"You made a mistake you don't want to live with, and your solution is to beg the sister who's visibly about to fall apart to carry your death on top of everything else you've forced her to carry?"
Kaede's reaching hand dropped just as Black Fang decreed, "Your entire existence disgusts me."
The silence that followed was absolute. Even the suicide charging Fujimori soldiers in the stands paused.
"W-what...?" Kaede stared up at Black Fang with her mouth open and her hand limp against the ground, and whatever was left of the woman behind those eyes collapsed inward.
The begging stopped.
The reaching stopped.
Even the sobs stopped, because the woman on the ground had just been told that her desire to die was one more act of cruelty toward the sister she'd already ruined, and she had no answer for it.
