Chapter 2 (1/2)
She could feel a co around freely
It was a little bit cold, but its gentle brushi+ng against Celiastina’s limp body set her mind at ease
“……mm……”
Celiastina slowly opened her heavy eyelids, and lifted her head slightly
She had difficulty focusing What she saw indistinctly before her eyes, were they blades of grass? Co her nose
Where was she right now? What was she doing?
Her awareness returning bit by bit, Celiastina raised her body upright with sluggish ed to twist her body to look at her surroundings So in a riverbank
Her body wason the carpet of grass along the riverside, and it seems like she lost consciousness in that position Shetime, her limbs completely chilled
Pulling up the dress which had becoed to crawl onto the grass There was a dense forest along the side of the river A jet black night sky peeked through intervals between tall trees Stars twinkled here and there, as if they held back fro the painted black sky, the shape of the moon not at all visible
“Where is this, I wonder?” Celiastina whispered, beco uneasy
She vaguely understood that this was a brook inside a forest, but how had she co here? She had not the faintest clue Had she been out for a walk? But if she looked a little further away, a sharp slope and the naked surface of a rock face came into view It wasn’t really an appropriate place for a walk If a frail girl with nothing on her person caiven up on the world and was co suicide——suicide?
Celiastina looked up in surprise
She suddenly re very important
“That’s…right I—was dead!”
On top of that, she was supposed to be the substitute for a coained life for a brief period of time—no wait, wasn’t she forced into it? What had happened in that co back
“I’er Yuna?!” Celiastina exclaimed to herself in shock
She held out both hands and stared fixedly But if they were the pale, there was little difference she could detect All the more impossible in this darkness She couldn’t even check a reflection of her face in the water’s surface on a ht like this
That’s not your i
She still had her e when she was Yuna, and she still reel had told her in the white world She would need to ascertain the fact if she was already “Celiastina” Well, she wanted to confirm with her eyes, but htly desolate forest If it was arranged through God’s will that she live as Celiastina for the time, it wasn’t like she could spit on His intentions, could she? Granted life, she would rather not try to sever it i faith …Even if she couldn’t strongly agree to this
“But, I sure am exhausted”
It’s a good thing I don’t have to kill hed Celiastina
Since she had been soo, she did not notice her own eccentric behavior
At any rate, she needed to get herself out of the woods Why did the girl choose her last moment to be like this? Whatever she knew or did about it, if she didn’t find so like a rocking boat, Celiastina forced her body to stand up
“Dear Lord, where is this, a swa?”
If that was the case, cli to the top of the slope would probably reveal a way out
Nevertheless, to have to do such heavy exercise so soon after reviving was harsh Thoughts of the wonderful life better than soel crossed herabout it now Celiastina approached the slope, and checked the firround not at all rough nor was it loose If she grabbed for the grass and tree trunks, it didn’t seem like she wouldn’t be able to climb
(All right)
Firing herself up, she reached out for the blades of grass that would serve as her starting point——that hen
STOMP STOMP the sound of horse’s hooves came to her attention Followed by the faint voice of aat first, but not long after listening carefully she could tell he was calling out the na for her!
However, the sound of the horse’s hooves and the voice repeatedly ca her location If this went on he would fail to notice her andthis, Celiastina pro her time as Yuna, she had never screamed so hard before
“I’m here!! Save me!!”
……Did she fail? Her voiceabsorbed by the landscape, it made no echo at all
“Someone——help——!!”