Blue Archive: Miracle's End

Reminder of Truth

Trinity's Tea Party.

" Wow! You actually came, Sensei! Hi!"

" I came in haste after reading your message, Mika; tell me what happened."

Sensei was in the middle of his daily agenda in SCHALE when he received a distress message from Mika. Following the incident with Arius and Mika's supposed "betrayal" of Trinity, most of the students at Trinity remained antagonistic towards her despite her testimony. As a result, the Tea Party members strongly disapproved of Mika wandering the campus unsupervised.

Ignoring these warnings, Mika walked around campus alone prior to texting Sensei. She was abruptly shot by a random student, who was subsequently reprimanded by the Justice Task Force committee.

"I was shot, Sensei! It was horrifying!" Mika cried out, pretending to sob. She ran to Sensei and hugged him tightly.

" This is exactly why we told you not to roam around by yourself..." said a girl named Nagisa, rubbing her temples before sighing.

" It's boring out here all the time, you know?!"

"I implore you to ignore her exaggerated cries, Sensei. As you might already know, Mika is nowhere near hurt," said Seia, taking a sip of tea beside Nagisa.

" But why does her face have a bandage on?" asked Sensei while patting Mika's head who was still hugging him.

" To appear more delicately and fragile in front of her overprotective teacher, I presume..." responded Nagisa.

"Rude?! It did hurt a lot, you know?!" Mika exclaimed, pulling away from Sensei and locking eyes with Nagisa. "I was shot by a piercing-type sniper rifle!"

" And halos can take hits of something as strong as explosions..."

" Sensei! Nagi is being mean again~!"

Mika clung to Sensei once again, burying her face against his chest to hide her tearless face. Even though Sensei responded with an amused smile, deep inside him was thinking of something entirely different.

" For someone to do something like this to a fellow student..." Sensei muttered to himself, surpressing both his anger and disapointment.

" Don't beat yourself over this, Sensei." noticing Sensei's mood change, Seia abruptly corrected him. " In the end, Mika brought all this upon herself."

" Seia--"

"No need to worry, Sensei. Seia has a point," Mika gently pulled away from Sensei, her demeanor embracing a newfound sense of self acceptance. "I've come to terms with it. Being here now is what truly counts."

Mika had come to terms with being hated throughout Trinity. While she made it seemed she was unbothered, in reality, she only hid her pain and regrets behind her usual smiles, promising herself to never show any weaknesses to not worry the people who had done so much for her.

But Mika was just a fragile girl in the end. No matter how strong she truly was on the outside, she could only bear so much burden until she finally breaks down from her anguish. So to keep herself from leaking her weaknesses, she called in her Sensei to stitch the constant tears within her heart.

In her darkest moments, Mika understood that Sensei was her lifeline, the sole reason she persisted for so long. She felt trapped in a suffocating solitude, longing for someone to rescue her from the depths of emptiness.

Trapped in an inescapable solitude was the Princess, not until her Knight came to save her from that loneliness.

" Hehe! Thank you so much for coming to my rescue, Sensei! I can't express how much that made me happy!" Through her genuine words, she faces Sensei with a profound smile.