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As a group of spectral pirates manifested from the shadows of the ruins, Hajime raised his weapon, ready to clear the path. Kaori took a breath, gripped her staff, and for the first time since entering the ruins, her eyes were clear. She wasn't just a classmate following a hero anymore; she was a woman fighting to prove she belonged in the world he had built.

Finally, Hajime stopped. He turned to her, his crimson eye glowing with a clinical, almost brutal honesty.

Kaori flinched as if struck. "I just... I want to be the one by your side. I thought if I followed you here, I could make up for what happened in the Orcus Labyrinth". Arifureta_S2_05_Pro_ACB.mkv

Hajime didn't turn around. "Stop apologizing. The labyrinth feeds on hesitation".

But Kaori couldn't stop. The phantom images of the ruins—visions of people torn apart by the "games" of a cruel god—mirrored the turmoil in her own heart. Every time she looked at Hajime , she saw the person she failed to protect. Every time she saw him with Yue , she felt a hollow ache of inferiority. As a group of spectral pirates manifested from

The truth was cold, but it acted like a splash of freezing water, clearing the illusions that had begun to crowd Kaori's mind. She realized that her love had become a chain of self-pity. To truly stand beside Hajime , she didn't need to be Yue ; she needed to stop being the girl who was sorry for existing.

"You can't," Hajime replied flatly. " Yue was the one there when I had nothing. She didn't stay because of guilt or duty; she stayed because she chose me. She is my number one. If you can't accept that—if you can only see yourself as 'less than' her—then you don't belong in this party". Finally, Hajime stopped

"You're always looking down, Kaori . Always faking a smile while you compare yourself to Yue," he said, his voice cutting through the damp air like a blade. "You're drowning in your own regrets, and in a place like this, that makes you a liability".