Chapter 725: Slowly Gathering The Keys

She chose you, she chose the rest of you over her own daughter. Over her own family…

…do you think someone like that is really capable of betraying mankind?"

"I believe all of us are capable of everything if the right parameters are set and triggered, Gracy."

"What?"

It wasn't just their conversation setting the mood, the empty park in the otherwise noisy and busy city caused their breaths to literally be trapped in the dim expanse they find themselves in. It made their already serious conversation turn even more… desolate.

It was only her, him, and the statue of someone that has abandoned them. One is a promise of blood. The other, a covenant that was broken. Aerith has promised Riley that she will never let him leave her side—that she would stop her no matter what.

She did stop him in their universe, and she stayed there.

She lied.