Re:War (Discontinued)

Chapter 59: Stormy Days

I woke up from some resting, expecting the snow to have stopped. But it hadn't. While not as heavy as before, it still wasn't a time to leave.

I couldn't call for Scarlet to come either. The weather was so bad she could make out where I was at all... Fortunately, she could tell I was alright, hopefully able to relay it to everyone else. Alice and Mary must have been worried sick.

Looking around, I felt a light tug on my clothes.

"Kuro...?" I looked down. She had fallen asleep next to me, grabbing onto my shirt.

Come to think about it... she did come into my bed yesterday night...

She was scared to sleep alone in her bed, so she hopped into mine... She certainly had a cute side to her, something I came to realise after these years.

She sneezed, slowly waking up.

"Sorry... did I wake you up?"

"Hmm? Ah... Raibo," she yawned. "You didn't, don't worry. That said, I hadn't had a chance to sleep in centuries."

"Centuries?"

"Remember how I said that any time passed that I'm unaware of, I can't reverse it?"

"Yeah."

"Well, this is now the furthest point you can reset to. I am unable to reverse the flow of time any further than this. Which means all the decisions you've made up till now, are set in stone."

"Is that why you never sleep...?"

"Yes," she sighed. "The last time I slept was when my second user died. And after that... every user I've found were worse and worse people. I used to love my users, I'd do whatever I could to assist them. But... many of them were self centered, and many choose to abandon me after learning my true nature," she looked to the ground.

"Kuro..."

"I got used to it, you know? Getting attached to a user and seeing him either grow more self centered, proud, even turning evil? I got used to all that. So I stopped."

"Stopped what?"

"Stopped being attached. I didn't want to get close to my users. I stopped explaining myself to them. I stopped assisting in everything. I just did the resets for them. It worked. When they eventually learned of who I was, and what was happening to them, and got angry, I didn't care. I used to cry, either because they went crazy and died, or I was begging them not to leave me. It was pathetic..."

She sat there in silence for a while, looking at the snow outside.

"..." I kept quiet.

"But you... you stayed. You learned of all this, but you didn't get angry at me for keeping the truth from you. You care about me. How I feel, what I want, what I like... You talk to me. You didn't take my powers for granted. You never derailed from your goal... I like that about you. That's why I got attached again. I started becoming curious about you, I wanted to know more about you. You reminded me of so many things that went dull over these centuries."

She smiled at me.

"Like what...?"

"How to care about people. You always choose to make things better for everyone. The children that follow you, you make them feel like it's one big family. That's why they listen to you. They feel wanted, they feel your love and care for them. You also always wear that scarf, a symbol of the child who was once your wife. Yet you knew to let her go in this life of yours. You just care about people, never trying to get anything in return. I forgot people like you existed. My cold heart made me always expect you to one day be the bad guy, one way or another.... But you didn't. You stayed the same. You cared about me too, you brought me things to keep me entertained, you helped me build my little pocket dimension bit by bit... So really, Raibo. Thank you," she smiled.