Chapter 285: You Have To Get Over It... (2/2)

But my sister is still quiet, smiling as she sees her cake.

”Drake!”

Suddenly, the voice of someone familiar which I had not heard in a while breaks into this space.

”Drake, you have to get out of that dream…”

”What? Who… What's going on?!”

”T-They're not real… Dear… This is a dream.”

”A dream?!”

”Please… come to me… I miss you.”

”Miss… me?”

I suddenly begin to fragment into pieces.

My entire body starts to fall apart.

”No…”

”Please, wait for a second!”

”Sister! Mom! Dad!”

”Brother…!

”Grandma…”

I try to crawl back. I try to grab them.

I manage to reach my mother.

And I hug her tightly.

”Don't… Don't leave me!!!”

”Please… Don't leave… me…”

I hug my mother as tightly as possible.

But I begin to lose strength.

I cannot hug her anymore…

No…

No!

She slowly begins to fade away, and everyone else.

”Please… Don't go away!”

But in the end…

They all fade away.

And I am left alone.

”I don't want to be alone…”

”You've never been alone…”

Suddenly, I feel the presence of someone behind me.

She's… Benladann.

”I know that it hurts a lot… But you have to move on…”

”Benladann… you're not a dream?”

”Of course I am not a dream! THIS was a dream!” she said.

”I… I… But I… It was so real…”

”It was a fabrication of your own power… of course it felt real, you wanted it to be like that.”

”Ah… No… I… I want to go back… Let me…”

”Eh?”

”I don't want them to go…! I…”

I suddenly fall into pieces, as I end up in the form I had as a child.

”I don't want them to go…”

”Drake… My love… you have to come back… You already have so many people out there… You have me and… our baby too!”

”…”

”Come on…”

Benladann suddenly grabs me.

”I know it hurts a lot. I know it feels like you want to stay here forever… I know how much you went through, and I know how much you love them… But you don't belong there anymore… You have to accept it… Dear… you died, and reincarnated… And you're now a dragon and my husband… And the father of our child…”

”Benladann…”

She's… right.

It was all a dream.

I was being so childish and foolish.

I can't believe it…

I feel so ashamed of myself.

I am no longer there…

The past… belongs to the past.

I should move on already.

”Sorry…”

”It's fine… You had it saved up, didn't you?”

”I guess…”

”Come now, let's get out… We have a lot to live yet!”

”You're right…”

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