Chapter 20 (2/2)

”⸺The bed.”

Having already overcome the wall of her guilt, Arisa didn't hesitate.

It's what she was told it was hard to sleep and ordered to leave by Ed from, 'Ed's bed'.

She jumped onto it for the first time in a while.

(⸺!? I can't stop……!)

From the moment she jumped onto it, Arisa was wrapped by that person's warmth which let's her be relieved.

Arisa will testify at a later date that it was exactly like Edgar, nothing more and nothing less.

⸺To who? That is unknown.

Right now, Arisa was thinking that if Edgar saw this she'd stay in bed for 10 days.

Having her fill of this, *gyu*, she strongly embraced the bed covers.

”Fuaa……Ed……”

Then, Arisa went to sleep.

The first day.

Arisa was able to overcome it safely.

The next day.

Was it because she was so excited last night, so she couldn't sleep?

Or was it because she didn't have Edgar to take care of?

Unusually, Arisa overslept.

Where did her energy from yesterday go?

⸺There aren't any signs of her excitement from yesterday in her expression.

(⸺Here, I'm alone.)

That sentence ran through Arisa's head as soon as she woke up.

⸺She didn't feel like cooking.

She didn't learn to cook so she could eat. She learned to cook for Edgar.

If she were alone, then as long as she didn't starve, she wouldn't care.

⸺She didn't feel like cleaning.

She didn't clean in order to be in a clean environment.

My everything is there for Ed.

The significance of my existence was there for Ed⸺that Ed, is not here now.

How should I fill that vacancy?

No, is filling it even possible?

Among what she's felt until now, Arisa's heart was currently being violated by her deepest, and most intense despair.

And as early as by the second day.

Even from her eyes, Arisa's tear were overflowing.

”Ed, Ed……! Hurry on home……! Please……I'll do anything!”

While gripping his Edgar's T-s.h.i.+rt, Arisa sobbed.

Before she knew it, the laboratory's windows were getting struck by rain.

Within the span of that day, Arisa didn't leave Edgar's room.

The third day.

Arisa awoke in Edgar's bed.

The house was enveloped by the same silence it had before Edgar came.

”Ed……”

Arisa somehow raised her body, and washed her face.

Her face that was reflected in the mirror had lost so much spirit that it couldn't have been thought of a few days ago.

After that, as if sleepwalking, unsteadily headed to the entrance.

Wearing Edgar's jersey in front of the laboratory, she was doing calisthenic sitting.

Arisa stared at the direction Edgar left in with empty eyes,

”Ed……”

Arisa muttered in a small voice that only she could hear.

”Ed……hurry and come home……”

She buried her face in her lap.

”Hurry up and come homeee……Edgarrr.”

Wearing Edgar's jersey, she soaked it with tears.

”EdgarEdgarEdgarEdgarEdgarEdgarEdgarEdEdEdEdEdEdEdEdgarEdgarEdgarEdgarEdgarEdgarEdgarEdgarEdgarEdgarEdgarEdgarEdgarEdgarEdgarEdgarEdgarEdEdEdEdEdEdEdEdgarEdgarEdgarEdgarEdgarEdgarEdgarEdgar.”

As if cursing, Arisa repeatedly called the name of her beloved person.

In that stance, Arisa awaited for Edgar to come home with empty eyes.

⸺Would those feelings be rewarded?

Evening.

She saw someone coming here from the other side of the forest.

It was my dearest person.

My important person.

Someone who I can't live without.

Noticing his figure, Arisa jumped out from the entrance, and headed for him.

⸺Ed.

Thank goodness.

⸺Ed.

You came back.

⸺Edgar.

”⸺Edgarrrr!”

While receiving Arisa, who spiritedly jumped at him, Edgar unapologetically laughed, and said:

”I'm home, Arisa.”

On a completely unrelated note, I picture Arisa in her bunny pajamas to look like this:

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