-eng- Koishi Komeiji-s Defeat- Cave Adventure -... Info

She looked down.

And rust, she realized, could be broken.

“I don’t want to feel that,” Koishi whispered. The smile was gone. Her face was naked, raw, eleven years old and terrified. “That’s why I closed it. That’s why I threw it away.” -ENG- Koishi Komeiji-s defeat- Cave Adventure -...

“I think I forgot how to feel sad,” she said.

It was just rusted shut.

She reached out a trembling hand toward the silver surface. Her reflection—the real one, the one she’d buried—reached back.

“Where does this go?” she asked a cluster of glowing fungi. They didn’t answer. Of course they didn’t. But she smiled anyway, her hat’s little eye-bud bouncing with each step. She looked down

It showed a girl with tears streaming down her face. A girl clutching her knees in the dark, whispering, “Why won’t anyone look at me?”