291 I want to be strong.

"Where… did you even come from…" Nino asked, grabbing her severed right arm with her left.

"Well, I've been here." Karim replied. "From the start."

He gazed at the crimson blade for a while as the halo over his head halted its movements allowing its Runes to become visible. Some disappeared and new ones took their place before they resumed spinning and once their shapes blurred the new halo appeared looking a bit different from the previous one.

"I thought I should get this one while I still can." He said.

Four red lines appeared beside him joining to form a small square, the small space it encased began to distort in a haze. Glancing at it once, the boy then pushed the Artifact toward it, but what happened didn't seem to be what he expected as his eyes widened a little.

"Right… I guess that's why she always kept it out…"