
"Why is he coming now...?" Koizumi started the conversation with a gloomy expression when she saw Korrina for the first time coming in a less than appropriate time.
"What...?" Ask Arata.
Hinoka put on a shocked look when she saw her own grandmother did indeed have a resemblance in hair color and both blue eyes were easily holy like heaven.
"Anu..." Shinobu called Korrina until she looked directly at the golden-haired little girl.
"Your name must be Shinobu Koneko. I'm your grandmother, yes, you could say that." Korrina said it in an awkward tone.
Shinobu stepped back to hide behind Shira because of her embarrassment when she met someone she knew but had not welcomed each other for a long time.
"God..he looks like Kou..." Korrina smiled bitterly until her heart felt so heavy when she saw her three grandchildren for the first time.
"Why are you shy like that, son? Didn't you go beyond the attitude that made you feel ashamed?" Shira asked who started stroking her head.
"No. anu.. it seems Koneko wants to report this incident directly to Mama, but she has rested quietly."
"That's it..." Korrina tried to brave herself by approaching all of them but Hinoka immediately called herself with a sad expression.
"Why are you here now...?" Ask Hinoka who remembers Honoka saying that her mother will always be protected by her grandmother who guards heaven.
Only Hinoka and Koizumi spoke directly to Korrina until Arata and Shizen tried to ask them for help in order to maintain politeness.
"Hinoka, can't--"
"Ti-No...!" Hinoka denied in a limp voice as her feelings of sadness and trauma re-emerged about Honoka who fell in her arms.
Shinobu looked at Hinoka and Koizumi with worried expressions until she could do nothing but let them vent all the sadness about their own Mother.
Shinobu could only remain silent as she herself knew Kou's clear answer that she was content to see her mother in her final days.
But for them it might have a different history, "What's with your two cousins, Shinobu?"
"Ko-Koneko doesn't know..." Shinobu shook her head.
"Why...!? Why isn't Grandma there for my mom!?" Hinoka asked who started raising her tone so that Korrina could see Hinoka's eyes begin to glaze over.
"Mama has been waiting for you for a long time.Hundred years you just came to see my mother who has been dead for a long time..."
"...sorry, a limb that disappears until it is filled with so much blood..."
"...ask your request to come and help to save her!" Hinoka started crying.
Hinoka showed a seriousness that shocked all of them, rarely did he behave like that because he usually himself advertise insanely.
"That's why I may be late to come." Replied Korrina who had a guilty expression.
"Why did you go that far...!? Would you rather have a long trip than your own family...!?"
The past trauma affected his mind back to the point of causing both of his eyes to turn red with hatred towards Korrina who had never come home and was there for her own mother.
"Ware...! Hinoka, stop!!!" Shizen immediately pulled Hinoka before he completely lost control.
Korrina leapt back only to avoid altering the reality of the explosion that almost hit her with all her friends who were near the explosion.
The explosion shocked all of them because what Hinoka said was really serious, at first they thought the meeting between grandmother and granddaughter would warm the heart but the result was the opposite.
Hinoka had actually unleashed countless transformations of reality into explosions but all of them were sucked into the Heaven's Gate until it was tightly sealed and left behind a single magic.
His mind continued to be affected by that trauma until he tried to turn Korrina's body into an explosion but Shinobu managed to put herself to sleep by just speaking inside her mind.
Hinoka immediately fell on Shizen's lap, "I apologize profusely for Hinoka's current behavior..."
"It's okay. I was wrong, he had the right points." Answer Korrina.
"Where did you go to spend hundreds of years...? Trying to escape that responsibility?" Koizumi now started talking.
"Koizumi, stop---"
"Shut up, Grandpa. This has nothing to do with you." Koizumi said because the matter relates to Haruka and her descendants as Comi.
"It's my own parentage's business and what my mother really wants." Koizumi clenched both fists and then stepped forward towards Korrina.
Their gaze met each other instantly but with a different look on her face, Korrina felt even more guilty when she saw Koizumi putting on an annoyed expression due to her late arrival.
"You must be Haruka's daughter... Shimatsu Koizumi -"
"Why are you coming now...? Why not before where Touriverse was still arguably sane and did not accept any madness..."
"...explain to me what you brought along during your trip." Koizumi said with an annoyed expression.
Korrina nodded then she explained everything back from beginning to end to all of them, this time hearing the bad news was Hana, Koizumi, Shizen, and Hinoka who were asleep.
The explanation ended ten minutes later until the fire that had been burning inside Koizumi's body only grew bigger when it came to knowing Ragnarok was the end of everything.
The fire felt like it was receiving a flush of gasoline so Koizumi continued to clench her teeth resentfully, "That trip doesn't give you any advantage..."
"...you have received no gain but loss in any viewpoint, including leaving the fallen Mother waiting for your quick arrival!"
"My mother was waiting for you to come home, but you never came back and were by her side even when I was born there was none..."
"...Go all the way by spending a long time just to bring bad news that suppresses a lot of people." Both Koizumi's fists trembled instantly.
"Koizumi, I'm sorry..."
"...it seems like I did make a mistake to go that far just to prevent Ragnarok who has been unstoppable."
"That means everything I see could be dead in an instant... Ragnarok, war between the two occupants who are inside the layer..." Koizumi.
"...it sucks, at first I expected a peace of life but the curse we met until it treated us with something terrible."
Hearing Ragnarok's explanation had scared Koizumi because he could not imagine what was happening inside the battlefield, but he at least received the motivation to train endlessly to prepare himself.
"That's it..." Koizumi stepped away from Korrina without saying anything because she harbored a hatred for herself that left her most important responsibility.
"Is everything you say true, Korrina...?" Hana asked with a flat look.
"Yes.we just need to wait for the Goddess of judgment to come to commemorate us about the end of everything..."
"...Ragnarok."
"Oh."
"Where are you going, Koizumi? At least you need to speak well to your grandmother, even if the trip doesn't yield any results..."
"...at least he tried his best to withstand all threats until he finally managed to give us some important information!"
Koizumi stopped stepping then she glanced back only to see Korrina once again who was putting on a guilty look.
Korrina without a second thought knelt down before Koizumi and prostrated herself before him just to apologize profusely, "I apologize..."
"...please forgive myself for never learning from his own mistakes, it feels like seeing a regret from the beginning is arguably quite difficult."
"I don't mind at all if you want to hate me or not, but I just want to apologize for all the trouble and delay I did."
"... ..." Without taking out a single word, Koizumi and Hana instantly moved to another dimension because Koizumi still could not accept herself.
The delay that changed Touriverse from any point of view to the loss of the lives of his three daughters and gave the worst news ever, Ragnarok.
Because Koizumi could look back at history using her cube, she could tell clearly how terrifying Ragnarok was when she witnessed it with Hana in that dimension.
Arata feels responsible about it but if he is in Koizumi's position then the reaction is also arguably the same.
Going far away without giving any good results for the sake of sacrificing all the important things is tantamount to a lie, "Sorry, Korrina..."
"...I will represent Koizumi's apology to you." Arata lowered his head but Korrina immediately shook her head.
"It's okay, I'm the one who deserves it." Replied Korrina who started to smile bitterly.
All that remained was Shinobu in both Shira's body, silence re-emerged so that Korrina began to discuss back about the Ragnarok until it caused some resignation.
Shira, Arata, and Haruki are forced to backtrack the training schedule in order to support Korrina from behind in explaining Ragnarok to everyone.
For now, it is better to rest first before the fear and trauma about Ragnarok comes affecting again.
Ophilia looked at Korrina who was walking limp from being surprised by Hinoka and Koizumi's reaction, she also still couldn't even forgive herself for leaving her three children.
"Korrina, let me help you." Ophilia helped Korrina to walk as she looked limp to the point of not knowing how to move her legs.
"Everything will be fine.it may take some time for them to be aware of your struggle..."
"...they are girls who have grown up, of course they will feel annoyed sooner."
"What struggle can't I call it a struggle if I've harmed so many..." Korrina smiled bitterly.
"...well, I'm ready to accept everything anyway I don't mind if they hate me, it's a reasonable choice."
"If you want to be angry and hate myself, that's fine..."
"Don't be that pessimistic.I've understood what you're trying to do."
They all began to disperse to prepare Ragnarok, Korrina had asked them not to wait for anyone but themselves to prepare Ragnarok with training.
"Shino..."
"Yes...?"
"Do you hate him?" Ask Shira.
"Koneko hates grandma Korrina." Answer Shinobu honestly.
"So, you handled it well..." Shira stroked her head when she saw Shinobu who could control her feelings.
"But even though I hated her, ignoring Grandma was not an option because she had just returned home to feel a lot of pain..."
"...everything feels sudden." Shinobu took off Shira's hand then she stepped towards Korrina only to pull her left arm until she immediately turned her head back.
"grandmother.." Said Shinobu with her innocent look.
"What's up, Koneko...?" Korrina smiled slightly at herself.
"Ehh...? Go home...?"
"Mm, to the house."