Sometimes the last hope is not a chance to win, but a choice of how to lose.
- I'll go alone.
- No.
"They are waiting for you." They follow you. And I - no. Bye.
Yuzuki stood in front of me, squeezing the leaf.
On it are the coordinates that we managed to intercept from the drone that we caught last week.
I let him leave. allowed to follow. I had false routes.
But this signal was real.
They left a loophole. Or ... they wanted us to find her.
- This is a trap.
- I know.
- Then why?
- Because if we do nothing, everything will be in vain.
We built a plan.
A weak place is the exchange point where materials, ciphers and reports were delivered.
If you destroy it, they will blind for a while.
Or maybe not.
But we did not go for the sake of victory. And for the sake of the principle.
For the sake of an attempt.
"If something goes wrong," I began.
"You will leave," she interrupted. - And you will continue. Without me.
- No.
- Yes.
She came closer.
"Kaoru ... I'm not a hero." I just wanted to be near. Just…
She did not finish.
I nodded.
Sometimes words are not needed.
Especially before the end.
night.
Yuzuki leaves.
I am on the roof of the building, in two quarters. I control the connection, surveillance, evacuation points.
Everything is under control.
except one.
heart.
- I see them.
- How many?
- Three. No ... five.
- leave. Now.
- late.
silence.
- Yuzuki?
- ... Kaoru.
- Do not be silent. Speak.
- They knew.
"I'm following you."
- No need.
I ran.
wind. Asphalt under the feet.
The signals in the headphone are dead.
Communication - breaks off.
The world - as if froze.
I'm late.
She lay on cold ground.
I looked up.
Eyes are still alive.
"Sorry," she whispered. - I wanted ...
- TSS. Don't say.
I held her.
Until she fell silent forever.