Chapter 37 - hope amidst darkness
I 'm such a fucking failure.
You honestly can 't even describe what you 're feeling right now. You 're afraid, of course. Terrified, even. But even that can 't fully encompass the magnitude of your despair. You doubt you would ever be able to articulate it, no matter how hard you try.
Wherever Mahito goes, death follows.
'Don 't try to fight, ' he warns you, still holding your body in place. 'I mean, you
could
fight, but just know that if you do, I 'll kill those two in the blink of an eye. You won 't be able to stop me. Just like you couldn 't stop me from killing that other woman before. Remember? '
He punctuates his statement with a cruel, resounding cackle. Junpei and Nagi are his hostages. This was a tactful and deliberate move on his part. He 's using them to corner you. You may be safe from his Idle Transfiguration, but you already know that they
aren 't
. And Mahito must know this, too.
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