episode_0435

“Um…”

Shine groaned as she looked around her.

As I was walking along the road without thinking, I ended up losing touch with the other people I had come with.

I was left alone.

Amy, Rain, and Jin are all gone.

I didn’t really care what happened to the rest of the people besides those three, but I was starting to get worried.

Shine, who had been walking smoothly, suddenly stopped.

Why am I walking?

Why does this hallway feel familiar?

It was clear that there was something wrong with his memory.

Shine stroked her hair and sat lost in thought.

I don’t remember my childhood, but I wonder if it has something to do with that.

Shine raised her hand absentmindedly.

At her fingertips, black feathers gather and form a book.

The book in his hand opens and begins to turn the pages quickly.

Parallax-

With a loud noise, the book opens to the very first page.

Shine frowned as she checked the first page of the book.

The contents of the book were a mess, and I couldn’t guess what they were even after looking at them with my own eyes.

As of now, there was nothing to know.

Shine sighed and threw the book away.

The book that fell from her hands turned into black feathers and slowly scattered.

Shine continued walking.

I walk down the familiar hallway and up the stairs.

After climbing the stairs for a long time, she was able to reach the last floor of the Black Palace.

Shine folded her arms and tilted her head, leaving the last step behind her.

He was clearly directed at Jeff.

This means that I was heading towards my younger brother along the path that the Black Archer was showing me.

But, why did we arrive here?

Jeff wasn’t here.

This black archer was also saying the same thing.

Although it wasn’t too far from Jeff, this wasn’t where Jeff was.

That means Shine came here of her own free will.

My mind and body were out of sync.

Shine frowned and climbed the stairs.

What could be here that made my body react?

I had to find out.

Shine, who had reached the last floor, stretched out her hand toward the empty hallway.

Then, the wall of the hallway split open, revealing a hidden path within.

Shine walked there without hesitation.

Apart from the sound of Shine’s footsteps slowly approaching, nothing else can be heard.

The atmosphere in the overly quiet hallway was eerie, like a scene from a horror movie.

But Shine didn’t care.

This kind of atmosphere was so familiar.

Walk and walk.

Shine, who had been walking like that, arrived in front of a small door.

It’s a familiar door.

Shine reached out and opened the door.

Beyond the door that opens silently, a small room unfolds.

There are small girl dolls scattered all over the room, and a large bed.

An unidentified girl lying on top of it.

Shine walked slowly towards the girl.

The moment she entered the room, Shine was able to recall a familiar memory.

This place, this place was his room.

But there were no such dolls in her memory.

Shine kicked away the dolls that were in her way and walked closer to the girl.

Judging from the fact that he was breathing evenly with his eyes closed, he was clearly asleep.

However, this girl did not exist in Shine’s memories.

It was while I was looking at the girl like that for a long time.

At some point, Shine realized that the girl had opened her eyes.

When on earth did this happen?

The girl’s puzzled eyes turned to Shine.

Shine accepted the gaze without saying a word.

Silence falls between the two.

“Uh, how did you get here…”

It was the girl who broke the silence first.

She sat up in bed and asked Shine.

Shine, who was watching him roll his eyes around in great confusion, tilted his head and answered.

“This is my room.”

“That, that’s…”

The girl who was answering like that suddenly looks shocked as if she realized something.

Shine looked at the girl’s face and thought.

He is a very expressive person.

Jeff would love to see this.

“Oh, how could this… This happen… I’m sure, I’m sure it disappeared back then…”

Shine watched the girl who had gotten out of bed in a fluster.

He staggers around, even tripping over a doll on the floor.

It wasn’t particularly threatening.

So Shine just left it alone.

The girl who had been flustered sat down on the floor, hugging the doll, as if she had made up her mind about something.

The girl sitting next to the doll closes her eyes.

Shine just watched.

How much time has passed like that?

Shine was able to spot another girl appearing next to the girl.

It was a blurry shape, but it gradually became clearer.

“Oh, hello?”

The girl who had just appeared greeted Shine.

Shine nodded and waved in greeting.

A greeting from a cute girl.

If it were a man, I wouldn’t have accepted it, but I accepted it because it was cute.

The girl let out a big sigh, seemingly relieved that Shine had accepted her greeting.

Shine sat down on a nearby chair and watched what the girl did.

After floundering around, he sits down and uses his powers.

It was fun just watching.

“Hey, is this your room?”

“Yeah. I guess so?”

Shine answered yes to the girl’s question.

My memory isn’t entirely clear, but this was definitely Shine’s room.

It felt like the room I used when I was young, really young.

“Oh, really? Do you remember anything else?”

“Yeah. No. ”

The girl seemed truly relieved by Shine’s answer, and sighed.

Shine watched the scene and then got up from her seat.

Now that I had my curiosity resolved, I had to go to my younger brother.

“Hey, where are you going?”

“To my little brother.”

“Do you have a younger sibling?”

Shine frowned at the girl’s words.

The way he spoke, for some reason, seemed to know his past self.

Shine felt bad because it seemed as if he was asking if she didn’t have a younger sibling.

No matter what anyone said, Jeff was his brother.

That had to be the absolute truth.

“Do you know me?”

At Shine’s question, the girl rolled her eyes.

But Shine didn’t wait.

Even while I was doing this, my only younger sibling was definitely shedding tears, saying that she missed him.

If her older sister wasn’t there for her, wouldn’t she be the little sister who couldn’t even sleep properly?

Shine walked towards the door without waiting for the girl’s answer.

“No!”

At that moment, a foreign force shook Shine’s body.

Shine was taken aback by the power she felt for the first time.

The path towards the door suddenly becomes distant.

“What the…”

Shine muttered blankly and looked at her feet.

I was getting up from my chair and walking towards the door when suddenly someone came running up to me near the chair.

Shine’s expression crumpled.

The girl Shine thought was an unknown girl was Kelly.

Kelly White swallowed hard.

I thought I forgot.

No, to be exact, it would be more correct to say it was forgotten.

For some unknown reason, something important disappeared, then began to resurface.

It seemed that only now did he realize why he had been so obsessed with this room.

It all started when that woman entered this room.

Memories that had been erased or covered by something were slowly raising their heads.

And in that moment, Kelly had an epiphany.

Why did I lose my memory, why did I forget such an important memory?

It’s all because of that woman’s abilities.

thud-

thud-

thud-

Kelly’s heart, which had seemed to have stopped, started beating again.

I can’t miss it this time.

I have to catch it again.

Although he couldn’t figure out why, it seemed like his opponent had forgotten about him as well.

If you don’t know who you are, you can catch it.

You will be able to get your hands on what you have been missing.

It didn’t matter why I came back.

All that mattered was that now, this was back in his arms.

“I feel bad when you smile.”

Shine felt creeped out by Kelly’s sudden smile.

It was a smile that made me feel bad.

And somehow, it was a smile that I felt like I had seen before.

Shine turned around.

To reach out to his younger brother.

I started walking again.

But at that moment, the alien force that had been pulling Shine’s body began to move once again.

Shine wasn’t dragged along easily.

The power that I thought was foreign somehow had a sense of familiarity.

Phew-!

Shine used her powers.

She could instinctively think of a means to counter this force.

The black wings spread behind her back blew away the alien power that was shaking Shine’s body.

Shine glared at Kelly with clear murderous intent.

Eerie black eyes turned toward Kelly.

Kelly wasn’t flustered.

Black eyes, meaning you are using your powers.

However, it is not perfect yet.

Kelly sighed in relief at how little she had changed since she was very young.

Kelly took a closer look at Shine’s appearance.

The black wings spread out behind its back certainly had a threatening power, but that alone was enough to subdue it.

Kelly thought so.

Shine thought.

He said he was going to get rid of that girl who kept bothering him.

I was just going to leave because you looked cute, but if you keep bothering me, I’ll make you not cute anymore.

Shine was more than capable of doing that.

Phew-!

A pair of wings begin to elongate.

Two pairs, three pairs, four pairs.

The wings continue to grow.

The more the wings grow, the more they spread.

Shine’s physical abilities are maximized.

It rejects the limitations of the body and allows you to move as you wish.

The next moment, the Black Arch shook violently, and Shine and Kelly were thrown backwards at the same time.

Boom!

Hearing the sound that burst out belatedly, Shine wiped the corner of her mouth.

The blood that flowed down quietly spoke of the shock that had been transmitted to the body.

The opponent was not an ordinary ability user.

Shine was feeling a strong pressure, something she had only felt from her mother, Amy.

It wasn’t physical contact.

Behind Kelly’s back, a strange force flowed out, pushing Shine and herself away.

Shine glared at Kelly.

Kelly was convinced.

That’s it.

That was definitely what he was looking for.

Kelly’s eyes grew greedy.