This is bad…
The situation is way out of my control.
"P–Princess!"
"Senior!"
"H–Help—n–no!"
Their voices echoed all around me—panicked, desperate.
Everyone's counting on me.
I… I need to do something.
I have to move, I have to fight—anything!
But—
It hurts.
It hurts so much…!
It's like thousands of tiny needles are piercing through every vein, every inch of my flesh.
Just a single twitch makes the pain flare up like fire under my skin.
My body refuses to listen. My mana—it's raging inside me like a storm, unstable and wild, threatening to tear me apart from within.
The only thing dulling the pain, even if barely, is the chill of my own magic—my unique attribute.
The ice running through my veins numbs me, keeps me from breaking completely…
But it's not enough.
No matter how much I try to suppress it, the curse… the corruption… it keeps crawling, spreading through me, vein by vein, bone by bone.
To get us out of this situation—
I needed to make a choice.
