Why?
Why was she stopping him?
Had she really sided completely with that man?
"Rentaro, I won't allow you to touch Lord God with your filthy hands."
Kisara Tendo lowered the Demon Sword, Snow Shadow, slightly, pointing its tip at the ground as she assumed a stance suited to both offense and defense.
Her voice was icy and emotionless.
-Lord God?
That title struck Rentaro Satomi's forehead like a heavy hammer.
It made Rentaro Satomi's mind go blank for an instant.
He immediately understood what had happened.
So everything that had just happened was connected to this mysterious man.
The problem was...
"Kisara! Snap out of it!"
"He's using you! He's a devil!"
"Look around! Look at all this!"
"This isn't you at all! Where did the kindhearted you go?!"
"Wake up! It's me, Rentaro!"
"We grew up together, lived together for over a decade..."
"You'd rather trust this man from who knows where than even trust me?!"
Seeing Kisara Tendo turn her blade on him, Rentaro Satomi grew desperate.
Truly desperate.
He even wanted to rush over and shake her awake.
Just as he'd thought!
Kisara Tendo really had been brainwashed!
She was even spouting nonsense like "God"!
That only confirmed his suspicion!
Otherwise, how could Kisara, who was afraid of even a bug, have become this madwoman who disowned everyone close to her and babbled about gods and spirits?!
However...
Faced with Rentaro Satomi's appeals...
Kisara Tendo only looked at him coldly.
Disappointment flashed in her eyes.
It was disappointment in someone beyond saving.
"You're the one who isn't thinking clearly, Rentaro."
"I'm thinking more clearly now than I ever have."
"But you're always like this."
"Self-centered, self-righteous, always thinking the world should revolve around your reasoning."
"You think I'm only normal if I'm the way I used