The Stellaron Will was destroyed.
The countless individual consciousnesses swept up in that will were finally freed at that moment.
Their real selves had long since died in the Fragmentum, but their consciousnesses had been copied, becoming part of its twisted chaos, forever trapped in madness.
Now, phantom figures floated in the sky, slowly fading away.
Oleg and Gepard saw many of their comrades from the Silvermane Guards.
Among those phantoms, Natasha also spotted a familiar figure.
She stared fixedly at it until the phantoms' expressions softened with relief, and they turned transparent and vanished.
There was no more movement in the sky.
Even the wind and snow on Everwinter Ridge had stopped, leaving everything utterly silent.
It was all over.
Chu Mu had left this place.
"Mu... big brother." Bronya gazed at the empty sky, unable to stop herself from murmuring.
It had been far too long since she had last said those words. They felt so unfamiliar now.
Yet it also felt as though she had long been used to them, as though they had slipped out naturally.
Her mind was a jumble. She couldn't remember. She still couldn't remember.
Bronya clutched her hair in anguish as the realization finally struck her.
Even at the moment Chu Mu left, she hadn't called him her brother once.
He had looked forward to their reunion so much. His heart had been filled with the little sister he remembered. His gaze had been so gentle when he looked at her, and even at the very end, there hadn't been a trace of blame in his words.
But why had she forgotten him? Why had she forgotten him so completely?
Even at the very end, he hadn't heard his little sister call him her brother.
Bronya stood there, utterly lost.
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