"How could you say something like that...?"
Hinata's eyes instantly reddened.
She looked at Kanami with tears brimming in her eyes. "Do you know what you're saying?"
"Of course I do. I've been implanted with Karma, and it's Otsutsuki Yamei's Karma. It has already thawed by six percent. Even if I don't use his power, it will still continue thawing on its own. When it reaches one hundred percent, I won't be myself anymore. I won't allow that to happen, so I chose death."
Kanami spoke with great seriousness and calmness.
The moment he finished speaking, Hinata's body trembled violently, and tears immediately streamed down her face.
"Did you consider me again... If you die like this, what am I supposed to do...? I'll live the rest of my life in pain. Do you want me to never be happy again?"
"I don't..."
"No, your actions say that you do. You're telling me that you want to run away, that you don't want to keep trying. You're tired. You don't want to keep searching for a way to survive. You want to leave me!
"That's what your actions mean. You're different from before. The old you wasn't like this... No matter how powerful the enemy was, you never wore an expression like that, nor would you so easily give up your life."
Hinata's voice trembled slightly. "If... if you really choose death, then I'll only choose to die with you."
"What nonsense are you talking about?! How can you die? You haven't been implanted with Karma!"
Kanami was clearly angry, and his voice rose.
Hinata's eyes were red, but her gaze was resolute. "As long as I have Karma, that's enough, right? Then I'll go kill the Otsutsuki! I'll find the Otsutsuki Homeworld and kill every Otsutsuki there. Then I'll