Adventure -...: -eng- Koishi Komeiji-s Defeat- Cave

The cave shuddered. The silver pool cracked. Light—real light, painful and golden—poured from the fissures.

Deeper she went. The air grew cold. The phosphorescent glow faded, replaced by absolute dark. She didn’t need light. She was the absence of something. She walked on, her footsteps silent, her presence a hole in the world’s perception.

“I think I forgot how to feel sad,” she said.

The pool rippled. The image changed. Now it showed her standing in the middle of the Human Village, waving at strangers. Walking right through them. A child passed through her chest and shivered, saying, “It got cold all of a sudden.”

And for the first time in a very, very long time, she saw .

Then she found the third trap.

“I’m scared,” she whispered into Satori’s shoulder.

But the cave would not let her. The walls of obsidian reflected her from every angle. A thousand Koishis, all with the same hollow eyes. A thousand forgotten girls.

“I never lost you,” Satori said. “You just… stopped letting me see.”

And rust, she realized, could be broken.