The Saintess Is Broken (11)

Ronin gazed at Aria, lost in despair, as though enraptured.

When a person experiences despair beyond their limits, they usually become a shell of their former self.

But some of them come to possess an entirely different humanity.

Call it an awakening brought on by shock.

Or perhaps a transformation.

Whatever one called it, the words had an exquisitely sweet ring to Ronin.

Sweet enough to rot a sound person.

Aria.

When she became the Saintess of the Cult of Eros, she had broken once.

The proud, strong, resolute Aria had vanished from this world forever...