My heart felt like it had been dropped into a well…
"Big Brother will leave???"
I asked, my voice small…
I didn't want him to go…
I wanted to stay in this warm, golden bubble forever…
But when he spoke of his own family, I remembered a flickering image of a woman's face—my mother, perhaps???—and I realized that even a Hero has a home…
Although she ran away in adversity leaving me behind but she was still my mother…
I pouted, feeling selfish, and let him pat my head again…
Then, we reached Vesla…
My home…
I saw the soldiers leveling their halberds, and I panicked…
I didn't want them to be smashed like the castle!!!
I clutched his sleeve, begging him with my eyes…
And he listened…
He actually listened to me…
He treated me like a person, not a Saintess…
But the General…
Iriel…
I saw her taunt him…
I saw her bitterness, the same bitterness I had felt when I left…
I wanted to tell her to stop, but before I could speak, the Hero moved…
He threw her aside like she was nothing—the strongest warrior I knew, tossed like a rag doll…
Then came the final scene…
The scene that is now burned into the very core of my soul…
I watched from the battlements as Big Brother walked into the sky…
He didn't use a ladder; he made the air his own…
He sat on a throne of red-gold, looking down at the millions of monsters that had haunted my every waking moment…
He looked like a King…
No…
He looked like a God…
So Shiny and Magnificent…
At least that was how my mind could process the scene…
"Because I am Honkai!!!"
When the sky exploded with thousands of golden weapons, I fell to my knees...
The "Sea of Ink" that had swallowed my village, my parents, and my friends…
It was being mowed down like common grass…
The silence that followed wasn't the heavy silence of despair; it was a holy, scorched peace…
I looked at him, standing in the void, silhouetted by the golden rain of his own power…
My Big Brother...
My Hero…
The man who mows down calamities and pinches my cheeks like I'm a teddy bear…
I know now that the world is still gray…
I know there are more monsters out there…
But as I look at the golden earth he left behind, I realize that for the first time in twenty years, I'm not just a child born of Despair…
I am a Saintess who has seen a Miracle…
And I will follow him, even if he leaves, for as long as my heart beats…
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