The Day to Return Has Come

The girl watched as the lowered head drew closer, bit by bit.

Auroria could even feel the girl's breath—a slightly damp, warm breeze that stirred a strand of hair.

Thump, thump—

Her heart, which had been dead silent for hundreds of years, began to race. Auroria felt as though her body had started to soften, no longer able to support her waist.

The woman's hands groped about wildly. If Su Youzi had not held her face, she probably would have collapsed directly onto the ground by now.

It had clearly lasted only a blink, but to Auroria, it felt as though she had been placed under an "eternity" spell.

Kiss—

Would it be a kiss?

Auroria had once seen Su Youzi forcibly establish a contract.

Aside from that method of gnawing the other party to nothing... it seemed the only option was a kiss.

Auroria's evasive peripheral vision turned toward the side.

Having straightened herself, Soga Toyura was preparing to leave and discuss Youzi's situation with Kujo Iruka and the others.

And right in front of Soga Toyura... Youzi had forcibly imposed a contract on her.

That forbidden feeling alone was enough to make Auroria, whose consciousness had already been thrown into disarray by the baptism of years of solitude, feel as though she were about to evaporate and melt away.

Auroria helplessly watched as Su Youzi drew closer and closer—

At last... Su Youzi, who had been holding Auroria's face, stopped beside the woman's ear.

"At this moment—"

"The contract is established."

A mighty force surged forth—

A force that seemed capable of twisting even fate, a force that seemed capable of tearing apart even the world, instantly bound her fate tightly together with Su Youzi's.

That power seemed to be saying—

No matter what—

Su Youzi would definitely