"It was you."
Qiu's eyes were bloodshot. She bit her lip, and her tear-filled eyes brimmed with fury and hatred.
"You... you did something to Diwein..."
Apparently, the corpse left behind after the duel had already been discovered by the Shangri-La Movement members who arrived afterward.
Just as Kira had expected.
Kira remained expressionless as he calmly looked at the delicate, tear-streaked face of the girl before him, meeting her furious, murderous gaze head-on.
After staring at her for several seconds, Kira's lips curled into a faint smile.
"Yeah." He admitted it openly. "I killed him."
That frank attitude, that brazen admission that was practically a taunt, was like saying he did not care in the slightest: come on, bite me.
"AAAAAH!"
Qiu roared and casually drew a card from her Deck, slamming it onto her Duel Disk. Her pink Duel Disk activated, and a Solid Vision summoning vortex appeared. Before the monster had even emerged, a tentacle shot out from the vortex.
"Rose Vines!"
A Level 6 Plant Type monster with 2200 ATK, and one of Aki Izayoi's favored monsters. A crimson rosebud appeared on the field, its vines shooting out like arrows, accompanied by a gust of wind that tore through the air.
Qiu could not bear it.
Ever since she had been very young, ever since her powers awakened, everything had drifted away from her.
Family, classmates, elders, friends.
Everyone loathed her. Everyone denied her. Even she herself had begun to think that she was a monster, a devil that should never have been allowed to exist in this world. Perhaps it would have been better if she had not lived at all.
It was at such a time that Diwein had appeared.
He had been the first person to accept her completely, the first to feel