Weapon-Weapon Fruit Awakening

Baby 5 acted as though she had not seen any of it. Ignoring her sisters' anxious calls behind her and the enemies eyeing her hungrily from all around, she slowly closed her eyes.

Her mind emptied completely. All her agitation, unease, and fear vanished at that moment.

An invisible ripple spread outward from her. Under its influence, the shattered remains of buildings, steel bars, and rubble twisted and reassembled like putty.

Countless fragments of memory flashed through her mind like a revolving lantern.

It was when she was little. Her birth mother had watched her freely turn her body into weapons, then abandoned her in a cold forest in terror, hysterically calling her a freak and saying, "I never needed you."

It was when she had been at her most desperate and helpless, when she had felt that her life had no meaning at all, that Dawn reached out a hand to her. Smiling gently, he told her,

"Baby 5, I need you."

She was just a freak from a poor village, someone even her birth mother had not wanted.

Yet ever since she met Anata, this insignificant girl whom everyone despised had always been needed.

Even after Anata had so many sisters around him, his need for her had never stopped.

No matter what, she would never allow herself to be abandoned by someone important to her again.

For that, she needed enough strength. She needed to prove her worth.

The memories surfacing behind Baby 5's tightly shut eyes finally settled on Dawn's gentle smile, the corners of his lips slightly raised.

Anata, I really want to make you happy... to satisfy you...

That way, you should... never abandon me, right?

She murmured softly to herself, then suddenly opened her eyes the next second.

The eyes that had always