Watching Ren march into a suicide mission alone was an unbearable prospect; actively risking their own lives right beside him was an entirely different conversation.
Throughout the entire planning phase, all three women had vehemently opposed any scenario where Ren carried the full weight of the danger, vehemently refusing to stand safely on the sidelines while he gambled his life.
But the moment Ren inverted the proposition, the moment he asked them to step into the fire with him, to share the lethal strain and put their own skin on the line to help keep him breathing, their stubborn resistance evaporated.
They were more than willing to risk their lives alongside him.
It was a profound psychological shift. It was the stark difference between being helpless spectators to a martyrdom and being active participants in a shared, desperate gamble that actually offered him a fighting chance.
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