"Oh my, you've been abandoned again..." With her back to the direction Louis had left in, Eto sneered at the Yasuhisa sisters as they struggled on the ground, trying desperately to heal their wounds.
She stroked their Rinkaku, which had yet to fully retract, the amusement in her eyes deepening.
"Such immature Kagune... Hee-hee, so naive."
"Yearning to be loved, blindly searching for love, trading physical pain for it-spending your days loving and being loved."
"But... no matter how many holes you plug, the emptiness inside you will never change."
"You..." True to Rize's powerful Kagune, even a brief rest had allowed the sisters to recover from their grievous injuries. As they looked at the person before them, their expressions turned impassive again. "What nonsense are you spouting...?"
Bang!
Scarlet Rinkaku pierced the ground, but their intended target vanished as though she had teleported. An instant later, they felt terrifying killing intent coming from overhead.
They immediately looked up to find the dark red figure already seated securely on a pipe above them. Fortunately, she did not attack.
"You must have been so sad the day you lost your parents, right?" The bandaged woman continued to provoke them at her leisure. The parents she spoke of were, of course, their biological parents.
Only at those words did a flicker of change appear in Kurona Yasuhisa's and Nashiro Yasuhisa's persistently impassive expressions.
The bandaged woman clearly noticed the change in their state. Beneath her bandages, the corners of her mouth rose a little without her realizing it, and she seized the opportunity to launch an even fiercer assault.
"But Kanou isn't your daddy, you know..."
"Even if he bought back the house you used to live in, your home will never come back. In the end, it's only a substitute."
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