A Pale Moon Reverie: Volume 2 [Parts 1 to 5] by Kuji Furumiya

Author:Kuji Furumiya
Language: eng
Format: epub

If this is reality, Xixu decided, then there’s no doubt that new shadeslayer has something to do with this.

Otherwise, why would Sari, who had until only recently viewed Nerei with unease, suddenly become so close to him?

From her seat on Xixu’s bed, Sari slowly but surely began to explain. “It was the people around me who first started acting strange,” she told him. “Nerei came to Pale Moon with sweets, to thank us for his first visit, and after he had tea in the flower room, all the courtesans he talked to... It was like they adored him.”

“Right...”

Xixu had an inkling of what that might have looked like from his encounters with Sari and Isha earlier that day. They had acted as though they were completely different people. Whatever had caused it must have contaminated Pale Moon little by little.

Sari, who now had his jacket draped around her, shivered. Her blue eyes flickered around restlessly before coming to a stop on his writing desk. “Before long, it slowly began to get to me too,” she said. “First, I stopped wanting to go outside.”

“Of Pale Moon?”

“Mm-hmm. I didn’t want to leave its grounds. Whenever I tried, my thoughts and body would get heavy, and bit by bit, it felt like I was becoming not myself. Like somebody else was controlling me.”

“So it was you who I saw at Pale Moon,” Xixu muttered.

Frankly, he’d been considering the possibility that that version of her had been an impostor, given the stark difference between how Sari had treated him, then and now. But evidently that hadn’t been the case.

Sari nodded and pointed at the bundle atop his writing desk. “I thought something felt wrong, so I prepared that. Since I couldn’t go outside, I thought maybe it had something to do with Pale Moon’s boundary, which was why I tried using my bracelet as a medium that would let me go beyond the boundary to wherever it was.”

“Right. Because it’s something you wear often.”

Since she couldn’t have known when Xixu would show up at Pale Moon, her request to Isha had essentially been a gamble. Yet, Sari’s plan had succeeded. She had managed to safely escape Pale Moon and make her way to him.

“I included the maidens’ notebooks too because I didn’t think it would be safe to keep them,” Sari explained. “I’m glad it all worked out okay.”

“Mmm,” Xixu agreed. “I should have stopped by Pale Moon sooner. I’m sorry.”

“It’s fine. Thank you.”

Sari smiled, tear tracks still visible on her face. She looked just like her usual self, and it tore at Xixu’s heart to see it. How much had she gone through until this point, scared and alone, while he had been entirely ignorant? It left a bitter taste in his mouth. He knew she had been apprehensive of Nerei. Why hadn’t he been more attentive?

Xixu regretted ever having found that man in the forest.

“I understand the circumstances now,” he said. “But what does that have to do with you bringing up

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