"Smack... smack smack..."
In the ruined sanctuary, the sounds of rubble continuously rolling down from every corner echoed through the space, lingering without end.
Luo Zhen, Kojo, Aurora, and Attila were all gazing at Sendougi Yuma, who was slumped amid the ruins.
"Yuma..."
Seeing the dejected look on Sendougi Yuma's face, Kojo stepped forward.
The Divine Aura had vanished from his body at some point, returning Kojo to the useless ordinary man he had been.
Sendougi Yuma gave Kojo a sorrowful smile.
"I failed."
The words were filled with Sendougi Yuma's confusion about the future.
There was nothing she could do.
"My failure means I can't pay the price required by the contract."
Sendougi Yuma turned her head toward the guardian behind her.
The guardian, its entire body battered and tattered, seemed to have no intention of doing anything to Sendougi Yuma.
"Looks like 'Ao' has no intention of cutting off my head."
Sendougi Yuma said this in a tone that held not the slightest hint of relief.
As the embodiment of a contract made with a demon, it was common knowledge that a guardian would kill its user when the user could no longer pay the price required by the contract.
Yet Sendougi Yuma's guardian seemed to have no intention of killing her.
"Does this mean I still can't gain my freedom, and have to keep striving toward this goal?"
Sendougi Yuma's voice was bleak.
This failure did not mean she would fail forever.
As long as she could pay the price required by the contract, it did not matter how long it took. Only when the guardian judged that the user could no longer fulfill the contract would it kill her.
Now that Sendougi Yuma's guardian had not attacked her, it proved there were still other methods and