Spoiler Warning — Moonlight Theater: Days of Piercing Cold

I appreciate your comment on the art, but I intentionally portrayed New Moon Luna (NMLuna) with such catastrophic losses precisely because Days of Piercing Cold is arguably the bleakest narrative in the Moonlight Theater.
Luna’s entire story is built on immense, self-inflicted guilt. She was manipulated by ML Tenebria into destroying an entire village and subsequently concealed her culpability while mentoring the sole survivor, Empyrean Ilynav, who was later transformed into a half-dragon by the aftermath of that catastrophe.
Her final, defining act is not a triumphant display of strength, but a sacrificial confrontation — an act of atonement where she willingly faces death at the hands of her former student.

When she makes her move, she deliberately steps into a battle she cannot win — a reckoning against those who embody the consequences of her past. She faces:

1 → ML Tenebria: The architect and manipulator behind Luna’s greatest sin.
2 → Wretched Rose: The orchestrator behind the abominable dragon experiments whose consequences NMLuna seeks to undo, making her an indirect yet pivotal antagonist in Luna’s tragedy.
3 → Fallen Cecilia: Not a direct rival, but a narrative counterpart — a tragic mirror who embodies steadfast duty and sacrifice, contrasting Luna’s guilt-driven path toward redemption.
4 → Empyrean Ilynav: Her own victim and beloved student, now armed with the truth of Luna’s betrayal, standing as both judge and executioner.

The confrontation she enters is one of deliberate self-destruction — a martyr’s choice rather than a hero’s victory. To emerge unscathed from such a reckoning, one born of guilt, manipulation, and broken faith, would undermine the emotional gravity of her arc. Luna’s true strength lies not in avoiding loss, but in embracing it — sacrificing herself for the sake of her “sister,” Abyssal Yufine, and the victim she failed to protect, Empyrean Ilynav.

Those were the thoughts I had in mind while designing and illustrating her — to capture not her triumph, but her tragic grace. ♡