Third person POV
In his room, while Gen was busy researching for the cure, Reina was looking at the small, non-glossy, paper photo.
That photo was a photo of himself as a young kid.
“I’m sorry…” he uttered in a low voice while staring at it, “…I felt I had failed you. Sorry for killing you…”
He felt that by attempting to kill Gen for killing his parents, Reina felt as if he had betrayed and killed his past self metaphorically.
So, Reina stood up and placed his photo on an empty shelf on a bookshelf, before placing two small, white, wax candles in front of it. This chapter is updated first at g.com.
He then lit flames on the two candles with a lighter.
The distance was far enough so the photo would not get burned by the two candles’ flames.
After that, Reina stood in front of it in mourning, crying and shedding tears of sadness, regret, and grief.
Although the medicine and therapy worked, Reina’s bad memories and PTSD returned and wreaked havoc in his mind and well-being like a tsunami, and this prompted him to introduce harsh punishments to himself to counteract the guilt and PTSD.