Weiss Kreuz Fan Fiction ❯ The Hope Diamond ❯ Fall - 27 ( Chapter 27 )

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Grief permeated the interior of the helicopter, a stunned sorrowful silence broken only by Omi's sobbing. The youngest Weiss was curled up in Ken's arms, crying his heart out and not caring if anyone else saw. There was nothing Ken could do, but to hold him tight, tears leaking from his own eyes as he wept as well.

Manx could hardly bear to watch. She kept her gaze averted, struggling with her own sorrow as well. Of all the teams in Kritiker and Co, Weiss was her pride and joy and the three members who formed the team her personal favorites.

She looked down at the slumbering girl lying comfortably across the seat.

What a heavy price they paid. Estet Foundation and Takatori Enterprises were gone; they had stopped a madman's bid for more power, saved the soul of an innocent young girl, but in return, lost one of their own.

She still couldn't believe what she had witnessed.

Yohji had willingly followed his lover into the fires of wild magic, into death.

Manx bit her lip, fighting the tears that threatened to fall. It was not fair. Not fair to Yohji, to Ran, to Ken and Omi, nor to the young girl next to her. It was all so not fair!

"Where-?" The weak girlish voice almost did not penetrated the shroud of grief.

Manx turned, hastily wiping her tears away as she looked.

Dark purplish eyes, wide and innocent, stared right back. Confusion and bewilderment swirled in their depths as the gaze turned to the grieving boys and then back to her again.

"Who are you?" Aya-chan asked in the same weak, dazed voice. "Where am I? Where is Ran-niichan?"

Somehow, Manx managed to find a smile for the confused young girl. "Good morning, Aya-chan. I have so many things to tell you."