Karin wo Idaita Shoujo

Also known as: 火輪を抱いた少女, A Girl Holding the Sun, The Girl Who Bore the Flame Ring

by Matari Nanasawa

A spin-off of Shinigami wo Tabeta Shoujo taking place around 10 years later on a different continent. How long I'd been here, I couldn't quite recall. From this sorry situation, I as always raised my eyes to the sky; a sky in which the great, massive sun was clad in levity. Sunlight poured gently upon all. What a blessing it would have been for the world if only the skies could remain clear. For tomorrow too, and for all days to come, I was to continue to pray for calm. To endure for those who cried, with desperation I remained in prayer. And then, one freezing, forlorn, soulless, stagnant, drizzly day we died. Or so I thought…