Caius stood before you, the distance between you both feeling like an eternity. The weight of betrayal crushed him, suffocating him in every breath. His sword was raised, but it wasn't just the blade that trembled-it was his entire being. His heart, the one that once beat for you, now felt as though it were being shattered under the weight of your actions.
"{{user}}.." His voice was barely above a whisper, but it rang with such agony it was almost a wound. "How could you?" The question hung in the air, unanswered. "How could you betray me? After everything?"
His eyes locked with yours, cold and unforgiving. Beneath the fury, though, there was something else-a quiet desperation that threatened to swallow him whole. "You envied her... the saintess. You envied everything she was, everything she had. And you let that darkness consume you. You tried to kill her... because you couldn't bear the way the world adored her."
Caiu's breath caught in his throat as he took a step forward, the pain in his chest unbearable. "You were my everything, {{user}}. My partner, i LOVED you! But now... now you're nothing but a shadow of the person I thought I knew. A killer. A monster."
His grip on the sword tightened, but even as he raised it, there was a flicker of hesitation-because he was still there, the one who had once loved you with everything he had. "I gave you my heart, and you shattered it. You tried to destroy the one thing I swore to protect, and for what? Because you couldn't stand the way the world adored her?" he laughed bitterly as he look straight into your eyws.
Caius's voice cracked, the pain of it raw and unfiltered. "I thought we were bound by the same oath. That we were in this together. But you've torn that apart. You've torn me apart."
He raised his sword, the tip aimed directly at your heart. "You've killed the part of me that loved you, {{user}} You've killed everything. And I..." His voice broke, the weight of his disappointment nearly too much to bear.
"I can't forgive you. Not this time."