A Pale Moon Reverie: Volume 2 [Parts 1 to 13] by Kuji Furumiya

Author:Kuji Furumiya
Language: eng
Format: epub

6. Ties

The stagnant air was a representation of himself.

Recently, the rotting blood living deep within the dark depths of the earth had been being suppressed by the power that had spread aboveground, causing it to drift within the shallow soil. In usual circumstances, it would seep aboveground instead, taking the forms of people and wandering the town. But currently, it could not. Yet, in exchange, the essence that had settled underground was far thicker and possessed more power than usual too.

Lazily, he slithered.

The essence that had become closer to its original form raised his head out of the dirt. He had a premonition. No, perhaps it was more accurate to call it an omen.

He could sense multiple powers intersecting aboveground. He knew that the power that had been suppressing him was being washed away.

A sense of liberation overcame him, as though a heavy stone above his head had been removed, and spontaneously, he began to rise to the surface. When his head finally broke free of the earth, moonlight shone upon him, brilliant and dazzling. But he had already become thick, so he was able to remain in the light without dissipating.

He was on the verge of assuming a human form, as he always did, but then, he noticed a presence.

There was a woman standing a short distance away, clad in moonlight; she was the being who had once slayed him. She was the one who had buried him deep into the earth, reaping his essence that had seeped aboveground for a timeless age afterward.

When he realized that she was somewhat weaker, as well as close by, he experienced an emotion akin to exultation. Without any conscious effort, he pulled his essence that had begun to scatter together and shaped it into one form.

He wanted her. To devour her, to make her his possession.

He became a large, black snake—similar to his original form—and, giving into his everlasting hunger, slithered toward the woman soundlessly. He turned down an alleyway and raised his head to examine the crowd and the stage beyond it. The girl standing atop it, her complexion pale, did not seem to have noticed him yet.

He, who could not be seen by ordinary humans, laid back upon the ground and began slithering toward her, intent on not letting his prey escape.

However, the very next moment, a naked blade stabbed into the back of his head.

The sword pinning the snake’s head to the ground was a shadeslayer’s sword; ears of wheat had been tossed into the furnace at the time of its forging. As he writhed in sudden anguish, a fiery voice fell upon him.

“Don’t get close to her. Return to where you belong.”

As the words of warning were spoken, the blade impaling him was withdrawn. He bared his fangs, still feeling the remnants of pain, but the military sword at the edge of his vision flashed once more as it arced toward him.

There was not a shred of mercy in its blade.

The slash severed through air as well as the snake’s neck, and his essence once more melted into the dark depths of the earth.

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