecevers Syko made had various kinds as the data storage had separate hard drives for each toy . Syko categorized each of them by putting together the programs into the soul .
There was a sun and moon toy which had a crescent moon and a space filled with stars including there eyes and mouth this was on the night and during the day it would have orange triangles around and paint the color of the empty space yellow and the crescent remains the same .
Its costume will also change according to the mode they are looking for . But because there was no sun Syko thought it's better if it can switch between any mode between sun and moon anytime it wants .
Although comparing the mecevers to the stuffies . The stuffies are like chimeras thanks to Patches and Syko so they have a lot of characteristics , the most important one is that they mainly use needles and threads or anything involving cotton and fabric as light weapons .
But if they use their soul the friendly appearance can be distorted as they use their small wings as a base and form bigger pairs of wings using the fabric imitation to make a bigger version , tails can look different but they can add features such as a thorn longer tail split the number of tails , etc.
Meanwhile , the mecevers are the same height as them but are capable of using mechanical parts they have seen function or at least can reference the things they see to incorporate with their bodies using their soul .
For example, the wearable mecever can form become an iron maiden after seeing it or having thought of the idea , of course , all the creations have a mind to kill to protect or/and have fun .
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Patches looked at the empty spot and the lack of soul fragments " Where did they go ? " Patches looked out and saw a new addition to the mall " Did Light make more ? "
Patches could see some intangible aura around each stuffies and mecevers " Are those souls ? " Patches looked at some stuffies sewing each other back using a needle made out of souls and a real thread .
' Where are they anyway ? ' Patches looked outside the store only to see stuffies and mecevers testing their abilities " Maybe I should find them " Patches walk in the direction of the security room .
" How did Light do this ? " Syko's work was to gather fragments to be pieced to form souls and let the souls animate a body just like Patches and Lever " I still want to get that candy ... We need a boat "
On its way Patches saw origamis , paper planes flying around " Wow origamis " Patches ran to see Syko cutting some paper to make a butterfly and making it fly " Hi Patches " Patches thought of the candy and then the bout which can be made using origami
" Syko can you make a boat with that ? "
Syko gave Patches a lollipop " How about candy lollipop it's blue raspberry " it fell to the sweet taste of candy and took it into its hands " Okay Light " Syko looked around to feel the lack of soul fragments .
" I can't bring toys to life without soul fragments " Lever looked at Syko " Syko is there anything you want to do ? other than making toys and gathering those soul fragments that look like broken glass ? " " Learn new things and play " Lever sighed and laid down with the two following " You know when the world became chaotic bad things happened . "
" Oh then , what happened ? " " Well before that happened I pretended that I didn't reincarnate and pretended to be a normal baby or person or I don't even know what to call it " " Then when the world knew about reincarnation " Lever took a deep breath to calm itself down hearing Syko ask about the terrible part of history .
" I had to do what I had to do and fight others ... we began to spread as new souls no longer appeared " Patches looked up to see some boring things " Yeah , at some point there were no living bodies to possess ... so I learned how to imitate my previous body senses and then started living like I was alive "
" Patches ... let Lever tell stories instead it'll be your turn next " " Okay Light " Syko handed it a lollipop and gave Lever a marshmallow " So we did learn to copy the sense of taste , smell , sight , hearing and touch with our souls . "
" Then what ? " " We started living the same way except we all kept killing each other for resources even though we didn't need it to live ... so I found a mall but Patches was in there and we tried to kill each other "
" Oh , Patches your turn " Lever told Patches for it to take the lollipop off its mouth and started its story " Okay so After I can animate and copy the senses of my previous body I found the mall and in my free time I would read about the books but mostly I ate candy "
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" Then ? " " Then Lever came in and tried to take my candy so I had to fight and then you came " Syko looked at the cameras to see the brightly lighted mall " Oh Okay my turn then , I was born and I wasn't born here I was born far away from this world "
" Oh lucky you " " I had a sister who let me play with her " Patches thought of what Syko had said and stopped him " Wait Syko when you say play are you saying like piercing them with needles and killing them ? "
Syko shook his head " Nooo , I meant trapping them on escape traps and letting their bodies bleed " Lever became interested in hearing traps " Like what ? " " Well like the one I put Patches on " Lever tried to look up but because it was laying down with his friends it could only move up its imaginary pupils in its eyes .
" Right I was put in a trap when he wanted to play and killed me " Lever looked a little confused " Wait kill ? But how ? " " I used the needles to send pain on its senses " " Yeah I had to free myself before the thread loosens and sends the needle to fly to me because of the magnet behind my back . "
Lever chuckled a little and Syko pouted " Patches did the same to me " " Fair " " Enough of that what were the traps you used Syko ? " Lever curiously asked while poking Syko for a marshmallow " Uh the traps I made was a chandelier and then it would fall impaling them "
Lever pulled a piece of marshmallow with its mouth " Wow " " It was fun I also made a guillotine that activates when they wake up " " Oh you just have to put a lot of heads back in ? " Patches knew where the guillotine was used for but Syko just laughed .
" No , the guillotine I made had a lot of blades so their brains and limbs came out and I have fun putting them back together " " So the guillotine also was used on their limbs ? " " Yep but there was my brother who didn't follow the rules and escaped "
Lever felt interested in how Syko dealt with that brother " What did you do to keep playing with him then ? " " I poisoned his food or made him go through poison gas " " Wow anything else ? "
" I took some venus flytrap and made their nectar very sweet " the two toys thought of the sweet inside the Venus flytrap and wished they had some candy cause Syko's bag can only carry so much .
" He was lured to it and got his head chewed off " Patches thought of the book it read about and venus flytrap was in it " Syko can you make sugarcane grow ? " " Yes but I usually plant it patiently , my sister said that doing things with patience is more fun and she was right "
" So it will take a long time before we can get sweet candies " " But we can make a sweet cake using the sweet potato that is growing outside " Patches frowned and looked at a camera pointing outside and got up .
" But plants need sunlight and all the sun in this world is gone " Syko got up before Lever and smiles " Patches why do you think that this planet still has plants ? " Lever turned its head and looked at Syko .
" Wait Syko what do you mean by that ? " Patches had read about science but it didn't make sense for plants to still be alive and for water to stay liquid " Then how did plants survive ? " Syko smiles and took a piece of paper .
" Okay first this is the sun " he drew a circle and then shaded it with a pencil " But after people started killing each other everyone likes the darkness because you know they can ambush just like Patches " " It was a good plan though "
" Your emotions were spreading to the world and soon enough the sun and every star were affected and so did the black holes and many outer space celestial bodies they all disappeared and only planets were around "
" That sounds lonely " " But lights made from light bulbs still work " Patches and Lever looked at the lights around and agreed " So the plants are still growing ? " " Yes but can I continue " the two friends looked at Syko and sat down together .
" Yeah no rush the plants have been growing in here for ... " Lever looked at Patches hoping it would continue what it said " I have no idea how long I never keep track of time " " It's okay ... So where was I ? "
Lever looked at Syko " The part about torturing your brother ? " " Oh Thank you Lever , so I made a lot of poisonous spices so when he comes to eat anything I can sprinkle a few and kill him "
" Then what are the traps you could set up " Patches looked at Syko wondering what kind of traps he made for his other siblings " Oh I did draw some monsters on a paper and put them under their pillow so they dream about it "
" Wow , so can you bring them to life if you want to ? " Lever thought what kind of drawings could Syko make " Wait I can draw so you can see what I made " Syko took out a ream of papers held together by wiring that circled the pages of the sketchbook .
He flipped to a page and showed them " Here when they fall asleep they go into this room " a bed with a weighing scale with a secured blade pointing up and a pillow with the dummy having the neck part above the blade .
Lastly , three circles with a wire wrapping it for a quarter " Oh what's that " Patches pointed at the end of the rope " This is the sleep killer blade the nightmares I made trap them in a room and they cannot touch the blade or they wake up "
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" Then what happens when they wake up ? " " Nothing but the nightmare stays with them until they completed it by pushing the pillow down so the knife will cut a string and let them sleep .
" Oh ... please don't do that on us I want to have rest even though I probably don't need them " " Don't worry if I want to put you into the nightmare I'll ask " Lever and Patches calmed down " Oh and here is another trap " Syko flipped to a page showing a drawing of an egg and a spider opening its 24 legs .
Additionally , the drawing had dripping art on the legs " Why are there a lot of legs on a spider ? " Syko looked at the "spider" and then chuckled " Oh because the spider trap grips the ribs of a human with their flesh outside and spread it out breaking the center bone which kept the ribs together "
They both imagined the unlucky person to be in the trap " Oh that probably hurts a lot " Lever who was a mechanical toy can relate since it's a toy made of hard parts while Patches has long forgotten the pain for its bones .
" Oh don't worry I won't use it without permission ... it was a fun way to go to sleep through " " You mean to die ! " Lever slammed the floor without breaking it but the sound has not with malice or anger but with concern " I know but sleep is just like dying once and waking up again you know ? "
The two thought of it and sees it as normal " Right death is like not feeling anything and sleeping is just like that " Syko flips to other pages to look for some he wanted to talk about " Oh this one I did the same to the mecevers . "
An iron maiden was shown but the needles have yet to go through the dummy as they were outside and could be used like how a magician inserts a sword in a box and then removes it to reveal the assistant still alive .
" But there weren't any holes or needles on them " Lever looked at the mecevers using the camera not seeing them have any holes " Ah they can open holes and the needles are made by them using their soul "
The two nod in agreement " Why do you have a pair of scissors there though ? " " This is for you I wanted to draw what you use and I also have a sketch of Lever's giant toy machine " Lever looked at the drawing and was impressed as it look very close to the one it used to crush the plushies .
" Oh right sorry about the plushies " Syko looked at it and gave Lever a hug even though it was a little uncomfortable " It's okay we forgive you " Lever responded with a hug " Thank you ... " Patches pulled Syko out and gave him the sketchbook " Syko what about the empty pages "
Syko looked at the newest page and thought " Patches Lever ... do you want to make a trap ? " they both were intrigued since the two have been killing others and found death very casual " Uhm a crusher ? " " A cone with blades spinning around ? "
Syko dropped the corners of his mouth and closes the book " How about we make sweets instead " the two friends were happy but were also sad because in their perspective their ideas were inferior not that they can complain .
Syko patted them and said " Don't worry one day you will be able to make traps like mine instead of just cutting and crushing " the two smiled with a little dissatisfaction and got up " Okay then Syko , I'll make a trap then we can start killing each other " Lever proclaimed and Patches made a suggestion " Can we try to learn to fix our bodies when we are dead first then do that ? "
Syko smiled and nodded" Of course so sweets or traps ? " " Sweets " the two toys replied in unison . Syko smiled and stuffed the marshmallow and lollipop into his bag " Can we have one more ? "
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