Chapter 448 – #94_Reunion(2)

#447

One.
“Ugh!”

Siwoo, who jumped up with the sound of gasping for breath, looked around.
In the slowly flowing consciousness, she retrieves her memories.
The great commotion in Taro Town, the journey to meet Amelia, and the ending.

Feeling his back drenched in cold sweat and breathing heavily, he felt a warm energy near his knees.

“Hmm….”
“Coo….”

One on the left leg and one on the right leg.
I could see the top of the twins’ heads wrapped in a microfiber blanket and using Siu’s legs as cushions to dream.
Perhaps she fell asleep, she secretly pulled her legs apart and opened her mouth drooling.

“…….”

Normally, I would spend an hour appreciating just that cuteness, but now is the time.

She must have been exhausted, but what happened to Amelia and how things were organized afterwards.
Siwoo, in a hurry, lifted the blanket and tried to get down.

“Yes?”

Has a left arm
According to his memory, it was enchanted up to the vicinity of his wrist and flew neatly.
His left hand was free to move as he wished, and the veins and muscles that passed under his skin were clearly visible.

Even Siwoo would have been a dream if it weren’t for the hospital room scenery and bed. Would have wanted
And look….

“I have no sense.”

There was no feeling in his hand, as if he had put someone else’s hand together very elaborately.
As if you could play the piano right away, you don’t have as much sense as a subject that moves.
Something feels out of place.

“It is a prosthetic arm made of porcelain implanted by Count Kohab. Since the fundamental composition of the spiritual body was broken, surgery was inevitable. I ask for your understanding.”
“Ahh! Count? Uh, since when have you been here?”

I turn around at the sound of clearing my throat and see Count Deneb Zemanai reading by the lamplight.
When I asked, I was surprised because he was so quiet and unpopular.

“Poem, heart! What is there to be so surprised about?”

Surprised at the same time, the count also raised his elegant eyebrows sharply and rebuked Siu.

“Ah, did you take care of me? Thank you.”
“Caring~? I was just monitoring you to make sure you didn’t do lewd things to the twins as soon as you got out of bed.”
“No way.”
“No way! They even confiscated the toys you prepared for lewdness on the day of the Harvest Festival! Why on earth do these unscrupulous things even exist? We need to purify it by sweeping it with fire!”

The Count said and shook the box as if it had been repackaged after unpacking it once.

“What is that?”
“Don’t turn a blind eye!”
“No, I really don’t know….”

Of course, there is no way that Siwoo knew about the twins’ surprise item.
This was also natural, but it was impossible for the count to accept such a protest from Siu.

“I will always be watching you closely, so keep your demeanor neat! Anyway, the husband’s dirty mind….”

The Count clicked his tongue and crossed his arms.
He twitched his lips, wondering if he should say something, but replaced it with a sigh.
It was because he recognized that Siwoo’s expression was quite serious, as he normally would make an embarrassing expression.

Well, Deneb knew what had happened without blinking his eyes while he was asleep, but for him who had just woken up from a long sleep, the recent events would be a dark area.
It was natural to be concerned about the circumstances of the good-hearted Baron Marigold (presumed to be).

“Ah, thinking about it makes me angry again.”
“Yes?”

One more person in the yard who is dating Miss Evergreen, the twins, Count Yesod, and even Duke Tiphareth at the same time?
Even seduced the innocent twins and prepared these adult toys?
Deneb managed to suppress the urge to strangle Siwoo and question, “Do you have a conscience?”

Had he not been a patient who had just risen from his bed, he would have cast his spell right away.
The one night I spent with him never made me feel awkward about touching him.

“That’s Okay. You probably want to ask something about Baron Marigold, right?”
“That’s right.”

Count Deneb grabbed hold of his patience again when he saw Siwoo replying with a crawling voice, as if he had grasped the subject at least.

“She is now imprisoned in the dungeon and is being interrogated by Count Kohab. Since the interrogation started on the day you fell, about two days have passed.”
“Two days?”
“It is said that the accumulated fatigue in the spiritual body is severe. Do you know what this means?”

Normally, the spiritual body does not feel fatigue easily.
Even the arduous labor that a human being would pick and fall down somehow manages to do it.
For witches to feel tired and fall asleep comfortably, it was only when they did the work that heavy equipment could handle, or when they used magic vigorously.

“… I’ve been rolling my body a little rough lately.”
“I’ll introduce you to a good spirit body tuner, so try your hand at it.”
“Aside from that, Amelia-sama….”

Anyway, the important thing is not Siwoo’s physical condition.
Count Deneb continued his story about Amelia.

“Her sister and Miss Evergreen stepped in and stopped the Duke of Erelim’s ‘judgment’ for about 15 minutes. In the meantime, you brought back Baron Marigold at the last minute. However, her actions comparable to the Gehenna invasion cannot be overlooked even by the baron.”
“Sure?”
“The Investigation Committee was formed in the Tree of Sephiroth. Baron Marigold is responding to the investigation while in custody….”
“Is this serious?”

Deneb flung his upper body backwards to avoid Siwoo, who was almost rushing at him.
Then, with a trembling expression, he shakes off Siwoo’s hand holding the sleeve of his clothes.

“I know you’re in a hurry, but don’t keep talking.”
“I’m sorry.”
“There will be no official designation or banishment. First of all, there was no damage to the citizens, and there is a situation where the Witch of Whispers intervened.”

In her memories of Amelia, Clara had instigated her to go on a rampage.
At the name that came out of his mouth, Deneb tilted his head.

“Are you Clara… ?”
“Did you know?”
“No, somehow she found out the name. It’s not that important… ! I can testify how Amelia got caught up in it!”
“… I kept telling you not to stop talking. Anyway, you will have to pay a lot of reparations and fines, but the title will be a big help when it comes to sentencing. Don’t worry too much.”

It was only then that Deneb’s boastful words were able to sweep away his heart.
And he asks cautiously.

“Can I meet you now?”
“Do that….”

The back of Siwoo disappears as soon as the words fall.
Deneb spat out the rest in vain.

“… Please. Ugh.”

What should I do with that flirt?
Seeing the twins soundly asleep makes me feel anxious again.
Deneb, who put the tangled blanket over the twins again, tsk tsk his tongue and sighed alternately.

2.
The reunion of Sophia and Amelia after several months.
The two spilled out a conversation they had been putting off for so long.

Little stories about how things have been and why this has happened.
Even a plan to have tea together when the investigation is over.

Even though Sophia’s anger at Lilith for tricking Amelia into a mess took up about half of the conversation.
Amelia gently brushed Sophia’s hair and took care of her, who must have suffered because of her ugly friend.

Warm.

It is not a false consolation that is completed because it is alone.
A warm time to have a sincere conversation with a person who sincerely cares about you.

But Amelia, even at this moment, kept feeling a rattling stone in her heart.
The feelings she felt even when she actually responded to the investigation, and even when she was looking at her stone wall in the distance after the investigation.

Is it a sense of debt? Is it expected Is it sorry Is it thanks

I remember Siwoo, who stretched out her arms toward Amelia in the darkness of her endless immersion.
I remember the moment when his arms turned into flowers and scattered, and the moment when he still hugged Amelia.

Siu said it was okay.
As if calming Amelia, who thought she would never be forgiven, she comforted her with her eyes and voice that understood everything.
But Amelia hurt Siu.
She wounds him with magic she can’t properly control.

Like pointillism made with dozens of colors of paint, a mixture of all kinds of emotions was drawing one big emotion.
What kind of expression should I look at him from now on, what should I say?

I should also apologize first.
For her hurting his arm, for she did him self-righteous goodwill and for waiting for all misunderstandings to clear up.

“So that’s what I mean….”
“…….”

Sophia, who had sat Amelia down and talked for a long time with her tear-stained face, stopped her abruptly.
Amelia also quietly held her breath.

-Jerbuck Jerbuck

The sound of heavy footsteps came from the stairs leading down to the dungeon.
Never a woman’s
The point that they came down without a message at this late hour adds a stroke to the two people’s guess.

Siwoo Shin.
As soon as she realized that, Amelia felt her heart skip a beat.

Dozens of nightmares and dozens of happy dreams that I had while wandering this world.
Here, the nightmare is a bitter recollection of the day when Siu and Siu went completely wrong, and Amelia’s imagination about the wrong reunion that has yet to come.
The happy dream here was the moment I made memories with him in the cabin, and it was a dream about a happy reunion that might come.

The time has come to check the results.

Siwoo obviously hugged Amelia.
I said it was okay and I was sorry for being so late.

But it was dramatic, as Amelia had just survived a dangerous situation that led to her death.
It is bound to follow people’s feelings and atmosphere.
It was difficult to guarantee that Siwoo’s heart at that time and the current temperature would be the same.

Furthermore….
Wasn’t there a lover who was occupying a seat next to him?
Perhaps what lies ahead is not a happy reunion, but a nightmare that has haunted Amelia many times.
It may be a re-experience of breakdown.
It may not be the worst breakup, but for one reason or another, diluted emotions may end up going south.

“I’ll get out of the way.”
“…….”

Sophia gently stroked the back of Amelia’s hand.
Amelia grips the hem of Sophia’s skirt as she tries to stand up.
However, she let Sophia go as if her hands were losing strength.

Siwoo came to save Amelia.
Overcoming that harsh ordeal, overcoming the danger of death, he had already summoned up courage for Amelia twice.
Running away from here would be a betrayal of his courage, he muttered.

“You will be fine.”
“Yes, Thanks. Sophia.”

Sophia cheered Amelia up and turned to the shadow lingering around the corner of the hallway.

For a moment, while her voice could be heard, Amelia hurriedly corrected her manners.
She sat in her upright position on a hard wooden chair, staring at her toes, not knowing what to do.

– Thud thud

Footsteps approaching, pretending to be there.
The smell of his body, which he had only dreamed of in his dreams, tickles the tip of his nose.
Calming her pounding heart, Amelia quietly looked up at Siu.

“… Siu.”

He called out the name that only he used to call each time.