"Elric!" Aurora appeared at my side, and I slowly turned towards her, a broken smile on my face, but my smile vanished when I noticed that her tails had reduced from four to two.
When I was resisting the flames from the heavens, I knew that the chief reason I could last for so long was due to the intervention of the Moon Fox. I tried to speak, but no sound came out.
She had spent a lot of herself already just keeping me alive through the pillar, and I had been drinking her vitality through the bond the whole time I burned, without asking, without knowing, and she had let me, and there was very little of her left. I felt it, as if she was burning down to a coal.
Fear filled my heart, because what the Moon Fox was sacrificing was not something that the loop could necessarily fix. She was not like me, who could burn their soul to ash every time, and what she was losing here may never be returned… and this thought scared me to almost madness.
