Astral Odyssey: Dying Ember

a happily bound

pped over the leg of a chair and fell

rms wrapped around Erica's head and back. With Erica in her embrace, they crash

e toppled books, and found Lucas towering over their hunched bodies with his hands on the bo

. What's with his insane reflexes? Did

eep voice reverberated through E

s grew wide

d and curtly thanked him, then pulled Erica by her hand to her seat. Luna stuffe

Lucas with sparkles in her eyes. Whereas,

Erica excitedly asked Luna, "Jie! Do yo

appen to study in the s

a started stroking her chi

rowned

mising. I

because h

bout it! Sitting at the same

getting it."

e for you!" Erica

He didn't notice me before today, before you came

hook Luna's hand child

othing to do with him. I don't want to

hy?" Eric

od will com

ver..." Erica looked down a

being realistic. It's safer th

ca's association with the people she pegged as the main chara

appened without

mon crowd was her especially strong character, above average looks, and intellect. By objective standards, she was mo

w how Rina was completely useless on her own. The only thing she had going for he

f those who constantly protected Rina, she c

it! And what about my sister? Luna's obviously much better than her! If yo

?" Lucas as

ugh gritted teeth, "The girl

elaborating with increasingly narrowed eyes. "The falling books? You

eart. "Forget it." She spat out before turning on her heels to

ecause no one else notices her! She deserves so much better! Why does that tramp get all t

d. She wanted to wait until her success was guarant

ious bedroom. She bit on her nails wit

at sickening gentle and innoce

s, a devilish smile slow

ace of hers... I wonder

unnoticed when she caught s

haracteristic smile. A random word

happened...? ...It's not s

and life, hoping that Erica would let some

his strong familial love led him to wholly and blindly place his faith and confidence in Erica. Her older brother spoiled the

cident, but Luna did not give up. S

rica had told her how she was inspired by Luna to work on her weaknesses. Luna refused to believed that someone as i

n present where Erica h

nce? Fate? Or is

nother report sent by the investigator. /She took a transparent li

hone and rushed to where Erica had alw

alone at a table in the almost empty canteen. She w

ttention was on Rina's table. She had to get the timing right. She did not spend this long observing for

versation in her group. Just as they stood up and prepared to l

from his captain's duties. Although there was no confession, everyone could tell that Victor and Rina liked each other. Unfortunate

y. While they walked past the group of boys, Erica teased her friend with a wink, "I'll help you to create a c

ear to ear and raising her arm to push her frien

save Rina and prevent the chain of even

out while running, giving herself a

her chair. The chair fell backwards hard enough to to make Rina's body flip out of the s

unt of 'water' go

amed, making the enti

hed her jaw so hard that it hurt to prevent herself from screaming. Her f

left in the bottle, she pretended to be angry

natched someone else's bottle to pour water on the

ing, he got pushed aside by Erica. Her face was full of tears. "J

dumbfounded the boys. Everyone looked at the siblin

hem? Is it rea

weakly. "It's okay. L

how much pain Luna had to be in. After all, the acid was modified by Erica herself to cause the highest level of pain possible. The only comfort s

ill crying her eyes out and apologising. Her eye

already did emergency care for my wound. Our family'

t. Rina's still all fine and pretty and you're the one that ended up hurt. Why...? Why did you have to come? Why did you have to int

h a hint of sadness in h

and she felt even more guilty. Fresh tears filled her eyes and streamed down her face without stopping again. "

ctor really worth all thes

ued. "You're more than this... Don't r

e unspoken pride behind those words. She hug