'Ugh... it hurts! '
Ishiki slowly opened his eyes slowly, embracing the throbbing agony all over his body.
He had used [Sorrow's Edge] at the last moment. The purple flames that could make anything disappear did their work and ate one of the standing pillars just before the blood circle could complete.
He didn't remember anything that happened after that.
He tried to move and immediately regretted it. Fresh agony exploded through his ribs that were definitely broken. His left shoulder felt wrong, dislocated or fractured, he couldn't tell.
His face was a mass of swelling and split skin where Filch's marble-enhanced fists had connected.
Images flashed through his mind... and they did nothing to ease his pain.
Nina's face as she looked at him with wide eyes, that were filled with terror and betrayal.
Sorrow's Edge piercing through her chest and her body going limp.
It made his stomach act weirdly. He bent to his side and threw up a mouthful of blood.
