Chapter 53: Sister’s Secret

Chapter 53: Sister’s Secret

The morning after the maismic song was not a morning of victory. The grey cloud still sat rigidly on the horizon, a thick, suffocating blanket that refused to let the sun touch the earth. At the Okutama shrine, the fire pits were nothing but piles of cold, white ash. The survivors moved like ghosts, their faces pale and their eyes sunken. Ren’s counter-humming had saved their souls, but it had left their bodies hollow.

Ren sat on the edge of the porch, his left hand rhythmically massaging his blackened right arm. He could feel a faint, needle-like prickle deep within the bone, which is the first sign of returning sensation, but his mana was a thin line.

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