Sakura Lost Saga [RELIABLE COLLECTION]

And Sakura replied, "Then put down the blade. Let us be nothing together."

On the second cycle, Kaito didn't approach the lovers. He approached the old priest who always stood at the edge of the ceremony, silent. The priest was a blur, a fragment of the memory, but when Kaito spoke to him, the man's eyes focused.

Sakura stared at the petal. Ren’s sword clattered to the ground. For the first time in the loop, the two ghosts looked at each other, not as killer and victim, but as two people trapped in a lie. sakura lost saga

"She would have said yes," Sakura whispered.

"Look," Kaito said, holding it up. "Your tree still lives. Not here, but in a garden in the new Kyoto. Children play beneath it. Lovers carve their names into its bark. The sorrow became soil, Ren. The loss became roots." And Sakura replied, "Then put down the blade

He smiled. Another saga lost. Another truth found.

The third cycle was the last.

Kaito turned and walked away. Behind him, he heard Ren speak the truth at last: "My family is gone. My honor is a lie. I have nothing but this blade and this shame."