Chapter45 : Do you desire power? 1/2 [4/20]

"If you want to find your mother and save her, stick close to me."

As Renji spoke, Eileen looked at the approaching Crimson Star, feeling a subconscious shiver deep within her soul. The Tainted Miasma's red mist, now dancing wildly in the air around the furnace, was clearly visible to anyone who wasn't blind.

It felt as if they were approaching an abyssal pit of fire, and what she was doing now was following the young man straight into it.

Eileen responded to Renji through her actions.

The girl clenched her teeth, overcoming the deep-seated fear in her soul, propelled only by sheer determination. Step by step, she followed the shadow of the young man ahead, never straying even an inch from him.

It wasn't just her obsession with saving her mother; there was something more, something deeper that she couldn't articulate—perhaps a streak of stubbornness. She didn't want to "fall behind" and lose sight of Renji.