Now...
Though she was known to the world as a Flame-Chaser, she had failed to protect her own sister. And her sister had died in such a way. She could not imagine what Rin had felt before she died.
When Rin had needed her most, she, Rin's older sister, had not been by her side.
No sorrow was greater than a dead heart; no grief was deeper than silence!
To Sakura at that moment, she was already dead! Her heart was already dead.
She collapsed onto the ground. Sakura no longer cared about anything around her—not even the Zombies or the corrupted mechs. Those monsters had appeared beside her.
Yet Sakura showed no reaction. Her eyes were hollow, lifeless, as she stared at her sister's corpse.
However, just as the Zombies approached Sakura and were about to kill her, Kevin arrived.
He swiftly killed the Zombies there. Then he looked at Sakura and Rin for a long time without speaking. He knew... Rin's death was a devastating blow to Sakura.
She could not accept it...
"Waaah... Rin, my Rin! She was such a sweet, sensible child. Why did it have to end like this?!"
"I can't accept this!"
"Stars, you little blue-haired brat, give Rin back..."
Oda Maiko simply could not hold back her tears. The moment she saw Rin's corpse, although she was not as overwhelmed by grief as Sakura—
She still felt utterly miserable.
In the previous chapters, Rin under Griseo's brush had been sweet and sensible, always caring for her sister.
She was even so young, yet she busied herself with all kinds of housework...
And yet such a good child had become a Herrscher. But even after becoming one, she had still retained her original personality. She was still Rin...
Yet this was how Rin