We shouldn't have skipped past it when we were in Alpha's mind...
We missed a crucial clue that day...
You can't hide the bitterness of being kept from the truth, but you can't help but feel a sense of anticipation. Perhaps there's still a chance, and maybe fate has other plans for the sisters after all.
Devour you... and then live on?
I'd rather die here with you, Luna!
I've held on this long... to protect you...
We're out of time! Sis...
Just try to "devour" me. I'll merge with your body, but I won't die. I'll live inside you symbiotically. We'll be together forever, just like how we tricked Mom when we were little.
Only this time, we'll be tricking the entire world.
I can't take that risk.
There's no time. The monsters are coming.
I don't want to be a burden to you. Let's try it, just this once.
If we fail, we can always just die afterward.
And if that happens, we'll meet again in whatever world comes next, Sis.
Lucia can feel blood seeping from her body, while tears of blood force her to wipe her eyes just to see the devastation before her. She holds her sister in the dark, using every ounce of strength to envelop and... absorb her.
She remembers going to the hospital
when her sister was just born.
As she held the tiny, fragile life in her arms,
she made a silent promise:
I will protect Luna for the rest of my life.
This is my wish as her older sister.
"Sis... Please live on.
As long as you live, I live too.
I'm sorry, Sis. I shouldn't have abandoned you back then.
I was a bad sister..."
That day marks the death of the humans Lucia and Luna.
It is a cold, fall night,
with roses blooming outside the testing grounds,
nourished by the remains of the dead.
That day, the Aberration Alpha crosses the sea of death.
She sees all the children who have died from the tests
stand along a rose-lined path,
wearing their prison clothes,
silently smiling and waving to the two sisters.
Alpha carries Luna in her arms,
leaving only a single set of footprints on the beach
before being washed away by the waves.
The moment Luna's soul sinks into the depths of her mind,
Alpha's irises become two different colors.
"I want to protect Luna for the rest of my life."
She made that wish once.
But no wishes are meant to come true.
As Luna's body gradually grows cold,
her voice resonates from the depths of Alpha's mind.
They have succeeded...
From this moment on, we are one.
From this moment on, we are one.
This is our secret.
No one else will know.
This is not an act of devouring. It is symbiosis—
a secret that belongs only to the two of us.
The throne of evolution has been claimed by two sisters.
This is no curse, but mercy from the divine.
Alpha stands before a blurry mirror, fixating on her right eye until its reflection expands, covering the entire surface.
Luna awakens within the mirror, drowsily acting spoiled and clingy toward her sister.
Something's off about Cradle.
She's been collecting my blood. Got herself a whole boxful.
Luna catches this crucial information and sits up sharply, alert as a small predator.
I sense your murderous intent. Do you want to kill her?
No. Just thinking about switching doctors. Can't exactly entrust my life to someone I don't trust...
You should let her continue. I'm quite curious to see what bold moves Cradle might make. She might surprise us yet.
For instance, she might create a perfect vessel capable of housing me. By the way, does she still enjoy making those puppets?
As usual... Alright.
I'm heading out, Luna. You look exhausted.
Alpha seized immense power after that incident, but was forced to seal away Luna's soul. For a single body, two souls have proved too heavy a burden.
She has been dashing endlessly between the Mist and the city, searching for a suitable vessel for Luna.
Don't worry. We'll never find ourselves in any real danger even if there's a threat.
As long as I exist, no one will ever threaten you, Sis.
Luna, sometimes I worry you're just a hallucination. Maybe that's why we can only meet here.
So you've been trying to kill yourself all along? Throwing yourself into battles, hoping that I would appear and take control of this body in those near-death moments?
Which one is truly the madwoman between us?
You cast aside the name Lucia... you became Alpha, just so you'd never forget that night.
But Sis, "Alpha" is our pride, not your sin.
Luna, it was because of you that I became Alpha. And because of you... I can never forgive her.
This hatred I carry for "myself" is the only thing left that lets me feel you. If I lose that too... I don't know how to keep living.
...Please, Sis, don't die... Don't leave me...
Luna vanishes in Alpha's embrace, a loss the Countess has never grown accustomed to.
Countless times she buries herself in mourning,
and countless times she wages war against the world to bring her back to life.
