Chapter 20:

Saviour - Arc 3

Lucid Memories:The Observer's Servant Eyes「明晰思い出:観察者の従者眼」


I thought I was alone, yet I wasn't. 

She was there in front of me, but after her responding to my question, I just ignored her, wanting to go home, I went on my way to do so, yet she followed, as she told me what happened after I lost consciousness that day, she told me everything. 

"While I was running around our village, I saw you there lifeless and I was scared, and so I called my parents, they then took you in and did everything to wake you up that day, yet you didn't, you were just asleep, yet you were breathing, you were alive, and so we just left you there, watching you every single day, taking care of you, cleaning you if needed, trying to feed you when we can, I don't know why but we took care of you, I could see my parents smile when taking care of you, though they took care of us equally, they never made me feel jealous, but even so I was curious why they were taking care of some stranger their daughter just found lying there lifeless, but after that day, I understood that they would do it to any child, treating them lile their own blood, after that day, I understood them."

"We were a peaceful village until day came, years after I found you, they would appear, one night we would see them holding torches, burning everything that they saw, animals, plants, houses, everything, and even people, yet only men, only taking children and women, forcing them to go with them, if not, killing them, my parents understood our situation and told me to run and take you with me, I argued yet they were louder, crying as they would repeat themselves over and over again, with me crying, but nonetheless accepting, with me running while taking you, looking behind I could see them, with their last words 'I'm sorry, I love you.", then dying after because of them, I continued to cry and ask myself why you were with me, only taking you because they told me to, and when getting there from where I found you, far away from them, I asked you 'why you?', crying, choking you almost to death, then seeing your face, with my tears, and with your face looking like you've been through hell, a face full of nightmares inside, crying just like me, and so I layed down beside you, still crying, never stopping, until I finally fell asleep, under that beautiful night sky that was lighting up my hell."

She then fell asleep, it looked like she waited for so long to tell me everything of it, she experienced what hell was for her, and I understand it, but even so she lived and continued, unlike me, not doing anything, looking at her, I could only imagine how hard her life was, taking care of me, I appreciate her, I only lived because of her, she was the reason I'm here, and for the first time, I smiled, all I could tell her was "thank you.", and so I did, but she was already asleep, and so I did the same, sleeping for the first time with someone else, and so I did just that, as I felt something new that I never felt before.