My Love from my Photograph

Part 3

(Y/n)'s POV

"Papa! Papa! Is she the new hunter you told me just now?" A girl jumps up and down in our direction, then her eyes shines as bright as an emerald. "Ha ha, she sure is. Here, (Y/n), this is my daughter, Emma. And Emma, this is (Y/n)."

"Wow! She looks so pretty! Like how the princesses you told me when I was younger!" "Um, thank you, Emma." This little gardener is surely a sweetheart, no wonder Jack would call her as his little princess. She might be a grown-up, but she still shows the cute side of her, like a little girl.

"Did Jack give you the welcome gift? How was it? Did you like it?"

"Um, yes, I did. Th-thank you very much f-for the flowers."

"Oh! You were the hunter from the game just now." The girl with her brown hair tight firmly back speaks to me. "Y-yes..."

"I apologize for having to use my gun on you, since I had to save that two troublemakers."

"No, it's alright. It's just a game--"

"I'm Martha Behamfil. Nice to meet you." She reaches out her hand for me to shake. I reach out my hands which is already shaky to hers."Nice to meet y-you, I'm (Y/n)."

"Are you alright? It seems that your hand is rather cold."

"Um, y-yes, I'm fine. T-thank you..."

A girl who looks like a nurse is soon with us, saying,"Hmm... Cold and shaky hands... With unconfident voice... I think you should have some rest. Perhaps there's some kind of trauma that had happened to you before?"

"Huh? I-I'm sorry, I can't remember anything about my past."

"It should be alright, it's almost the same as Aesop. And by the way, I'm Emily, nice to meet you."

"Uh, yes, n-nice to m-meet you as well." Then, one by one, the female survivors introduce themselves to me. When the group of people is growing big, I look at Joseph for help, but he just smile and nods, telling me to go on.

I find out, they are actually nice. There's a perfumer named Vera who makes bottles of perfume and always sells them to her friends. There's also a girl who is a genius at mechanical engineering, a girl who is blind but can know the actual position of hunter in a game, a girl who is an enchantress, a girl who looks like a fortune teller and also a dancer girl named Margaretha.

It's actually a little scary to watch Margaretha scolds Joker for bullying the others. "Oh come on, my dear. That's only to make the tense situation much more warmer."

"But bullying others is not! How can you do that especially to the new hunter? I know you love me, but not everyone else is the same as me. Promise me, not to scare others like that again, Joker?"

"Okay, I promise you, my dear."

"Good."

"That's so sweet of them." Michiko looks at both of them dreamingly.

"Perhaps Joseph and (Y/n) had sweet moments together before, eh?" Violetta adds in, making my face redder than ever. Watching the look on my face, she covers her mouth to giggle.

"Oh, why you look at the time. It's time to go, girls." Vera points out, they're quite sad to leave but they're looking forward to meeting us again.

Once they leave, the hunters start going back, they take me back to my own room too.

"A-choo!"

"(Y/n)? Are you alright?" Joseph turns to me just because of one small sneeze.

"Yes, I'm fine. Thank you."

"Here," he cups my hands in his, and rubs his fingers to make my hand warm. "If there's anything you need, just tell me. Alright?"

"Bien. Merci, Monsieur Joseph..." What? I suddenly widden my eyes, I can speak French now? How? Even Joseph is staring at me in disbelief.

"Oh yes, the book! (Y/n), where's your book? Is it because you had unlock an achievement?"

"Huh? Here." I hand him the book, the look of surprise smears his face.

"This is great! You unlocked it from the game just now." I look at the page he had turned to, it wrote:
Chapter 1 : The girl who never smiles
🌟Hit survivors one time
🌟Hit survivors two times
🌟Hit survivors three times

Then on the other blank page, writings become visible to read.

There's a girl who had a beautiful smile,
but who knows someone would take it away.
People around her getting gradually senile,
about the reason why someone past away.

"Hmm... Weird. But perhaps this is the first step to recover your memory." He hands me back to book, and gives me a warm hug."Bonne nuit, mon chérie."

He waves me goodbye then leaves for his own room. Just as I'm about to dawdle up the stairs, I can hear tiny giggles from behind. When I turn back, I see Michiko and Violetta covering their mouths, trying hard not to giggle.

"Oh d-dear... H-h-how m-much ha-have you both s-saw?" I start to shiver uneasily. "Don't worry, (Y/n), we just think the hug is very nice." Violetta says.

"Alr-right then."

"Let's show her her room."

"Good idea, Violetta. Come on, (Y/n), you're going to love it!"

"O-okay."

After going up the stairs, I find that there's several long hallways. Michiko and Violetta shows me a room that is quite near to the centre of the hallway. The room is actually huge, if everyone's bedroom is that big, how much did it cost to build all of this for us?

"There's always another room or two for each of us for different purposes, you may find it out yourself."

"That's it, we hope you enjoy staying here. Let's meet tomorrow, shall we?"Michiko offers, I nod and thank the both of them.

Then I walk up to the wardrobe and open it, inside is full of the same dresses as the one I'm currently wearing. But at the end hangs a bathrobe and a sleep dress.

I change into the sleep dress and sleep.

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"(Y/n) sister? I'm hungry..." A younger girl who has almost the same hair colour and features as me pulls my sleeve.

"Okay, I'll go and get the maids to make you food."

"No, I only want to eat sister's cooking!"

"Okay, okay, I'll cook for you. Please wait for a moment."

"Yeah! My favorites! Thank you, sister!"

"Ha ha ha! Are you really that hungry? We just had our tea at eleven."

"Of course I am, since sister's cooking is always the best!"

The time then passed until the younger girl looks like twelve years old. "You need to take a good care of your sister, (Y/n). From what the doctor has said, she might not..." Mother hesitated, and gave up what she was going to say. She might not what?

"Sister? Can we play the piano together again?" She tugged my sleeve, pleading to play.

"Of course we can." We both sat in front of the piano, and started playing pieces. The melody kept going on, how I enjoyed spending time with her. When we hit the last note, father and mother came into the room. "Oh, that's a magnificent piece! Did you learn it by yourself?" Father asked little sister as he and mother hugged her.

"No, it's because of big sister. She's the best!" The girl hugged me too.

But before I knew it, the time rolled on until there's a grave in front of me.
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Is that a dream?

The morning sun shines into the windows of my bedroom, there's a slight headache for me. I sit on my bed, thinking of what had happened.