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But Kaori couldn't stop. The phantom images of the ruins—visions of people torn apart by the "games" of a cruel god—mirrored the turmoil in her own heart. Every time she looked at Hajime , she saw the person she failed to protect. Every time she saw him with Yue , she felt a hollow ache of inferiority.

Kaori flinched as if struck. "I just... I want to be the one by your side. I thought if I followed you here, I could make up for what happened in the Orcus Labyrinth". Arifureta_S2_05_Pro_ACB.mkv

"You can't," Hajime replied flatly. " Yue was the one there when I had nothing. She didn't stay because of guilt or duty; she stayed because she chose me. She is my number one. If you can't accept that—if you can only see yourself as 'less than' her—then you don't belong in this party". But Kaori couldn't stop

Finally, Hajime stopped. He turned to her, his crimson eye glowing with a clinical, almost brutal honesty. Every time she saw him with Yue ,

As a group of spectral pirates manifested from the shadows of the ruins, Hajime raised his weapon, ready to clear the path. Kaori took a breath, gripped her staff, and for the first time since entering the ruins, her eyes were clear. She wasn't just a classmate following a hero anymore; she was a woman fighting to prove she belonged in the world he had built.

Separated from Yue and the rest of the party by a sudden surge of illusory traps, the two were alone in a corridor that seemed to bleed ghostly images of a forgotten war. For Kaori , the silence between them was louder than the distant groans of the ruins. She watched Hajime’s back—the cold, efficient movements of a man who had survived the abyss by discarding his former self.

Hajime didn't turn around. "Stop apologizing. The labyrinth feeds on hesitation".