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"No, you don’t understand!" Shimizu dropped to her knees, her long hair slipping through her trembling fingers. "You don’t understand! I… I’ve done sothing to you in my dreams. No, it wasn’t just a dream. It felt real. It was real!"
Her eyes glowed as she lifted her head. "I did sothing I can never forgive myself for! It happened long ago, countless ages past. I ruined you. I ruined everything! This is all my fault!"
Lily’s expression remained soft and calm. This was no illusion. What Shimizu saw was Lily’s true consciousness reaching out to her. Lily had no idea why her thoughts appeared in this dark space, but she spoke from the heart, transmitting her voice with care.
Though both stood vulnerable before one another, Lily felt no embarrassnt. Her and Shimizu’s forms shimred with translucent light, glowing faintly in the dark. This space felt like a reflection of their joined consciousness, not bound by the physical world.
Eons ago? That didn’t make sense. Lily had only known Shimizu for a few years. She was barely twenty, and Shimizu not much older. How could sothing between them have happened eons ago?
Lily recalled the ancient mories she once touched. A goddess of war streaking across the skies, and a battlefield soaked in sorrow. Could Shimizu truly be connected to those distant visions?
But those mories belonged to a predecessor. They were fragnts passed down through Celestial Maiden inheritance. Perhaps Shimizu had received sothing similar. Lily told herself not to be confused by echoes from a past life.
Lily stepped forward and spoke softly, lowering her gaze. "Sister, if it happened so long ago, then it no longer concerns who we are now. Maybe it's a mory tainted by Resentnt Energy. We can mourn it, but we shouldn’t bla ourselves. I didn’t exist back then. How could you have hurt ?"
"No, you still don’t understand! I hurt you. I betrayed you…" Shimizu suddenly rembered the mont she pushed Lily off the cliff three years ago.
Whether it was a mory from long ago or what truly happened three years prior, Shimizu’s shoulders trembled with guilt and fear. "Lily, stay away from . I didn’t an it! But if you get close, I’ll hurt you again. Even if I don’t want to, I will."
"Stay away! I don’t deserve you. I’ve wronged you!" she sobbed, then laughed bitterly. "Of course. A woman like was never ant to find happiness. I should just vanish. Even if I died a thousand tis, it would never make up for what I’ve done."
"Sister, what are you saying? Why are you like this?"
"Don’t co closer! Don’t do this!" Shimizu cried out in panic.
"No." Lily, once hesitant in monts like this, moved with certainty. She wrapped her arms around Shimizu and pressed Shimizu’s cheek to her stomach, letting her feel the steady warmth and gentle rhythm of her Spirit Palace. "Sister Shimizu, whether it's now or a thousand years ago, I don’t care. Maybe I don’t rember everything, but I’ve always believed in you. That has never changed.
"Even if you did hurt , I know it wasn’t on purpose. I’m sure it hurt you more than it ever hurt . I’m sorry, Sister. It was my carelessness. I lost my balance and caused you to push . You’ve been carrying guilt for so long, but maybe it’s my fault, not yours."
Shimizu’s eyes widened. Even in their spiritual forms, she could feel the warmth of Lily’s body. "Why are you always so kind? You forgive no matter what I’ve done. But I’m only your shadow. I’ll never walk in the light. My world is darkness, and my sins can’t be erased." Her face twisted with sorrow, but a strange, bitter smile lingered. She was at the edge of collapse.
Though the exchange seed slow, their conversation happened in an instant, through pure thought. Back in the real world, Lily was still being dragged toward the Lord. She struggled to resist his power, but she could only slow the inevitable. Her resistance, radiant and desperate, only served to feed his twisted delight.
“Sister Lily…” Ryuen lay helpless on the ground, her vision blurred and her thoughts clouded. She saw Lily being dragged toward that monstrous demon, her heart filled with helpless rage. But she could do nothing.
‘Perhaps this is the fate that awaits the most beautiful woman in the world,’ Riyuki thought, her feelings in turmoil. ‘They say Kagami Lily, born of Yomi, is the most beautiful across all three realms. Now that I’ve seen her with my own eyes, I believe it. Her face, her form, her grace, and even her unyielding will are unparalleled. Yet, for all her beauty, she lacks the strength to dominate others. That ans she is destined to be taken by soone stronger. Maybe she resents the fact that she’s fallen into his hands, but she never had a choice. Does it even matter who her conqueror is, if the outco is the sa?’
Riyuki lowered her gaze, unable to watch what was about to happen. She took no joy in seeing Lily fall to such a fate. This was a matter of duty and ambition, not cruelty. She followed the rules of their world, believing this was how things had always been. Still, in her heart, she felt pity for the dazzling beauty who refused to bow to fate.
In the endless dark, Shimizu leaned her face against Lily’s stomach, feeling Lily gently stroke her hair and hold her close.
"Lily, don’t be so gentle. I don’t deserve your forgiveness. I have no right."
"You’ve never done anything that needed forgiveness. I’ve never doubted that, and I never will."
"But, Lily…"
"Sister, I’m in danger. Will you really refuse to help ? Have you forgotten what we promised each other?"
"I haven’t forgotten! But if I go to you, I’ll only hurt you again! I’m afraid… afraid I’ll be overco with envy and lose control. I don’t want to hurt you anymore!" Shimizu sobbed, her voice shaking.
anwhile, Lily’s real body was on the verge of falling into the hands of the demon lord, her strength fading with every second. Yet, she remained calm and tender, kneeling with grace. She pulled Shimizu’s face into her chest and whispered softly.
"I would rather you hurt a thousand tis than let those filthy demons touch once. You hurt because your feelings twisted into obsession. That’s why I don’t resent you. However you want to hurt , just tell . I’ll let you. Isn’t that enough?"
"Huh? Lily… What are you saying…?"
"Sister, it’s because you love too much that you’ve lost your way. You hurt not out of cruelty, but out of care. And that’s alright. I’m not as fragile as you think. If I can’t endure even this darkness, how can I ever be worthy of your love?" Lily held Shimizu’s face against her chest, warm like a calm sea.
"You can call gentle, or maybe shaless… but I don’t mind if it’s you who hurts ."
Shimizu’s eyes widened. All she could see was Lily’s soft skin, glowing faintly in a pale, comforting light. Her scent wrapped around her like a mory she never wanted to lose.
"So beautiful… you’re so beautiful… Lily, why are you so kind to ? I’ve hurt you again and again… yet you still treat like this." Her voice broke as she clung to Lily’s body and wept in deep, wrenching sobs.
Lily gently ran her fingers through Shimizu's hair, pulling her into a tight embrace. Pressing her close, she lifted her chest with quiet strength, as if trying to absorb and dissolve all of Shimizu’s guilt and self-loathing into her own warmth.
A sudden cry escaped Lily’s lips, her face contorted in pain and sha.
"Lily? What is it? What’s happening?" Shimizu looked up in alarm, eting Lily’s face twisted in humiliation and agony.
"Sister, please… help ."
"But… I…"
"It doesn’t matter what you’ve done, or what you think you deserve. Are you going to just stand by and watch be defiled? Are you really willing to let soone else hurt in front of your eyes?"
Shimizu’s sorrow vanished in an instant, her eyes lighting up with fury. "Who? Where is he? I won’t allow it! I won’t let anyone touch you!"
"It’s Lord Shikikai," Lily whispered weakly. "That filthy creature… he’s trying to strip ." She turned her head, cheeks flushed, biting her finger in sha, her voice trembling with pain and humiliation.
"That wretched monster!" Shimizu erupted in fury. Dark flas ignited around her, burning with envy, wrath, and a killing intent so fierce it seed to set the void itself ablaze. "Where is he? I’ll find him! I’ll kill him! No one lays a hand on my sister and lives!"
"You can feel it, can’t you?" Lily said. "He’s deep within the demon’s lair… waiting."
Shimizu’s eyes widened. Rage reignited her divine power, and in that instant, she sensed it—Shikikai’s filthy hands gripping Lily’s chest, about to tear open the last remnants of her clothes. The sacred warmth she cherished, the proud tenderness she adored, was about to be stolen by that depraved beast.
"No… it’s too late! Even with the power of a Supre God, I can’t reach her in ti!" Shimizu’s voice shook with desperation.
"Isn’t that what you are? My shadow?" Lily’s eyes sparkled with calm certainty, her gaze reaching across ti and space, connecting their souls in a single mont of trust.
Shimizu’s expression turned grave. The surrounding void trembled, then swallowed their shared consciousness whole.
Within the demon’s cavern, beneath the flickering light of infernal flas, Lord Shikikai gripped Lily’s clothing with lecherous intent, his hand pulling with brute force.
Suddenly, a spatial rift tore open behind Lily. From within her own shadow, a girl with flowing dark blue hair erged.
In that split second, Lily summoned every last ounce of her strength. With a sharp twist of her waist, she yanked against the Nine-Headed Wyvern restraints and bent backward like a drawn bow.
The Lord tore away a strip of her clothing but was caught off guard. Instead of submission, he saw her legs rise, forming an opening. From within that space, Shimizu burst forth, blade in hand. With Murasa-Anko gleaming in her grip, she struck at the Lord, her sword driven by pure hatred and burning vengeance.
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