NieR Re[in]

Guide

He saved me when I was abandoned in battle,
and occasionally visited in the field hospital.
I'd heard he was utterly ruthless, yet he spoke to
me about his hopes and fears like any other man.

One day, he was carried into the bed beside me after
injuring both legs in a mission. At night,
I heard his labored breathing. It soothed me somehow,
so I tilted my body in his direction.

I took his hand, that weapon which had slain so many.
In the dark, with the coppery smell of
blood all around us, he squeezed my hand return—almost as
if he was searching for something he had lost.

The light may never shine on you again, and
I wish more than anything that I'd never seen the horrors of war.
I thought there would be light—even a
flickering candle—but there is only dark.