Kael returned home with his clothes covered in dirt. He had thrown Lucas’s body into the woods without even trying to find out if Lucas was still alive or not.

Panicked and thinking he had to act before anyone saw him, he immediately dragged his younger brother’s body into the woods without a second thought—yet he was fully aware that this constituted a clear sin that might provoke the Moon Goddess’s wrath against him.

Kael dragged his feet into Eira’s room. He lay down on the bed without even trying to clean himself up first or change his clothes,

It was as if part of Kael’s soul had been taken...