This pain was not something that he could take even if he'd been a more of a controlled person.
It felt like his entire body wanted to pull itself apart, and for a moment there, he thought that he would simply do exactly that. With every jolt that agonized his nervous system, it was like his entire world was made of a fire that burned along every sense that he had. There was even a time when he began to believe that the end had come from him.
Yet, when it became clear enough for his pain addled mind to see that his joints would not come apart at the seams, he didn't exactly rejoice. Instead, he began to wonder if he would simply become some monstrous blob of flesh. As his body refused to stop feeling some sort of pulling sensation, that was all that he could think of, alongside an image of himself being chased into some arctic environment. Given that such a fate wouldn't exactly be the easy retirement that he'd always wanted, that was another thing that just seemed to be designed to trouble him if he survived.
The thing was that he also didn't seem to be about to pass on to the next life. Whatever was causing the aches didn't seem to be too keen on letting him die either. All that he did know was that he was feeling heavier and thicker, but just what that was, he couldn't understand. For all the pain, there was a dullness around it that he couldn't understand, and he wasn't too sure that he wanted to know exactly just what that was.
Had he known that his body truly changing, it wouldn't have surprised him. However, he might have been shocked that he was currently a rock... or so it might have seemed. Being that he was beginning bear a grey color, along with a rather sizeable weight, one could understand why.
In his current state, he hadn't been able to notice much of anything, including the boulder that he'd gone to kneel on when the pain became too great to let him stand. If he had, he might have taken note of the way that his skin took on the same shade as that rock surface, and his bulk took on a weight that flesh simply couldn't be responsible for. Even as he fell to his side, he didn't hear the sound of a solid 'thud' that was more in line with dropping a statue than a human being. He wasn't going still though, as his movements were more restricted by the way that his mind was caught up in the pain, rather than any actual physical infirmity.
Genma didn't particularly recognize any of this, as he was a bit too busy with his suffering to pay attention to anything other than the fact that his limbs weren't responding quite as he would expect them to, while:
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