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Even with advance warning and perfect defense, only sheer luck would have left him half-dead from an attack that strong. By all rights, he should have been killed on the spot. Yet not only had he survived, he looked far too intact as well.
“Hey...” Unit 782 whispered.
Do-Jin had survived only because she’d thrown everything she had into shielding him. She poured in the power Dagne left behind, the force she’d just received from D’Askandar, and even the cursed energy that had once kept her undead. She staked her whole existence on keeping him alive.
“I’m... glad you’re not hurt,” he replied weakly.
At the sound of his voice, Unit 782 forced her eyes open. The first thing she did was check on his condition, even though her own body was already splintering beyond repair.
Do-Jin reached out in a rush to grab her shoulder. Cracks ripped through it with a sickening tear and chunks threatened to fall away. No matter how tight he held on, it wasn’t going to stop her from breaking apart. She had already passed the point of no return.
Unit 782 looked down at the shoulder and arm that had separated like broken plaster and said with a calm smile, “It’s...
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