Chapter 38 (1/2)

Chapter 38

“Tell nitia’s son?”

Auguste’s question echoed in the hidden room

I was going to answer him in reflex, but stopped

I thought it was a question foranother place

It sounded like an invisible conversation partner was there

“So, I am a human? This pohat the heck is this?”

With a serious tone of voice, Auguste’s question continued

I couldn’t see his expression, he was turning away from me

“……You always use gentle words forthat is convenient for me You are a liar, you twist the truth as much as you like

Aah, I know Really, because my heart is weak, I cannot believe your words

I shouldn’t run away……from the truth, from myself, and from you”

Auguste cut off his words and looked back slowly

“……You followed me to a place like this, Erica”

Auguste’s expression was covered with a cal to so up blood until just now

Auguste wouldn’t even show his sorrowful expression, because then his heart would terribly hurt

In a few days of friendshi+p, I couldn’t step on the other side of the s mask

But, it didn’t matter

What I wanted right noas not caring for Auguste’s heart

After we escaped from the fate of destruction, I could slowly heal the wounds of his heart

“Auguste-sao home It will still be in time”

“Be in time? What is? What do you mean ‘in time’?”

“That is……”

Unintentionally, I was lost for words

Auguste’s amethyst colored eyes shook

“Everything, it’s all too late Things that once got into the heart of a person cannot be wiped away easily To reverse the suspicions that had entered, I need great power……that is, the power that can cause miracles”

Auguste said with sharp words

“My mother has always believed in me My father also tried to believe in me, no matter how doubtful it was

I want to give my parents the results they wanted

I want to be the Auguste they wanted”

I couldn’t possibly understand his feelings

I didn’t know about Auguste’s three years of suffering that had begun at the age of seven

What kind of experience did he has, that he had to resort to this forbidden ic?

We had been together for the last few days, but I didn’t try to understand him

But, it shouldn’t be a thing that could stop his ruin

Even if so interfered unnecessarily, it should be fine

“Even so! Auguste-sama, you shouldn’t have to sacrifice yourself!”

“Sacrifice……Erica has seen

through everything, huh”

Tomanner

“You knew about the ic, you knew and hid it”

“Sorry I lied to you”

“I don’t want you to apologize I want you to give this up……”

“I already decided, Erica”

Blocking uste said so with a lost voice

I wondered why he had a fragile smile on his face that seemed like he would disappear somewhere

“Thank you for being my friend, Erica”

“Why are you saying that now? It’s as if on’t be friends from now on”

It was almost like a last farewell

Since he was one ofmy friend

As I quickly told hiuste seemed to close off

Or, he could forcibly stop his eood

“If my wish came true, I will surely disappear”

“……No way”

“So, I’ain in the end”

Silvery light flared in Auguste’s hand

It was a knife with a strange design

It see like that in the cathedral exhibit

The proble to do with that

“Don’t do it!”

Augusteand I could rush over to him

“If only one miracle can happen, I wish for the ‘me’ that I should have been

Not the ‘ht here, but the ‘me’ that is confident, and never doubt myself

The ‘ons freely and dance in the sky, and make my father and mother proud

If I can get it, I don’t need my heart—”

Drops of blood were dripping from his hand

But before that dripping blood touched the floor, the blood disappeared as if it had been licked by so invisible

The purple eyes of Auguste quietly closed

“According to the old pact, as a price for uardian ”

Strength faded frouste’s body, he looked up to the sky and fell down

At the same time, flame flared up behind him

The flae person’s height

A person-like shadow flickered in the flame

Two ar flauste

『Foolish child……you make my heart worn-out orries

Ah, even so, what irony is this?

Because of the scars carved in your heart, in your eyes, your soul that cannot be compared reflects so beautifully』

The flaradually became smaller and

and the person hidden in the fire revealed their appearance

Voluminous blonde hair of the color of the sun, reminiscent of the lion’s mane

Tanned skin re desert

The heat of the flame turned into threads and weaved a red dress of the South, and the light condensed and turned into golden accessories

It was a beautiful and terrifying woman that made me seem wild and ferocious

She looked young, but she also seemed to be old

She looked immature, but also appeared to be well-developed

I couldn’t guess her age from her appearance, but it was no wonder

Because, this wo

She couldn’t be measured by human scale