The girl trudged across the snow with the impossibly heavy taser gun held against her chest.
She had crossed only a single ridge, yet her throat was already growing dry.
“Whew.”
But no.
This is only the beginning.
If I’m already like this, what am I going to do later?
The girl steadied her gradually rising breath and repeatedly swallowed.
Heat surging from inside her body and the fiercely cold air battled against one another across her skin, producing fatigue without restraint.
“Can I really do it……?”
By this point, even the girl was beginning to doubt her own choice.
That was only natural.
She had devised the plan herself, yet even she did not rate its chances particularly highly.
After all, without luck, her plan would fail at both the first step and the last.
It was a half-finished strategy.
She had entrusted the most important pieces to the heavens, so naturally, every time she imagined what lay ahead, she could only feel overwhelmed.
“No. I can do it.”
But whenever uncertainty began to intimidate her, the weight against her chest snapped her back to herself.
It was the weight of someone who had known how dangerous her plan was and chosen to turn a blind eye anyway.
『Honestly… if that’s what you’re going to do, why not just come with us instead? Ah, you don’t want to? Fine…….』
And that…