The woman suddenly dropped to her knees. "I was wrong! I shouldn't have discriminated against them. Please come back! I still have a child. I don't want him to die tomorrow night. Please, please!" She repeatedly knocked her forehead against the ground, then pressed her palms together and prayed to the sky.
The despairing citizens of Tokyo watched, a faint flicker stirring in their lifeless eyes. Those who still had loved ones alive began dropping to their knees as though they had found their last lifeline. At that moment, they no longer cared whether the Cursed Children had monsters' blood in their veins. They only wanted to beg their former protectors to return. They wanted to live. They wanted their loved ones to live.
Watching this, Rentaro was overcome with conflicting emotions. If they had known it would come to this, why had they rejected those children so fiercely in the first place?
"Rentaro, will they come back now?" Sheltered behind him, Seitenshi asked uncertainly, a glimmer of hope in her eyes.
"Maybe they will. Maybe they won't." Rentaro gazed at the sky as he answered quietly. He had no idea what Captain Aiki and the others were thinking either.
At that moment, the scene unfolding in Tokyo was playing at the Holy Church's temporary Command Center.
"Regiment Commander, what should we do? Head out to rescue them now?" Standing at the front, Aiki turned toward Naruto.
Naruto moved his fingers slightly, lost in thought.
As though he had reached a decision, he slowly stood up. "Since the conditions have been met, send this video to the children. Let them understand that they were never Cursed Children, but saviors."
"Yes, Regiment Commander!" The Holy Light Clerics stood at attention as they answered.
"This time, we'll be there to back the