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|ORION|

Stop.

I looked down at my hands, crimson red pooled over them. My sword trembled in my grasp, and my breath quickened.

“O-or-Ori-on,” I gasped, raising my head to see onyx eyes looking at me.

His dark hair was stained in blood, his expression unreadable as he surveyed the scene before him. Blood stained the ground, a stark reminder of the violence that had unfolded in its midst.

His accusing gaze burned into my soul with an intensity that seared through me like a flame.

I couldn't bring myself to say his name, my head spun as he kept glitching.

“H-how could you, Orion?” his voice cried out, the words echoing in the cavernous depths of my mind. “How could you!”

The accusation cut through me like a knife, each word a jagged edge that tore at my very being. I felt the weight of his judgment bearing down on me, crushing me beneath its merciless weight.

“You're a monster, Orion,” His voice rang out, the words echoing in the empty recesses of my mind. “A cold-blooded killer.”

I reco