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My whole body felt like lead. I couldn’t come back to my senses.
It was terribly hot and extremely cold at the same time. My eyes were throbbing as my consciousness flickered in and out.
“Ruby…”
Someone touched my forehead. I gasped and my eyes opened.
Who was it? There was only one person who did this to me when I was sick.…
“Sister…?”
Blood red eyes entered my blurry view. I thought of my sister. The blood on her thin wrist…
“Hey… hey.”
“Ruby…?”
“Sister, don’t die. Please don’t die.”
Long, soft hair touched the tips of my shaking fingers.
It’s you! It’s you!
I grabbed her hair desperately and twisted it with my fingers, whimpering, “Sister, don’t die. I don’t want to die alone. So don’t go away, sister. Live with me.”
Her comforting touch on my forehead disappeared.
No, don’t go!
“Did you do anything dangerous in front of her?”
“No, I don’t think that happened.”
…Huh? Isn’t that my sister?
That was my mean husband’s voice, but my sister couldn’t be talking to my husband. Ah, I was in a whole different world…
I was about to turn around, but a hand grabbed my shoulder and made me lie down straight. I was familiar with the scent that entered my nose.
Eh?
“Sp…”
A death reaper. A silver-haired death reaper was staring down at me dying.
Ugh!
“Sp, spare me. Help me…”
Those blood-red eyes shook a little.
Help me, don’t kill me, you son of a b*tch! If you’re the main character, it’ll be fine!
I was so angry that tears welled up. I stared hard at him and slapped the standing man on his arm.
“Spare me, save me…”
Why wasn’t he listening?
decided to give up because I felt like my hands were giving it their
It came back again.
my eyes, a small palm
soon,
was this? Her clear blue-green
There was no way the princess
up my consciousness to the gentle
looking down at me
stuck here?’ My
ginger hair, blue eyes, tanned skin, and soft lips
It really was her.
don’t you go out and ride
down to our family summer house. Where you could see the beautiful lakeside from the window. The sound of my sister’s friends screaming in
was lighting a cigarette with a giggle,
my mom or dad told you to stay
while
I wasn’t sick.
that my oldest brother told me
often argued with my parents as well as my brothers.
had told her back
and
landscape was erased like a white
for a long
that, when I came back to my senses, I felt as clear and refreshed
ceiling came into
in
up, the memory of the last thing that happened slowly came back. What would happen to me now? Popo
a vicious dragon was picking on
“Are you fine?”
I almost jumped up.
my frightened heart, I saw Ellenia, who was sitting upright in a chair on one side of the bedroom, staring
she had the same indifferent and expressionless face, I was a little scared
mouth became dry, trying to figure out
“…what?”
mean to push Ruby like
to be talking about what happened in
her eyes a little and looked down at my hand. She
but I guess I should just
have
expected, you
“……”
had such marks on the back
“Oh…”
lot, the
to say. I kind of guessed it when she pushed me that day, but it was surprising to hear it from Ellenia’s
I see. So…
knew more about my mother’s bizarre habits. She ate only
mind wandered to my sister. My dead mother-in-law and my sister’s last moves were
a similar habit, but… I would never take
tip of her lip, raised her eyes again and looked straight into my eyes,
“…….”
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