[ The moment the shadow dives for Sumina, all other thoughts seems to fly from his mind β in some backwards way, by focusing on attacking someone other than himself, the shadow has freed him from the mental hold it had on him by using the ghosts of his past against him. All that matters now is that the shadow is attacking someone to get back at him. Someone else might stand to get hurt because of him β
A shield rises to protect her before he can intervene, the glow of a soft light at her chest as its source. Later, much later, he'll definitely be asking for that, but once is more than enough. He's been such an idiot, just lying here in a stupor, unable to so much as lift a finger to protect her when she had been trying to help him β
It won't happen again. Sumina might catch its blow more easily than he expected, and that gives him all the time that he needs, while the shadow is distracted by Sumina's countermeasures. It should have been so obvious before, how to solve this problem, but preoccupied as he was with his own emptiness without his shadow beneath him, he hadn't realized it until this moment.
But maybe he's just the desperate to make sure Sumina doesn't get hurt. Especially not on his behalf.
Keeping a firm grasp on her hand with one of his own, he lifts the other, his index finger and middle finger interwoven. Where can't a shadow follow them? ]
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A shield rises to protect her before he can intervene, the glow of a soft light at her chest as its source. Later, much later, he'll definitely be asking for that, but once is more than enough. He's been such an idiot, just lying here in a stupor, unable to so much as lift a finger to protect her when she had been trying to help him β
It won't happen again. Sumina might catch its blow more easily than he expected, and that gives him all the time that he needs, while the shadow is distracted by Sumina's countermeasures. It should have been so obvious before, how to solve this problem, but preoccupied as he was with his own emptiness without his shadow beneath him, he hadn't realized it until this moment.
But maybe he's just the desperate to make sure Sumina doesn't get hurt. Especially not on his behalf.
Keeping a firm grasp on her hand with one of his own, he lifts the other, his index finger and middle finger interwoven. Where can't a shadow follow them? ]
Domain Expansion β