Chapter 18 - (Never) Forgetting (II)

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With bated breath...

The strong mist spread, all throughout the entire room...

Eyes of disbelief...

The effects of conflict...

Before their very eyes...

But more importantly...

He stood there, wondering...

Dropping...

Losing...

Is this reality?

Or was he still dreaming?

In a nightmare...

Like the one he had...

When Koyo struck him...

Pools of blood that spread across... all of Tokyo Bay...

Corpses littered...

As if human life...

Was just another commodity...

In this "world" we all live in...

"It can't be..." Manaka muttered...

Himura and Rushiko just like Jisei...

Just stood there...

With nothing left to say...

Was it out of shock?

Disappointment?

Sorrow?

Grief?

And in Jisei's case...

Everything...

All at once?

The mist muddied the gigantic panoramic windows that dwarfed over them...

The blizzard raging outside, swallowed all of Tokyo alive...

An omen?

Of things to come?

A weird calm...

If you can even call it that...

The calm before the storm...

Koyo saw it again...

Another dead person...

Just like her...

Jisei lost his parent...

His...

Dad...

Koyo stared at the elaborate floor tile's design...

Staring at her reflection...

Clenching her fist...

Knowing...

What it must be like...

For Jisei...

Hell...

What must it be like for Jisei?

Right now?

"I have failed you... Jisei..." Suzushii said bluntly, but with much ache in his voice...

"And Inari... Natsuno-chan too..."

His figure was obscured to everyone, and so was Shion...

But Atsushi's wasn't...

It's as if the mist didn't exist...

He lies there...

Unmoving...

Colder than the weather itself...

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