Twilight of Shepherd and Calamity

Ch38.5 - Night talk(short story)

Ch38.5 - Night talk

(Location: the rooftop of the abandoned inn in Meirchio)

It is all dark outside when the group came out from Grimoire's library, thus they decided to stay one more night in the town before continuing the journey.

This night went almost silent, since the place is sealed and even the normal creatures are not passing here. The sky is full of stars and magical auroras, under the sky, there are abandoned buildings with lights out, which is a normal painting. The painting of the girl sitting on the roof is dotted. The long black hair blended into the night, but the eyes were as beautiful as amber gems and reflected the stars in the sky. The girl with long hair sitting on the roof became the protagonist of this painting. Female eyes look at the distant sky, seeming to think about what stares at the stars as a little prayer.

Scratching noise with the roof tiles is particularly noticeable on this quiet night when the accumulated snow falls down, allowing the girl to perceive that someone is climbing up. She turned her head and saw the gentle brown-haired boy approaching. The teenager was initially surprised at someone on the roof but soon smiled. The girl just sat on the roof in a thin vest, turning her head at 45 degrees and staring at the peaceful former Shepherd, who visit on the quiet moonlight. The shimmering light with the stars flows down the hair to the girl's sexy neck and collarbone, but these are not the places that the teenagers pay attention to.

"You may get a cold if you stay long outside at night." The former Shepherd removed his cloak and put it on the girl.

"I come out to get some fresh freezing wind, but thanks." Velvet chuckled while thinking herself afraid of cold too, yet the agony in her head troubled her to a point she wants to get some freezing air. All the friend there accepts her so fast, maybe it is sort of comfort when there is a normal person doubt her like Mikleo.

"What are you doing that late?" Sorey pointed at the position next to Velvet, and she nodded to allow him to sit next to her.

"I am just thinking about stuff."

"What stuff? May I know about it?" If anything must bother Velvet, that is related to Tartarus, but Sorey is sure there is more than that to Velvet.

"I will hurt my friend again in the future, that's the third time." Even after Eleanor said it is fine and so as Sorey, Velvet can't forgive herself from repeating such an incident even when none of the things she could take control.

"......When you are hanging at the cliff, you mentioned a name called Niko....is it related to her?"

".....Sort of, she was a very close friend to me, maybe just as close as you and Mikleo. Her family treated us good, that how we got along. We talked and learned skills from each other like cooking and weave. She talked about the person she liked. In those days my sister died, she was one of the people there supporting me to live." Velvet recalled with sort of gentleness in her eyes, but it becomes cold all a sudden "Yet, that night, I killed her."

That night, need not explain more, there are only several nights to Velvet are impressive. All of them the night painted with blood and changed her fate.

"That was not on to you, Velvet."

"I remembered how her corpse lied helplessly, the face with the horrified expression and the empty lifeless eyes there staring at me, like asking for the reason why I kill her. She was my best childhood friend, she was just a kind and naive girl and we talked several hours ago. Yet, I just did that to her, and I did almost the same to my friends again. You and Eleanor may be killed by me back then."