To my dear goddess.
I still haven’t found my justice. I keep on wandering to this day.
In fact, I don’t even think I wander. When I lost myself to vengeance, I lost my right to fight for justice.
How can I claim to be searching for it now? I have stopped. Stopped traveling. Stopped growing. Turned my back on everything I’ve learned—everything I saw seven years ago, and everything Adi and Alfia taught me.
…But perhaps this is just another step along the road of justice. Perhaps, one day, I will be able to move on, and search for my answer once more, and if that day comes…
…then I will come and see you.
This I swear, on the sword and wings of justice,
and on the wishes I carry with me.
Lyu thought back over the letter she’d left in Hermes’s care and slowly opened her eyes.
She was still standing before the grave of her friends. A mass grave without any bodies—only the broken weapons that Lyu once fought alongside.
Floor eighteen: Under Resort.
The place her friends had once wished to be buried. Lyu had come here to relive the experiences of seven years ago, in the war of good and evil.
A smile appeared on her lips. “Alize,” she said. “All of you. One day…I think I’d like to start my journey again.”
There were still regrets. There were still sins she had to atone for. But Lyu made her intent clear to her friends nonetheless.
“Until then, Adi. I’ll watch over the justice you passed on to this city.”
Perhaps her meager wish was not enough to reach the shooting stars above. It was proof she was not ready to move on just yet.
But the elf knew one thing for sure: Wherever she went from here, it would only take her further on her journey. That was what allowed her to face her friends with pride in her heart and an oath on her lips.
“I’ll be thinking of the future you all dreamed of.”
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Be troubled.
For that is how you grow.
Journey alongside your worries and fears.
And at the end of it all, I will await your answer…
…in the astral record, written into the stars above.