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Chapter 59: Visiting Instructor [3]
Chapter 59: Visiting Instructor [3]
Chapter 59: Visiting Instructor [3]
Perhaps it was intentional. Or perhaps it wasn't, given that the guide never accounted for the lives of NPCs.
It was just a game, after all.
It was just a game, but….
——That's my boy…. that's my boy in there….
A woman stood by the edge of the grave.
——Mom…. why isn't Dad coming back home?
A young girl, no older than ten, asked.
On the other side of the cemetery, a young man knelt in front of a different headstone.
——You promised, brother…. You said you'd be there at my graduation, remember? You said it like it was nothing. So why? Why aren't you here?
It was a funeral.
A funeral for the guards who lost their lives in the Index incident.
They weren't just NPCs anymore. They had stories. They had lives. They had families waiting for them.
A line of uniforms stood in silence. Fellow guards of the Index Prison. Their hands were raised in a salute while the rain soaked into their uniforms.
They watched as the names were read aloud. One by one.
"Guard First Class, Reimar Clive."
"Guard Second Class, Elias Thorpe."
"Guard Third Class, Frida Whittaker."
"Senior Guard, Maxwell Brecht."
"Guard Second Class, Alan Torez."
With every name called, the rain grew heavier. No one moved. No one spoke. It wasn't just rain soaking their faces anymore.
These were the ones who didn't make it. The ones who wouldn't be going home.
Doooo— Doooo— Doooo—
A single trumpet played from the back. The flag draped over each coffin was slowly folded and handed off to the families of the fallen.
"Thanks for coming, Professor," Alaric said, standing beside Vanitas.
"It's the least I could do," Vanitas replied.
Indeed, while he had completely disregarded their lives, all for the sole purpose of his goal, Vanitas at least had to show up.
Perhaps, it was the guilt that swallowed him up, or perhaps, it was out of sympathy, any kind of reasoning felt cowardly.
But he had to remember them.
He had to remember their faces.
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