After choosing to approach Yae Sakura, Kallen needed to fulfill nine conditions. She had been prepared to be given a hard time, only to find that they were all rather ordinary conditions.
Setting aside pretending at first not to remember Yae Sakura, as well as being passively recognized by her, the third condition was even simpler... holding hands.
Simply holding Yae Sakura's hand... counted as completing it. Now came the fourth condition: an indirect kiss. That was even easier. Kallen's gaze swept toward the milk tea in Yae Sakura's hand.
"I don't know... what comes next."
Yae Sakura set down the milk tea she had yet to drink, thought seriously for a moment... then shook her head. Faced with this unfamiliar world, all the people she had known were already dead. She did not know how to adapt to it. Before this, she had only held onto one hope: finding Kallen.
She had thought it would be something utterly impossible to accomplish, yet she had truly found her. As for what she was supposed to do after finding Kallen, Yae Sakura did not know. She had never thought about it.
"Then... I'll be the one to help Sakura live in this world from now on!" As though she had long expected Yae Sakura's reaction, Kallen was not surprised as she spoke.
"Mm."
Yae Sakura looked tenderly at Kallen before her and nodded with great seriousness. Yet beneath that earnestness, there was a trace of gloom. If only... she were still a normal person.
Now, she existed only through a Pseudo-Herrscher Core transformed from the power of the Herrscher of Corruption. Could someone like her... truly become part of Kallen's life?
Even if Kallen accepted her, what about everyone else?
And... aside from affection, Yae Sakura also felt deep guilt and