Perils of Stagnation (Asta/Akira)

Stagnation

Is it a bad thing? Certainly there are people who fight the hardest of battles every day, every hour, and every minute. Attempting to uproot the status quo, but what if it is there for a reason? What if the state the one is at this point of their live is simply the final one? Who defines the ideal from which all of the society must derive?

If it is the people, then why the same people that supposedly create that set of ideals and rules can grow tired and frustrated of how the world is ran? Questions of insurmountable numbers pile up and yet no concrete answer can be found that all can agree on. It brings order, in a sense.

Yet, there's a stark difference between order of things, and stagnation. Growing complacent with how everything is, and focusing on own survival first before yourself and others. Eventually, that complacency grows into a veil from which no emotions escape, as one becomes a slave of their own fate, where one goes with the flow of the river.

... Libraries weren't exact a hotspot of Hollows, naught, those were usually hospitals, graveyards, scenes of murders and great tragedies. But otherwise, scant few actually wandered around in the outskirts. But Asta was an outlier in many things. To a trained eye one could tell that they were quite malnourished, either newly born, or simply matter of choice. The Hollow descendent upon Shizukesa to kodoku establishment, sitting on it's rooftop, flapping their wings as they eyed their prey, what little willpower the creature had wasn't enough to go against it's own nature, choosing to bask in it fully, it was going to hunt...

...or be hunted.