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“Even stars must fall — not in failure, but to light another’s path.”
The battlefield was chaos — a collapsing starfield bridge between the Moon and Mars.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrQgOIG7ZO1
Fragments of celestial stone rained like meteors.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnV8ceNPczb
Screams echoed as time fractured and light bent.
Tsuki fought through the storm with Suisei at her side — trying to reach the lunar scouts stranded at the edge.
But Kasei’s flames surged, warping space and unraveling the last threads of stability.
Then the seal ruptured.
And time began to fold in.
Hoshi arrived in streaks of stardust, already flickering.
He knew what must be done.
“I told you once,” he said softly to Tsuki, brushing a comet-thread from her hair.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeFrkZI42Uz
“That I was born of light. That I’d die by it, too.”
Before Tsuki could protest, the sky shattered again — Getsu’s corrupted spirits closing in.
Suisei tried to shield them, but his own aura faltered under the collapse.
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His constellation mark — the Orion Spiral — ignited across his chest, burning with final brilliance.
With one whispered incantation, he summoned the Stellar Veil, an ancient teleportation rite long forbidden.
“Find the way. Live,” he murmured.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrI3P4QKFcV
“And when you see my light… don’t mourn. Rise.”
A surge of pure white light engulfed them —21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv5G7PIgv8p
and Tsuki and Suisei vanished, flung into a soft crater of moonlight near the Northern Cradle.
The moment they were safe, the starfield bridge imploded.
And with it — Hoshi was gone.
Silence followed.
But in the skies that night, the constellations rearranged, forming an unfamiliar shape — a curved bow and a single star where the heart would be.
Tsuki looked up, eyes glistening.
“You're not gone. You're guiding me.”
From that moment on, she changed.
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Love became strength.
“No more deaths,” she whispered to the moon.21Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsEDMHqACbO
“I will stop Getsu. I will stop Kasei. I will end this — without losing anyone else.”
And in the quiet that followed, the stars pulsed once.
As if in agreement.
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