712 Because I’m your older sister! (1/2)

Kaho felt like she was trapped within an icy darkness.

Her body seemed to be nothing more than ice as a chill filled her body, which seemed to float within an endless deep and dark realm.

Her consciousness was extremely hazy. It felt like her soul was sinking down, as if she was about to completely lose her sense of self.

She could faintly sense some type of existence within this realm, which had attached itself to her body and was combining with her.

When the combining was finally completed, she would no longer be herself.

The time limit was also approaching. Kaho didn't try to resist, nor did she willingly offer herself to the demon. She was simply calm.

'Is this really alright?' a tiny voice asked in the corner of her mind.

'Isn't this just fine?' another tiny voice asked in the corner of her mind.

Kaho didn't respond to either question.

Was it that she didn't need to answer, or that she was unable to answer?

Kaho was calm and silent, but also confused and empty.

She felt like she should be thinking about something, but didn't want to think about anything right now at all.

'Let's just leave things like this.'

She decided to slowly abandon her former self and welcome her new existence…

”Kaho!” Suddenly, a familiar voice shouted and pulled her slightly back from the darkness.

Karen found her younger sister.

Kaho was standing on the top of a building. Her entire body had become hazy, and her dress and mask were glowing a blinding red. The black runes on her dress seemed like a moving insect swarm which would come alive at any moment.

But even more eye-catching were all the colorful lines of various colors extending out of her back.

These colorful lines were gradually lengthening. The longest was already more than three meters long, and the number of lines was continuously increasing. These lines appeared beautiful and gave off an unearthly aura that also seemed somewhat ominous.

”Let's stop, Kaho.” Karen looked directly at her younger sister. ”You're… you're just escaping from reality!”

There was no response.

Yet, Karen sensed something flickering in Kaho's wavelength.

This was a wondrously subtle sensation. If she had to describe it, it was something like a sisterly synchronization.

”You can't face your heartbreak, so you turned towards a demon. What else can this be other than escaping from reality?” Karen continued. ”You don't want to become special at all! You're just the same as before, escaping from reality because you can't face failure, and shutting yourself in! In the end, you haven't foundationally changed at all.”

The black insect-shaped runes on Kaho's dress started moving about even more violently and making buzzing sounds.

Karen felt an obvious stronger tremor in Kaho's wavelength.

Karen was angry and sad, guilty yet annoyed, and didn't even know exactly what her current emotions were.

The runes on Kaho's skirt started buzzing even more loudly. The rays of light on her back also began to shake.

”Let's stop acting so unseemly.” Karen sighed. ”We're both terrible sisters, but we're still sisters. We can face painful things together. Even if I can't share the burden of your emotions, I can do various things for you, such as going out to have fun together, eating delicious food together, shopping for beautiful clothes together… No matter how painful the heartbreak, it will always pass with time… I've never experienced any heartbreak, so I don't know what I should say, but I think that abandoning your sense of self because of a heartbreak is definitely no good.”

'This is so foolish.

'This is so terrible.

'This is so unseemly.'

Karen transmitted her way of thinking with her expression.

*Whoosh…* The gigantic scorpion tail suddenly swung directly at Karen!

*Smack!!*

Karen took a direct hit, but she forcibly withstood it and wasn't sent flying backwards by the impact.

”You become angry because I saw through you, honestly…”

”Not… at… all!” Kaho finally spoke.

Her voice was incredibly raspy and also sounded like it was buzzing, as if countless insects were chirping or vibrating against each other. Her voice was ear-piercing and shook Karen's heart.

”I'm… not… escaping from reality… stop… making… ridiculous stuff up!!” Kaho's voice got louder and she sounded noticeably angry. Her words contained a frightening power.

”No, you are escaping from reality!” Karen intentionally went against her. ”You turned towards a demon because you didn't want to face your pain! Also, you wanted to make Harano-kun and myself feel bad as revenge against us!! You said that you had the confidence to obtain the demon's power, but you were just fooling yourself and everyone else! What you really thought was that you didn't care what happened to you; you gave up on yourself! You intentionally wanted to make us feel bad!!”

”No… no… noooooo!!!” Kaho started shouting loudly.

The red light on her exploded, forming a powerful shock wave!