Volume 12 - Chapter 3 – Part 2 (1/2)
“…hn”
After the light coained her normal expression As Marino had said, she was spent: she would have collapsed if shi+n hadn’t held her up He then helped her slowly sit down on the ground
“Thanks for lending us your powers”
“…sure”
Tiera’s reply was rather weak too
Tiera had interfered in the conversation once, so shi+n knew that her conscience are throughout the possession She had to have heard their conversation too
“Hey, shi+n, do you…………no, forget it”
Tiera started saying so down, so shi+n couldn’t see her expression He could tell what she was going to ask, however
“Let’s go back and take a rest Can you walk?”
shi+n did not answer Tiera’s half-spoken question and offered her a hand Thanks to Marino, he feltback to the former world, which made him waver all the more
“I’m sorry, I can’t stand on my own yet Could you take ht as cool enough that she would risk catching a cold if she stayed out too long It would definitely be better for her to rest in her rooed to Tiera’s request and carried her to her room Thanks to his stats, she was not a burden at all Tiera was probably really exhausted, as she entrusted her body to shi+n co just said farewell to Marino, shi+n thought he could disregard the sensation
Because of his weakened spirit, however, shi+n noticed that, unlike his conscious mind, his body fully felt the warmth of Tiera’s body He knew the reason why: he wanted to feel again the sensation of hugging Marino, which he had felt o
“shi+n, your back…”
After leaving the flower field with Marino’s grave at the center, Tiera abruptly broke their silence Her breathing tickled shi+n’s ears Maybe because of the fatigue, her voice was like a whisper too
shi+n had been quietly resisting his urges, so Tiera’s sudden whisper made his heart skip a beat
“My back? What about it?”
“I was just thinking, that it’s bigger than I iined”
“Really? I can’t tell myself…”
shi+n replied as nor the breath tickling his ears Tiera continued, her head on shi+n’s shoulder
“Are all men’s backs like this? Or maybe yours is special?”
“What do youhere, I feel all my worries disappear Or rather, I should say that I feel really comforted”
Tiera’s voice ar her true feelings
“I end up thinking that…I’d like to stay like this forever”
“That’d be troublesome, for both of us too”
shi+n tried a joke, but Tiera didn’t reply That concerned hiularly, so she had probably fallen asleep
“crap, how a to open the door now?”
shi+n arrived in front of the door to Tiera’s roo her, so he changed his posture a little and e it open
Tiera’s room was simple, like shi+n’s: in a space about 13 square mel wide there was a bed and not much else
“Hey, wake up, we’re in your room”
“……mhm”
Tiera was still drowsy, so her ansas aback to your former world?”
“I don’t know, I can’t decide”
“If you can go back, then you should”
“…Tiera?”
shi+n’s question found no answer She was sitting on her bed, rather unsteadily, so he couldn’t tell if she was really awake or not
“Your father, your ht? If you have a place to go back to, you should”
“But that’s…”
“And, if you don’t, I…”
“Tiera? Hey, Tie…she fell asleep…”
Tiera collapsed on the bed and fell soundly asleep before co sentence
shi+n wanted to knowher up He took her shoes off, put a blanket on her, then left the room He headed to his rooown over her pajamas
She seemed to know that he wasn’t inside and had decided to wait for hi? It’s pretty late”
“I was thinking that I’d like to talk a bit I will come another time if you wish to sleep, however”
It was pretty late at night, hardly the time to visit other people’s roo, when he checked theTiera back to her roo to Marino too
“Well, some stuff happened, but that’s okay Come in”
shi+n opened the door to his rooed in to his tracksuit — his usual joke equip to Tiera, but did so happen? She looked different than usual when she left, so I was a bit concerned”
“You probably forgot this too, but Tiera is a World Tree Priestess, a being quite rare in this world too Thanks to her powers, she can recall the souls of the dead and let them possess her”
“The souls of the dead? Whichto so like that This time, it wasn’t just a simple possession”
shi+n’s assent turned Schnee’s expression sour
“Who in the world were you talking to, then?”
“Marino I told you about her, right? She washer I had a sudden headache then, I was really surprised”
“Same here Or rather, ere even more surprised”
Schnee had clutched her head in pain the instant she heard the word lover shi+n too was shocked, wondering what had happened to her
“So, what did you talk with that Marino?”
“Well, about…s, s hidden, however, can sos In such cases, the situation turns even worse than expected
Such things happen with terribly precise ti in fiction and would be catastrophic in reality
“…after saying not to hide anything, I can’t be the one to do it, can I”
When Schnee had kept quiet about the PK matter, shi+n had told her not to keep secrets anyht that he shouldn’t keep secrets either, so he told her everything about his conversation with Marino, afterone with Tiera
Because of this, it was possible that Marino’s conscience disappeared
Tiera had inherited Marino’s abilities
There was a high chance that it was possible for shi+n to return to his ho to shi+n, Schnee looked down, a hand covering her o away forever It couldn’t be a pleasant prospect for her
shi+n didn’t knohat to say Schnee would probably be reassured if he told her he was going to stay in that world, but his heart wasn’t set He couldn’t say anything lightly
“My lord…”
Still looking down, Schnee grabbed shi+n’s tracksuit and buried her head in his chest
“I want you to stay For us…for me, there is no one but you”