After saying that, she turned around and walked toward the direction from which Kotsubaki was charging.
Chapter 84: Helpless Struggle!
Ronglin was stunned when he saw the Shinigami's uncharacteristic expression. He hurriedly reached out to grab her hand. "What are you doing? We haven't reached the end yet! As long as I'm here, don't give up!"
Yet the girl suddenly used Flash Step, darting more than ten meters forward and avoiding Ronglin's grasping hand.
She looked at Ronglin with a serene expression, but tears poured down her face like a breached dam. "As Shinigami, no one understands Kotsubaki's terror better than we do. I'm happy that, even at the very end, you still wanted to make me feel safe and keep me from sinking into fear."
As she spoke, she drew her Zanpakuto and walked toward Kotsubaki. "You are the gentlest, most considerate person I have ever met. You made me feel how beautiful this world is. You gave the once timid and cowardly me more confidence and trust. I'm truly moved... and so happy!"
Everyone watched her in silence. Faced with a place where life and death hung in the balance, perhaps she was about to confess? How could they bear to interrupt her at a time like this?
"Have you gone mad?" Ronglin roared furiously, striding toward her. "I told you to come back! Didn't you hear me? Until we return to the Soul Society, you are my team member, and you must obey all my orders!"
The roaring Kotsubaki drew closer. Three hundred meters... two hundred meters... one hundred meters...
The girl turned away with tears streaming down her face, unable to bear looking at Ronglin again. Every time she looked at him, her heart felt as though it were being torn apart, and even breathing carried