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They have beaten Irontomb after a tough battle, it was finally time for the Astral Express to rest, including our protagonist. Stelle was asleep in her room, she couldn’t think about anything else other than this mysterious yet endearing woman that guarded her back.
This dream she had where she met all the Stellaron Hunters and was part of them was so puzzling, was she a Stellaron Hunter before? Kafka promised to be her safe haven in this wide and dangerous cosmos, even declaring that she will always spare patience for her although it wasn’t her virtue… Each of those affirmations are slowly starting to sound like confessions… It wasn’t the first time she heard something like this from the Stellaron Hunter…
She was reminiscing about this one conversation with this intriguing woman that seemed to favor her over everything else.
One truth, one lie, this infamous game that Kafka offered to play while waiting for Blade’s state to be stabilized, the Stellaron Hunters were in a vulnerable position, Stelle was the only one they could rely on during that time.
“What is my connection to you?”, Stelle asked, wondering why she woke up in that station, why she could only recognize Kafka although she had never seen the woman before…
”One day, Elio handed you over to me. He said that if things continued to transpire according to the future possibility he foresaw, you would eventually change me and I would change you. In other words, you and I are each other's destiny.”
This last sentence kept echoing in Stelle’s mind ever since. Kafka was… her destiny…? She would eventually… change her? After a long time, Stelle eventually got to understand what it meant to be changed by someone else. Longing for Kafka’s presence, thinking about her embrace, her gentle smile, replaying the very few conversations they had… like she was doing now, in her dreams.
When will she meet her fateful partner again?