What Am I Supposed to Do... (Requesting Moon Tickets)
Time continued to draw closer, bringing the start of the BoB Tournament nearer little by little.
Just as Luo Zhen finished reassuring Asuna and the others, Sinon was also holding a cup of coffee in a café in Tokyo. She gazed at the pedestrians coming and going outside the window, gradually losing herself in thought.
"Ms. Asada... Ms. Asada... Ms. Asada...!"
After an unknown amount of time, that voice reached Sinon's ears.
"Ah!"
Only then did Sinon come back to herself and look toward the person sitting across from her.
Kyohei was sitting there with an exasperated expression.
"What are you thinking about, Ms. Asada?"
Kyohei looked at Sinon, his eyes filled with concern.
"I... I'm not thinking about anything!"
Sinon forced a smile at Kyohei as she denied it, but that only made the concern in his eyes deepen.
"Since I invited you out, you've already spaced out like this several times along the way. Just now, you suddenly started staring blankly out the window again. You're not like your usual self at all." Kyohei looked at Sinon hesitantly before finally asking, "Did something happen? If you need my help, please feel free to tell me."
Kyohei showed Sinon the same closeness and gentleness as always.
That made Sinon secretly blame herself for acting so strangely and worrying Kyohei.
In truth, Sinon knew that her current state was very wrong. She was nothing like her usual decisive and emotionally distant self.
But Sinon simply couldn't control it.
Yesterday's conversation surfaced in her mind once more.
"If I don't kill them, I'll be the one who gets killed. Even the people around me might be killed."
That boy had made such a declaration directly to her.
"So I have to kill.