"What?!"
Shun cried out in shock! How could he not lose his voice upon hearing those words?!
His dearest brother had always existed as the Phoenix Saint. Even after following Uchiha Madara, he had continued fighting alongside Uchiha Madara for justice!
He was a good person. Shun had always believed that!
After all, after all...
Six years ago...
Whenever Shun was bullied, his brother would always stand up for him, his younger brother, without hesitation...
He would gently care for Shun, his weak-natured younger brother. Although he had taken plenty of lashings from Mitsumasa Kido's household because of Shun, even so, he had continued to care for his younger brother tenderly...
It was simply that the way he cared was different from others. Other people's concern might have been nothing more than words, or perhaps a little practical help. But Ikki had always been someone willing to risk his life to protect his younger brother, Shun! That was no simple assistance—it was protection, defense!
Without his brother's protection, Shun might have... long since died on... Death Queen Island...
When all the orphans in Mitsumasa Kido's household had been forced to go around the world to train as Saints, Shun had drawn the most terrifying destination of them all: Death Queen Island!
That place was covered in volcanoes all year round, with erupting lava everywhere. Almost not even a single flower could grow there. Let alone people—beneath an active volcano like that, humans could barely survive!
Unless one became a Saint, it was utterly impossible to emerge from that active volcano!
Shun was such a frail person. How could someone like him endure the cruelty of Death Queen Island? How could Shun possibly return alive to take part in the Saints' Galaxian Wars?!
Yet his brother Ikki had stepped forward and