chapter 3, section 2-a heartbeat in the rain; scene 9
Praefacio of Blue, page 217-220
✥ Kyle ~In “???”~
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…Where am I…?
When I came to, I was inside a box.
Yes, a box. A pure black box.
I was inside an enormous, black box.
All by myself.
–No, I wasn’t. I wasn’t alone.
On the other side, far away, there were two people.
I ran towards them.
One was an adult, and one was a child. Both of them were female, and they were walking hand in hand with their backs to me.
I spoke to the adult woman. When she turned around, I saw she looked a lot like Germaine. She was wearing the same red dress that Ney had when she’d done her demonic transformation, and in her right hand that she wasn’t holding the girl’s with, she was carrying a parasol.
When I asked her who she was, she grinned and replied:
“I am the one you and your kind call the ‘Demon of Gluttony’.”
I stared fixedly at the child. She was–Ney. She was as she had been when I met her, when I was fourteen.
I inquired as to where the “Demon of Gluttony” was taking Ney.
“This isn’t Ney. She is Gretel. The girl who was originally supposed to be born with the name of 'Riliane’. A pitiful girl who took on a different form, led a different life, thanks to a twisted fate.”
She wasn’t Ney but “Gretel”? She was supposed to be “Riliane”?
I had no idea what that meant.
Ney grinned at me, but immediately after that she looked dejected and apologetic.
“Sorry King Kyle–I mean, big brother. I’ve done so many bad things, and caused trouble for everyone. So…I’ve gotta say goodbye to you all.”
Ney hastily scrubbed the tears gathering in her eyes and made a somewhat pained smile.
“But…I know I can be reborn again someday! If I’m reborn, then at that time–I’d like to play with all of you. You, big brother, Riliane, and Allen.”
That meant that to Ney, Riliane and Allen and I were her siblings, despite me being of a different father and them being of a different mother.
–We were all siblings, huh?–
The “Demon of Gluttony” laughed, looking at Ney with a scornful gaze, “Foolish girl. You will never be reborn again. I will take in your soul, and you will become an incarnation of myself. As a cornerstone that I may become 'Master of the Graveyard’.”
Ney didn’t seem to hear the demon’s voice. She kept on smiling at me.
I wasn’t going to hand Ney over to some demon! I tried to strike. But my fist hit only an invisible wall before her.
“Cease such futile actions…We shall meet again someday, 'Soul of Adam’ of this era…”
The demon was steadily getting farther away, taking Ney with her. When she did, an ocean suddenly appeared where they were headed.
There couldn’t be an ocean inside a box such as this. But there was most definitely an ocean there, and the two of them were entering it.
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“See ya, bye-bye.”
Ney turned around and waved to me once, one last time, before disappearing inside the ocean.
Everything the demon had said was difficult to understand.
But what I could tell with certainty was that now, Ney was–
Ney was going to die.
Wait, Ney.
Don’t go.
Don’t–
Don’t leave me all alone–
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