[b][i][u]Location: World Crossers Guild - Underground Lab[/u][/i][/b] [img]https://i.imgur.com/6jz3hI1.png[/img] Lilina: I have no intentions on breaking the rules. Your existence is safe with me. 5T: I'm back. [i]5T returned to the lab after checking on Lilina's mother.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/JUZWKZU.png[/img] 5T: Your mother wants to see you. She's waiting on the lobby upstairs. [img]https://i.imgur.com/DMeVsTd.png[/img] Lilina: T-Thank you! [i]Lilina ran upstairs and reached the lobby. She saw her mother standing right there, also surprised.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/r2xUJMz.png[/img] Lilina: Mom!! [img]https://i.imgur.com/Ab0hoaZ.png[/img] Heather: Lilina?! You're safe!! [i]Heather ran and hugged Lilina as tightly as she could. Lilina hugged her back.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/ba0kAhS.png[/img] Heather: T-Thank goodness you're OK... I was so worried... after everything that happened, I...! [img]https://i.imgur.com/Sy60zgy.png[/img] Lilina: I-I was so worried about you too! I'm sorry, it's all my fault! It's all because I'm- [img]https://i.imgur.com/bgGSTHV.png[/img] Heather: Don't worry, Lilina. I... I understand. [img]https://i.imgur.com/38jFnIs.png[/img] Lilina: Y-You do?! [img]https://i.imgur.com/wIaHWm4.png[/img] Heather: They've explained to me. About your... situation. [img]https://i.imgur.com/8ds0XqO.png[/img] Lilina: Mom... [img]https://i.imgur.com/PZhB0g2.png[/img] Heather: But the last thing I'll do is blaming my daughter for such an event. It's those ruffians fault for doing what they did! [img]https://i.imgur.com/b7F2Hy2.png[/img] Lilina: ... [img]https://i.imgur.com/rNMc6eM.png[/img] Heather: What matters to me is that my daughter is safe and sound. I don't have anything else to care about this situation. Now, we can live our normal lives as we did before. [img]https://i.imgur.com/g9IEQQT.png[/img] Lilina: That's not possible for me, Mom. Not anymore. [img]https://i.imgur.com/lre1DLG.png[/img] Heather: W-What do you mean? [b][i]BGM:[/i][/b] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcgEHrwdSO4]Decretum[/url] [img]https://i.imgur.com/gKZUJln.png[/img] Lilina: I've joined the Guild, Mom. I'm going to fight too. [img]https://i.imgur.com/Ab0hoaZ.png[/img] Heather: Lilina... no, what are you saying?! Are you really going to put yourself at such risk?! [img]https://i.imgur.com/P2ZVcbm.png[/img] Lilina: I don't have a choice, Mom! I can't stay a victim forever! I have the means to strike them back, all that's left is- [img]https://i.imgur.com/PZhB0g2.png[/img] Heather: Retaliation isn't the best answer for all problems! We can go away from the city, flee and be free from this mess! [img]https://i.imgur.com/r2xUJMz.png[/img] Lilina: Are you telling me to abandon my friends?! And the other victims?! [img]https://i.imgur.com/1t0c4Vz.png[/img] Lilina: I won't do that! I'd rather let myself be captured than just let them do whatever they want with the others! [img]https://i.imgur.com/bjfO5XJ.png[/img] Heather: Lilina, this is not your fight! You shouldn't throw yourself at what it doesn't matter to you! [img]https://i.imgur.com/6nP23F9.png[/img] Lilina: It became my fight in the first day I was attacked, Mom. You know they will come back, as many times as necessary until I'm captured and taken. [img]https://i.imgur.com/8ds0XqO.png[/img] Lilina: I won't deny, I said to myself that I wouldn't go ahead... but that's just me running away. Ignoring everything thus far and... just turning a blind eye to the problem. [img]https://i.imgur.com/1xkB4lt.png[/img] Heather: ... [img]https://i.imgur.com/4x9mL0v.png[/img] Lilina: But I'm determined to end this. I want this to end, Mom. I can't just catch a plane and live as if nothing happened while others are here, being attacked nonstop. That's not what... that's not what Dad would expect of me, if he was here... [i]Lilina remembered her father. She never knew him well enough, but she loved him and lost him while she was young. Heather had to take care of their daughter alone, but rose Lilina as her husband would have also liked. As such, she now regretted it a little, but knew her daughter wouldn't step back.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/BiCjHpd.png[/img] Heather: ... Is there nothing I can do to change your mind? [img]https://i.imgur.com/3lHjL7k.png[/img] Lilina: I'm sorry, but there isn't. I'm going to fight and that's final. [img]https://i.imgur.com/1xkB4lt.png[/img] Heather: ... [b][i][u]Location: Glory Star Orphanage - Kiragi Starlight's Room[/u][/i][/b] [i]Lucent put the sleeping Kiragi on his bed. The young boy was sleeping soundly, as if nothing could wake him up. Lucent looked at the room's window, as the spirits talked with him.[/i] [b][i]BGM:[/i][/b] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NChYgygCiLw]Path of Repentance[/url] [img]https://i.imgur.com/mxSTVlL.png[/img] Ictio: Lord Lucent, aren't you going to eat? [img]https://i.imgur.com/9W2NWsK.png[/img] Lucent: I-I will... I just need a moment to... sort all of this. [img]https://i.imgur.com/i5X9Eab.png[/img] Umbra: ... Lucent: Why me? Why an I the one to save the Dream Realm? Why am I being chased? And by who? [img]https://i.imgur.com/8ohyuBZ.png[/img] Ictio: Lord Lucent... [img]https://i.imgur.com/iIczHsM.png[/img] Umbra: We don't have those answers. If we did, we would've told you from the beginning. [img]https://i.imgur.com/83cdpUp.png[/img] Lucent: I'm not blaming you, I just... I don't know what to do in this... situation. [img]https://i.imgur.com/Kub07aL.png[/img] Lucent: Everything is going too fast... is this what God prepared as my path of repentance? [img]https://i.imgur.com/OTZXQB0.png[/img] Ictio: Path of... repentance? Why do you think like that? [img]https://i.imgur.com/Co4Dh3P.png[/img] Lucent: ... It's a long story... [i]Lucent shared his past with the twins. After hearing the story, both of them were shocked to their cores.[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/7AmSr90.png[/img] Umbra: Your powers... killed a child? [img]https://i.imgur.com/vWi7sao.png[/img] Ictio: T-That can't be! Y-You're so kind-looking and you don't look evil at all! [img]https://i.imgur.com/qsihRDH.png[/img] Lucent: That doesn't matter. It happened and it's real. My powers killed someone... that's why I always tried to create distance between me and other people... [img]https://i.imgur.com/9S6co1u.png[/img] Umbra: Distance won't take you anywhere near redemption. In fact, it'll just push you away. [img]https://i.imgur.com/vK3uHoL.png[/img] Lucent: Y-You think so? [img]https://i.imgur.com/iIczHsM.png[/img] Umbra: Nothing good could ever come out of solitude. Lord Lucent, you need to keep those whom you care close to you. Make of them your pillar of support. [img]https://i.imgur.com/Kub07aL.png[/img] Lucent: B-But if I hurt them, I could never- Umbra: But you're not doing that, right? [img]https://i.imgur.com/bkej3Go.png[/img] Lucent: N-N-No, I'm not. I don't want that to happen. [img]https://i.imgur.com/i5X9Eab.png[/img] Umbra: Then grow outside of the shell you built. Only then you'll be free of the darkness that tortures you. [img]https://i.imgur.com/sElnvwR.png[/img] Ictio: Yeah! You have friends who support you all the way! [i]After hearing their words, Lucent reminded himself of the others. They were saying the same thing he said just now. Could there truly be hope for him, at the end of the road?[/i] [img]https://i.imgur.com/3jccryV.png[/img] Lucent: ... I'll go to the kitchen. Best if you two rested as well. [img]https://i.imgur.com/7AmSr90.png[/img] Umbra: Alright then. Let's go, Ictio. [img]https://i.imgur.com/cVyb5Sg.png[/img] Ictio: Good night, Lord Lucent! [i]He got up and left the room. The spirits became orbs and went inside Kiragi's body, resting alongside his soul.[/i]