The Only Color - Four - II
If once Ravenna believed she had no companions because none could match her stride, now, upon facing the unveiled truth, she realized it was not that they couldn't keep up, but rather...
But that she had always been alone on this path.
While everyone else had quietly shifted their course and mindset, believing they erred not and still pursued Eileen's vision...
Only she, pitifully, tragically, ludicrously... charged towards an unreachable endpoint, risking everything, sacrificing all.
This was the only lie told by the Tower of Babel's elite to Ravenna, aside from concealing Eileen's death—a lie that, upon her learning the truth, led her to ruin.
When she looked up, asking "Who among you still upholds Grandfather's vision?" she was met with silence.
—The puppet born from fifteen years of fervor was forsaken by that very fervor.