Snowflower Ablaze

At the center of the ballroom.

The ballroom, once filled with wine, food, countless people, and the sound of their voices, no longer existed.

The being that burst through the hole in the floor looked, quite literally, like fire itself, and tried to set everything around it ablaze.

As one scream died away, another rang out, and the ballroom gradually lost its shape as the flames spread.

Everyone—those desperately fighting against the surrounding flames and those who had only been watching from the sidelines—fled.

Those who didn't flee were either engulfed in flames and killed or collapsed unconscious on the floor.

Amid the chaos, only one person was desperately fighting the monster, standing against it.

Amid the raging flames, a flower of ice bloomed and slowly swallowed them up.

It was only natural for any flower—or ice—to burn or melt when exposed to flames that hot, but her talent wouldn't allow it.

More precisely, her talent, responding to her intense emotions, awakened the potential within her and unleashed it...