The Death Road of Despair lay before Miu. She'd failed escape before. Failure was no longer an option. She started inside.
A hand clamped on her wrist. The stupid hatless boy said, "Don't go."
She ripped her arm out of his grasp. "She has to be out there."
A sigh puffed from Shuichi's nostrils. "I hate it, too, but you have to know Kaede is-"
"Out there!" Miu screeched. "She's gotta be. There's no way they'd have done that to her for trying to- to do what's right like the stupid, innocent, Catholic-school-type bitch she is!"
Miu wept. "She was."