Chapter 41: The Underneath Part 4

I fell to the ground the moment my hands were free from their bindings. It was like all of my energy had been sapped away by the sight that had unfolded before me.

Rin hadn't needed to die.

Rin hadn't even needed to be here.

Now, she had perished in the very room that her abusers had locked her away in ten decades ago, by a creature that was desperate to devour her very essence. A creature that had succeeded in devouring her very essence.

[ Mission failed! ]

[ Penalty applied: XP gain from your next ten fights will be cut in half! ]

I let out a scream, raw and guttural. I didn't care too much about the penalty that had been applied, but the pop-up from the system was the final confirmation of what I knew to be the case. Rin was dead, and there was no longer anything I could do to save her.