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Chapter Eighteen: Regrets   “Hey, Vaida, did you say something?” Hatasuko muttered sleepily. Hatasuko opened his tired eyes and glanced around the upstairs room. The flickering candles lightly interrupted the darkness. Vaida slept peacefully beside him with her face pressed against his side, and her little hands clung onto his chest. He glanced around to search for the sound that pulled him from his sleep, but everything inside the room was quiet. However, he heard several shouts and voices from the street outside the inn. It seemed like a strange time for people to be outside and hollering. “The tempest is restless like never before. The lost souls are furiously pronouncing their pain. These screams are deafening . Why are they screaming now? Why do I hear them?” Hatasuko asked, knowing that he would not fall back asleep. The entire room shook from a citywide tremor. A clamorous roar boomed from elsewhere in Bones City; it was certainly the sound of shadow spheres detona...

               Chapter Seventeen: At the Edge of the Oasis               “There’s always been a barrier between a man’s beliefs and his actions. I don’t think there’s ever been anyone without this dissonance. Some may say it’s one of our flaws, an intrapersonal hypocrisy, but I think it’s too natural to not be hereditary. It’s too common to not be human nature. This can only mean that we’re better off as a species because our hearts and our brains disagree with each other,” said a lost soul from the emptiness.             Though the tempest was unusually quiet, countless yells echoed through its endless hollows. Hatasuko sensed a distress which pervaded the abyss of lost souls, especially with so many new victims, but the pressure was less powerful than before. As a result, he concluded that he was physically close to Vaida a...