
He had taken them all under his wings, to be shepherded until their Queen found her way to them.

“If you don’t protect this boat, who will?” Magi’s eyes were fury and despair in equal measures. “Major! Get a hold of yourself! We believe in you!” he screamed, voice breaking halfway through, and this time Kyousuke heard.

He didn’t hear Magi calling him until the man – not a child, not anymore – surged to his feet and seized him by the collar. He had failed, just as his body was failing him. Her kingdom, their home.īut he was weak after all. It would never have to sink to the bottom of the sea. He could guard his Queen’s throne for her. In his arrogance, he had thought he could stop this. Not again.īut the Catastrophe was burning, and as he landed unsteadily on the deck by the pool, his eyes wouldn’t detach from the blood on Magi’s arm. Not again, he kept thinking, half-hysterical.

This was his home, his family, his life getting annihilated before his eyes.
