Ysabelle Blackburn (3)

"I was the one who brought that Outer Demon."

Ysabelle's voice wavered as her body failed to listen to her demands. Trembling like a scorched leaf in the summer, the young girl's body temperature rose while the pure agate eyes turned mistier by the second.

"I was the one who caused your injury, Jin. I was the one who made you lose fifteen years of your life! I-I was the one-..."

Tears broke free from the young woman's face. Hiccups shook her dainty little shoulders while the ferocity of the War Goddess was nowhere to be found. What laid before me wasn't an indomitable warrior but a young girl with broken emotions. Ysabelle attempted to stop her sobs, but the more she tried, the more the tears fell.

Before long, the girl had turned into a broken little girl who sobbed endlessly on my lap.

"Ysabelle… Calm down…"