Kochugunshikan- Boukensha Ni Naru - Raw Chapter 51.2 - Read Next Chapter 52.2 Official

"Rearguarding the rearguard." She smiled — sharp, warm, utterly defiant. "Someone has to watch your back while you watch everyone else's."

The Sanctum did not welcome them.

Water dripped from petrified trees growing upside down from the ceiling. The floor was a mosaic of shattered mirrors, each shard reflecting a different version of the group — Helm as a legionnaire, Lyra as a court mage, the dwarf Gunther as a king. Past selves. Dead selves. "Rearguarding the rearguard

It wept .

That was the curse of his old life. Rearguard Commander of the Fifth Legion. His job had never been to win. It had been to last — to measure victory in minutes gained for others to flee. Every formation, every false retreat, every calculated sacrifice. He had been very good at it. So good that even now, stripped of rank and nation, he could not stop being what he was: the shield that no one saw until it broke. The floor was a mosaic of shattered mirrors,

Helm said nothing. He looked past her, toward the distant glimmer of the next chamber — the entrance to the Sunken Sanctum. Their true objective. The artifact that could end the seasonal ghoul tides. Worth any cost. It wept

"What are you doing?" Helm asked.