Vill-V: Luo Luo... He's Still Just a Child! So, Darling, Want to Fall in Love? (Continued)

"...By the time you got here, was it already too late?" Amid the frost, the warrior holding an ice blade spoke slowly.

"Yeah." Chen Luo stood before Sakura and nodded slowly.

Around Chen Luo and Sakura stood countless warriors frozen into ice statues by the Fifth Divine Key, as well as a curled-up girl with the same hair color as Sakura, encased in purple crystal.

"Rin..." Sakura called softly, but she would never again hear that familiar voice answer her.

No sorrow was greater than a dead heart; no grief deeper than silence.

When she saw her younger sister's body, Sakura could no longer suppress the grief in her eyes. The only small comfort she found was that Rin's final expression had been calm rather than terrified, and her body had not suffered any damage.

It was as though she had merely fallen asleep within that purple crystal.

"This was originally something Elysia asked me to give you. She intended for it to be used to seal Rin if anything unusual happened after you took her away," Chen Luo said.

"..."

Sakura naturally recognized that purple crystal. As Elysia's comrade, she knew that Elysia's battlefield would be filled with such crystals—gorgeous and beautiful, yet also symbols of tranquility.

In theory, even if those crystals were shattered, the people inside would remain unharmed. Yet now, they had become a coffin for a body.

The crystal stood out especially starkly within this artificially created battlefield.

Chen Luo did not disturb Sakura, whose heartache had reached its limit and whose eyes had never left Rin's sleeping-like form. Instead, he looked behind him at the monsters lurking in the shadows as they gradually approached.

More than a dozen Militants slowly closed in. Then the cold wind swept past, instantly freezing every advancing Militant into