Vol 4 Epilogue (1/2)
He saw a sea of blood in his dream
He felt that he must never let of these hands
But, whose hands were these?
The slender fingers hite as snow
A girl’s fingers
He had to protect her no th with his arm
He remembered now, her name was——
The instant he reirl sunk into the sea of blood
Only dreaered in his ears:
Why did you let go?
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“Elise!!”
“Hyaaa~~?”
Besides Bastian who suddenly sat up was the face of a girl on the verge of tears
This was a room from somewhere
Light as h the
Bastian laid on the bed covered in white bandages, patches of blood that turned black after drying was on him everywhere
“This is…”
“Erm, well, Bastian… Are you still… alive?”
“ Elise, you… are here… Is this heaven?”
“Wonderful, it really is Bastian!”
“Elise!”
Bastian hugged Elise suddenly
“Hyaaa!?”
He felt that body was squir
Soft tender body
And her beating heart
“Great! You are alive! You are alive right!? You didn’t sink in right!? I… didn’t… let go right!?”
“Let, let go Bastian… Ah, no… Dummy… She can see us!”
“Eh?”
Bastian lifted his head and shi+ft his gaze
There was a young girl with glasses as blushi+ng red in the room with them
“Uwah…”
Dressed like a maid, she had a head of red hair that would definitely be coaria
She looked to be about Bastian’s age
The girl’s face turned even redder and averted her face after adjusting her glasses
“I, I didn’t see anything, please continue!”
“No… Continue what…?”
“Baka-tian! What sha to do!”
Elise waved her arms around frantically
Oh right, I aht now
Bastian released her reluctantly
“I think I was called an incredible name just now”
“That nas the et up! My heart al that I, I finally had the chance to help you”
Suddenly, her face turned entirely red
The two girls were blushi+ng soout from their face
“ What is going on?”
Bastian scratched his head, confused by all this
The glasses maid served some water to him
“Please take this”
“Thanks!”
“You can callthe house of Tiraso Laverde since I was ten, I am seventeen now”
“Ahh, then you are a year older than us I aaria…”
Elise cut him off
“Allow me to make the introduction, Bastian is the third son of a Marquis house in Belgaria, and is here in High Brittania as a student However, ere attacked by bandits while ere in the city of Gray Bridge”
“Ah, I see”
“It is a bit late, let me to introduce myself, I am Elise Archibald To attend a funeral in my family, we left Applewood private acadeerous indeed”
She is lying without batting an eye— Bastian thought
shi+a who see and listened with interest
Bastian asked:
“Ah, I re me”
Elise became mad immediately
“You didn’t juht!?”
“Ah, er…”
To be frank, it would be fine as long as Elise was safe—— He did thought that way, but if he said it out loud, Elise will definitely get angry
“We drifted in the river and et hurt, but Bastian lost consciousness and drank a lot of water It was really dangerous, ere really lucky indeed”
“Why so?”
The carriage of the Tiraso Laverde family happened to pass by with a doctor onboard Thanks to his quick actions, ere saved”
“Haaah…”
There were few nobles, and fewer skilled doctors, I was really lucky Bastian was thankful for his great luck
“If the cut into your abdomen was any deeper, it would have been serious”
“Ahh, is that so… I have that book to thank for that”
“That’s right”
Bastian checked his abdomen, apart fro else
“Huh!? Where’s my book!? My future masterpiece!”
“If, if you mean that…”
Elise looked towards somewhere
Besides the chair on the bed was a book— Or so that should be a book
Most of the pages were falling off and the pages arped It had been pierced by so in water and were dyed with blood
Bastian’s
“Aesome! Doesn’t it look cursed!? Isn’t that cool!?”
“Your personality is hopeless”
“Ahh, but it really is cool! Ah, but what do you think?”
“ Yes… It is coes had been smeared, it can’t even be called a book anymore”
“That’s true”
Since he jumped into the river, it couldn’t be helped if the book became like this
Elise lowered her head
“Sorry… It is my fault…”
“It’s just some water, it’s fine”
“But…”
“I’m still alive— Which ht of some new ideas, so I will definitely write a better book!”
Yosh!+ Bastian shouted spiritedly
Elise was teary eyed
“When you are done, please… Let me read it…”
“Yeah!”
“Noit is”
“Don’t say that while crying! I don’t want it to be bad and boring!? Do you have to put it that way!?”
“You two are so close I recalled that she is your fiancee?”