Akinari PoV
I stared at my daughter's crystalized body, a chilling sight that stirred a mix of dread and determination within me. These past few days had been a relentless struggle to balance the mana she absorbed from Rosemary with her prana, but even my considerable magic had its limits. My beloved daughter wasn't dead—at least not in the traditional sense. I had managed to place her consciousness into Desrem, a realm where she could grow stronger by visualizing her revenge against those who wronged her.
Yet, for her to return to this plane of existence, I needed to shatter the crystalline matrix that bound her.
But that task was fraught with peril. Her nature as an abysmal complicated everything; the core that formed the crystals was her own heart. One miscalculated move, and I could inadvertently harm her or, even worse, extinguish the flickering light of her spirit forever.
