Chapter 100: Kisara Tendo's Choice
"...Live?"
Kisara Tendo repeated the word in a slight daze.
"Yes, live."
Haimo tilted his head up slightly, watching the sparks flutter down through the sky.
"And not just live."
"But-"
"Live a life more splendid than anyone else's."
Haimo turned around, his black hair stirring gently in the waves of heat.
"Revenge was never your destination, Miss Kisara."
"It's merely the slash you must deliver to sever the rotten roots of your past."
"Once you've delivered that slash, your new life begins."
"The you I look forward to seeing isn't a killing machine that can only swing a sword, much less a wretch wallowing in the pain of the past."
"I want you to stand in the sunlight, in that new world to come, and use the sword in your hand to carve out your own path to glory."
"And even-"
Haimo paused, the faintest smile curling his lips.
"Accomplish a Great Feat that shocks even those lofty gods."
"Now that you bear my Falna, that is the breadth of spirit you ought to possess."
"And then bring your parents back to life."
Shock the gods...
Live a splendid life...
Those words exploded in Kisara Tendo's mind.
The girl's once somewhat dim eyes lit up little by little.
Like a flame rekindled amid the embers.
Faint though it was, it still had the potential to set a prairie ablaze.
It was no longer that madness that might go out at any moment, but a purer, more resilient light.
Her parents.
Resurrected.
It had been a longing she had never even dared to entertain, a scene that appeared only in her deepest dreams.
But now.
She believed.
If it was this lord...
He could definitely do it!
"Yes..."
At that thought, Kisara Tendo nodded firmly.