Chapter 34
Her hands are trembling and she feels rage fill her. It is hot and sticky, like shame and it spills down her back to the very tips of her toes, bleeding out a shiny red on her pale cheeks.
What has she done to deserve this? Tears fill her eyes but she doesn’t let them spill down her cheeks. She bites her lip until it bleeds and then soothes the bite marks over with a shaky tongue.
Why did they do this to her?
“Kaijin.” She mutters to herself. Sakura ignores the half-startled look of the medic hovering over her, checking that gods damned seal, “I’ll always be kaijin to them.”
Her bitter, teary smile stays in the heads of those who work on her today for a long, long time.
The vengeance and betrayal—no matter how flimsy, how expected—stays in hers for far longer.