Chapter 7 (1/2)

Encounter - 1

Chizuru felt the cold drops of water hit against her cheek She scoithout thinking and shi+vered

When she inhaled, it was cold air that poured into her lungs as if to cleanse her Her eyes re for the blanket that should be warertips felt was the texture of her own da?

Cold air?

Chizuru's consciousness slowly drifted back to reality

That was right She had been eating with Karasawa, and then returned alone to her station when the ‘voice' had rung in her ears That was the dreaan to beat loudly Chizuru frantically opened her eyes

The sight that sprung into her vision was a forest-like place with trees that round was covered in fallen, wet leaves of a that was beyond a dozen meters ahead was shrouded in a thin, white mist If this was not reality, it was the ht that leaked from the forest roof swayed in the mist and shi+ned like an aurora

Chizuru picked herself out of the bed of leaves and gulped She stayed still for quite so like some far away siren

No ht for modern japan

This tranquility was not nor of birds, but there was no man-made noise from cars and trains in this world

Coul it, could it, could it be…

Chizuru looked at her surroundings and tried to confirm the situation she was in

Her clotheswere the sah, they were quite da and u on her but her clothes

Yes, it was just like hoas the last time in Lukrov's world…

(I'vecome back!)

She had not met anyone yet and seen no real evidence of it, but Chizuru was sure of it The chilly air that entered her lungs soan to race Such delicious air could not be tasted in her old world Chizuru re on the forest floor as she filled her chest with all the fresh air that she could

I've come back

She did not knohere she currently was, or where Lukrov was living, but she was in the sa about it made her heart fill with emotion

However, she was not able to bask in that sensation for long

She was alone in a thick forest Nothing would begin if she just sat there and thought While the sun was still high, she did not know if it wasor the afternoon But she knew from experience that she would be surrounded by coht, and so Chizuru decided that she

At least, it was clearly not winter

She did feel cold under her daround was covered in leaves, it would probably be autumn here It had been October in japan, and maybe it was the same season here as well