“Hngh, hic…….”
Her ragged breathing soon turned into sobbing.
At first, it was a thin, fragile sound.
But stagger, stagger.
Each time she forced her buckling knees to hold and took another step—
“Hic, hngh…… ngh. Ngh…… ah…….……”
The emotions welling up inside her climbed higher.
Even gritting her teeth could not gather back the feelings overflowing from her.
She walked.
“Ah, ngh…… ah, hic…… ah…….”
Leaving the mountain behind.
Once again.
She ran away.
“Aah, ah…….”
From what?
She no longer even knew.
She had run and run, only to reach this road—and now she was walking it in order to run away yet again.
She had done this her entire life.
She had already run so very far.
Why am I—
How much farther—
Thud.
At last, her knees could no longer bear the weight and struck the ground.
Ragged breaths.
A choking throat.
Vision blurred by sweat.
The burning mountain and the screams.
The countless lives she had to turn her back on and leave behind.
And her own helpless self.
She hated everything.
Everything.
This trial, the world, and most of all herself, so unbearably pathetic.
The girl screamed.