Being faced with such an obvious question, Calli got up with newfound effort and stared at her furiously.

"Why do I hate you?!"

Kiara slowly stepped back while being yelled at.

"Are you serious?! You're disgusting!"

She started numbering things with her fingers as she talked.

-"You crash into my job being this unkillable thing, you are awfully happy about dying, you make me lose time helping you"

-"y-you suggested-"

But Calli rudely kept going louder.

-"you ask me to skip on my job, I skip on my job, and guess what I get after all of that as thanks?!

Kiara already knew the answer, but she stood quiet.

"You drag me through the ground! you break into my house! an-"

When she was about to finish, she stumbled over her own weight and fell down, but Kiara caught her before she hit the ground.

-"Woah! Are you okay?"

She couldn't see her face, but she could tell Calli was holding back cries of pain and anger.

-"and then..."

She said, pressing her teeth together.

"You made my sensei send me here... And give me this body..."

She violently strengthened her grip on Kiara's arms.

"I hate you... So much..."

Kiara didn't know what to say. She honestly thought bringing her to the surface would be a good idea, that maybe she was just grumpy because she didn't know what it was like to actually live. But in the end, it wasn't like that.

-"... Then why would you help me?"

-"To get rid of you. I thought if you got friends or had an immortal one you'd leave me alone"

Kiara slowly became sadder, and so did her voice.

-"I... I honestly thought you'd like this... That's why I asked your boss to make it possible"

-"Well, I hate it. I just wanted to do my job, and look where you brought me"

She looked back down to see her. When she thought about it, none of the bad things that had happened were Calli's fault.

-"Well... I don't blame you..."

She said.

"All of my family left me behind... They probably hated me as well..."

Kiara couldn't get her thoughts together, so she spoke what was in her mind.
Calli felt tears drop on her face.

"I don't know why I thought... Why I thought you'd..."

Her voice started cracking.

"... I didn't want to be alone..."

The silence was brutal, and Calli felt something twisting deep inside her, causing her intense pain.

"I didn't want you to be either"

Calli felt how Kiara's body started getting hotter with every other tear that fell. Her hair suddenly started levitating.

"I'm... I'm sorry!"

She broke down as her body caught on fire again.

"I'm so sor-"

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