Rejected Omega Princess: Meet My Overprotective Brothers
He lifted the lantern he held—plain, white paper, the Mooncrest crescent inked carefully on one side, a tiny note folded inside where no one could see.
“On the count of three, for those who want to,” he said, “we’ll let them go.”
“Let them go” meant many things to many people.
That was the point, too.
“One,” he said.
The breath of the crowd caught, collective.
“Two.”
Fingers tightened around lantern strings.
“Three.”
Light bloomed.
Lanterns rose.
Hundreds of them, in various shapes and colors, bobbing unsteadily at first as people hesitated, then lifted more confidently as hands released.
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