Episode 55 – A Sweet Nap
by Afuhfuihgs
Episode 55 – A Sweet Nap.
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I was momentarily bewildered by the human-like signs appearing on my body, but I soon realized what had happened to me and couldn’t help but be shocked.
My body was different from before, and it wasn’t just the physical changes in my lower body.
Kung, kung,
My heartbeat echoes in my ears.
The robe weighing down my shoulders feels more real, and I can feel my stomach wriggling and moving with a subtle vibration.
The ground beneath my feet felt like it was pushing me up even more fiercely.
No, it’s closer to me becoming heavier.
No. My weight might be the same, but is the fatigue my feet feel increased?
Why am I like this.
I can’t come to my senses.
I staggered, grabbed the wall, and dropped my head.
“What… what is this? What’s happening?”
[…Oh my god, Edward. You… you’ve become human.]
[This was the gift!]
Gift? This is the gift?
The voice of the Holy Power, cluelessly showing its joy, made the changes in my body feel even more dizzying, and I knelt down and collapsed.
The first sensation I felt as soon as my body returned to being human was unbearable, terrible pain.
Perhaps because it had been so long since I felt it, it was difficult to tell where this pain originated from.
Is it my feet? My legs? My shoulders? My skin? My insides?
Or is it all of them?
Could it be because the pain I felt after so long was too stimulating?
My brain is overloaded, creaking and not working properly like an ungreased machine.
[Ed! Breathe! Breathe!]
Ah, you idiot,
I wasn’t breathing.
I buried my head in the dusty warehouse floor and collapsed, slowly starting to catch my breath.
The rough breath I exhaled stirred up dust, and that dust re-entered my nose, causing me to cough.
Slowly, reorganizing my breathing again, I pulled off my robe and touched my bare arm.
Oh my god. It was so warm.
After taking some time to calm my confused head, I was able to distinguish the pain in my body.
My knees and ankles throbbed from the impact of jumping out of Jennifer’s room window, and my skin stung in places, probably from being scraped while climbing the wall.
Perhaps because nothing had gone into my stomach, I wasn’t just hungry, but I had heartburn that felt like stomach acid was scraping away all the walls of my stomach.
And above all, what was making me dizzy was the overwhelming drowsiness weighing down on my head.
Clearly feeling that, I felt a faint joy rising amidst the embarrassment and confusion caused by the pain.
Am I finally able to sleep?
Just as I was about to lose consciousness and fall asleep.
I forced my head up and looked out the warehouse door.
Morning was dawning.
Damn it, this was Robin’s mansion.
No, I can’t fall asleep here.
I clenched my teeth and forced my trembling knees to stand up, screaming.
Blood seeped out between my clenched teeth, and with a *peok* sound, a molar shattered.
And an indescribably terrible pain washed over me, making my vision flash and driving away the sleep that had been pouring down on me in an instant.
I coughed, spitting out blood.
I’m fucked.
Will I be able to reach the White Glass Tower like this?
[Edward, are you an idiot?]
[He’s just flustered by the sudden onset of sleepiness, so don’t use such harsh words!]
‘What…?’
[What are you going to do with the Holy Power you have?]
‘Ah…’
I concentrated and tried to summon the Holy Power residing within my body.
At that moment, I realized.
Behind the cold, sharp black magic and the warm, golden Holy Power that usually resided somewhere deep inside my stomach, there was a white Holy Power burning fiercely with a fierce momentum.
It was the light I saw in Robin’s Holy Sword.
‘What is that… well, let’s get a grip. Now is not the time to worry about that.’
I wrapped my whole body in golden Holy Power and healed my knees, skin, and broken tooth.
I got up easily from my recovered body, but the fiercely raging hunger and the fiercely pouring sleep still made me stagger.
Quickly, as quickly as possible,
I thought of the bed on the top floor of the White Glass Tower and moved my feet.
*
As soon as I opened the door, I went into the bedroom.
My head was already beyond its limit in resisting sleep, so much so that I couldn’t properly remember how I got here.
One thing I remember is that I couldn’t bear it on the way, so I stabbed myself in the eyes to chase away sleep, and repeated the healing process two or three times.
I barely made it back to my room, reflecting on how terrible and sharp the self-harm I used to do out of habit was.
Even in the midst of all this, I wanted to praise myself for not forgetting that I had to climb the walls to avoid the eyes of the staff because I wasn’t wearing Baron Salvie’s clothes.
The top floor of the White Glass Tower.
The most expensive room in any hotel in this city.
Even though I paid a high price, wouldn’t it be fair to say that it’s not worth the money with a body that can’t sleep?
The most expensive room must have the best bed.
I took off my robe and threw myself onto the bed.
As soon as I touched the bed, my body was sucked into the soft mattress of the bed like a pebble dropped on water.
Come to think of it, someone was lying next to me, sleeping… was it Lily? Was it Lara?
Ah, the Banata story to Mena.
What Jennifer did.
That I became human…
I need to eat something when I wake up…
Oh well, whatever.
Who cares?
Right now, just
Just.
…
[Good night. Ed.]
[Sleep well. Edward.]
*
Lara woke up in her sleep to a familiar yet unfamiliar scent that flew from somewhere and brushed against the tip of her nose.
It was a very nostalgic smell, filled with faint memories that she would never feel again.
“Heup,”
Lara unknowingly gasped at the sight before her.
Ed, shirtless, was lying next to her with his eyes closed.
For a moment, Lara wondered if she was still dreaming, and pinched her arm, realizing that this sight was real with the bitter sensation she felt on her arm.
Lara carefully spoke to Ed.
“E…Ed? What brings you to the women’s room at this hour?”
“…”
“Ed?”
“Seeak- Ssaeak-“
“…Ed? Are you sleeping?”
Lara became confused.
There’s no way the undead Ed would be sleeping, there’s no way this isn’t a dream, what on earth is going on?
Lara stopped speaking, filled with doubts, and quietly looked at Ed’s sleeping face.
Sniff sniff
This scent, even after 20 years, she clearly remembered it.
It was Ed’s flesh scent that she had longed for even in her dreams.
Ed usually smelled only of incense bags and smoked, dried wood that he used as preservatives.
Those were good scents too, but they couldn’t compare to the flesh scent that was blooming from Ed’s skin, piercing through those smells.
Lara carefully wriggled her body and approached him, pulling the blanket she was covering up to Ed.
It was a slightly small blanket for two people to use.
“…I can’t help it, right? I can’t help this, right?”
Lara, saying words that she didn’t know who she was making excuses to, and what she couldn’t help, clung tightly to Ed’s body.
Lara, whose back was exposed and cold because she had generously distributed the blanket to Ed, clung even closer to Ed’s shirtless body and carefully buried her face in his collarbone.
A sensation that his scent filled not only her nose but also her head.
Lara felt dizzy with a blissful feeling.
Kung. Kung. Kung,
Lara’s heart beat rapidly, heating up her face.
A single tear ran down Lara’s red cheek.
She was so happy that she felt like her heart would burst.
Kung kung. Kung kung. Kung kung,
Amidst Lara’s wildly fluctuating heartbeats, the sound of Ed’s heart overlapping was clearly heard in Lara’s long ears.
She didn’t know what had happened, but he must have obtained a human body now.
The hot warmth felt from Ed’s bare chest and arms, touching Lara’s body and thin pajamas, conveyed that fact even more clearly.
Lara pinched her arm once again.
This was definitely not a dream.
“Haa…euht, Ed…”
Lara’s body was turning as red as her face.
Unable to bear it any longer, Lara twisted her legs and clung to Ed’s body as if they were puzzle pieces, leaving no space between them.
She completely overlapped her head on Ed’s neck and hugged him tightly so that Ed’s scent would permeate her entire body.
Lara, whose reason had lightly flown away from the scent of Ed’s nape, kissed Ed’s neck without even realizing it.
Even though she hugged him quite excessively, Ed showed no signs of waking up from his sleep and was still only making regular breathing sounds as if he was comfortable.
That’s understandable,
How long has it been since he fell asleep?
Months? Or twenty years?
Lara suddenly began to wonder if it was right to disturb him, who had fallen into a sweet sleep for the first time in a long time, whatever the reason may be.
No, in the first place, is it right to do this to a sleeping Ed?
Lara became ashamed of her actions.
‘Okay, let’s stop. Let’s leave Ed to sleep comfortably.’
But unlike those thoughts, her body clinging to Ed showed no intention of falling off.
Lara turned her eyes and looked at the window.
It was already morning, with birds chirping.
Either way, Lily, who is sleeping in the next bed, and Mena, who is sleeping in the next room, will wake up soon.
If it’s happiness that will end soon anyway, then… wouldn’t it be okay to enjoy it a little more?
Lara slowly moved away from Ed’s body.
Looking at the next bed, Lily was still sleeping soundly.
Lily had always been weak in the morning.
She grew up in the forest where she didn’t have to meet people, so there was no need to wake up early in the morning, and recently, it had become a daily routine to stay awake until late for Ed, so it was even more so.
Lara carefully got out of bed so as not to wake Ed and approached Lily.
Then, she carefully put her hands under Lily’s body and under her knees, who was lying straight and sleeping, and slowly lifted her up so that she wouldn’t wake up, and Lara quietly walked out of the bedroom carrying her daughter.
Is this what they mean by a situation where someone could be carried away while sleeping and not even know it?
Lara was proud of her daughter, who was still sleeping without waking up.
Lara immediately turned around and went back into the bedroom.
Like Lily, Ed was still sleeping soundly, unaware of the world.
Lara locked the bedroom door and took off her thin pajamas.
“…I can’t help it… right? Just a little, I’ll just touch him a little.”
With an excuse to someone she didn’t know, Lara slowly crawled onto the bed where Ed was sleeping.
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