TEASER CHAPTER 6 PART 12
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room in the boys' dormitory. Nozomu, the owner of the room, was briskly getting
ready for school.
Outside,
the sun had not yet risen, and the city was enveloped in dim darkness.
He
put on his school uniform and put his katana on his waist.
It
was obviously too early to get ready, but Nozomu's movements didn't have the
sluggishness characteristic of a sleepwalker. It seemed that he was not
sleepwalking.
"Alright..."
After
checking his appearance and showing his spirit, Nozomu left the dormitory with
his bag containing his breakfast and study materials that he had prepared
beforehand.
After
leaving the boys' dormitory, he turned into a different street from the one he
usually took to get to Solminati Academy.
He
walked down a street he didn't normally take and headed towards a building. It
was a place he had avoided for the past two years.
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A
while after Nozomu left the dormitory and when the morning sun began to
illuminate the city, Lisa was about to leave the girls' dormitory to go to
school with Camilla as usual.
"Lisa,
are you okay?"
"Y-yes...
I'm okay"
Camilla
called out to Lisa, who was walking next to her. Lisa replied that she was
fine, but her face didn't look like she was okay.
She
must not have been able to sleep at all last night. She had dark circles under
her eyes and her face was pale.
When
Camilla took her back to her room, Lisa had a terrible headache.
She
had a painful sound ringing in her head, like a pot being hammered in her ear.
Lisa's
mind remembered the look on Nozomu's face when he grabbed her hand. The shock
that rang through her head was relentless, hammering away at Lisa's spirit. She
shrank back, groaning as Nozomu's words, "I didn't betray you,"
reverberated in her ears.
She
desperately tried to drown out the image and voice of Nozomu in her head, but
it didn't seem to go away.
As
if calling for help, Lisa reached out into the depths of the darkness. It was
as if she was a lost person seeking light.
However,
what she saw was not Ken, who had supported her for two years, but Nozomu, who
was still facing the Undead Dragon in the forest.
"Lisa,
you're not okay by any means. Why don't you take a rest for today?
"I'm
really fine. I just couldn't sleep. If I can't bear with it anymore, I'll take
a rest ..."
Camilla
distorted her face painfully as Lisa said she was fine and tried to head for
the entrance of the dormitory.
With
a pale face, Lisa tried to act like nothing's wrong, but she was clearly
exhausted.
Seeing
Lisa like this, Camilla felt an unpleasant sensation as if she were being
scratched deep in her chest.
The
events of last night came back to Camilla's mind.
(If
you want to hate me, you can hate me as much as you want. I don't care how many
horrible words you throw at me. But if I don't know about Lisa's condition now,
I can't do anything about it!)
