A Pale Moon Reverie: Volume 1 [Complete] by Kuji Furumiya

Author:Kuji Furumiya
Language: eng
Format: epub

7. Ties

“I caught a cold...”

Nobody seemed to hear her grumbling. Lying in the spacious bedroom, Sari pressed down on her pounding temples. Since she had been put to bed in a futon in the proprietress’s room, which usually went unused, there was nothing around to stave off her boredom. However, she had been the one to protest the idea of letting anyone else into her actual room, so she’d just have to bear with it.

She flailed about for a while, and Isha, who had been in the adjoining tatami mat room, noticed and came to take a peek.

“You’re up? Would you like a drink? I’ll bring you some ameyu.”

“Mm-hmm...”

“I’ll be right back.”

The woman left, smiling, and Sari waited obediently. As a child, her power had often given her fevers. The touch of the women around her had offered some relief from those, but what she had now was a genuine cold. No doubt it had been caused by her walking around almost naked the other day.

“I must have used too much power... My memories are gone, and my dreams felt freezing...”

She didn’t like how both her dreams and her time as her other self were locked away from her memories. It made her feel terribly lonely—keenly aware of the fact that only she wasn’t human.

Whenever she said that to Thoma, he’d smile and tell her, “That’s because you haven’t met the man who’ll be your offering yet.” But even if she did one day meet him—the man who would be equivalent to her partner—she wasn’t sure this loneliness could be dispelled.

Lying atop white sheets, she sighed. She’d been told that, during the gap in her memories, Irede’s series of strange incidents had been resolved.

She hadn’t heard the details yet, but she knew there had been no small number of casualties. She also knew that the culprit, Marquess Bughnan, had been taken to the capital where he would face his punishment.

His collaborators, subordinates, and anyone else who had a hand in his crimes would be sentenced as well—a process the king himself was apparently weighing in on. Her brother had told her to ask Xixu for the specifics, but she hadn’t seen him since she’d sent him off with the decorative cord. She felt a little lonely about that, but kept it to herself.

Those thoughts led her to wonder about the whereabouts of another man she knew. Eid, who had lost his right eye, had been exiled from Irede. In more usual circumstances, he would have faced punishment in the capital too. He had, after all, stood idly by despite being aware of his father’s crimes. However, the three sacred houses had prevented that from happening.

A shadeslayer of Irede was judged by the unwritten laws of Irede. It had been Thoma who’d proposed the exile and pushed it through, claiming it was a more fitting punishment for Eid. However, Sari had a feeling that her brother had done it out of consideration for the wish she’d been unable to say. She’d heard that after Eid had received his sentence, he had departed the town without a word.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.