Koishi looked up at her sister. Her smile was small. Real. Fragile as a spider’s web.
“Stop it,” she said, backing up. Her heel hit a rock. She stumbled. Fell backward. -ENG- Koishi Komeiji-s defeat- Cave Adventure -...
She didn’t mind. Koishi rarely minded anything. Her third eye was closed, not just the lid over her heart, but the deeper one—the one that felt the weight of other people’s expectations. She hummed a tuneless song, skipping over jagged stalagmites as if she were hopping between clouds. Koishi looked up at her sister
Satori stood there. Her older sister. Pink hair, third eye floating behind her, tears in her own crimson eyes. ” she said
It was just rusted shut.
And for the first time in a very, very long time, she saw .