Rin woke up about 7 hours after the initial fall, by then, we had already arrived back at the school. Many lives were lost in this mission both from Oras and Jaegers. The forces of the demons were so difficult to match. The sun was already set, and the remaining Jaegers and Oras were extremely exhausted. "Where... wha...?" Rin started to regain her consciousness. The others are out resting, it was just me who waited right next to her. She looked at me, then immediately looked away, holding her left upper-arm, covering her Ookami mark.

"I'm glad you survived that fall," I smiled at her, then stood up from my chair, "is there anything you want me to bring here?"

Rin quietly shook her head, she then looked through the window, towards the dark cloudy sky. I thought it's better to leave her for now, letting her rest. But the moment I walked away from her, she called my name.

"Thank you," she continued, then continued to look outside the window.

I smiled once again, then left the room. I overthought about the mark on her arm. Could it be that her hatred is linked to where she came from? Could it be that she is my long lost sibling?

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At midnight, the discovery still puzzled me. I couldn't get a peaceful sleep, then I decided to wander around the building in the middle of the cold-breezing wind. When I looked through the window, I saw her sitting on the bench just outside, near the training field. She was in the middle of stargazing, apparently at that point, the stars finally shone through.

"Beautiful isn't it?" I walked toward her. At first she was startled, but then she nodded slowly. "I thought you were resting at the health center,"

She didn't reply to my concern,"Why did you save me?" Rin asked suddenly.

Then I sat beside her, answered her question while noticing that one of the stars started twinkling, "Well, I guess you already know the answer,"

"I think you don't fully understand others' perception about you, Kyuuto," she started to get annoyed again.

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I was kind of scared to ask, but curiosity got the best of me, "What do you mean by that?"

"People actually despise your existence... they really hate you. My team even planned on assassinating you once, but failed because you always wander outside of the mission boundaries. They were afraid to go that far. It's a miracle that happened... what do you think about that?"

"To be honest, I don't care that much about people actually hating me. The last thing I wanna do is to fight with fellow warriors. Taking revenge is more important than people's way of thinking about me,"

Rin grew more upset after listening to my answer, "Stop acting all cool, Kyuuto! All of this happened because of you, because of that damn curse you brought to this country!" she then stood up and continued yelling, "it's just-- you always act like this since you were little, I'm so sick of it!!" she then stomped the ground and panted.

"I'm sorry-- since I was... little?"

Rin blushed and turned her head away. There was a moment of awkward silence for a couple seconds, but felt like eternity. She then bravely faced me again, and answered with a stammered voice, "Y-Yeah, since you were little. To think that you don't remember me for years... it's painful," tears then began to overflow in her eyes.

"Wait--- what?" I completely didn't remember meeting Rin as a child, until she finally opened up to me that day.

Rin grunted, adjusting her bangs to the side, then making a twintail out of her long black hair, "See? Remember this?!" her expression detonates my brain. From the look of her eyes, I could see a lost memory, deep within my unconscious jumble of thoughts.---

"Hey where are you going?! Come back here!"

"No! Chase me!" *laughs*

...

"Watch out!!"

"Whoa!!--"

A girl fell after stumbling over a rock, her right knee was bruised. A gentle tear shed onto her right cheek. But in the middle of that, she laughs out of happiness.---

"Do you remember now?" Rin snapped me back to reality.

"It can't be... you---"

"Yes, I was your childhood friend, Kyuuto. And I'm also your cousin---"

Before Rin even finished her sentence, my tongue rolled on its own and mentioned a name. Her real name, "---Miyu?"