Cardfight!! Vanguard: Generations Volume 4 [Ryouta Rival]

- Part 17

When I came to, I was laying inside a hut in the middle of the mountainside.

The first thing I noticed was all the pain in my body had disappeared.

It was like I'd never been stabbed in the first place.

Even though my consciousness was still a little hazy, I felt better than ever before.

...but more frustratingly, I remembered those transparent words that penetrated through my ears unwillingly before I passed out.

Revenge, huh?

Next to me, the sun seeped through the window that hung above the bed of straw I was laying on, glazing the entire room in a low hue of golden orange sunlight.

Despite how primitive it was, with its log walls and distant fireplace, there was a strange comfort to it's robust design. It was like I was whisked away to another world and transported to a more simple time.

To think a place like this existed in the mountainside...

It seems the weather has mostly cleared up too. The sky was no longer dark and murky, and I couldn't hear any rain pouring outside either. At least this will my journey back a lot more pleasant.

I sat up, only to notice that my shirt had been taken off. In its place, thick bandages were wrapped around my chest, covering the stab wound I had received in my left shoulder.

I rolled up the left leg of my sweatpants, checking the gashes in my knee and ankle. Like my chest, they too were tightly wrapped in bandages. Touching them firmly, I could tell that the wounds had been fully closed underneath.

"There was no point in doing this if you completely healed me..."

I sighed, forcing myself up from the stack of hay.

I felt disgusted with myself.

None of this was part of the plan at all... ignoring the fact I received help from him, being defeated like this was proof I'm still not good enough.

Because I hesitated, I lost. It's my own fault why things ended up like this. After a failure like that, I deserved to lose my life.

And to be honest, I would've preferred rotting to my death right then and there if it meant not getting help from him.

There was no reason for him to do that either.

I don't understand.

There's no reason for someone like him to save my life... absolutely none at all.

The only one I could think of was to please mom.

But even then...

She has Rei now.

I'm not needed anymore.

I was never needed by her.

I don't think she'd grieve over my death.

Not after everything I've done...

I scrunched the hay under my hands.

"Yuu... are you okay?"

When I heard that voice, my heart nearly jumped out of my chest.

"H-huh...?"

Sitting across from me, in the only chair of this hut, was—

"Yukina... what are you..."

She simply smiled at me.

"What do you think, Yuu?"