45 The Fall of The Innocent

"Hyun…"

There were so many things he wanted to do, so many actions available, so many emotions flooding through his mind–but all of those options only made him a scrambling mess as he crawled to his feet. He nearly fell back over in doing so, picking up his sword as tears flooded from his ears.

"Let her go…!"

As he rushed towards the man, screaming at the top of his lungs as tears fled in his sprint, he was stopped, left frozen as the giant, brutish man tossed his battered sister directly towards him.

"...Ara?!"

His aggression completely halted as he spread his arms, giving up his attack in order to catch his sister. As soon as he caught her, he held her tightly in his arms as if afraid of losing her again.

Hearing how faint her breathing was, he felt his heart shatter, seeing up close just what the state of her body was.