Then…The witch slowly opened her eyes. There was no fear in them, no hatred, no panic. Only a quiet, almost heartbreaking acceptance.Her crimson gaze never lingered on Lucien.Instead, it drifted past him… Past the blade buried in her chest… And settled upon the giant charging towards them.For a long moment…She simply looked at him.The deafening roar of the battlefield seemed to fade into the distance.The giant was still racing forward with all the fury of a living catastrophe, yet the witch's expression softened with an emotion that Lucien couldn't quite name.Sorrow?Affection?Perhaps even… farewell?Then…A single tear escaped the corner of her eye, gliding slowly down her pale cheek.Then another followed… And another.Soon, tears flowed freely, slipping silently down her face one after another, each one carrying a sorrow too deep for words.She never sobbed, she never cried out. She simply wept… quietly, helplessly, as though every tear was a farewell she had been holding
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