A Pale Moon Reverie: Volume 2 [Parts 1 to 9] by Kuji Furumiya

Author:Kuji Furumiya
Language: eng
Format: epub

The three notebooks Sari had taken with her from Pale Moon mainly detailed maiden arts and techniques. However, the Werrilocia storehouse, located in the estate’s garden, contained records concerning many other matters.

Sari, who had changed into a black dress, was alone in the storehouse as she searched through its wicker baskets. Though it was still afternoon, the interior was dark. She flipped through the pages of timeworn notebooks, relying on the light of a small lamp to guide her.

Although the storehouse reopening—and thus cleaning—had taken place only recently, the characteristic scent in the air of its interior had already paralyzed Sari’s sense of smell. She had been working single-mindedly for the last two hours, forsaking lunch. A certain page caught her eye, and her hand stopped on it.

“I...wonder if I can use this?” Sari mumbled to herself.

On the page was a record of a type of maiden dance. She had never seen it before, but several of the motions were fundamental ones, and two in particular were the identical to moves she used in her kagura dance. The rest closely resembled the hand gestures required for complex maiden techniques. Although, given that the record noted that this maiden dance had once been used to prevent the snake’s spreading essence from corroding peoples’ minds, perhaps it was more accurate to call it a spell dance.

Sari read through the record thrice, then placed the notebook back into its wicker basket with its pages still open. She took one step back and began to flow through the motions of the dance to get a feel for it.

Then, she heard a thumping sound from the other side of the storehouse door.

“Huh?”

The sound had seemed quite heavy, and too dull to be a simple knock at the door. Sari picked up her lamp. She was wary, but she wanted to find out the cause of the sound.

“Don’t tell me I was locked in from the outside...”

That would just be a plain old inconvenience. Sari approached the door and placed her right hand on it. Doing her best to avoid making a sound, she slid it slightly to the side, creating a crack. Fresh air filtered into the storehouse interior along with sunlight tinged with the red of twilight. Before she opened the door further, Sari peeked outside. The sight she saw struck her speechless.

Several long heartbeats passed before she found her voice again. “Why...?”

The storehouse entrance faced out onto the rear garden, where white stone paved a path back to the manor. It was on that same white stone paving where Fyra lay collapsed, face down and motionless.

Sari had no idea what had happened, but she returned to her senses and immediately made to dash over to her cousin. However, she only managed to take a single step out of the storehouse when something seized her ankle from the side. Startled, she looked down and realized that one more person was collapsed on the ground; he slumped against the door, in what had been her blind spot.

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