〚 Day 1.2〛Under the Blue Moon

"And...that's all the choices we had." I said as I laid out a piece of brown paper on the kitchen table.

Quinn hovers her head to scan the whole paper as the gentle moonlight seeps in through the window. Waiting for her to say something, I glanced at many different spots of our house, it resembles an old wooden cabin that I used to stay when I was in middle school, I can clearly say that it's totally on a different class from the one in the heart of the town where their walls are made out of a polished stone brick, ours are made out of a stacked piece of logs and there are some gaps that...kind of reminds me of Hokkaido...it's super cold.

She yawned and covered it with her hands and stretched her arms upwards, glanced at me and walks away without saying a thing.

"Uhh..."

"Let's continue tomorrow alright? It's getting late"

"But..."

"I mean, we always slept at this hour right?"

"Right..." 

"Well I'll heat up some water, then I'll change to my night gown"

Ah...So 9 pm is considered late by Quinn, I mean I always slept at 2 am, it's a bit late for me but well, at least I can bring back my 8 hours of sleep with this. I blow the candle off and heads off to Ars bedroom and weirdly, I found a queen sized bed, why did he need a bed this big? Not to mention, there are only 2 bedroom earlier, does that mean...

"Here it is" she came with a 2 steaming wooden mug after opening the door...

"Thanks" I received the mug and drinks it, where I twitched when I heard the wardrobe door opens from my behind, then I freeze when I heard a rustling following it.

I'll change to my night gown.

WAIT WAIT WAIT! DOES THAT MEAN SHE'S GOING TO WEAR "THAT" AND WE'RE GOING TO SLEEP TOGETHER!?!? WHAT THE FUCK!???!?!?!?!!?!?

"You good?" her voices came rushing to my right ear AND I IMMEDIATELY JUMPED TO THE WALL-

"I...I'm..." I see her in all fours on the bed, looking at me with confusion written all over of her faces, and what she's wearing are not like I expected, it's some sort of a one piece dress with a long sleeve...and some kind of cap, I'm both relieved and disappointed seeing that as I let out a sigh.

"Nothing, I'm just surprised"

"...Alright, I think you really hit your head and it messes your whole minds up...come on"

"Coming in."

Both of us then sleep on the bed, she's on the right side while I'm on the left side, looking up on the ceiling, I've definitely slept with a woman before though this one feels a bit different. I heard her soft breathing while she faced the other way, though I can feel and see the blanket moving up and down due to her breathing. Considering the weather outside, it feels really warm, though it's not the blanket but her, I'll remind you that both of her back and my left hand are touching right now and i wondered...

...how can she sleep so soundly after our father's death?

"..." I glanced at her back, and I noticed that she's...gently shaking, and I just can't help but to hug her from behind.

I stretches my hand and wrap it over her, and she lets out a quiet moan.

"Ars..."

"Are you okay?"

"...I don't think so..."

"Would you mind talking about it?"

"..."

As the cold night's breeze caresses the trees outside, I entered the bedroom with a candle because she asked me to, and there she sits on top of the bed with a troubled expression, I wonder what is it that she wanted to talk about, is it about...that?

"...Ars"

"Yes."

"You know...I'm really, really grateful to have you after all this time, and it will stay that way for a long time, and even after dad passed away..."

"..."

"Now, please don't think of me as a heartless monster who wouldn't cry after that...It's just the fact that he leave us with all of that debt...I just can't see ourselves being able to pay all of that, even if we had to sell this house"

"...I see, so that's your concern...and if we are not be able to, we're going to..."

"..." she sighs, it's very hard to just think about it, even in my world, it's hard to earn money, really, really hard, and I can't imagine to do the same in this world.

"...I too, know just how harsh this felt...It's...I can't put it into words"

"...how so?"

"...You know, I said that I came from a different world right?"

"Yeah...?"

"I was...something you would call a weaver"

"The one who makes our clothes?"

"Yes...and imagine that I worked as a weaver, where their works would just get thrown away and burned only for our customer to force us to makes it again until there's just one piece of clothing that suits their standard"

"That's...horrible, but is there such a job like that?"

"...of course, it would be complicated if I were to tell you directly, so just imagine it as something like that"

"I see, what comes next after that?"

"We would stayed up late at night, until 12 pm or so-"

"-and repeat the same work the next day"

"...though you still get a break after that right?"

"...only for a day though"

"..."

"And...I'm sorry for overlapping yours, I just remembered it so..."

"Well, you don't need to worry about it Ars, I too are glad that you would still listen to me after all this time..."

"..."

"And after you said that, I felt that I'm not alone. And when you said that you are not the Ars that I know, I just can't help but to realized that you two are literally the same."

"...Is that so?"

"Though, you're a lot nicer and considerate, he would messes with me all the time and berates me for the sake of protecting his sis..."

"That's...thanks."

"And lastly" she blows the candle away and tucked herself under the blanket.

"That's the other thing I had in mind too"

Quinn...

She's one nice girl.

Thank you for entrusting your brother's body and yours to me.

And...

Good Night.

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Totals coin left to pay :

⊛ 1,000,000

Day 1...ended.