Chapter 87. Choice of Life

Hope looked at Mercy in distress.

He wished to be comforted, to see some compassion for the first time, but he realized too late that he let his emotions get the better of him.

"Hope, you're not just jealous, you're selfish. I wanted to cheer ya up, but now you're really pissing me off."

"Wait... I didn't mean to..."

"Did you once think about what the others were thinking from time to time? Dora this, Dora that, tell me why do you act like he owes ya somethin'? Did he force ya to not join Shinin' Sword? Did he forbid ya from being friends with Marie? Yer talking like if he did somethin' unforgivable... but the only one who keep crying over everything, the cause of all yer problems, is ya."

She stood up, looking down on him.

"Ya don't want people to see ya as Elizabeth's brother? Then why do you keep hidin' behind this excuse of a name? Every time ya need to prove somethin' yer saying stuff like you're her brother, every time we meet someone, you're the f