Leon walked toward his parents, every step heavy with a thought he could not shake.
'If I had been a minute late, they would all be dead.'
The moment he had left the trial world, he had appeared at what should have been a functioning base. Instead, it had been hollowed out.
Empty corridors. No life. That alone had set his instincts screaming. Demons soon swarmed the teleportation pad, drawn by the disturbance, and he cut them down without pause.
Then he activated Racheal's talent, spreading its perception outward.
Seeing the current state of the world nearly froze him in place.
Until his senses noticed Unit Alpha and the fact that it was being erased.
Before he could fully process it, his attention snapped to the epicenter. Sakura. Vines. Blood. Trial takers dying by the second. And worse than that, far worse, his father impaled straight through the chest.
Leon did not hesitate.
