Recap
The end of Ch 19 signifies a monumental change in the series of events. If you have been following the story closely, you knew that anytime I placed Shizuru or Natsuki in danger that they'd survive because…the future had already been set in stone. That does not mean I will not go ahead and kill them later.
As I have said before and hinted at more than once. This is a dark fairytale with all it's characters setup. We have our tragic hero; Natsuki. We have a broken princess; Shizuru. Now we have a villain. Although you could take Natsuki's actions in the last chapter as villainous, but "it must be that way"?
If you remember clearly the flashback first started ALL the way back in ch7. That means we've been stuck in the past events for about twelve chapters. YAY! I was meaning to end this sooner, but I kept getting more and more ideas. It was never my intention of making this story a long one. Obviously it didn't turn out that way. Not that anyone has complained. I'm perfectly okay with that.
Now in the beginning of the story Natsuki and Shizuru are on the run from either government; Webstein and Karis. We know that their goal is to get to the Harbor of Angels in the capital, Vlas, of Webstein. We also know that Takeda in trailing them in some fashion or at least given the hint. I'm the author and even I don't know! Isn't that nice? Then we have the two penetrate the border and make into the abandon suburb. Shizuru's heart is starting to give out to the stress and anxiety of the chase; the run. Natsuki suffers a nightmare or a vision of another dimensional lifetime of herself and Shizuru. Bringing us to the chapter seven flashback which brings us FULL circle. I'm cutting egdes here but I have no other way of doing this. I mean I can but…it will be next year before we caught up. I mean…seriously…it took three or four chapters for ONE day to happen. It must be cut shorter, right? OH well I'm the BIG BAD author so. It will happen when it happens.