Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina, Vol. 10 by Jougi Shiraishi and Azure

Author:Jougi Shiraishi and Azure [SHIRAISHI, JOUGI and AZURE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2023-02-24T00:00:00+00:00

She had deep regrets.

Regrets that she could never fully repent for, despite how hard she tried.

After Cleanore had finished telling us everything, our surroundings were enveloped in silence. Just like her younger sister, she was extremely regretful of what had happened fifteen years earlier.

“There must have been a better way of doing things. There must have been another path—this whole time, for fifteen years, that’s all I’ve been able to think about.”

If I’d only been smarter, if I’d only been braver…

Such thoughts had constantly been in the back of her mind, she said.

“Before long, this castle is going to run out of power. The well of magical energy it has been collecting for many years has just run dry, and it’s already to the point where my energy alone is barely keeping it from falling out of the sky.”

Within the next several days, the castle would return to the ground once more.

But the question was what Cleanore should do when she returned. That was what she was worried about.

“Are you scared to see your little sister?” I asked.

Cleanore had been living inside this castle in the sky for fifteen years. She had no way of knowing what had become of the outside world.

That was why she said, “I’m scared of being rejected.”

She cast her eyes downward, and I felt as if I had seen her image before.

It felt just like looking in a mirror.

I didn’t need to think back very far.

She looked like I had when I was awaiting my big sister’s return to our hometown—before we started our travels. Like me, back when I was hopelessly burdened with regret.

“…………”

So I took one step toward her.

My shadow stretched across the room, which was bathed in bluish-white light.

Into the hand of the girl who was wracked with guilt over her failure to help her suffering little sister, who had been unable to do anything but watch as she was thrown from the castle, I placed a single small vial.

“…What’s this?”

Staring at the vial, I answered, “It’s a potion that will temporarily restore your magical energy. If you drink it, I think you should be able to escape from here before the castle completely loses function. Run away from here with us…,” I said as I set the vial in her hand.

She made a slightly surprised expression. But then she smiled a little.

Perhaps she had realized the real reason we came up to the castle. Maybe she had guessed whom we had spoken to and what she had asked of us.

“Is my sister well?” she asked.

I shook my head.

“You’ll have to see that with your own eyes.”

Surely that would be better.

“…I wonder what I should say when I see her?”

No.

There’s no need to say or do anything for her.

“Your sister will be happy to be with you, just smiling together.”

That’s what little sisters are like.

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