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"Hajime-kun," she whispered, her voice trembling. "I... I'm sorry. If I hadn't let my breath slip when we were in the water, we wouldn't have been separated".

Separated from Yue and the rest of the party by a sudden surge of illusory traps, the two were alone in a corridor that seemed to bleed ghostly images of a forgotten war. For Kaori , the silence between them was louder than the distant groans of the ruins. She watched Hajime’s back—the cold, efficient movements of a man who had survived the abyss by discarding his former self. Arifureta_S2_05_Pro_ACB.mkv

Kaori flinched as if struck. "I just... I want to be the one by your side. I thought if I followed you here, I could make up for what happened in the Orcus Labyrinth". "Hajime-kun," she whispered, her voice trembling

The truth was cold, but it acted like a splash of freezing water, clearing the illusions that had begun to crowd Kaori's mind. She realized that her love had become a chain of self-pity. To truly stand beside Hajime , she didn't need to be Yue ; she needed to stop being the girl who was sorry for existing. If I hadn't let my breath slip when

The air inside the Sunken Ruins of Melusine was thick with the scent of salt and ancient, lingering magic. Hajime led the way through the labyrinth’s shifting halls, his guns drawn, but his focus was fractured. Beside him, Kaori Shirasaki moved with a hesitation that was uncharacteristic of the "Saint" of their class.

"You can't," Hajime replied flatly. " Yue was the one there when I had nothing. She didn't stay because of guilt or duty; she stayed because she chose me. She is my number one. If you can't accept that—if you can only see yourself as 'less than' her—then you don't belong in this party".

Finally, Hajime stopped. He turned to her, his crimson eye glowing with a clinical, almost brutal honesty.