Rejected Five Times, Furina Cries Herself to Pieces in My Arms

I turned down the Water God Furina’s marriage proposal five times.

I mocked her divinity, hated her act, and tore apart her “fake” tears.

Until one night, in a corner of the opera house, I saw her stripped of every bit of her glory.

The girl curled up in the shadows was holding the scraps of the marriage proposal I had torn up, crying as she murmured to herself:

“What would it take… for a heart to be true?”

In that moment, I finally understood that my cold, ruthless cruelty had hurt not a god,

but a girl who had offered me her whole heart, only for me to break it again and again, five times in all…