Chapter 157: Daisy, A Pure White Flower (1/2)
”All the things I said to you? I already know that this is an illusion. You can stop acting now.”
Lawrend crossed his arms and stared at her coldly.
”Hm? You can remember everything clearly?”
A young female voice suddenly asked him in confusion.
”Who?! You're that Flora Heaven Mage, aren't you?”
Lawrend looked around warily. He found her voice similar to the one he heard in the dream.
Suddenly, his surroundings scattered away like dust, revealing the same scene from earlier. He was back at the flower field.
”How did you remember?”
The young woman from earlier asked. She was sitting on the ground in a seiza position.
She wore the same white dress and her chestnut-colored hair freely flowed with the breeze.
”Can I..?”
Lawrend asked her with a polite smile.
”Huh? What do you mean—”
She was confused when Lawrend suddenly laid his head on her lap.
”W-What are you doing!?”
”Mm. This is it. The same feeling as before.”
Lawrend nudged his head on her thighs as he tried to refamiliarize himself with the feeling of her lap.
”Hey! Listen to me! You can't just rest your head on my lap!”
The woman pulled on Lawrend's hair in frustration.
”Owww!! Stop! Stop!”
Lawrend shouted in pain and tried to stop her hand from continuing.
”Hmph. Weirdo.”
The woman harrumphed in anger.
Lawrend stood up from her lap and rubbed the spot she pulled his hair.
”That hurts…”
Lawrend said to her in a scowl.
”Anyways, are you the same woman I've seen from before?”
Lawrend asked her.
”I think so.”
She replied to him.
”You think so?”
Lawrend asked her in confusion.
”Mm. I don't remember anymore.”
The young woman replied to Lawrend.
”Where is this place anyway?”
Lawrend asked her as he looked around.
”My Soul Realm.”
She replied.
”Soul Realm?”
Lawrend repeated the term in puzzlement.
”I don't remember anymore. I only know that I was betrayed by the man you possessed in the dream.”
She replied to him.
”Why did you take me here?”
Lawrend furrowed his eyebrows.
”You approached me yourself.”
The young woman shrugged her shoulders.
”How do I get out?”
Lawrend asked her.
”...Since you passed my trial. I'll let you go…”
Sorrow filled her eyes after she said that.
”What exactly happened?”
Lawrend couldn't help but ask her. He wanted to know what happened in that dream. How it started and how it ended.
”We have been in love with each other since we were little.”
”He became my role model before. I admired him alot back then. But I was more talented than him. After countless trials and failures, I became a Heaven Mage. The problem was, he couldn't. So I had to gather the essence of the earthly flames and give it to him.”
”Guess what happened next.”
The young woman then asked Lawrend.
”He became a Heaven Mage?”
Lawrend guessed. He sat on the ground in front of her to listen better.
”That's what you'd expect. Instead, he failed.”