Sitting on the porch of the cottage with elbows on her knees and back hunched. Aiko looked at the waves on the river then shifted her gaze to the very spot where the woman who had taken care of her had been drowned by the Bishamon Brotherhood. She lazily looked away and stared at her hands that were opened in front of her. She clenched her hands and bit her wobbling bottom lip then shut her eyes tightly.
"Why did it have to be me?" She asked and inhaled convulsively. "I can't do this. I am not capable of saving anyone, I am just an ordinary person. How can I carry the weight of so many unknown things on my shoulders and fight something that is so bigger than me?"
Aiko covered her face with her hands and cried into them. Her shoulders shook as she cried deeper at the numerous thoughts of
